Elisabeth Leonskaja,
who won the
Enesco Piano Competitionn
in Bucharest in 1964,
was a friend ofSviatoslav Richter
and has lived in Vienna since 1978,
playing with a focus on the
late sonatas by Beethoven andSchubert.
watch
23 November 2025
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This is the 2025 archive of my daily stories which beganin January 2023, with an overview atUser:Gerda Arendt/Story list that also featuresexample stories. This archive has daily entries up to the day of the year while those following, from 2024, may be overwritten by new ones. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:48, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
happy new year
On 1 January 1725
J. S. Bach led the first performance
of hischorale cantata
Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, BWV 41,
which features the same trumpet fanfares
in the closing chorale
as in the opening chorale fantasia.
watch
1 January 2025
"Lobpreiset all zu dieser Zeit",
(Praise all at this time)
for New Year
in the German Catholic hymnal
Gotteslob, takes twostanzas
from a 1851 song byHeinrich Bone,
a third stanza and refrain from 1969,
and a 1529 popular melody byLuther.
watch
31 January 2021
Bass-baritone
Johann-Werner Prein
(born 3 January 1954)
took part in the 1994 premiere
ofErwin Schulhoff's only opera,Flammen,
which the Nazis had suppressed.
listen to opera
3 January 2022
"Stern über Bethlehem"
is a German song
created in 1964
and often sung bystar singers.
listen (subtitles)
Bach ends his
chorale cantata forEpiphany
Liebster Immanuel,
Herzog der Frommen,
BWV 123,
by repeating the final lines
of the last stanza softly.
listen
6 January 2025
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Dada Masilo,
a South African dancer and choreographer
known for her fusion of classical ballet,
contemporary dance
and African dance steps,
presentedThe Sacrifice,
inspired byPina Bausch'sFrühlingsopfer,
in Vienna in 2011.
watch her talk, and the dancing
5 January 2025
Tom Johnson,
a music critic for
The Village Voice in New York City
who coined the concept
minimal music in a 1972 article,
composedThe Four-Note Opera,
and theBonhoeffer Oratorio
in Paris where he lived from 1983.
Jean-Michel Defaye,
a pianist, arranger and conductor
known for his collaboration with poet
and singer-songwriterLéo Ferré,
composed pieces fortrombone and piano
in the style of composers
fromVivaldi toStravinsky.
watch
9 January 2025
Librettist Gerhard Müller
and composerGeorg Katzer
(10 January 1935 – 7 May 2019)
wrote
Antigone oder die Stadt
inEast Germany,
but it premiered
at theKomische Oper Berlin
only afterreunification.
watch
Bright Angel,
composed byGraham Waterhouse
for threebassoons andcontrabassoon,
relates to the
Bright Angel Trail of theGrand Canyon
which the composer hiked withhis father
at the age of nine.
WriterChristian Keymann
and composerAndreas Hammerschmidt
collaborated on a hymn,
the base for Bachschorale cantata
Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht, BWV 124
("I will not let go of my Jesus").
watch
12 January 2012
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Ayla Erduran,
a Turkish violinist who studied
at theConservatoire de Paris,
in the US withZino Francescatti
and in Moscow withDavid Oistrakh,
premiered
Ulvi Cemal Erkin's Violin Concerto
in Belgium, conducted by the composer.
watch playing Schubert
13 January 2025
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Giacomo Puccini's opera
Tosca,
based on the playLa Tosca
byVictorien Sardou,
premiered
at theTeatro Costanzi
in Rome on 14 January 1900.
watch Berlin trailer
14 January 2025
Hans Dieter Beck,
a leader ofC. H. Beck
legal publishing
in the sixth generation,
usually used a bicycle
to work until age 92.
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Otto Schenk
directed a traditionalist version of
Wagner'sDer Ring des Nibelungen
at theMetropolitan Opera in 1986
that remained in the repertoire
to 2009,
andDie Fledermaus by J. Strauss
at theVienna State Opera
that is still played.
watch Walküre andAdele
16 January 2025
German stage director
Tobias Kratzer
(born 17 January )
nominated two versions
of Verdi'sRigoletto
for an international competition,
pretending to be an American woman
in the first instance,
and a Bulgarian in the second?.
watch a trailer
10 May 2018
Walter Deutsch,
a pioneer offield research
offolk music in Austria,
founded an institute for folk music research
at theWiener Musikakademie in 1965
and became popular
for presenting folk musicians live
in series ofORF radio and television.
watch
18 January 2025
In Bach'schorale cantata
Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid,
BWV 3,
based onMoller's hymn in 18 stanzas,
the first cantus firmus is sung by the bass
supported by a trombone.
watch
23 January 2016
Elgar Howarth
conducted the world premiere
of Ligeti'sLe Grand Macabre
and four operas byHarrison Birtwistle,
and was one of the trumpeters
who performed withThe Beatles
on the song "Magical Mystery Tour".
watch interview
20 January 2025
Elgar Howarth
conducted the world premiere
of Ligeti'sLe Grand Macabre
and four operas byHarrison Birtwistle,
and was one of the trumpeters
who performed withThe Beatles
on the song "Magical Mystery Tour".
watch interview
20 January 2025
Claire van Kampen,
the founding director of music
atShakespeare's Globe Theatre
from 1997 to 2015,
first as assistant to her husband
Mark Rylance,
then with his successor,
wrote a play,Farinelli and the King.
watch theatre talk
22 January 2025
Maria, Königin des Friedens,
aBrutalist pilgrimage church
inNeviges, Germany,
has become the signature building
of architect
Gottfried Böhm
(23 January 1920 – 9 June 2021).
images
10 February 2020
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Thetheatre organ at the
Loew's Jersey Theatre
was originally installed
at another theater by mistake.
watch
24 January 2025
André Soltner
was chef of New York City's
Lutèce from its opening in 1961,
and ran "America's Best French Restaurant"
with his wife from 1973 to 1994,
living in the same house.
watch
25 January 2025
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Bach based hischorale cantata
for the third Sunday after Epiphany,
Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit,
BWV 111,
on a 1554 hymn by
Albert, Duke of Prussia,
who had introduced theReformation into Prussia.
watch
29 January 2012
In a choral concert
atSt. Martin, Idstein,
the conductor connected
Mozart'sRequiem
to Pärt'sFratres andDa pacem Domine.
more
TheRomanesque church
St. Peter in Syburg,
now a suburb ofDortmund,
is surrounded by a graveyard
with stones dating back
to the ninth century.
follow a guide
28 January 2013
Gabriel Yacoub
was a pioneer of the revival
of traditional French music music
in contemporary formats,
as a founder ofMalicorne in 1973,
and also played solo music,
including to his own lyrics.
listen
29 January 2025
A clinic inMopti, Mali,
is named after
Werner Bardenhewer,
born 90 years ago today,
who was for decades
priest ofSt. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden,
and then founded a charity group.
30 January 2019
Herr, unser Herr, wie bist du zugegen
see31 January 2023:Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn, BWV 92
In 2017,Daniel Barenboim
began a projects to perform
the compositions by
Franz Schubert
in thePierre Boulez Saal
in Berlin,
playing piano and conducting.
watch trailer
Max van Egmond
(born 1 February 1936)
recorded thebass arias
of Bach'sSt Matthew Passion
withNikolaus Harnoncourt
andClaudio Abbado
and the words of Jesus
withGustav Leonhardt.
listen to aria
2 April 2010
On theFeast of the Purification,
2 February 1725,
J. S. Bach led the first performance
of hischorale cantata
Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin,
BWV 125,
based onLuther's paraphrase
of theNunc dimittis.
listen with score
2 February 2025
Kazuyoshi Akiyama,
who conducted
theTokyo Symphony Orchestra
from 1964 for life,
introduced the orchestra to
works such as
Schoenberg'sMoses und Aron,
John Adams'sEl Niño
and operas byLeoš Janáček.
watch short interview
3 February 2025
The actor
Horst Janson
was known internationally
for roles as captains,
in films such asMurphy's War
andBreakthrough,
and in Germany asDer Bastian
and more than 200 episodes of
Sesamstraße.
watch
InPatrick Süskind's play
Der Kontrabaß,
the double bass in the title role
is a "constant handicap" to its player,
"humanly, socially, sexually, musically".
