This is the2023 archive of mydaily stories, with an overview atUser:Gerda Arendt/Story list. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:33, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
... and a selectionhere --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:02, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
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Concentricities,
a 2019clarinet–cello–piano trio byGraham Waterhouse,
musically depicts a theme
of circular, spiraling, or oscillating concentric phenomena
in nature and human structures
Compositions by Graham Waterhouse
range from the beginning
of hisString Sextet, Op. 1, in 1979
to theFantasia Ucraina for two violins in 2022.
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Volodymyr Kozhukhar,
the chief conductor
of theNational Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv,
led Lysenko's operaTaras Bulba
and Shchedrin's balletCarmen Suite.
Galina Pisarenko,
asoprano of Moscow's
Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre
for almost 30 years,
taught at theMoscow Conservatory
until her death at age 88.
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Guido Dessauer,
a German executive and art collector,
registered more than 30 patents
in paper technology
and started the career ofHorst Janssen
as alithographer
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InMother and Child,
composed in 2002
byJohn Tavener
for the vocal ensembleTenebrae,
organ and templegong
enter for the climax.
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Elisabeth Waterhouse
founded the
National Chamber Music Course
summer school in 1974
and has managed it since.
Graham Waterhouse began
hisString Sextet op. 1 in 1979,
and completed it 34 years later.
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TheMesse in A byChristopher Tambling,
originally set for high voices,
proved so popular
that a four-part version was commissioned.
Johannes Schröder composed anoratorio
honouringKatharina Kaspar,
who became a newsaint in 2018.
Mezzo-sopranoElena Manistina
stepped in on short notice for the premiere
of Tchaikovsky'sThe Enchantress atOper Frankfurt.
Clytus Gottwald arranged compositions
for ana cappella group of up to 16 voices,
re-creating them "in a magical choral world".
19 July 2012
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Clytus Gottwald arranged compositions
for ana cappella group of up to 16 voices,
re-creating them "in a magical choral world".
TheRomanesque churchSt. Peter
in Syburg, now a suburb ofDortmund,
is surrounded by a graveyard
with stones dating back to the ninth century.
Clytus Gottwald arranged compositions
for ana cappella group of up to 16 voices,
re-creating them "in a magical choral world".
Gertrude Pitzinger,
who toured Europe and the United States singingLieder,
recorded the alto part of Mozart'sRequiem,
conducted byFerenc Fricsay.
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In 1866 aNeogothic style school building
was erected for the
Kreuzschule inDresden,
which has educated members of
the choir of theKreuzkirche since 1300.
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.
31 January 2013
Mezzo-sopranoElena Manistina
stepped in on short notice for the premiere
of Tchaikovsky'sThe Enchantress atOper Frankfurt.
27 January 2023
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Nikolaus Herman based
the melody of hisChristmas carol
"Lobt Gott, ihr Christen alle gleich"
on theGregorian hymn
"Puer natus est nobis".
Mezzo-sopranoElena Manistina
stepped in on short notice for the premiere
of Tchaikovsky'sThe Enchantress
atOper Frankfurt.
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SopranoMelitta Muszely
appeared as the four womenHoffmann loves
inFelsenstein's production
at theKomische Oper Berlin in 1958,
and still sang recitals at age 80.
Bach'ssolo cantata
Ich habe genug, BWV 82,
based on theCanticle of Simeon,
has been recorded more than 100 times.
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SopranoMelitta Muszely
appeared as the four womenHoffmann loves
inFelsenstein's production
at theKomische Oper Berlin in 1958,
and still sang recitals at age 80.
Composer and music directorAugust Röckel,
who was active in theMay Uprising in Dresden
along with his friendRichard Wagner,
was arrested and was the last prisoner released.
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Michael Herrmann(pictured)
is founder-director of theRheingau Musik Festival,
which holds about 150 concerts every season
in vineyards and historical buildings.
SopranoMelitta Muszely
appeared as the four womenHoffmann loves
inFelsenstein's production
at theKomische Oper Berlin in 1958,
and still sang recitals at age 80.
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Hans Krieger,
anaward-winning Germanessayist,
influential in papers such asDie Zeit,
wrote the text for a Christmas cantata
byGraham Waterhouse that premieres today.
SopranoMelitta Muszely
appeared as the four womenHoffmann loves
inFelsenstein's production
at theKomische Oper Berlin in 1958,
and still sang recitals at age 80.
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Nicolas Joel,
general manager of theParis Opera from 2009 to 2014,
directed Wagner'sRing in 1979
after having assistedPatrice Chéreau forthe cycle's centenary.
SopranoMelitta Muszely
appeared as the four womenHoffmann loves
inFelsenstein's production
at theKomische Oper Berlin in 1958,
and still sang recitals at age 80.
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Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe ('Jesus gathered the Twelve to Himself', is achurch cantata byJohann Sebastian Bach, written for the last Sunday beforeLent. He composed it as an audition piece for the position ofdirector of church music inLeipzig, and he first performed it there in a church service at theThomaskirche on 7 February 1723. The work begins with a scene from theGospel in whichJesus predicts his suffering in Jerusalem, and is not understood by his disciples. Bach showed, setting the prescribed text of an unknown poet, that he mastered the composition of a dramatic scene, an expressivearia withobbligato oboe, arecitative withstrings, an exuberant dance, and achorale in the style ofJohann Kuhnau, his predecessor in Leipzig. According to the Bach scholarRichard D. P. Jones, several elements of the work such as a "frame of biblical text and chorale around the operatic forms of aria and recitative" became standards forBach's Leipzig cantatas and evenhis Passions. (Full article...)
AfterDomen Križaj from Slovenia
was a prize winner in the singing competitionNeue Stimmen,
he moved to theOper Frankfurt where he appeared
as Massenet'sAlbert and Mozart'sPapageno.
InPatrick Süskind's play
Der Kontrabaß,
the double bass in the title role
is a "constant handicap" to its player,
"humanly, socially, sexually, musically".
Ukrainian actressOksana Shvets,
who was killed in the2022 invasion of Ukraine,
starred in the 2013 joint Ukrainian–Russian television family saga
House with Lilies alongside Russian actors.
Dennis Russell Davies conducted
the premiere of the Fifth Symphony
Now and in the hour of death
byHeinz Winbeck,
which reflects Bruckner'sNinth Symphony
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Arvo Pärt began his choral composition
Da pacem Domine
(Give peace, Lord)
two days after the2004 Madrid train bombings.
Max Reger composed
20Responsories in English
for use in the American Lutheran church,
although he did not speak English.
Helene Wildbrunn,
a celebratedWagnerian soprano
at theVienna State Opera andLa Scala,
began her career in 1907 as acontralto
at theStadttheater Dortmund.
Richard Wagner
(22 May 1813 - 13 February 1883)
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Alte Liebe (Old Love)
is a novel about a couple married for 40 years,
told by a couple married longer but separated,
with chapters written alternately
bywife andhusband.
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AfterGeorge Alexander Albrecht
collapsed when conducting
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
during a New Year's concert,
he returned to composing and beganhospice work.
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Hans-Dieter Bader
(16 February 1938 - 18 June 2022)
performed the title role
of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's operaSly,
recorded live at theStaatsoper Hannover,
"as written", whilePlácido Domingo
had to cut and change the part.
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Concert venues of the
Rheingau Musik Festival
includeEberbach Abbey,
Schloss Johannisberg
andLorch.
28 June 2023
Bach:Mass in B minor
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Robert Hammerstiel
(18 February 1933 - 23 November 2020)
wrapped Vienna'sRingturm tower
in a painting showing stations of human life
in simplified and brightly coloured figures.
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"Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud",
written byPaul Gerhardt
after theThirty Years War,
was translated as
"Go Forth, My Heart, and Seek Delight".
The journalistJohann Georg Reißmüller
(20 February 1932 – 10 December 2018),
a co-publisher ofFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,
is credited with playing an important part
in Germany's recognition ofCroatia andSlovenia.
Dutch baritoneJohn Bröcheler (born 1945)
first sang concerts including world premieres,
but was "discovered" for opera in a role
of Donizetti'sMaria Stuarda alongsideJoan Sutherland.
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Olivier Latry
(born 22 February 1962),
organist atNotre-Dame de Paris,
played a concert atSt. Martin inLorch am Rhein in 2019.
For his ordination,Georg Weissel wrote the text of the hymn
"Such, wer da will, ein ander Ziel"
tohis friend's melody for a wedding song.
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Nele Hertling
(born 23 February 1934),
working for theAcademy of Arts, Berlin,
brought innovative culture to the city
including theTanz im August festival.
Tanz im August,
an annual international festival ofcontemporary dance in Berlin,
was founded byNele Hertling in 1988.
The choral music ofArtemy Vedel,
who is regarded as one of the Golden Three composers of 18th-centuryUkrainian classical music,
was censored but performed from handwritten copies.
The 1885 spiritual anthem
Prayer for Ukraine
was performed byUkrainian Chorus Dumka of New York onSaturday Night Live.
The 1641 edition
Selva morale e spirituale byClaudio Monteverdi
is considered his
"most significant anthology of liturgical works
since theVespers in 1610".
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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.
The 1885 spiritual anthem
Prayer for Ukraine
was performed byUkrainian Chorus Dumka of New York
onSaturday Night Live.
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Max Reger'sPiano Concerto
was premiered byFrieda Hodapp in 1910,
but has rarely been performed since, due to its difficulty.
The choral music ofArtemy Vedel,
who is regarded as one of the Golden Three composers
of 18th-centuryUkrainian classical music,
was censored but performed from handwritten copies.
Doris Stockhausen'shusband
dedicated several compositions to her,
beginning withChöre für Doris in 1950 before they married.
born 1924 ·28 February 2021
Elisabeth Waterhouse
founded the National Chamber Music Course summer school in 1974
and has managed it since.
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In 2005
composerKrzysztof Penderecki
added aCiaccona for strings
to hisPolish Requiem,
begun in 1980.
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In 1524,Elisabeth Cruciger's hymn
"Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn"
was the only song by a female author
published in the Lutheran hymnalErfurtEnchiridion.
The title page of theErfurtEnchiridion,
aLutheranhymnal from 1524 with 26 songs,
recommends using the handbook
"for continuous practice and contemplation".
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TheOpernhaus Dortmund
was opened in 1966 withDer Rosenkavalier,
performed inDortmund first in 1911.
Liselotte Hammes,
a soprano with theCologne Opera,
appeared as Sophie inDer Rosenkavalier
at theGlyndebourne Festival
alongsideTeresa Żylis-Gara in the title role
andMontserrat Caballé as the Marschallin.
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The poet, cartoonist, and satirist
F. W. Bernstein
(4 March 1938 – 20 December 2018)
was appointed
professor of caricature and comics
in Berlin in 1984,
the only such chair in the world at the time.
The contraltoElisabeth Schärtel,
known for performing many Wagner roles at theBayreuth Festival,
sang Verdi'sMeg Page alongsideDietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Falstaff.
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Siegfried Vogel
(born 6 March 1937),
a bass at theBerlin State Opera from 1965,
appeared at theMetropolitan Opera in New York
and at theBolshoi Theatre in Moscow
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Willigis Jäger
(7 March 1924 – 20 March 2020),
a GermanBenedictine friar,
studiedZen for six years withYamada Koun in Japan
and introduced it to his order.
Hans-Karl von Kupsch
(7 March 1937 – 26 April 2020),
who was instrumental in the unification
of theEast and West German booksellers' associations,
ran a gallery of contemporary art together with his wife.
Hana Blažíková
is a soprano
with theBach Collegium Japan,
conducted byMasaaki Suzuki,
for the project to record the completeBach cantatas
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Azio Corghi
(9 March 1937 – 17 November 2022)
composed his second and third operas with authorJosé Saramago,
– the second forLa Scala in Milan,
andthe third for a 1993 premiere at theTheater Münster
When theTheater Münster opened in 1956,
it was regarded as the first new theatre in Germany
after World War II.
Delores Ziegler,
who teaches voice at theUniversity of Maryland,
appeared as Dorabella in Mozart'sCosì fan tutte
for her debut atLa Scala, and in the film byPonnelle andHarnoncourt.
John Rutter setPsalm 23 in
The Lord is my Shepherd
for choir and organ,
and later included it in hisRequiem.
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Odile Pierre
(12 March 1932 – 29 February 2020),
who became interested in the organ
at a recital byMarcel Dupré at the age of seven,
later served as the organist ofLa Madeleine in Paris
and played around 2,000 recitals herself.
Hans Krieger
(13 March 1933 – 9 January 2023),
anaward-winning Germanessayist,
influential in papers such asDie Zeit,
wrote the text for a Christmas cantata
byGraham Waterhouse that premieres today.
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Rossini scored the last of his "sins of old age",
thePetite messe solennelle
,
for twelve singers, two pianos, andharmonium.
The German musicologist
Ludwig Finscher (14 March 1930 – 30 June 2020)
was the editor ofDie Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart,
an encyclopedia in 28 volumes, placing
music in cultural, social, and historical context.
Lorenzo Viotti
(born 15 March 1990)
conducted Massenet'sWerther
in three productions in opera houses of three countries in 2017,
silently singing with the soloists.
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Volodymyr Kozhukhar
(16 March 1941 – 3 December 2022),
the chief conductor of
theNational Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv,
led Lysenko's operaTaras Bulba
and Shchedrin's balletCarmen Suite.
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Arvo Pärt composed themotet
The Deer's Cry
on a commission fromLouth, Ireland,
setting the conclusion ofSaint Patrick's Breastplate,
"Christ with me".
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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".
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TheRequiem
ofMax Reger
(19 March 1873 – 11 May 1916)
is a musical setting not of the LatinRequiem,
but of a poem "Requiem"
written by thedramatistFriedrich Hebbel
WhenStefan Keil
(20 March 1958 – 16 December 2021)
moved toYekaterinburg, Russia, as the German consul general,
one of his first appearances was
at the European Christmas market, dressed asSaint Nicholas.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
([O.S.] 21 March 1685 – 28 July 1750)
wrote around 200cantatas in German but only one,
Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191,
inLatin.
ConductorHelmuth Rilling,
Gächinger Kantorei andBach-Collegium Stuttgart
finished the first complete recording
of Bach'scantatas andoratorios
on the composer's 300th birthday, 21 March 1985.
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The sopranoMargit Bokor
created the role of Zdenka in
Arabella by Richard Strauss
at theSemperoper in Dresden in 1933,
and performed the role
in the UK premiere at theRoyal Opera House.
Maria Friesenhausen
(23 March 1932 – 31 July 2020)
sang soprano solo with theNDR Chor in the 1950s
and trained students of theUniversity of Dortmund
for an opera performance in 2001.
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SopranoAnnette 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.
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Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1,
Bach's chorale cantata
for the feast of theAnnunciation,
was first performed onPalm Sunday.
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ArchitectJörg 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.
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TheKlassische Philharmonie Bonn,
a symphony orchestra founded and conducted
byHeribert Beissel
(27 March 1933 – 11 June 2021),
has a tradition of playing a series of concerts
at more than ten major halls in Germany.
Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden,BWV 1083,
is a sacred vocal composition byJohann Sebastian Bach,
a 1740s arrangement of Pergolesi'sStabat Mater from 1736,
with a text fromPsalm 51.
The sopranoLeonore Kirschstein
(29 March 1933 – 26 February 2017)
appeared as Alice Ford,
withDietrich Fischer-Dieskau asFalstaff.
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ComposerJan Müller-Wieland
(born 30 April 1966)
called his first stage work,
premiered at theMunich Biennale in 1992,
a "CabaretFarce for singers,pianists andpercussionists".
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TheMunich Biennale
is anopera festival created in 1988 byHans Werner Henze,
focused on opera premieres of young composers.
ComposerJan Müller-Wieland
(born 30 April 1966)
called his first stage work,
premiered at theMunich Biennale in 1992,
a "Cabaret Farce for singers, pianists and percussionists".
The sopranoRotraud Hansmann
(born 1 April 1940)
performed six roles in three Monteverdi operas
conducted byNikolaus Harnoncourt,
including Euridice inL'Orfeo.
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TheAlchymic Quartet
is astring quartet byGraham Waterhouse,
to be performed alongside chemical experiments
ofAndrew Szydlo,
his former teacher atHighgate School.
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Renate Behle
(born 3 April 1945)
made her operatic debut in 1968
and appeared as Sara in the premiere ofGiorgio Battistelli'sLot
at theStaatsoper Hannover in 2017.
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Hans-Karl von Kupsch,
who was instrumental in the unification
of theEast and West German booksellers' associations,
ran a gallery of contemporary art together with his wife.
Karlheinz Oswald created sculptures
ofCardinal Volk,Pierre de Coubertin andHildegard of Bingen.
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Marjon Lambriks
(born 5 April 1949),
who studied voice in the Netherlands
withPaula Lindberg(both pictured)
and made a career in Vienna,
recordedLa traviata alongsidePavarotti.
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In a motet forMaundy Thursday,
Tristis est anima mea,
Jesus says inGethsemane
"Sad is my soul even unto death".
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Gottfried August Homilius wrote
Passions for Good Friday services
during his time as music director of
theChurch of the Holy Cross in Dresden.
Bach'sSt Matthew Passion is structured
in 67 movements, according to theNBA,
and tells thePassion based on
theGospel of Matthew,
Picander's contemporary poetry, and chorales.
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A chorale 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.
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A 2009 recording ofLouis Vierne's
Messe solennelle
for choir and two organs atSaint-Sulpice,
where it was first performed in 1901,
was called "musical and spiritual time-travel".
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The opening chorus ofBach's
cantata for theSecond Day of Easter,
Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen, BWV 66,
has been termed
"one of the longest and most exhilarating of Bach's early works".
Heinz Hennig
founded theKnabenchor Hannover in 1950
and conducted theboys' choir until 2001.
Günther Leib
(born 12 April 1927),
who often sang at theHalle Handel Festival,
was called a "first rateBeckmesser" byThe New York Times
when he first appeared at theMetropolitan Opera.
"Handel'sMessiah
(premiered in Dublin on 13 April 1742)
is among the most frequently performed
and best-loved works in all choral music."
(Brian Boulton,2011)
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.
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The melody of the Christian hymn
"Ik sta voor U in leegte en gemis"
(I stand before You in emptiness and loss)
is sometimes printed withoutbar lines,
reflecting the singer's insecurity and questions.
text byHuub Oosterhuis
(1 November 1933 – 9 April 2023)
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Erich Korngold's operaDie tote Stadt
had simultaneous premieres
in Cologne and Hamburg in 1920, one with
Johanna Geisler
as Marietta
and her husbandOtto Klemperer conducting.
Ik sta voor U in leegte en gemis
in memory ofHuub Oosterhuis
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TheLichtental Church,
consecrated in 1730 to theFourteen Holy Helpers,
is known as theSchubertkirche,
becauseSchubert was baptised
and conducted hissacred music there.
Herr, unser Herr, wie bist du zugegen
in memory ofHuub Oosterhuis
A song of God's presence,
written in 1965 in Dutch byHuub Oosterhuis,
became part ofthe first common German Catholic hymnal,
and was retained inthe second by popular demand.
"Herr, unser Herr, wie bist du zugegen"
is a German hymn translating a Dutch · "Lied van Gods aanwezigheid"
(song of God's presence)" written in 1965 byHuub Oosterhuis.
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ComposerGraham Waterhouse was thecellist
in a performance of hisstring trio
Zeichenstaub
at hisformer school,
playing the U.K. premiere
with two members of theMünchner Philharmoniker.
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John Eliot Gardiner
(born 20 April 1943)
performedBach's cantatas forReformation Day
in theSchloßkirche, Wittenberg,
as part of theBach Cantata Pilgrimage,
including
Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild, BWV 79.
Theart photographers
Anna and Bernhard Blume
createdKitchen Frenzy andPure Reason.
(A.B. 21 April 1936 – 18 June 2020)
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For a rare performance of theSt Matthew Passion
by 18th-century composerHomilius in 2023,
conductorClemens Bosselmann
had to track down handwritten sheet music.
Hans Uwe Hielscher played
the 1500th weekly organ recital during market time
at theMarktkirche in Wiesbaden
in a series he initiated some 30 years earlier.
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Erhard Egidi
(23 April 1929 – 8 September 2014)
conducted at theNeustädter Kirche both
the first performance after more than 300 years
of a funeral music by the church's first organist
and Bach'sMass in B minor.
TenorMartin Petzold
(25 June 1955 – 19 April 2023)
a former member of the boys' choirThomanerchor,
was a singer ofBach's Evangelist parts with the group.
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Matti Lehtinen
(24 April 1922 – 16 August 2022),
abaritone of theFinnish National Opera
and professor of singing at theSibelius Academy,
was the voice of God at age 93.
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The concert choirSchiersteiner Kantorei,
founded 50 years ago inWiesbaden-Schierstein,
performed Bach'sSt Matthew Passion in theMarktkirche.
TenorMartin Petzold
(25 June 1955 – 19 April 2023)
a former member of the boys' choirThomanerchor,
sangBach's Evangelist parts with the group.
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ContraltoMarga Höffgen
(26 April 1921 – 7 July 1995),
known as a Bach singer forKarajan
and asErda inBayreuth,
recorded Max Reger'sRequiem compositions.
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Adalbert Kraus
(born 27 April 1937)
performed the tenor part
in Bach'sEaster Oratorio,
Kommt, eilet und laufet (Come, hasten and run).
Poèmes pour Mi
is a song cycle byOlivier Messiaen
(10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992),
who set his own poems
for agrand soprano dramatique and orchestra,
and dedicated it tohis wife.
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Giuseppe Verdi
combined in
Quattro pezzi sacri
four sacred vocal compositions,
including an
Ave Maria
on anenigmatic scale for solo voices
and aTe Deum.
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Hana Blažíková is a soprano
with theBach Collegium Japan, conducted by
Masaaki Suzuki
(born 29 April 1954),
for the project to record the completeBach cantatas.
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Bach was only in his twenties
when he composed thecantata
Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4,
forEaster,
using in seven movements
the words and tune
ofMartin Luther'sEaster chorale.
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Francis Poulenc composed
Litanies à la Vierge Noire,
a French litany to the Black Virgin
atRocamadour,
after a pilgrimage to the shrine.
During the last decade,
Lance Ryan
(born 1 May 1971)
appeared asSiegfried
at threeBayreuth Festivals.