TheMusiktheater im Revier
inGelsenkirchen
staged a new musical
for the 100th anniversary
of the soccer club
FC Schalke 04 in 2004.
watch
6 February 2011
İlhan Usmanbaş,
the director of first
theAnkara State Conservatory and then
theIstanbul State Conservatory,
integrated
advanced composition techniques
into Turkish music.
watch
7 February 2025
Helga de Alvear
collected contemporary art from 1967,
by more than 500
Spanish and international artists,
and shared it from 2010
in a house in the historic district ofCáceres,
with a modern annex from 2021, the
Museum of Contemporary Art Helga de Alvear.
watch homage
8 February 2025
Philipp Harnoncourt
initiated the restoration of
a Gothic chapel
with a triangle floorplan,
originally dedicated to theTrinity
and reopened onTrinity Sunday 2020,
the day after he was buried.
watch him lecture about it
29 May 2021
Paul Plishka,
abass at theMetropolitan Opera
between 1967 and 2018 in 88 roles,
chose the title role of
Verdi'sFalstaff
for his 25th anniversary there.
watch finale
10 February 2025
Dennis Russell Davies conducted
the premiere of the Fifth Symphony
Now and in the hour of death
byHeinz Winbeck
(11 February 1946 – 26 March 2019),
which reflects Bruckner'sNinth Symphony.
listen
11 September 2011
Hans-Peter Lehmann,
intendant of theStaatsoper Hannover
who directed 31 productions,
focused on operas from the 20th century,
both neglected works
and new commissions.
interview
12 February 2025
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Edith Mathis
portrayedMozart's young women,
Susanna,Zerlina,Pamina,
took part in new operas,
recordedBach cantatas with Richter,
and taught Lied interpretationin Vienna.
interview
13 February 2025
Because of a pilgrimage
to relics of St. Valentine,
thebasilica minor
St. Valentin in Kiedrich
hasGothic-carved pews for the congregation.
watch choir
22 March 2015
The official premiere of
Paul Creston'sSaxophone Sonata
took place at theCarnegie Chamber Hall,
on 15 February 1940
with saxophonistCecil Leeson,
who commissioned the work,
and Creston on piano.
listen with score
15 February 2025
InBach's chorale cantata
Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn, BWV 92,
forSeptuagesima, he created
five different settings for
five stanzas of the hymn
byPaul Gerhardt.
watch
31 January 2013
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Maria Tipo,
an Italian pianist
who played 300 concerts touring the US,
and was compared toHorowitz
for playingScarlatti sonatas,
revived musc byMuzio Clementi
and became a dedicated teacher.
listen
17 February 2025
Sigrid Metz-Göckel
created a didactic centre
for the newDortmund University
and initiated
a university course of women's studies,
established in 1981.
watch interview
18 February 2025
Gabriele Münter
(19 February 1877 – 19 May 1962)
studied and lived withWassily Kandinsky
and was a founding member
of the expressionist group
Der Blaue Reiter.
watch film
WhenTōru Takemitsu
received a commission
from theNew York Philharmonic in 1961,
the orchestra's 125th anniversary,
he composedNovember Steps
forbiwa,shakuhachi and orchestra.
listen
20 February 2025
WhenHeather Engebretson
portrayed the title role
of Puccini'sMadama Butterfly
for the first time,
a reviewer said that her voice
"can tremble with panic and shine with hope".
watch trailer
26 July 2022
Olivier Latry
(born 22 February 1962),
organist atNotre-Dame de Paris,
played a concert atSt. Martin inLorch
in 2019. shortly afterthe fire.
watch improvising
23 August 2019
On 23 February 1725,
J. S. Bach led hisTafel-Music
Entfliehet, verschwindet, entweichet, ihrSorgen
(Shepherd Cantata, BWV 149a),
for the birthday of
Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels(pictured).
listen
23 February 2025
Vladimír Válek
was chief conductor of
thePrague Radio Symphony Orchestra
from 1985 to 2011,
introducing a broad repertoire
and international tours.
listen to Schulhoff
24 February 2025
Ilkka Kuusisto,
who worked for
the broadcasterYle
aschoirmaster of the
Finnish National Opera chorus
and general manager of the opera,
was one of Finland's
most prolific composers of operas.
listen to Symphony
25 February 2025
The art ofRuth-Margret Pütz
(26 February 1930 – 1 April 2019)
a leadingcoloratura soprano of the 1960s,
was published in a 2018Recital,
including excerpts asKonstanze andZerbinetta.
listen
11 June 2019
Mirella Freni
(27 February 1935 – 9 February 2020)
appeared as Mimì inLa bohème
from 1957 to 1999,
atLa Scala, theVienna State Opera
and for her debut
at theMetropolitan Opera.
watch (27:45)
Ricardo Kanji,
a Brazilianrecorder player
who taught at theRoyal Conservatory of The Hague
and co-founded theOrchestra of the Eighteenth Century,
returned to Brazil where he
promotedhistorically informed performance
and directed a projectHistory of Brazilian Music
to explore the music ofcolonial Brazil.
watch
28 February 2025
Gioachino Rossini
(born 29 February 1792)
scored the last of his "sins of old age",
thePetite messe solennelle,
for twelve singers,
two pianos, andharmonium.
listen
In his
Berceuse,
Frédéric Chopin
(1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849)
created alullaby for piano
in 16 continuous variations
on anostinato ground bass.
listen
13 October 2018
A trumpet appears in the fourth movement of
Herr Jesu Christ, wahr' Mensch und Gott, BWV 127,
Bach'schorale cantata for
the last Sunday beforeLent
based on a hymn byPaul Eber,
in a "grand, tableau-like evocation
of theLast Judgement".
watch
19 February 2012
Bizet's
Carmen
premiered at the
Opéra-Comique in Paris
on 3 March 1875,
withCélestine Galli-Marié
in the title role.
watch Callas in concert
3 March 2025
Simon Lindley,
Organist and Master of the Music
atLeeds Minster from 1975 to 2016,
held dailyEvensongs,
performed neglected pieces
and commissioned new works.
watch service
4 March 2025
Ferenc Rados,
who trained a generation of pianists
at theFranz Liszt Academy of Music
includingZoltán Kocsis,Dezső Ránki
andAndrás Schiff,
recordedfour-hand Mozart sonatas
withKirill Gerstein in his 80s.
watch
5 March 2025
Jo Vincent
(6 March 1898 – 28 November 1989)
appeared inWillem Mengelberg's
1939 recording
of Bach'sSt Matthew Passion,
and, withKathleen Ferrier
andPeter Pears,
in the world premiere
of Britten'sSpring Symphony in 1949.
listen to Reger
10 April 2020
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Maurice Ravel
wrote texts and music for
Trois Chansons,
his only composition for choira cappella,
in response to the outbreak
of WorldWar I.
watch with score
3 April 2019
Hana Blažíková
is a soprano
with theBach Collegium Japan,
conducted byMasaaki Suzuki,
for the project to record
the completeBach cantatas
Raymund Weber wrote
"Zeige uns, Herr, deine Allmacht und Güte"
to be sung with a modern melody,
but it appears inthe German Catholic hymnal
with a Baroque melody,
beginning with acruciform motif.
Thousands of formerslaves, the
Great Dismal Swamp maroons,
settled in the marshlands
ofVirginia andNorth Carolina
from the early 1700s to 1865.
The first performance of Verdi's
Rigoletto
took place atLa Fenice in Venice
on 11 March 1851.
watch quartet there
11 March 2025
Edesio Alejandro,
a Cuban guitarist and singer,
composed more than 50 film scores
such asClandestinos andSuite Habana.
watch
12 March 2025
Jean-Louis Pichon,
manager and director of the
Opéra de Saint-Étienne from 1983 to 2008,
co-founded theMassenet Festival,
reviving the works of the composer
who was born there as Pichon as well
beginning withCléopâtre.
watch
13 March 2025
The last ofRossini's
"sins of old age", the
Petite messe solennelle
for twelve singers, two pianos,
andharmonium
was premiered on 14 March 1864.
watch
14 March 2025
Antonietta Stella,
aspinto soprano,
made her debut inSpoleto in 1950
as Leonora in Verdi'sIl trovatore,
and performed asAida
at theMetropolitan Opera
in 1956.
Sofia Gubaidulina
composedchamber,orchestral
andchoral works, including
Offertorium andJohannes-Passion,
characterised as
"innovative use ofmicrotonality andchromaticism, rhythm over form and contrastingtonalities".
listen to first violin concerto with score
16 March 2025
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Ana María Iriarte
made her debut in Valencia in 1945,
retired from the stage asCarmen
in Bordeaux in 1960,
and created a foundation
promotingzarzuela in 2006.
watch
17 March 2025
Christa Wolf
(18 March 1929 – 1 December 2011)
wroteDer geteilte Himmel
in a "quest for personal integrity
within a flawed system",
published in East Germany in 1963
and called a "socialist bestseller".
1 May 2019
Hans Peter Korff
was an actor on stage,
in films such asPappa Ante Portas
and television series
likeDiese Drombuschs.
In his
Requiem für einen jungen Dichter,
Bernd Alois Zimmermann
combined the LatinRequiem
with literary, philosophical,
religious and political texts
that shaped his lifetime.listen
30 May 2017
Ravel's opera
L'enfant et les sortilèges,
to a libretto byColette,
was premiered
at theOpéra de Monte-Carlo
on 21 March 1925.
watch
21 March 2025
Manfred Schukowski,
responsible for
mathematics and physics
at schools of education,
calculated a new calendar disc
for the astronomical clock
ofSt. Mary's Church in Rostock,
running from 2018 to 2150.
watch
22 March 2025
St. Martin, Idstein
Geistliche Abendmusik
Rheinberger:Kyrie
Pachelbel:Tröste, tröste uns, Gott
Kuhnau/Bach:
Der Gerechte kömmt um
Pachelbel:Singet dem Herrn
Gounod:D'un cœur qui t'aime
Johann Christoph Bach:
Lieber Herr Gott, wecke uns auf
Pachelbel:Nun danket alle Gott
listen
Annette Dasch
(born 24 March 1976)
appeared as Elettra in Mozart'sIdomeneo
at the reopening of theCuvilliés Theatre,
where that opera
had been premiered in 1781.
watch portrait
23 March 2010
Bach'schorale cantata
Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1
was first performed
on theFeast of the Annunciation
on 25 March 1725,
which coincided that year
withPalm Sunday.
watch
25 March 2025
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Architect
Jörg Streli
(26 March 1940 – 13 February 2019)
and his two colleagues designed
the Sankt-Margarethen-Kapelle
inTyrol, which rises
like a tower on a circular floor.
watch lecture
26 March 2025
Erminia Frezzolini
created the title role
in Verdi'sGiovanna d'Arco
atLa Scala
opposite her husband,
Antonio Poggi,
asCharles VII of France.
Willem Mengelberg,
chief conductor of
theRoyal Concertgebouw Orchestra,
established in 1899
the annual tradition of performing
Bach'sSt Matthew Passion
onPalm Sunday.
listen 1939
Soprano
Leonore Kirschstein
appeared as Alice Ford with
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau asFalstaff.
listen (Cardillac)
29 March 2017
Alan Cuckston
was theharpsichordist
in the 1968Proms concert
of Monteverdi's
Vespro della Beata Vergine
by theMonteverdi Choir
and recorded the piano music
byAlan Rawsthorne.
listen
30 March 2025
As a principal dancer
of theStuttgart Ballet
in theJohn Cranko era,
Ray Barra
createdRomeo andOnegin.
watch his choreography
31 March 2025
Sergei Rachmaninoff,
composed in a personal idiom
of song-likemelodicism,
expressiveness,
dense textures,
and richorchestral colours,
exploring
the possibilities of the piano.
watch concerto
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Alchymic Quartet
is astring quartet
byGraham Waterhouse,
to be performed
alongside chemical experiments
ofAndrew Szydlo,
his former teacher
atHighgate School.
watch music
2 April 2023
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After the Italian soprano
Fausta Labia
worked at the
Royal Swedish Opera,
she appeared as Mascagni'sIris
atLa Fenice in Venice
and as Wagner'sSieglinde
atLa Scala in Milan.
Hans-Josef KlauckOFM,
who wrote his thesis about
allegories in theparables of Jesus,
taughtin Würzburg,Munich,
and at the
University of Chicago Divinity School.
Klara Höfels,
who played on stage
atSchauspiel Frankfurt,
in film and television includingSOKO,
produced film documentaries
and founded Autorentheater in Berlin
for new theatre projects.
watch her
Achorale fantasia on
"O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß"
(O man, bewail thy sins so great)
bySebald Heyden
concludes Part I of
Bach'sSt Matthew Passion
listen
3 April 2015
Tout est lumière,
a setting byMaurice Ravel
for soprano, choir and orchestra
of a poem byVictor Hugo,
earned Ravel a place
in the second round
of the 1901Prix de Rome.
listen
7 April 2025
Christof May,
regens of theseminary
of theDiocese of Limburg,
advocated for
admitting couples to theeucharist
who werehomosexual, remarried,
or from different Christian denominations.
watch in mass
8 April 2025
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Enrique Bátiz,
who founded the
Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México
in 1971 and conducted it
with a short interruption
until 2018,
recorded the complete orchestral works
byJoaquín Rodrigo.
listen
9 April 2025
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Barbara Frischmuth
fromAltaussee,
who studied Turkish in Turkey in 1960
and Hungarian in Hungary in 1963,
wrote two trilogies of novels
in the 1970s and 1980s.
watch lecture
10 April 2025
The contralto
Maria Radner,
who died in theGermanwings plane crash,
performed Wagner'sWesendonck Lieder
at his villa,Wahnfried.
watch
11 April 2015
Peter Stuhlmacher,
who taughtNew Testament studies
inTübingen from 1972 to 2000,
wrote books translated into several languages
and was invited byPope Benedict XVI
to the 2008Circle of Alumni.
read a bit
12 April 2025
Mirella Freni
portrayed Mimì
in Puccini'sLa bohème
between 1957 and 1999,
including in her debut
at theMetropolitan Opera in 1965.
watch opera
13 April 2025
Eleonore Schönborn
(14 April 1920 – 25 February 2022),
who had toleave Czechoslovakia in 1945
with two young children,
receivedan Austrian award in 2013
for cultural and social improvement.
watch film
28 March 2022
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Roberto De Simone,
who researched early music from Naples
and co-founded the
Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare,
was recognised internationally
for the musicalLa Gatta Cenerentola
that he authored, composed and directed
for theFestival dei Due Mondi
inSpoleto in 1976.
watch memorial
15 April 2025
Roberto Cani,
who studied the violin
in Milan, Moscow and Los Angeles,
becameconcertmaster
of theLos Angeles Opera Orchestra
and first violinist
of the New Hollywood String Quartet.
watch in trio
16 April 2025
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Peter Seiffert,
a lyric tenor based
at theDeutsche Oper Berlin,
caused a sensation asLohengrin in 1990,
and made hisMet debut
asTannhäuser in 2004.
For her 2000
Johannes-Passion,
inspired byBach's work,
composerSofia Gubaidulina
combined the Passion narration byJohn
with text from theBook of Revelation.
watch
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Max Reger
conducted the premiere of
"An die Hoffnung"
(To Hope),
a setting ofHölderlin's poem
and his onlyorchestral song,
with contralto
Anna Erler-Schnaudt.
listen with score
19 April 2017
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The first known collaboration
ofBach andPicander
resulted in theShepherd Cantata
and, mostly with the same music,
the futureEaster Oratorio,
first performed at theNikolaikirche
for Easter 1725.
watch withGardiner
Bach's cantata forEaster Monday,
Bleib bei uns,
denn es will Abend werden, BWV 6,
is based on the
Road to Emmaus narration.
watch
21 April 2025
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Édouard de Reszke,
abass from Warsaw,
made his operatic debut
as the King in Verdi'sAida
in Paris on 22 April 1876,
chosen by the composer.
22 April 2025
Aquilegia vulgaris
was associated with
a fertility goddess
in ancient Greece,
symbolized sacredness
for Flemish painters,
and was an omen of death
inHamlet.
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Werner Thissen,
auxiliary bishop ofMünster
and the secondArchbishop of Hamburg,
was responsible forMisereor
in theGerman Bishops' Conference.
watch memorial
Requiem today
24 April 2025
Peter Ablinger
from Vienna settled in Berlin in 1982
to teach experimental music
at a music school,
founded an ensemble and a publishing house,
and composed series such as
White / Whitish,
of various aspects ofwhite noise.
listen
25 April 2025
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In 2016Peter Reulein
conducted the premiere of his oratorio
Laudato si',
described as a FranciscanMagnificat,
with more than 250 performers
at theLimburg Cathedral.
watch
29 January 2017
Bach'scantata
for theSt. Thomas Sunday of 1725,
Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats, BWV 42,
is the only one in hissecond annual cycle beginning with aSinfonia.
watch
1 May 2011
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Havergal Brian described his
Second Symphony,
inspired by Goethe's
Götz von Berlichingen,
as dealing with man
"in his cosmic loneliness: ambition,
loves, battles, death".
listen
28 April 2025
Hana Blažíková
is a soprano with the
Bach Collegium Japan,
conducted by
Masaaki Suzuki,
for the project to record
the completeBach cantatas.
listen toEaster Oratorio
8 March 2016
Oksana Lyniv
founded the
Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
in 2016 and conducted them
in thirty concerts across ten music festivals
in 2022.
watch
Waltraut Haas
gained recognition in her first film,
as Mariandl inDer Hofrat Geiger in1947,
starred alongsidePeter Alexander
inIm weißen Rößl in 1960,
and played inOtello darf nicht platzen in 2016.
Gotthold Schwarz
has been associated with
the 800-year-oldThomanerchor
as a member,
a vocal coach since 1979,
a bass soloist,
and the 17thThomaskantor after Bach.
watch
20 March 2012
Hans Stadlmair
conductor of the
Münchener Kammerorchester
for almost four decades,
in 1971 premiered
Wilhelm Killmayer'sFin al punto,
of which the composer said,
"The calm already contains the catastrophe".
7 April 2011
Bach's cantata
Ich bin ein guter Hirt, BWV 85,
begins with thebass as Jesus,
theGood Shepherd,
in "a mood of tranquil seriousness".
Charles Beare,
a Britishluthier
and in the fourth of five generations
of a family of violin experts,
was described by theNew York Times as
the most esteemed authenticator in the world.
For the beauty of the earth,
a 1978anthem
for choir and orchestra,
John Rutter gave
a 19th-century hymn text a new melody,
marking it to be sung "Happily".
Kari Lövaas
appeared in the premiere of
Orff'sDe temporum fine comoedia
at theSalzburg Festival.
Christfried Schmidt,
a church musician and piano teacher,
composed expressive works
for large choirs and orchestras
that were not performed
under theGDR regime
but premiered decades later,
such as his 1975
St Mark Passion in 2019.
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St. Stephen's Cathedral organist
Peter Planyavsky
has composedparodies
under the names
of P. P.Bach, J. P.Haydn,
and W. A. PlagiavskyMozart.
listen to concert
28 February 2013
A reviewer described
the approach ofsoprano
Magdalena Hinterdobler
to her role as Grete
in Zemlinsky'sDer Traumgörge
(Görge the Dreamer)
as "bold" and "sassy".