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Manfred Weiss,
who taught composition
at theMusikhochschule Dresden
from 1959 to 1997,
composed a cantata after theBook of Revelation
premiered by theDresdner Kreuzchor
conducted byRoderich Kreile.
Hans Stadlmair
(3 May 1929 – 13 February 2019),
conductor of theMünchener Kammerorchester for almost four decades,
in 1971 premieredWilhelm Killmayer'sFin al punto,
of which the composer said,
"The calm already contains the catastrophe".
The tenorKurt Huber
(born 4 May 1937)
sang theEvangelist inBach'sAscension Oratorio
Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen, BWV 11,
composed for the feast of theAscension of 275 years ago.
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The 1965 song
"Wie als een God wil leven",
written byHuub Oosterhuis, was listed in 2013
as a hymn in German successful with young people.
The rhythm of
"Solang es Menschen gibt auf Erden",
to a Dutch hymn translated into German,
has been compared to atango.
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Max Reger dedicatedDer Einsiedler
to conductorPhilipp Wolfrum and his choir,
but they performed the premiere only after the composer's death,
together with hisRequiem.
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The prolific composer
andWestminster Cathedral conductor
Colin Mawby
(9 May 1936 – 24 November 2019)
said,
"I cannot write choral music
unless I work with choirs
... I have to write for particular people".
He wrote the Bonifatiusmess for the 150th anniversary ofChor von St. Bonifatius in Wiesbaden in 2012, then conducted byGabriel Dessauer.
In one concert,bassoonistLyndon Watts
premieredBernd Redmann'sMigrant,
and playedJörg Duda's firstFinnish Quartet,
which he had commissioned,
and theBassoon Quintet ofGraham Waterhouse,
which he had premiered.
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Thelate-Gothic church
St. Lamberti inHildesheim
was rebuilt after destruction in World War II,
but a southern annex was kept in ruins
as a memorial.
Raimund Hoghe
(12 May 1949 – 14 May 2021),
who was awarded theGerman Dance Prize in 2020,
made a self-portrait documentary filmDer Buckel (The Hunchback).
Kari Løvaas
(born 13 May 1939)
appeared in the premiere of Orff'sDe temporum fine comoedia
at theSalzburg Festival.
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Bach began hiscantata,
Wahrlich, wahrlich, ich sage euch, BWV 86,
(first performed on 14 May 1724),
with a quotation from theFarewell discourse,
sung by thebass as thevox Christi.
The Polishsoprano
Zofia Kilanowicz
(born 15 May 1963)
appeared as Roxana in Szymanowski'sKing Roger in Paris,
and recorded Górecki'sSymphony of Sorrowful Songs.
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Faustas Latėnas
(16 May 1956 – 3 November 2020),
vice-minister of Lithuania'sMinistry of Culture,
composedincidental music, film scores,
and astring quartet subtitled "In loving memory".
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Günter Wewel
(29 November 1934 – 9 May 2023),
for around 30 yearsoperatic bass
at theOpernhaus Dortmund,
presented the television seriesKein schöner Land,
portraying regions in Europe filmed at the locations.
The tenorKurt Huber
(born 4 May 1937)
sang theEvangelist inBach'sAscension Oratorio
Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen, BWV 11,
composed for the feast of theAscension of275 285 years ago.
Bass-baritoneStephen Varcoe
(born 19 May 1949)
recordedBach cantatas with theMonteverdi Choir,
includingWachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140.
Poetess
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?
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The art of
Irma Blank,
of "drawing languages without words"
and including sounds,
was recognised in the 1970s
but fell into obscurity until a rediscovery in the 2010s.
Maria Mies
(6 February 1931 – 15 May 2023)
from a small village in theVulkaneifel
studied the position of women first in India
and cofounded
the firstwomen's shelter in Germany.
Johann Sebastian Bach reworked music
from more than three decades earlier
for the central pieceCrucifixus
in the symmetrical structure of his
Mass in B minor.
Franz Schubert dedicated compositions to
Cathinka Buchwieser
(24 May 1789 – 9 July 1828),
a soprano who appeared in Vienna
as Mozart'sSesto andElvira,
and asFerdinando Paer's Achille andLeonora.
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Jubilate andTe Deum
from the
Morning, Evening and Communion Service in B-flat
byCharles Villiers Stanford
were first performedin Cambridge
on 25 May 1879.
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The text forBach's lastcantata
in his second year inLeipzig,
Es ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding, BWV 176,
reflects the meeting of Jesus andNicodemus.
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The Easter composition
Surrexit a mortuis
(He rose from the dead)
was scored for choir and two organs
byCharles-Marie Widor,
the organist atSaint-Sulpice in Paris?
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Johann Sebastian Bach
marked to repeat the opening chorus
of thecantata forPentecost,
Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten!
BWV 172,
after the final chorale.
Poetess
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.
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On 30 May 1723,
Johann Sebastian Bach
assumed the office ofThomaskantor in Leipzig,
presenting his first new cantata,
Die Elenden sollen essen, BWV 75,
in theSt. Nicholas Church
on the first Sunday afterTrinity.
Mezzo-soprano
Eva Randová
was nominated for theLaurence Olivier Award
for her performance as the Kostelnička Buryjovka
in Janáček'sJenůfa at theRoyal Opera House.
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Javier Álvarez
(8 May 1956 – 23 May 2023)
composed his firstelectroacoustic music,
Temazcal,
in 1984 while studying in London,
using a pair ofmaracas
against a complex electroacoustic backdrop.
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TheKölner Domchor
from theCologne Cathedral
sang Palmeri'sMisa a Buenos Aires
at a 2013 festival in Rome dedicated toPope Francis,
with the composer at the piano.
Michael Hampe
(3 June 1935 – 18 November 2022),
who directed theCologne Opera for 20 years,
was the stage director for the world premiere
ofHenze's adaptation of Monteverdi'sIl ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
at theSalzburg Festival
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Erasmus Schöfer
(4 June 1931 – 7 June 2022)
chronicled the resistance in Germany,
from theprotests of 1968
toGerman reunification,
in atetralogy of novels.
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In Strauss'Elektra,
Aile Asszonyi
was said to be convincing
as a woman close to madness.
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Bach has
a trumpet tell God's glory incantata
Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, BWV 76,
first performed in theThomaskirche
on 6 June 1723,
butoboe d'amore andviola da gamba
express "brotherly devotion".
Kurt Widmer
(28 December 1940 – 31 May 2023),
a baritone and influential professorin Basel,
sang as a soloist withGemischter Chor Zürich between 1967 and 1992,
from Bach'sGott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild, BWV 79,
to Suter'sLe Laudi,
and recorded newsong cycles byGyörgy Kurtág.
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Mozart composed his motet
Ave verum corpus
for the church choir of
St. Stephan in Baden
on 17 June 1791,
for theFeast of Corpus Christi.
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Haroun and the Sea of Stories,
an opera byCharles Wuorinen
(9 June 1938 – 11 March 2020),
is based on a children's novel
bySalman Rushdie
about free imagination in battle with thought control.
Hanns-Martin Schneidt
became head ofan academy of church music in 1955 at age 25,
of theMünchener Bach-Chor in 1984,
and of asymphony orchestra in Japan in 2007.
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Jesu, meine Freude
(Jesus, my joy),
amotet by Bach,
has a complex symmetrical structure
in which sixhymn stanzas
alternate with fiveBible verses.
"Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud",
written byPaul Gerhardt
after theThirty Years War,
was translated as
"Go forth, my heart, and seek delight".
TenorKurt Equiluz
(13 June 1929 – 20 June 2022)
was the Evangelist
in the firstrecording of Bach'sSt John Passion
onperiod instruments with theConcentus Musicus Wien, Vienna.