For
Ihr werdet weinen und heulen,
BWV 103,
the first cantata to a libretto by
Christiana Mariana von Ziegler,
Bach inserted
arecitative for thevoice of Christ
into the opening chorus
to "enormous dramatic impact".
watch
22 April 2013
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Margot Friedländer,
a GermanHolocaust survivor
who emigrated to the United States
with her husband after World War II,
returned to Berlin in 2010
to speak to German youth
about her experiences.
watch
12 May 2025
May Abrahamse,
a South Africansoprano duringapartheid,
was a prominent figure in theEoan Group
aiming to upliftColoured people
through the arts,
portrayingLa traviata.
Vakhtang Machavariani,
conductor of the
Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra from 1996,
composed a symphony
in memory of his father,
Aleksi Machavariani,
and a symphonic poemMariupol.
watch
14 May 2025
Hans Herbert Jöris
conducted the world premiere
ofGiselher Klebe's one-act opera
Das Rendezvous,
composed for the 125th anniversary
of theStaatsoper Hannover.
listen toHalfdan Cleve's Piano Concerto
15 May 2020
Matthew Best
appeared as Wotan
in the milleniumRing production
of theEdinburgh Festival
and was recognised internationally
as conductor of the Corydon Singers
which he founded at age 16,
recording especiallyAnton Bruckner's music.
Erik Satie,
composer of the experimental
Gymnopédies andGnossiennes,
and pianist atLe Chat Noir,
became a close friend
ofClaude Debussy.
listen
17 May 2025
Alena Veselá,
a Czechorganist
who performed internationally
and discovered music
of Czech composers in archives,
wasrector of the
Janáček Academy of Performing Arts
inBrno from 1990 to 1997.
listen toPetr Eben's Requiem
18 May 2025
Alla Osipenko,
aprima ballerina of theKirov Ballet
in Leningrad from 1954
alongsideRudolf Nureyev,
danced with the
Yacobson Ballet and theEifman Ballet
and taught at Hartford Ballet Company
and (back) in Saint Petersburg.
watch (1960)
19 May 2025
Isoldé Elchlepp
began her career
as aprotest song singer
and later appeared as Wagner'sOrtrud
at theBayreuth Festival
and as Schoeck'sPenthesilea
at theStaatsoper Hannover.
6 August 2019
The opera
Doktor Faust,
unfinished when composer
Ferruccio Busoni died,
was premieredin Dresden
on 21 May 1925.
watch
21 May 2025
Luigi Alva,
a tenor from Peru,
appeared atLa Scala as
Almaviva in Rossini's
Il barbiere di Siviglia
and at theMetropolitan Opera as
Fenton in Verdi'sFalstaff.
watch
22 May 2025
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Friedrich Achleitner,
aconcrete poet and architecture critic,
wrote over decades about
Austrian architecture in the 20th century,
visiting each building he described.
watch reciting
26 April 2019
Jadwiga Rappé,
who performed her signature role,
Erda in Wagner'sRing,
first at theDeutsche Oper Berlin in 1988
and then in other European capitals,
had many compositions written
for her voice.
listen
24 May 2025
In theBach cantata
Bisher habt ihr nichts gebeten
in meinem Namen, BWV 87,
the bass as thevox Christi
sings the opening and
"In der Welt habt ihr Angst"
("In the world you have fear").
watch
15 May 2012
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Yuri Vladimirov,
"the wild card" of theBolshoi Ballet,
often performed with his wifeNina Sorokina
and created the role ofIvan the Terrible,
choreographed by
Yury Grigorovich
to music byProkofiev.
watch
26 May 2025
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Yury Grigorovich,
artistic director of theBolshoi Ballet
for three decades,
createdIvan the Terrible,
to music byProkofiev,
for soloistYuri Vladimirov.
watch tribute
27 May 2025
"No singer in our time,
or probably any other
has managed the range and versatility
of repertory achieved by
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
Opera,Lieder andoratorio
in German, Italian or English
came alike to him,
yet he brought to each
a precision and individuality
that bespoke his perceptive insights
into the idiom at hand." (Alan Blyth)
listen
28 May 2025
In 1725,Bach chose an unusually
complex instrumentation
in hiscantata for the
Feast of the Ascension,
to a text byChristiana Mariana von Ziegler,
Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein, BWV 128,
"two horns, oboes of every kind,
strings and continuo
and latterly one trumpet".
listen
3 June 2011
On 30 May 1723,
Johann Sebastian Bach
assumed the office of
Thomaskantor in Leipzig,
presenting his first new cantata,
Die Elenden sollen essen, BWV 75,
in theNikolaikirche
on the first Sunday afterTrinity.
watch
30 May 2025
The organ in the village church of
Störmthal
was approved byBach
and dedicated with
a cantata
written for the occasion.
watch
31 May 2015
Christoph Wolff termed the
twooboe da caccia
and twooboe d'amore
inrecitatives ofBach's
cantata for Exaudi,
Sie werden euch in den Bann tun,
BWV 183,
"opulent oboe scoring".
watch
5 June 2011
In 1968, the German artist
Bazon Brock
created a sign in the style of a
high voltage warning saying
"der Tod muß abgeschafft werden ..."
("death must be abolished ...").
watch
13 February 2012
Susann McDonald,
who studied harp in France
as a teenager,
made the harp department
at theJacobs School of Music
the largest in the world,
and founded and headed the
World Harp Congress in 1983.
watch
3 June 2025
Per Nørgård
composed powerful music
with diatonic "infinity series",
including his
choralThird Symphony
and the operaGilgamesh.
listen
4 June 2025
The pianist
Charles Wadsworth
established series
ofchamber music concerts,
at theFestival dei Due Mondi
and theSpoleto Festival USA,
announcing program and performers
at the concerts.
watch playing
5 June 2025
Theatre of the World,
the fifth opera by
Louis Andriessen
and subtitled
Grotesque Stagework,
premiered in Los Angeles
in 2016.
watch The Making
6 June 2025
SopranoJosepha Duschek,
who premiered
Ah! perfido
(Ah! Deceiver),
advertised it as
"an Italian scena written
by Beethoven forMad. Duschek".
listen with score
7 June 2015
The first stanza of thehymn
"Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist",
asking theHoly Spirit
for the right faith most of all,
is documented in German
in the 13th century,
and the later three byMartin Luther
relate tofaith, love and hope.
watch
13 November 2011
Christiana Mariana von Ziegler
ended her text
forBach's cantata
Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt,
BWV 68,
forPentecost Monday with
a quotation from the Gospel.
watch
20 May 2013
Pierre Nora,
director of studies at the
School for Advanced Studies
in the Social Sciences
from 1977 for four decades,
and editor atÉditions Gallimard,
is known forLes Lieux de Mémoire
that wrote a new history
(nouvelle histoire).
watch speech
10 June 2025
Countertenor
David Cordier
performed operatic title roles
such as Handel'sGiulio Cesare
and one of the three sisters
inTri sestry by Péter Eötvös.
Johann Sebastian Bach
used music of thanks
fromhis cantata
Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir,
BWV 29,
for his final
Dona nobis pacem
(Grant us peace).
watch
29 March 2015
Kurt Equiluz
was theEvangelist
in the firstrecording
of Bach'sSt John Passion
onperiod instruments
with theConcentus Musicus Wien.
watch in 1985
10 April 2010
Andreas Schager
was called a "sensation"
when he first performed
Wagner'sTristan inMinden,
and he went on toSiegfried
inBerlin, atLa Scala, andThe Proms.
watch
14 June 2017
The text for
Bach's lastcantata
in his second year inLeipzig,
Es ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding,
BWV 176,
reflects the meeting
of Jesus andNicodemus.
watch
26 May 2013
Günther Uecker,
known primarily for his nail reliefs,
designed the prayer room
in theGerman parliament.
watch
16 June 2025
Igor Stravinsky
influenced composers as diverse
asAaron Copland,Philip Glass,
Béla Bartók andPierre Boulez,
who were all challenged to innovate music in areas beyondtonality,
especially rhythm andmusical form.
watch
17 June 2025
Vladyslav Gorai
portrayed
the Duke in Verdi'sRigoletto
at theOdesa Opera and in Italy,
and toured with repertoire
of the Three Jerusalem Tenors
in the United States and Macau.
watch
18 June 2025
Alfred Brendel
made three recordings of
Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas
and was the first pianist
to record Beethoven's
completeworks for solo piano.
watchOp. 111
19 June 2025
The main work of sculptor
Fritz Koenig
The Sphere,
on the plaza beneath the
twoWorld Trade towers,
was recovered largely intact
after theSeptember 11 attacks.
listen to him
20 June 2025
Klaus König,
who portrayed Wagner'sTannhäuser
at major opera houses,
performed the tenor solo
in Beethoven'sNinth Symphony,
conducted byLeonard Bernstein
after theFall of the Berlin Wall.
listen
15 June 2025
Camille Saint-Saëns
commented after the premiere
ofCharles Gounod's
St. Cecilia Mass
that "at first one was dazzled,
then charmed, then conquered".
watchRMF opening
13 January 2025
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Nigel Osborne,
a British composer
who taught asReid Professor of Music
and at theMusikhochschule Hannover,
has done extensive charity work
supporting war traumatised children
usingmusic therapy techniques.
watch
In the thirdchorale cantata,
Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam,
BWV 7,
first performed
onSt. John's Day 1724,
based onLuther's hymn
about thebaptism of Jesus,
Bach gave thecantus firmus
to the tenor.
watch
24 June 2025
Maryvonne Le Dizès
commissioned a trio
for saxophone, trombone and violin
during her time as a violinist with the
Ensemble intercontemporain.
listen to duo
3 October 2024
The baritone
Benjamin Appl,
the last private student
ofDietrich Fischer-Dieskau,
was namedGramophone's
Young Artist of 2016.
watch
22 March 2021
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In
"Mein Gott, wie schön ist deine Welt",
a 1936 hymn byGeorg Thurmair,
every stanza
declares three times,
"how beautiful is Your world".
listen
8 October 2018
Gertrud Leutenegger
wrote novels such as
Panischer Frühling
(Panic Spring andPan's Spring),
described as
"a finely woven, quiet art
with a tone all of its own,
a searching, groping literature".
watch
28 June 2025
InPalestrina's
Missa brevis,
published in 1570,
the Gloria balances
chordal and imitative textures,
and the Sanctus quotes
the same Gregorian chant melody
as theMissa Papae Marcelli.
listen with score
Arnaldo Pomodoro
createdSphere Within Sphere
bronze sculptures
with smooth exterior and broken interiors,
displayed in public spaces such as
theUnited Nations Headquarters
and theVatican Museums.
look
30 June 2025
Rudi Stephan
was already composing the opera
Die ersten Menschen
when the 1908 drama
about the first humans
by Otto Borngräber,
on which it is based,
was banned in Bavaria.
watch trailer
4 February 2022
Tamar Halperin
recorded music byEric Satie,
playing piano,harpsichord,
Hammond organ,
andWurlitzer piano.
watch
4 December 2016
The opera
Das Schloß
byAribert Reimann,
on his own libretto
afterKafka's novel,
premiered in 1992
atDeutsche Oper Berlin.
listen
18 September 2017
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Libuše Domanínská,
a soprano
of Prague'sNational Theatre,
performed in all operas by
Leoš Janáček
and a recording she made
as hisJenůfa
made his works better known
beyond their home country.
listen toMass
25 February 2021
Diana Tishchenko,
a violinist from Ukraine,
played Myroslav Skoryk's
Melody
on a tour of the
Kyiv Symphony Orchestra
to Poland and Germany
in April 2022.
watch
5 July 2022
In 2016,
Leonore von Zadow-Reichling
and Günter von Zadow from
Edition Güntersberg
published
12 Fantasias for Viola da Gamba
byTelemann
that had been lost.
more
18 July 2016
Stuart Burrows,
called "King of Mozart"
for his focus onMozart tenor roles
at theRoyal Opera House for 22 years
and theMetropolitan Opera,
featured in theBBC's
Stuart Burrows Sings.
watch
Gilda Cruz-Romo,
a soprano from Mexico,
portrayed Verdi'sAida
at theMetropolitan Opera,
for her debuts at both
theRoyal Opera House in London
and atLa Scala in Milan,
and at theVerona Arena.
listen
8 July 2025
Matthew Wild
directed Wagner'sTannhäuser
at theOper Frankfurt in 2024
as a story of a man
who had left Nazi Germany for California,
won a Pulitzer Prize in literature,
suffered a crisis and disappeared,
returned and was celebrated
until he openly kissed a male student.
watch trailer
4 July 2025
InBio's Bahnhof,
a live music talk show series
presented by
Alfred Biolek
in a former train depot,
Kate Bush made
her first television appearance.
watch
30 August 2021
Nicolai Gedda,
who created the role of Anatol
in Barber'sVanessa
at theMetropolitan Opera in 1958,
sang the Flower Song fromCarmen
"as written –pianissimo,
rallentando anddiminuendo".
listen
11 July 2025
The
Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra,
founded in 1925,
gave a solidarity concert with Ukraine
soon after theRussian invasion.
watch it
12 July 2025
Helena Tattermuschová,
a lyriccoloratura soprano at the
Prague National Theatre
for 35 years,
was known for portraying the
The Cunning Little Vixen,
on stage and in film.
listen
13 July 2023
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Soprano
Jessye Norman,
whose voice was described as
a "grand mansion of sound",
performed atU. S. presidential inaugurations and sang
La Marseillaise
at theFrench Revolution's bicentennial.
watch interview that day
6 March 2020
Damiano Michieletto,
known for directingRossini's operas,
staged Schreker'sDer ferne Klang
at theOper Frankfurt,
where the world premiere
had been performed in 1912.
watch trailer
15 July 2019
Ihor Poklad,
who composed songs that
became classics in Ukraine and abroad,
such as "The Magic Violin"
to lyrics byYuriy Rybchynskyi,
was honoured asHero of Ukraine.
listen
17 July 2025
J. S. Bach led
the first performance of his cantata
Erforsche mich, Gott,
und erfahre mein Herz,
BWV 136, in Leipzig.
watch
18 July 2025
Countertenor
Patrick Van Goethem
took part in the project
Dieterich Buxtehude – Opera Omnia
to record the complete works
ofDieterich Buxtehude.
listen toMembra Jesu Nostri
19 July 2010
Oleksandr Rodin's opera
Kateryna,
to his libretto based on a poem
byTaras Shevchenko,
was premiered by the
Odesa Opera and Ballet Theatre
in 2022 despite barricades,
bombings, and an air-raid alarm.
watch trailer
20 July 2025
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Raymond Guiot,
principal flute at theOpéra de Paris
and teacher at the
Conservatoire de Paris,
played and recorded jazz and pop.
listen to Bach Street
21 July 2025
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Claus Peymann,
who directed Handke's
Publikumsbeschimpfung
at theTAT in 1966, brought
Bernhard'sHeldenplatz and
Elfriede Jelinek'sEin Sportstück
to theBurgtheater.
watch
22 July 2025
Gary Karr,
a pioneer of thedouble bass
as a virtuoso solo instrument
for which new compositions were written,
founded in 1976 the
International Society of Bassists.
watch in 1962
23 July 2025
SingersAnne Sofie von Otter and
Christian Gerhaher
recorded music written in
theconcentration camp of Terezín
byIlse Weber,Hans Krása,
Pavel Haas andViktor Ullmann.
listen toDas Lied von der Erde
19 March 2010
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Roger Norrington
caused a sensation
when he recorded
Beethoven's symphonies
with hisLondon Classical Players,
on period instruments,
without vibrato,
and fast according to
Beethoven's metronome markings.
listen
25 July 2025
Béatrice Uria-Monzon,
who portrayedCarmen
first in Paris and then the world,
said: "La Habanera makes no sense
if you sing it in a sexy way,
on the contrary,
it finds its full power
when approached from a
meditative and more dreamy angle."
watch
26 July 2025
Lothar Zenetti's poem
"Segne dieses Kind"
became a song
of blessing for a child,
often sung atbaptisma.
listen
27 July 2016
Johann Sebastian Bach
used music of thanks from
Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29,
for his final
Dona nobis pacem
(Grant us peace).
watch
29 March 2015
David Rendall,
atenor performing regularly
at theRoyal Opera House
and theMetropolitan Opera
began in the choir
of theGlyndebourne Festival, moving to Ferrando in Mozart'sCosì fan tutte
first on tour, then on the festival stage.
listen
29 July 2025
Kateryna Kasper
appeared at theLos Angeles Opera
as Belinda in Purcell'sDido and Aeneas,
staged byBarrie Kosky,
and at theOper Frankfurt
as Antonida in Glinka'sIwan Sussanin,
staged byHarry Kupfer.
listen
30 July 2018
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A French team,
withPatrice Chéreau andPierre Boulez,
created the
Jahrhundertring
of Wagner'sRing cycle
at the centenary 1976Bayreuth Festival,
causing "a near-riot".
watch
6 November 2013
Handel's
Gloria,
a setting of theGloria
for soprano and strings,
was attributed to the composer
in 2001.
watch
1 August 2011
Andris Nelsons
conducted Bartok'sViola Concerto
and Mahler'sFifth Symphony
in the final concert with his
Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie,
andJonathon Heyward
dedicated their concert
to solidarity with Ukraine
in March 2022.
watch
2 August 2010
"Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier",
a prayer for illumination
because the human mind is
"shrouded in darkness",
became popular in English as
"Blessed Jesus, at your word".
watch
29 May 2020
Herbert Brandl,
who painted in bright colours
abstract landscapes inspired by nature,
represented Austria
at the 2007Venice Biennale.
watch
4 August 2025
At theOdesa Opera,
Vladyslav Gorai
portrayed
the Duke in Verdi'sRigoletto
and the Lyre player
in the 2022 premiere of
Rodin'sKateryna.
watch
5 August 2025
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After the Ukrainian soprano
Olga Bezsmertna
won theNeue Stimmen
competition in 2011,
she was engaged at the
Vienna State Opera.
watchDove sono
29 March 2022
Bach reworked music
from more than three decades earlier
for the central
Crucifixus
in the symmetrical structure of his
Mass in B minor.
watch
23 May 2013
In her thrillers,
Doris Gercke
created a woman detective,
a lover of literature and vodka
named Bella Bock,
who inspired
a popular television series.
watch
8 August 2025
Many ofLena Cronqvist's
paintings and sculptures
feature family,
including herself with her child.
look
9 August 2025
Fritz Lobinger,
Bishop of Aliwal, South Africa,
from 1987 to 2004,
advocated the ordination of teams
of married menas priests
to serve remote communities.