Mezzo-sopranoHedwig Fassbender,
who also appeared in soprano roles such as Wagner'sIsolde,
has been an influential voice teacher inFrankfurt.
Theoboist and composer
Rolf Riehm
(born 15 June 1937)
taught music theoryin Frankfurt from 1974 to 2000
and wrote an opera,Sirenen, for a 2014 premiere at theOper Frankfurt.
In 2016Pascal Rophé
conducted works byHenri Dutilleux
to celebrate the composer's centenary,
includingTout un monde lointain... andLe temps l'horloge.
Thebass-baritoneAlbert Dohmen
(born 17 June 1956)
appeared as Berg'sWozzeck at theSalzburg Festival in 1997,
and as Wagner'sPogner atLa Scala in 2017.
Jörg Faerber
(18 June 1929 – 13 September 2022)
was the artistic director of theWürttemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn
for more than four decades
and recorded piano concertos byShostakovich andHaydn withMartha Argerich.
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With compositions such asCon brio
andBabylon,
clarinetistJörg Widmann
(born 19 June 1973)
was ranked the third-most-performed
contemporary composer in 2018.
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In hisViola Sonata
entitledSonata ebraica (Hebrew Sonata),
Graham Waterhouse quotes the Yiddish song
"Oyfn Pripetshik".
Gabriele Schnaut
(24 February 1951 – 19 June 2023)
recorded alto parts inBach cantatas in the 1970s,
and appeared as Waltraute and Second Norne
in theJahrhundertring film in 1980,
asIsolde in 1985,
and asTurandot in 2002.
Cornel Țăranu
(20 June 1934 – 18 June 2023),
a Romanian composer, musicologist and
conductor of achamber orchestra forcontemporary music,
completed unfinished scores byGeorge Enescu.
Josef Protschka, who sang as a soloist
in Stockhausen'sGesang der Jünglinge
at age 12, later appeared in leadingtenor roles
in the Mozart cycle staged byJean-Pierre Ponnelle at theCologne Opera.
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The concert venues of the
Rheingau Musik Festival
have includedEberbach Abbey,
Schloss Johannisberg andSt. Martin, Lorch,
from the beginning.
The Company of Heaven,
Benjamin Britten's 1937 composition
about angels
for speakers, soloists, choir and orchestra,
contains "metrical spoken (shouted) male chorus".
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Alte Liebe (Old Love)
is a novel about a couple married for 40 years,
told by a couple married longer but separated,
with chapters written alternately
byElke Heidenreich and
Bernd Schroeder
(6 June 1944 – 18 June 2023).
Karlheinz Stockhausen dedicated several compositions to
Doris Stockhausen
(28 February 1924 – 20 June 2023)
beginning withChöre für Doris in 1950
before they married.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
reworked music from
more than three decades earlier
for the central piece
Crucifixus
in the symmetrical structure of his
Mass in B minor.
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International opera singer
Soňa Červená
won theAlfréd Radok Award for Best Actress
when she was 83 years old.
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The 1968 albumMachine Gun by
Peter Brötzmann
(6 March 1941 – 22 June 2023),
titled after his nickname, became
"one of the landmark albums
of 20th-century free jazz".
Benjamin Britten wrote out theLatin text for
Cantata academica,
commissioned byPaul Sacher for the quincentenary of theUniversity of Basel
and premiered 1 July 1960,
in one of his old Germanexercise books.
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TheMissa brevis in B-flat,
amass for mixed choir, trumpets, trombones,tubular bells and organ
byChristopher Tambling,
was premiered by 1,400 singers
atSt. Maria in Landau in 2014.
Rachel Yakar
(3 March 1936 – 24 June 2023),
a Frenchsoprano based for decades at theDeutsche Oper am Rhein,
appeared in the title role of Monteverdi'sL'incoronazione di Poppea
in theOper Zürich production and film
conducted byNikolaus Harnoncourt.
CountertenorChristopher Lowrey
took part in the world premiere of Brett Dean'sHamlet
inGlyndebourne in 2017,
and moved with the production to Australia
and theMetropolitan Opera.
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Diana Tishchenko,
a violinist from Ukraine,
played Skoryk'sMelody
on a tour of theKyiv Symphony Orchestra
to Germany
in April 2022.
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In 2016,
Edition Güntersberg
published12 Fantasias for Viola da Gamba
byTelemann
that had been lost.
Wolkentanz,
a leadingHanoverian stallion at theCelle State Stud,
sired 21 licensed stallions.
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TheTwelve Fantasias for Viola da Gamba solo,
published by the composer
Georg Philipp Telemann in 1735, were believed lost
but published again in 2016.
Leonore von Zadow-Reichling and Günter von Zadow
received the first biennialAbel Prize ofKöthen
for their efforts to retrieve and publish
compositions byCarl Friedrich Abel.
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Thea cappella
ensemble amarcord,
five former members of theThomanerchor,
won theCARA award "Best classical album"
again in 2010,
forRastlose Liebe (Restless Love).
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InBio's Bahnhof,
a German live music talk show
presented by
Alfred Biolek
(10 July 1934 – 23 July 2021)
in a former train depot,
Kate Bush made her first television appearance.
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Frank Beermann
conducted the first recording
ofBruno Maderna's Requiem,
the German premiere
of Péter Eötvös's operaLove and Other Demons
at theChemnitz Opera,
and Beethoven'sFidelio in 2021.
DirectorFrank Stähle
(12 July 1942 – 10 December 2015)
revived the choir and orchestra
ofDr. Hoch's Konservatorium
and conducted them inMozart's Requiem
for the centenary of theLutherkirche
in Wiesbaden.
The string quintetHaven of Mysteries
byAnthony Gilbert
(26 July 1934 – 5 July 2023),
who taught composition both
at theRoyal Northern College of Music and in Australia,
was premiered with theArditti Quartet inWigmore Hall in 2015.
Graham Clark
(10 November 1941 – 6 July 2023)
appeared at theBayreuth Festival in 16 seasons,
in 1988 as Loge and Mime in theRing cycle conducted by Daniel Barenboim.
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Violeta Hemsy de Gainza
(25 January 1929 – 7 July 2023),
president of the
Latin American Forum of Musical Education
from its foundation in 1995,
taught generations of students, and said:
"Learning music is a human right".
The title role ofBoris Blacher's last opera,
Yvonne, Prinzessin von Burgund,
is performed by a mute dancer.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
may have reused earlier music
for hiscantata
Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz,
BWV 136,
for the eighth Sunday afterTrinity
on 18 July 1723.
Martin Janus
wrote the original lyrics of "Jesu, meiner Seelen Wonne",
which Bach used in
Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147,
in a setting known asJesu, Joy of Man's Desiring.
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WhenHeide Simonis
(4 July 1943 – 12 July 2023),
minister of finance inSchleswig-Holstein from 1988,
becameminister-president there,
she was the first woman to serve
as head of a state government in Germany.
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The walls of theKronberg Academy's
Casals Forum,
opened in 2022,
are curved and covered with wood in a manner
reminiscent of a string instrument.
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TheEmpress Elisabeth Bridge ,
a 1855chain bridge over theElbe
connectingTetschen
to the railroad toDresden,
was named in honor of the newly married
Elisabeth of Austria.
Valentin Gheorghiu
(21 March 1928 – 17 July 2023),
later pianist and composer,
won the prize for the best performance
of Enescu'sViolin Sonata No. 3
at the first
George Enescu International Competition
in 1958, with his brotherȘtefan as the violinist.
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SingersAnne Sofie von Otter and
Christian Gerhaher
(born 24 July 1969)
recorded music written in
theconcentration camp of Terezín
by artists such as
Ilse Weber,Hans Krása,
Pavel Haas andViktor Ullmann.
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After
Tenebrae
received theRheingau Musikpreis
during a concert atEberbach Abbey,
they performed Talbot'sPath of Miracles,
a 2005 one-hour work for choira cappella
inspired by theCamino de Santiago.
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Romanianmusicologist
Cornel Țăranu
(20 June 1934 – 18 June 2023)
completed unfinished scores byGeorge Enescu
that Enescu did not wish to publish.
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In 1973
Luten Petrowsky
played the saxophone in a quartet
that made the first record
with jazz musicians from
both East and West Germany.
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Silvana Lattmann,
biologist, poet and author,
published the memoir
Nata il 1918
in 2019.
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Rhythm Is It!
is a 2004 documentary film
about 250 public school students
trained byRoyston Maldoom to dance
Stravinsky'sLe Sacre du printemps
with theBerlin Philharmonic.
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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.
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A French team,
withPatrice Chéreau andPierre Boulez,
created the
Jahrhundertring
ofRichard Wagner'sRing cycle
at the centenaryBayreuth Festival in 1976,
causing "a near-riot".
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Martin Walser's
Ein fliehendes Pferd
(Runaway Horse),
his most successful book with readers and critics,
was adapted for the screen
in 1986 byPeter Beauvais,
and again in 2007 byRainer Kaufmann.
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Andris Nelsons conducted
Bartok'sViola Concerto
andMahler'sFifth Symphony
in the final concert with his
Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie.
pictured:
Jonathon Heyward announcing on 3 March 2022
at theStadttheater Minden that the concert
(which included Stavinsky'sThe Firebird)
was dedicated to
the victims of the Russian invasion into Ukraine
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Kaiser Wilhelm II
called the
Kurhaus inWiesbaden
"the most beautiful spa in the world"
at the opening ceremony.
Beethoven:Violin Concerto
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Felix Mendelssohn
first composed themotet
Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen
(For He shall give His angels charge)
for an eight-part choir,
then included it with orchestra
inElijah.
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Nancy Van de Vate's opera
Quiet at the Western Front
was performed at the
New York City Opera.
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After the Ukrainian soprano
Olga Bezsmertna
(born 6 August 1983)
won theNeue Stimmen competition in 2011,
she was engaged at theVienna State Opera.
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Igor Stravinsky
said of his cousin and first wife,
Yekaterina "Katya",
that they were
"closer than lovers sometimes are".
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Mariana Sîrbu,
who played first violin in a string quartet
that she founded as a student in Bucharest in 1967
and moved to Ireland,
wasconcertmaster ofI Musici from 1993 to 2003.
The conductor of the
Leningrad premiere of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7
on 9 August 1942 while the city wasunder siege,
performed by the surviving musicians of theLeningrad Radio Orchestra
supplemented with military performers, concluded:
"we triumphed over the soulless Nazi war machine".
Klesie Kelly,
soprano and academic voice teacher in Cologne,
recorded love songs for voices and instrumental soloists
with tenorIan Partridge.
SopranoHeidi Grant Murphy,
who has given over 200 performances at theMetropolitan Opera,
said that becoming a singer
"takes work on your psyche, your innermost being".
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TheÜberwasserkirche,
a Gothichall church inMünster,
was the location
of the second of three sermons held in 1941
by BishopClemens August Graf von Galen
in defiance of the Nazi regime.
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The "extreme lightness and luminous agility" of
Michael McCown's voice
in the roles of
Britten'sTempter andNebuchadnezzar
has been likened to that ofPeter Pears.
CountertenorDavid Erler
was one of five singers invited byamarcord
for the performance of Monteverdi'sVespers
as the annualMarienvesper
of theRheingau Musik Festival inEberbach Abbey.
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After an absence of four years,
theInkpot Madonna,
holding a naked Baby Jesus with quill in hand,
returns to theHildesheim Cathedral today.
CountertenorDavid Erler
was one of five singers invited byamarcord
for the performance of Monteverdi'sVespers
as the annualMarienvesper
of theRheingau Musik Festival inEberbach Abbey.
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Hans-Jochen Jaschke,
who was responsible
forecumenism andinter-religious dialogue
as anauxiliary bishop of Hamburg,
represented theCatholic Church
in the media.
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Marie Lehmann,
one of theRhinemaidens
at the firstBayreuth Festival
(13–17 August 1876),
sang the soprano solo
in Beethoven'sNinth Symphony
for the groundbreaking
of theBayreuth Festival Theatre.
SopranoRosa Lamoreaux,
who recorded Bach'sMass in B minor
withThe Bach Choir of Bethlehem and at theCarmel Bach Festival,
won the 2009 Washington Area Music Award as classical vocal soloist.
Mahler:Second Symphony
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Vilde Frang
(born 19 August 1986)
played Sarasate'sCarmen Fantasy,
withMariss Jansons
conducting theOslo Philharmonic Orchestra,
at age 13.
Mahler:Fourth Symphony
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Renata Scotto
made her opera debut asLa traviata in Milan,
portrayedMadama Butterfly
for her debut at theMet,
and wasMimi
in the firstLive from the Met telecast
in 1977, alongsideLuciano Pavarotti.
Hans Stadlmair,
conductor of theMünchener Kammerorchester
for almost four decades, in 1971 premiered
Wilhelm Killmayer'sFin al punto,
of which the composer said,
"The calm already contains the catastrophe".
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Claude Debussy
(22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918)
described his
Cello Sonata,
composed within a few weeks
in July 1915 at aNormandy seaside town,
in a letter to his publisherDurand
as of "almost classical form".
Vera Nemirova
stagedLulu at theSalzburg Festival
andThe Ring for theOper Frankfurt.
ConductorRoland Bader
(born 24 August 1938)
recorded late choral works byMax Reger,
including hisHebbel Requiem,
and the First Symphony byRichard Wetz.
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Thomas Gabriel
(born 25 August 1957)
composed theMissa mundi
for the 2005World Youth Day,
representing the continents
in style and instrumentation
withpan flute,sitar,
drums anddidgeridoo.
Soon after starting her career at theMetropolitan Opera,
Gwendolyn Killebrew
(August 26, 1941 – December 24, 2021)
appeared as a valkyrie in Wagner'sDie Walküre
in a live broadcast
alongsideBirgit Nilsson in the title role.
Mahler:Ninth Symphony
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The First Symphony "Music on Open Strings"
byGloria Coates
was the first composition by a woman
in the Musica Viva series ofBayerischer Rundfunk.
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Rehearsing
Dvořák's Eighth Symphony,
conductorRafael Kubelík said:
"Gentlemen,
in Bohemia
the trumpets never call to battle –
they always call to the dance!".
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WhenBerit Lindholm
(18 October 1934 – 12 August 2023),
adramatic soprano of theRoyal Swedish Opera,
appeared asChrysothemis
at theRoyal Opera House,
a reviewer described her as
"tall, and remarkably slim for so epic a voice".
Berit Lindholm
performed as Wagner'sIsolde
at theBolshoi Theatre in Moscow
in a pioneering tour of theVienna State Opera
in 1971.
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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.
16 December 2020
(quirky in the all-Beethoven set)
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Of thrice-married composer
Alma Mahler
(31 August 1879 – 11 December 1964)
Tom Lehrer crooned,
"Alma, tell us!
All modern women are jealous
Which of your magical wands
got youGustav andWalter andFranz".