watch
10 August 2025
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Antonio Oteiza,
aCapuchin brother,
was first a missionary in Latin America,
and then focused
on creating religious art
which he felt had more impact
than sermons.
look
11 August 2025
Harry Kupfer,
the stage director at the
Komische Oper Berlin
for decades, presented Wagner's
Der fliegende Holländer
at the 1978Bayreuth Festival
as a psychological drama.
watch
3 October 2018
Wolfgang Meyer,
who recorded
Mozart'sClarinet Concerto
on a historicalbasset clarinet,
played his last concert
with jazz saxophonistPeter Lehel.
watch
13 May 2019
Salvador Chuliá Hernández,
director of the
Conservatorio Municipal
"José Iturbi" de Valencia
from 1992 to 2014, composed
Díptico sinfónico,
and his son conducted its band.
watch
14 August 2025
After an absence of four years,
theInkpot Madonna,
holding a naked Baby Jesus
with quill in hand,
returned to the
Hildesheim Cathedral
on 15 August 2014.
watchMonteverdi Vespers
15 August 2014
The vocal quartet of
Monika Frimmer,
Christa Bonhoff,Dantes Diwiak,
andPeter Kooy recorded the
Augsburg Table Confectionery
byValentin Rathgeber and
Johann Caspar Seyfert.
listen to Telemann aria
12 November 2010
Sheila Jordan,
who pioneered
abebop andscat jazz style
with only anupright bass,
was described as "one of
the most consistently creative
of all jazz singers".
watch
17 August 2025
Soprano
Rosa Lamoreaux,
who recorded Bach'sMass in B minor
withThe Bach Choir of Bethlehem,
won a 2009
Washington Area Music Award.
watch Laudamus te
18 August 2015
The trumpet
plays the chorale melody
inBach's cantata
Lobe den Herren,
den mächtigen König der Ehren,
BWV 137,
inC major within an aria inA minor
in "a battle for harmonic supremacy".
watch
19 August 2025
Aino Pervik
wrote in Tallinn
more than 60 children's books,
translated into many languages,
touching topics such as
preservation of ecological balance,
clashes of different cultures,
finding of identity,
war and freedom.
watch books
20 August 2025
When the Canadianbaritone
Iain MacNeal
appeared asOdysseus
in Dallapiccola'sUlisse
at theOper Frankfurt,
a reviewer noted that he
portrayed the "character's self-exegeses".
watch trailer
21 August 2022
Chieftain's Salute,
composed by
Graham Waterhouse,
is scored for
Great Highland Bagpipe
andstring orchestra.
listen
22 August 2009
The
Neustädter Kirche
was built inHannover's
Calenberger Neustadt
in the 17th century
as one of the earliestaisleless churches
inLower Saxony.
look
23 August 2012
Oksana Lyniv
founded the
Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
in 2016 and conducted them
in thirty concerts
across ten music festivals
in 2022.
watch Bachfest Leipzig 2022
30 April 2024
Joachim Grubich,
an international concert organist
from Warsaw who headed
the department of organ and harpsichord
at theAcademy of Music in Warsaw.
participated in the reconstruction
of the organ inSt. Anne's Church
and the building of a new organ
in thePhilharmonic Hall.
watch recital
25 August 2025
Soon after starting her career
at theMetropolitan Opera,
Gwendolyn Killebrew
appeared as a valkyrie
in Wagner'sDie Walküre
in a live broadcast
alongsideBirgit Nilsson in the title role.
watch asWaltraute
31 March 2014
Julia Hagen,
using a cello made
byFrancesco Ruggeri in 1684,
played the BrahmsDouble Concerto
withRenaud Capuçon
and theBamberg Symphony
conducted byJakub Hrůša.
watch (Arte)
27 August 2025
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The experimental physicist
Herwig Schopper
was chairman of the
GermanDESY research centre,
director general of CERN
for European research from 1981 to 1988,
and a founder ofSESAME,
an international laboratory
in the Middle East.
watch
28 August 2025
Wolfgang Kuhlmann,
who taught philosophy
at theGoethe University,
theUniversity of Erfurt, and the
RWTH Aachen University,
representateddiscourse ethics.
watch
29 August 2025
Georg Neumark,
who wrote text and melody for
"Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten",
called it
a song of consolation.
listen to Bach
Itzhak Perlman,
who has played violin seated,
recorded withAndre Previn,
Placido Domingo and
Oscar Peterson,
and performed at the
2009 inauguration of Barack Obama.
watch Beethoven
31 August 2025
Claudio Monteverdi's
Vespro della Beata Vergine
was first printed in Venice,
dedicated toPope Paul V
on 1 September 1610.
watch
1 September 2025
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Rodion Shchedrin
composed ballets including
Carmen Suite
for his wife,
Maya Plisetskaya,
ballerina at theBolshoi Theatre.
watch
2 September 2025
While in exile in Paris,
the Greek composer
Mikis Theodorakis
worked with the Chilean ambassador
and poetPablo Neruda
onCanto General.
watch (from Chile 1993)
3 September 2025
Tenor
Lutz-Michael Harder
portrayedHans Scholl
in Udo Zimmermann'sWeiße Rose
at theHamburg State Opera.
listen to Bach
Lourdes Ambriz,
asoprano and later
artistic director of the
Ópera de Bellas Artes de México,
dubbed Belle in the Spanish version
of Disney'sBeauty and the Beast.
listen
5 September 2025
Zhanna Kolodub,
who taught at theKyiv Conservatory
from 1952, wrote a
Concertino for oboe and strings or piano, reviewed:
"The composer never looses sight of
how to communicate with her audience".
listen
5 September 2025
Antonio Oteiza
was a missionary in Latin America
but from 1961 focused on
creating religious art, which
he felt had more impact than sermons.
watch at work
7 September 2025
Klaus Thunemann,
the youngest member when he joined
theNDR Symphony Orchestra,
taught generations at the
Musikhochschule Hannover,
in Berlin and Madrid..
watch masterclass
5 September 2025
Erminia Frezzolini
created the title role
in Verdi'sGiovanna d'Arco
atLa Scala
opposite her husband,
Antonio Poggi,
asCharles VII of France.
9 September 2010
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Ruth Weiss,
a journalist and writer
fightingracism in all forms,
having emigrated from Nazi Germany
to South Africa to find apartheid,
wrote historical fiction books
for young adults.
watch documentary
10 September 2025
Arvo Pärt
composed themotet
The Deer's Cry
on a commission
fromLouth, Ireland,
setting the conclusion of
Saint Patrick's Breastplate,
"Christ with me".
watchVOCES8
11 September 2025
The 1966 production of Handke's
Offending the Audience,
directed by
Claus Peymann
at the
Theater am Turm,
has been described as
"the beginning of modern theatre".
watch final scene
12 September 2025
Christoph von Dohnányi
brought as artistic director and conductor
innovative opera stagings
to theOper Frankfurt
and led theCleveland Orchestra
to high class.
watchLigeti
10 September 2025
Joseph Haydn's
Stabat Mater,
his first great sacred composition,
written for theEsterházy court,
was widely distributed
after a Vienna performance
on Good Friday 1768.
listen with score
20th-century composers including
Kagel,Ligeti, andXenakis
wrote music forcellist
Siegfried Palm.
listen to Penderecki
15 September 2009
Klaus Uwe Ludwig,
for decades the church musician
at theLutherkirche inWiesbaden,
played on its two organs
the complete organ works
byBach andReger.
watch
5 May 2016
Hans Otto Jung
was a jazz musician during World War II,
ran a winery from theBoosenburg,
and was co-founder
of theRheingau Musik Festival.
watch
29 December 2017
WhenRuth Hesse
appeared at theRoyal Opera House
as the Nurse inDie Frau ohne Schatten,
a critic described her performance as
"tirelessly ingenious
and vocally in splendid command".
listen
19 July 2024
When theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
shared theNobel Peace Prize,
contributing author
Raymond Arritt
said, "It's kind of neat: I have, like,
.002 percent of a Nobel prize now".
12 January 2019
Georg Christoph Biller (r.)
was theThomaskantor,
the conductor of theThomanerchor in Leipzig, the 16th successor of
Johann Sebastian Bach
in this position.
watch
18 April 2010
"Freuet euch der schönen Erde",
an 1827 hymn
about the beauty of nature,
became successful with a melody
composed byFrieda Fronmüller
100 years later.
watch onThanksgiving
9 August 2020
Siegmund Nimsgern,
who recorded Bach cantatas
withHarnoncourt andRilling,
portrayed Wotan
in Bayreuth,
conducted byGeorg Solti.
watchDie Walküre
22 September 2025
When
Joana Mallwitz
moved fromStaatstheater Nürnberg
to be conductor of the
Konzerthausorchester Berlin
in 2023, she was the first woman
to lead a Berlin orchestra.
watch
In the 1990 Latin
Magnificat
byJohn Rutter,
the text of the second movement
is a poem to Mary,
"Of a Rose, a lovely Rose".
watch him talk about it
24 September 2025
The Baroque orchestra
L'arpa festante
produced the first recording
of aPassion by Telemann
and played Bach'sMass in B minor
in theCathedral of Trier.
listen
25 September 2013
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As principal violinist
ofher husband's
Concentus Musicus Wien,
Alice Harnoncourt
was a pioneer of
historically informed performance.