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Le Vin herbé,
a 1942 composition byFrank Martin
of theTristan and Iseult story
for twelve vocalists,
sevenstrings andpiano,
was staged at the 1948Salzburg Festival.
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The concert venues of the
Rheingau Musik Festival
have includedEberbach Abbey
from the beginning,
where the final concert of 2023
is Bruckner'sSeventh Symphony
played by theGewandhausorchester
conducted byHerbert Blomstedt
(born 1927).
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Giuseppe Verdi's
secular cantata
Inno delle nazioni,
his first collaboration withArrigo Boito,
contains three national anthems.
In her 2021 composition with string orchestra
This too shall pass
Raminta Šerkšnytė used
avibraphone for the flow of time,
a violin for the transience of humans,
and a "heavenly" cello.
WhenRobert Hale
appeared as Wagner'sWotan at theKennedy Center in 1989,
a reviewer noted that he captured "the spirit,
from tragic grandeur to ironic detachment,
from flooding tenderness to grim rage".
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Nerotalanlagen,
a park along a creek inWiesbaden,
was built in the late 19th century
to enhance the town's spa quality?
Milka Stojanović,
prima donna at theNational Theatre in Belgrade from 1960 to 1993,
performed theVerdian repertoire worldwide,
includingLeonora,Amelia andAida
at theMetropolitan Opera.
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Concerts of the
Spannungen
festival of chamber music,
founded by pianistLars Vogt
(8 September 1970 – 5 September 2022)
in 1998, are played in a power plant.
Thedramatic soprano
Ute Vinzing
(born 9 September 1936)
made her debut at theMetropolitan Opera asElektra,
and appeared as Brünnhilde in Wagner'sRing cyclein Seattle.
Dramatic soprano
Ursula Schröder-Feinen
appeared at theBayreuth Festival
asSenta,Brünnhilde,Ortrud and,
with "intensity, ... freshness and spontaneity", as Kundry inParsifal.
Walter Arlen
(July 31, 1920 – September 2, 2023),
who escaped the Nazi regime in Vienna
for the United States in 1939,
enjoyed the first recording of his compositions, for voice and piano, at age 92.
Anatol Ugorski
(28 September 1942 – 5 September 2023),
who had played piano music by controversial Western composers
such asPierre Boulez in the Soviet Union,
made his first recording, of Beethoven'sDiabelli Variations, in 1991?
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The pianist
Clara Schumann,
(13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896)
who toured Europe for decades,
taught 68 students atDr. Hoch's,
including those from Britain and the U.S..
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Margherita Rinaldi
(12 January 1935 – 7 September 2023)
made her debut as Donizetti'sLucia di Lammermoor in 1958,
prompting a career atLa Scala in Milan where she appeared
as Giulietta in Bellini'sI Capuleti e i Montecchi
alongsideLuciano Pavarotti.
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SopranoJessye Norman
(15 September 1945 – 30 September 2019),
whose voice was described
as a "grand mansion of sound",
performed atU.S. presidential inaugurations
and sangLa Marseillaise
at theFrench Revolution's bicentennial.
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Wolfgang J. Fuchs
(16 September 1945 – 20 January 2020),
an early Germancomics scholar
who co-wrote a 1971 standard work on the topic,
translatedGarfield
andMom's Cancer.
ThetenorGraham Clark
appeared at theBayreuth Festival in 16 seasons,
portraying the characters Loge and Mime
in the 1988Ring cycle.
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Grischa Huber
(18 September 1944 – 6 April 2021)
played Grischa in
Under the Pavement Lies the Strand,
regarded as
"a cult film in the feminist movement".
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After theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
shared theNobel Peace Prize, contributing author
Raymond Arritt
(September 19, 1957 – November 14, 2018)
said, "It's kind of neat:
I have, like, .002 percent of a Nobel prize now".
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Georg Christoph Biller (r.)
(20 September 1955 – 27 January 2022)
was theThomaskantor,
the conductor of the Thomanerchor in Leipzig,
the 16th successor ofJohann Sebastian Bach
in this position.
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"Freuet euch der schönen Erde",
an 1827 hymn
about the beauty of nature,
became successful with a melody
composed byFrieda Fronmüller
100 years later.
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Elisabeth Rethberg
(22 September 1894 – 6 June 1976)
asoprano
whose career began in Saxony,
becameAida
atLa Scala in Milan,
conducted byToscanini.
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With the growth of the
Werl pilgrimage
to a statue ofMary,
a largeRomanesque Revival basilica
was built adjacent to
the formerBaroque church.
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For the morning song
"Die güldne Sonne
voll Freud und Wonne",
the poet found a newmetre,
andthe composer a new melody,
to reflect the many meanings of "rising".
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Stephen Gould,
an Americanheldentenor,
performed around 100 times at theBayreuth Festival,
especially asTannhäuser,Siegfried, andTristan,
all three even in one year in 2022.
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Aloop from the anthem
O clap your hands,
a setting of verses fromPsalm 47
byRalph Vaughan Williams
for choir, brass, organ and percussion,
was used by the Beatles for "Revolution 9".
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Kloster Gnadenthal
(buildings pictured)
was aCistercian nunnery from 1235,
a Protestant women'sStift from 1564,
and became an ecumenical community
in 1969.
François Glorieux
(27 August 1932 – 22 September 2023)
was a Belgian pianist and improvisor, touring withAndré Cluytens,
conductor of theBBC Radio Orchestra, theStan Kenton band,
and four ensembles that he founded,
composer, and arranger forMichael Jackson.
The Company of Heaven,
about angels, composed byBenjamin Britten
for speakers, soloists, choir and orchestra,
and first aired by theBBC onMichaelmas,
29 September 1937,
contains "metrical spoken (shouted) male chorus".
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TheKreuzkapelle
aboveBad Camberg,
a pilgrimage chapel
dedicated to theHoly Cross,
has a floor plan of aGreek cross.
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"Wir pflügen und wir streuen"
('We plow and sow'),
with words byMatthias Claudius,
began as a song of a fictional harvest festival,
and is now a Protestant hymn
forErntedankfest.
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Dona nobis pacem
is acantata byRalph Vaughan Williams,
first performed on 2 October 1936,
a plea for peace with texts taken
from theMass, poems byWalt Whitman,
a political speech, and sections of the Bible.
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Haydn's oratorio
The Creation
isstructured in three parts,
the first two about
thecreation as narrated in Genesis,
and the third about
Adam and Eve inParadise.
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Swiss composerHermann Suter's
symphonicoratorio
Le Laudi
(The Praises)
is a setting ofSt. Francis of Assisi's
ItalianCanticle of the Sun
for choir, soloists,voci di ragazzi,
organ and orchestra.
TenorDaniel Behle
had a single day to learn rarely performedromantic duets
when he stepped in at short notice
for a 2018Rheingau Musik Festival concert withAnnette Dasch.
Claus Wisser
founded the services company Wisag,
and co-founded theRheingau Musik Festival
which staged a concert of Orff'sCarmina Burana for his 60th birthday.
Russell Sherman, a classical pianist
who taught at theNew England Conservatory for more than half a century,
wrote about music byFranz Liszt:
"The poetic idea is central, and the virtuoso elements
become so many layers to orchestrate the poetic content".
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Tabea Zimmermann
(born 8 October 1966)
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.
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Alain Altinoglu
(born 9 October 1975)
conducted the opening concert of the
2023Rheingau Musik Festival
atEberbach Abbey,
featuring Poulenc'sStabat Mater
with theMDR Rundfunkchor
and theFrankfurt Radio Symphony.
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ThebaritoneBjörn Bürger
(born 10 October 1985),
who won the
Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Berlin in 2012,
performed the title role
in Arnulf Herrmann'sDer Mieter
in its 2017 world premiere
at theOper Frankfurt.