listen to Vivaldi
26 September 2025
The
Kreuzkapelle
aboveBad Camberg,
a pilgrimage chapel
dedicated to theHoly Cross,
has a floor plan of aGreek cross.
see areal views,
listening toVivaldi Gloria
24 August 2020
It has been said
that the opening chorus ofBach's cantata
Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan,
BWV 99,
"would still work perfectly well
if the vocal parts were entirely removed".
watch,
8 October 2011
Salvador Chuliá,
professor and later director of the
Conservatorio Municipal "José Iturbi"
in Valencia
from 1978 to 2014, composed
Tríptico elegíaco para un percusionista
for orchestra
in memory of his son.
watch, conducted by Vicente Chuliá
29 September 2025
Roland Pidoux,
principal cellist of the
Orchestre national de France
and professor at the
Conservatoire de Paris
from 1988 to 2012,
revived thePasquier Trio.
listen to Rachmaninoff
29 September 2025
Hungarian pianists
Márta Kurtág
and her husbandGyörgy Kurtág
performed together for 60 years,
often from his collection
Játékok ('Games).
watch
3 November 2019
Dieter Kaufmann,
who headed from 1970 the new
institute forelectroacoustic music
at theVienna Music Academy,
composed the
Sympohonie Acousmatique,
documenting its development
over 40 years.
watch him at a
concert for his 80th birthday
2 October 2025
Shortly before thefall of the Wall,
Klaus-Peter Hertzsch wrote
"Vertraut den neuen Wegen"
(Trust the new ways)
to be sung at a wedding inEisenach.
listen with video
7 April 2021
Franz Grundheber,
who portrayed Alban Berg'sWozzeck
in Vienna in 1986,
conducted byClaudio Abbado
andin Paris andBerlin in 1994,
directed byPatrice Chéreau,
appeared on stage the 2000th time
in Hamburg in 2012.
watch (Act I from Vienna)
4 October 2025
Martin Neary,
master of music
atWinchester Cathedral and then
atWestminster Abbey,
led music for the
funeral service for Princess Diana
and the concert "Purcell 300".
watch Purcell
5 October 2025
Béatrice Uria-Monzon,
in the title role
of Bizet'sCarmen,
preferred a
"meditative" and "dreamy" performance
ofthe Habanera over a "sexy" one.
watch
6 October 2025
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Margaret Medlyn,
born on 7 October 1955,
performed with theWellington Opera
title roles such asAida andTosca,
and wrote her dissertation in 2016,
entitledEmbodying Voice:
Singing Verdi, singing Wagner.
watch speech
Tabea Zimmermann
prepared her own version of
Bartók's Viola Concerto
from the composer's sketches,
and played it at theCasals Forum,
with theFrankfurt Radio Symphony
conducted byChristoph Eschenbach.
watch
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Alain Altinoglu
conducted in the opening concert of the
2025Rheingau Musik Festival
atEberbach Abbey
Gounod'sSt. Cecilia Mass
with theMDR Rundfunkchor
and theFrankfurt Radio Symphony,
featuring anoctobass.
watch
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Thebaritone
Björn Bürger
who won the
Bundeswettbewerb Gesang,
performed the title role in
Arnulf Herrmann'sDer Mieter
in its 2017 world premiere
at theOper Frankfurt.
watch talk
Lotte Ledl,
who portrayed characters
at theBurgtheater, in films
includingForest Liesel
andYoung Törless,
and in series such asDerrick,
was awarded the title
Kammerschauspielerin
at age 89.
watch
11 October 2025
Lourdes Ambriz,
singing voice of Belle
in the Spanish version of
Beauty and the Beast,
became the artistic director of the
Mexican national opera.
listen
12 October 2025
The melody of the children's song
"Kommt ein Vogel geflogen"
("Comes a Bird Flown")
was used bySiegfried Ochs
forvariations in the styles
of different classical composers.
listen with score
10 November 2020
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Theo Jörgensmann,
ajazz clarinetist fromBottrop,
founded theClarinet Contrast
quartet of four clarinetists
and revived improvising and
solo recording for the clarinet.
watch him
(for children)
14 October 2025
In the 1978anthem
For the beauty of the earth,
John Rutter gave
a 19th-century hymn text a new melody,
marking it to be sung
"Happily".
watch
(youth choirs)
26 November 2020
"Glauben können wie du"
(Believing like you),
a hymn byHelmut Schlegel,
is addressed toMary,
and relates to her exemplary
faith, hope and love.
watch
3 November 2017
Bernhard Klee,
twice chief conductor of the
NDR Radiophilharmonie
and guest conductor of the
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
premiered works by
Gubaidulina andHenze
and offered young composers
residencies withhis orchestra.
watch
17 October 2025
Johannes Brahms
conducted the premiere of his
Double Concerto,
composed for violinistJoseph Joachim
and cellistRobert Hausmann,
on 18 October 1887.
watch
18 October 2025
"Bewahre uns, Gott"
(Keep us, God)
is ahymn for protection and blessing
thatEugen Eckert derived
from a 1968 peace song
written and composed in Argentina.
watch
27 March 2022
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Roberta Alexander,
who studied in Amsterdam,
portrayed
Mozart'sElettra andElvira,
and Gershwin'sMaria
withNikolaus Harnoncourt.
listen
20 October 2025
"Sozusagen grundlos vergnügt"
("Call it causelessly merry")
is one of about 40 poems
byMascha Kaléko
set to music on a 2011 album.
see it spoken
26 December 2018
Orlando di Lasso set
Psalm 134,
Ecce nunc benedicite Dominum,
one of theSongs of Ascents,
for seven voicesa cappella,
using a wide range from low bass
to very high soprano.
listen
22 October 2019
Toshio Hosokawa
(born 23 October 1955)
composed several operas based
on JapaneseNoh theatre, including
Vision of Lear after Shakespeare,
and the oratorio
Voiceless Voice in Hiroshima.
watch
23 October 2025
Luciano Berio
(born 24 October 1925)
composedSequenza III
for his former wife,
Cathy Berberian,
andSequenza XIV for cellist
Rohan de Saram.
listen to III with score
24 October 2025
Elsa Reger
who had first rejected
Max Reger's courting,
titled her autobiography
Mein Leben mit und für Max Reger
(My life with and for Max Reger).
listen to his music
25 October 2025
AGerman Magnificat,
orSong of Mary,
ends the last work by composer
Heinrich Schütz,
known as hisswan song.
watch
30 January 2014
On 27 October 1726,
J. S. Bach led
the first performance of
Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56,
a solo cantata for bass and
one of few works he called a cantata.
watch
27 October 2025
In his opera
Tri sestry
composerPéter Eötvös wants
the three sisters fromChekhov's play
to be sung bycountertenors.
watch trailer
28 October 2018
Benita Valente,
who portrayed Mozart'sPamina
and Verdi'sGilda
at theMetropolitan Opera,
performed with theJuilliard String Quartet
Schoenberg'sString Quartet No. 2,
earning a 1978Grammy Award,
andGinastera's Third String Quartett,
written for her.
listen to Ginastera
29 October 2025
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Rodolfo Halffter
who left for Mexico
after theSpanish Civil War,
was the first composer there
to usetwelve-tone technique,
inTres hojas de album.
listen
In
Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild
('God the Lord is sun and shield'),
BWV 79, hiscantata
for Reformation Day 1725,
J. S. Bach achieved
a unity within the structure
by using twohorns
not only in the opening
but also in the two chorales.
watch
31 October 2025
The Ukrainian mixed chamber choir
OREYA
won a special prize
for the best interpretation
of a religious choral work at the 14th
International Chamber Choir Competition Marktoberdorf.
listen toPrayer for Ukraine
1 November 2016
Bishop
Franz Kamphaus
opposedPope John Paul II,
"convinced that
our way of counselling women would
save the lives of many more children".
photos
2 February 2014
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David Wilde,
a pianist who often played
at theProms, composed
The Cellist of Sarajevo
for cello solo
dedicated toVedran Smailovic
and recorded byYo-Yo Ma.
listen
3 November 2025
Hans Jörg Stetter,
who taught from 1965 at the
Technical University of Vienna,
establishing the Institute of
Analysis and Scientific Computing,
and the first computing centre,
published in 2004
Numerical Polynomial Algebra.
4 November 2025
Eike Wilm Schulte,
who performed 119 roles,
celebrated 50 years on stage
asBeckmesser at
Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden
and as Kothner at the
Bavarian State Opera.
watch Hans Sachs in concert
6 November 2025
Guido Dessauer,
a German executive and art collector,
registered more than 30 patents
in paper technology
and started the career
ofHorst Janssen as alithographer.
watchussinging
23 January 2012
Sister Stan,
born Treasa Kennedy,
was a social activist
known as the founder of
Focus Ireland for the homelass
and theImmigrant Council of Ireland.
watch her
8 November 2025
"Wo Menschen sich vergessen"
was the first song in
the opening service of the
2021 Ecumenical Church Assembly
inFrankfurt,
held as an open-airlivestream.
6 June 2021
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Armand Avril
created works
inspired by
African art, by the
assembled objects
ofLouis Pons,
and by the art
ofGaston Chaissac,
that are held in the
permanent exhibition
of the
Museum of Fine Arts
of Lyon.
watch
10 November 2025
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TheLate Gothic appearance
of the church of
St. Martin in Oestrich
was destroyed in theThirty Years' War
and restored only in 1894.
watch service with music
25 January 2024
The dissertation of
Barbara Stühlmeyer
about the chants
byHildegard of Bingen
became a standard work.
listen
Anton Bruckner dedicated his
Symphony No. 9,
with a last movement incomplete
at the time of his death in 1896,
dem lieben Gott.
watchBlomstedt
Leonore von Zadow-Reichling
and Günter von Zadow (r.)
received the first biennial
Abel Prize ofKöthen
for their efforts
to retrieve and publish
compositions byCarl Friedrich Abel.
listen
Daniel Barenboim
combinedWagner andMendelssohn
in a 2025Rheingau Musik Festival concert
with pianistLang Lang and the
West–Eastern Divan Orchestra.
watch masterclass
Paul Gerhardt's
song of thanks and praise
"Nun danket all und bringet Ehr"
was first published
along with 17 of his other hymns
in 1647, during theThirty Years' War.
watch
4 June 2018
Willi Gundlach,
who taught music pedagogy
at theTechnical University of Dortmund,
edited works byFanny Hensel
and founded and conducted the
Dortmund University Chamber Choir.
listen
17 November 2025
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Stefka Evstatieva,
based at theSofia National Opera,
portrayed Verdi'sDesdemona
at theRoyal Opera House,
Giordano'sMaddalena
atLa Scala,
Tchaikovsky'sLisa
at thePhiladelphia Opera,
and Verdi'sElisabetta
at theMetropolitan Opera.
watch Lisa
18 November 2025
Thomas Daniel Schlee,
general manager of the
Carinthischer Sommer festival
from 2004 to 2015,
retained their tradition
of new church operas,
such as his
ich, hiob.
watch teaser
19 November 2025
Clytus Gottwald
has arranged compositions
for ana cappella group
of up to 16 voices,
re-creating them
"in a magical choral world".
watchAdagietto
20 November 2025
Donald McIntyre
from New Zealand,
a bass-baritone of the
Royal Opera House from 1967,
portrayed Wotan in the Bayreuth
Jahrhundertring from 1976.
watch
farewell with his music
21 November 2025
Benjamin Britten composed
Canticle I:
My beloved is mine and I am his
for the tenor voice ofPeter Pears,
using poetry from
A Divine Rapture byFrancis Quarles.
listen to Britten and Pears
22 November 2023
Elisabeth Leonskaja,
who won the
Enesco Piano Competitionn
in Bucharest in 1964,
was a friend ofSviatoslav Richter
and has lived in Vienna since 1978,
playing with a focus on the
late sonatas by Beethoven andSchubert.
watch
23 November 2025
Bach used
a trio of oboes for aTotentanz
in hischorale cantata
Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig, BWV 26
(Ah how fleeting, ah how futile).
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Amaury du Closel
founded the Forum Voix Etouffées
to revive music
that was suppressed
by 20th-century totalitarian regimes.
DirectorFrank Stähle revived
the choir and orchestra
ofDr. Hoch's Konservatorium
and conducted them in
Mozart's Requiem
for the centenary of
theLutherkirche in Wiesbaden.
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Jerome Kohl
(November 27, 1946 – August 4, 2020),
a music theorist of theUniversity of Washington,
was recognized internationally
as an authority on the composer
Karlheinz Stockhausen,
publishing a book on hisZeitmaße in 2017.
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Paul Gerhardt's song
of thanks and praise
"Nun danket all und bringet Ehr"
was first published
along with 17 of his other hymns in 1647,
during theThirty Years' War.
watch
Odile Bailleux,
long-time organist of both
Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés
andNotre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux,
cofounded the first French
Baroque ensemble with early instruments.
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Contralto
Sonia Prina
(born 30 November 1975)
performed the title role
of Antonio Vivaldi's 1727 opera
Orlando furioso
at theOper Frankfurt,
staged as arocker.
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The scoring inBach's cantata
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62,
based onLuther's chorale forAdvent,
is said to be simple
because Advent was a "season of abstinence".
Siegfried Thiele,
who taught at theUniversity of Music and Theatre Leipzig
from 1962, serving as rector from 1990,
composed an extended work for soloists, choir and orchestra
for the opening of the newLeipzig Gewandhaus.
Anton Webern'sSymphony,
a miniaturesymphony,
is his firsttwelve-tone orchestral work,
known for Alpinetopics,abstraction,
and intricatemusical form.
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Gabriel Dessauer
(born 4 December 1955)
conducted
Ein deutsches Requiem
byJohannes Brahms
in his last concert with the
Chor von St. Bonifatius
on 3 October 2018.
Alois Ickstadt
founded a children's choir and an adult choir
for the public broadcaster
Hessischer Rundfunk,
conducting the latter for 45 years.
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Karl Amadeus Hartmann
finished hisKammerkonzert,
a concerto for clarinet, string quartet
and string orchestra
dedicated toZoltán Kodály,
in 1935 duringinner emigration.
CellistRohan de Saram's background
as ageta bera drummer
inspiredLuciano Berio's
Sequenza XIV.
TheAdvent song
"Kündet allen in der Not",
an appeal to those in need to take courage,
was written byFriedrich Dörr,
based onIsaiah's prophecy,
in preparation of the first Catholic
Gotteslob of 1975.
watch
Marianne Preger-Simon,
dancer and later psychotherapist,
wasMerce Cunningham's first student from 1949
and a founding member of his Dance Company in 1953.
Michael Ruetz
became first known for documentary photos
of theWest German student movement,
published by international papers,
but turned to series of photos
taken over years at some locations,
visualizing time and transience.
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Uwe Eric Laufenberg,
general manager of theStaatstheater Wiesbaden,
presented his staging of
Wagner'sDer Ring des Nibelungen
at theInternationale Maifestspiele in 2017.
watch trailer
Perplexities after Escher,
a composition for
heckelphone, string quartet and double bass,
is based on five graphic artworks
byM. C. Escher.
Bach interpolated music
from hissecular cantataBWV 36c
with four stanzas from twoAdvent hymns in
Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36,
for the first Sunday in Advent, 2 December 1731.
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Christmas Eve
is afairy-tale opera
byNikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
that plays
on the night before Christmas
at a Ukrainian village,
in mid-air
and at a royal court.
The GermanAdvent song
"Tochter Zion, freue dich"
has words byFriedrich Heinrich Ranke
set to music used
for triumphant entrances
in two ofHandel'soratorios.
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Beethoven's
Third Cello Sonata,
first performed in 1809,
has been described
as the first sonata for piano and cello
to treat the instruments
as equal partners.
Thomas Hertel
composed and directed musical-scenic projects,
as head of incidental music
at theStaatsschauspiel Dresden from 1974 to 1982,
at theDonaueschinger Musiktage
and theLucerne Festival,
and finally at the Schauspiel Leipzig.
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Martin Luther's hymn
"Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin",
a reflection of thecanticle of Simeon,
is the base of funeral music
by Schütz,Buxtehude andBach.
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Wolfgang Becker
co-founded a filmproduction company
which produced his first successful feature film,
Das Leben ist eine Baustelle,
in 1997, and his international success,
Good Bye, Lenin!, in 2003.
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Friederike Mayröcker
(20 December 1924 – 4 June 2021)
described her working process:
"I live in pictures.
I see everything in pictures, my complete past,
memories are pictures.
I transform pictures into language
by climbing into the picture.
I walk into it until it becomes language."
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TheHauptfriedhof,
the main cemetery of Mainz,
was established in 1803
and became the model for the
Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris.
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The new
Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel
(AbelWV)
was introduced inKöthen,
where theviol virtuoso was born
on 22 December 1723.
Sigrid Kehl,
"voice and face" of theLeipzig Opera,
performed as both Fricka and Brünnhilde
in the same legendary
Ring production byJoachim Herz.
Jan Sandström
composed theMotorbike Concerto, and
asetting of "Es ist ein Ros entsprungen"
for two choirsa cappella:
one in four parts, singingPraetorius,
and the other in eight parts.
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Merry Christmas!
On Christmas Day 1724,
Bach led the first performance of
Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 91,
based onthe Christmas hymn
written byMartin Luther
in 1524.
Merry Christmas!
On the second Day of Christmas 1724
J. S. Bach led the first performance
of hischorale cantata
Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 121,
based ona hymn written byLuther
in 1524 as a paraphrase of
"A solis ortus cardine".
The opening chorus
of Bach'schorale cantata
Ich freue mich in dir, BWV 133,
is thought to persuasively express
"the essence, the exuberance
and the sheer exhilaration of Christmas".
PlaywrightFranz Xaver Kroetz
turned his controversial playStallerhof
into an opera libretto for
Gerd Kühr
(born 28 December 1952),
premiered at theMunich Biennale.
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Brigitte Kronauer,
a writer who won
theGeorg Büchner Prize,
theJean Paul Prize,
and theThomas Mann Prize,
was described as both "a master of spite"
and having "great kindness".
watch interview
17 September 2019
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In the fairy-tale opera
Der Schuhu und die fliegende Prinzessin
byUdo Zimmermann,
premiered inDresden on 30 December 1976,
two orchestras play on stage,
representing two empires in conflict.
listen
9 November 2018
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happy new year
Helmut Schlesinger
pursued as
President of theBundesbank
from 1991 to 1993,
at the time of theMaastricht Treaty,
monetary stability in Germany,
a model for theEuropean Union.
31 December 2024
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