Jacqueline Dark,
amezzo-soprano withOpera Australia for a while,
won awards for portraying Mozart'sDonna Elvira and Strauss'sHerodias,
and toured Australia and New Zealand
as Mother Abbess inThe Sound of Music,
with "a stunning rendition of 'Climb Ev'ry Mountain'".
Reiner Goldberg,
aheldentenor who performedWagner-roles worldwide,
was a member of theBerlin State Opera from 1972,
appeared as Aron in the iconic production
of Schoenberg'sMoses und Aron
of theDresden State Opera in 1975,
and sangParsifal in the1982 Syberberg film
"with a youthful radiance
that is precisely that of the chaste madman".
Maurice Bourgue.
principal oboist with theOrchestre de Paris from its foundation in 1967,
and professor ofchamber music at theConservatoire de Paris,
played in world premieres such asLes Citations byHenri Dutilleux,
and Poulenc'sOboe Sonata with friends.
WhenRobert Hale
performed asWagner's Wotan in Washington,
a reviewer noted that he commanded
"the spirit, from tragic grandeur to ironic detachment,
from flooding tenderness to grim rage".
Jorge Lavelli
introduced the French audience to the Polish playwrightWitold Gombrowicz,
directing hisThe Marriage in 1963 for a competition,
and his 1975 staging of Gounod'sFaust for theParis Opera,
set during World War I, was played until 2003.
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"Glauben können wie du"
(Believing like you),
a hymn byHelmut Schlegel,
is addressed toMary,
and relates to her exemplary
faith, hope and love.
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TenorThomas Mohr,
who sang the roles
of Loge, Siegmund, and Siegfried
inDer Ring in Minden,
and Florestan inFidelio in Hamm,
hosts concerts in his cowshed?
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Walls and the ceiling of the
Unionskirche
(Union Church)
inIdstein are covered
with 38 oil paintings
from theDutch Golden Age school
ofRubens.
To include the popularMarian hymn
"Maria zu lieben, ist allzeit mein Sinn"
(To love Mary is always on my mind)
inthe first common Catholic hymnal in German,
Friedrich Dörr retained only its first line.
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In 2023,
a sculpture garden inPraunheim
displayed abstract works by
Hans Steinbrenner
from different periods of his life,
and corresponding works
by his friends and students.
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"Call it causelessly merry")
was one of about 40 poems
byMascha Kaléko
set to music on a 2011 album.
"Ich freu mich, daß am Himmel Wolken ziehen"
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The opening chorus
ofBach's cantata
Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV 180,
has been regarded as
"perfectly tailored to the idea of the soul
dressing itself up in all its wedding finery".
Hatto Beyerle,
the founding violist of theAlban Berg Quartet,
taughtchamber music inVienna,Hannover andBasel,
and initiated and directed theEuropean Chamber Music Academy in 2004.
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Carmen Petra Basacopol
a musicologist who taught
at theNational University of Music Bucharest
between 1962 and 2003,
and at the Rabat Conservatoire,
composed operas for children
and chamber music for flute and harp.
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Elsa Reger
(25 October 1870 – 3 May 1951),
who had first rejectedMax Reger's courting,
titled her autobiography
Mein Leben mit und für Max Reger
(My life with and for Max Reger).
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Pianist
Miku Nishimoto-Neubert,
a prize winner
of theLeipzig Bach Competition,
has been described as
"moving between capricious high spirits
and a meditative inwardness"
Alkan: Cello Sonata
Michael Schneider
conducted an oratorio byAlessandro Stradella,
performed by students and teachers of theFrankfurt University of Music
atEberbach Abbey for theRheingau Musik Festival.
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Isabelle Cals,
who turned to singing after a degree in Chinese,
appeared as Wagner's Kundry
in a production ofParsifal
at theStadttheater Minden
InDer Ring in Minden,
the orchestra played at the back of the stage,
and the singers all turned towards it
to listen to the musicat the end.
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Percy Grainger,
who left Australia at the age of 13
to attendHoch's Conservatorium,
played a prominent role in the revival
of interest in British folk music
in the course of a long and innovative career.
István Láng,
an Hungarian composer,
teacher ofchamber music at theFranz Liszt Academy of Music
and member of the bord ofISCM,
wrote theatrical music even in concert pieces.
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Herr, unser Herr, wie bist du zugegen,
a "song of God's presence"
written in 1965 in Dutch
byHuub Oosterhuis
(1 November 1933 – 9 April 2023),
became part ofthe first
common German Catholic hymnal,
and was retained inthe second
by popular demand.
After signing theCamp David Accords in 1978,
Prime MinisterMenachem Begin ended a speech
with a desire to sing the peace song
"Hevenu shalom aleichem"
with the people of Israel.
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Zdeněk Mácal,
a promising Czech conductor,
left his home country in 1968
and was chief conductor of orchestras
in Germany, Australia and the United States,
returning to Prague to lead
theCzech Philharmonic from 2003.
Jesu, meine Freude
(Jesus, my joy),
amotet by Bach,
has a complex symmetrical structure
in which sixhymn stanzas
alternate with fiveBible verses.
The hymn
"Jesu, meine Freude"
byJohann Franck andJohann Crüger
mentions singing in defiance
of the "old dragon", death, and fear.
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Biserka Cvejić
(5 November 1923 – 7 January 2021),
a Serbianmezzo-soprano
who appeared at theVienna State Opera in 372 performances,
made herMetropolitan Opera debut in 1961
as Amneris in Verdi'sAida.
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On 6 November 2016
Peter Reulein conducted
the premiere of his oratorio
Laudato si',
described as a FranciscanMagnificat,
with more than 250 performers
at theLimburg Cathedral.
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Bach composed four dialogues
for hiscantata
O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60,
first performed 7 November 1723,
three between Fear and Hope,
and one between Fear and theVoice of Christ.
Eric Sams remarked
"what bride ever had a finer wedding gift?"
of the song collection
Myrthen (Myrtles),
whichRobert Schumann dedicated toClara.
Astrid Schirmer
(born 8 November 1942)
appeared in roles by Richard Wagner,
both Venus and Elisabeth in hisTannhäuser,
and in the BayreuthJahrhundertring as both Ortlinde and Sieglinde.
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In the fairy-tale opera
Der Schuhu und die fliegende Prinzessin
byUdo Zimmermann,
two orchestras play on stage,
representing two empires in conflict.
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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
(10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546),
relate tofaith, love and hope.
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11 November - St. Martin's Day
Twoconductors
shared performances
of Verdi'sMessa da Requiem
inSt. Martin, Idstein.
Mozart:Lacrymosa
Harald Heckmann
(6 December 1924 – 5 November 2023),
a Germanmusicologist focused on source documentation,
established the German Archive for the History of Music
and promoted international exchange in leading positions
ofRépertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM)
and many other organisations.
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"Mir nach, spricht Christus, unser Held"
(Follow me, says Christ, our hero)
is aChristian hymn in German
with a text byAngelus Silesius
that uses sayings ofJesus indirect speech.
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In 2016,
Edition Güntersberg
published
Twelve Fantasias for Viola da Gamba solo
byGeorg Philipp Telemann
that had been lost.
Leonore von Zadow-Reichling and Günter von Zadow (r.)
received the first biennialAbel Prize ofKöthen
for their efforts to retrieve and publish
compositions byCarl Friedrich Abel.
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Kurdish civil engineer and politician
Hevrin Khalaf
(15 November 1984 – 12 October 2019) ,
who worked for tolerance
among Christians, Arabs, and Kurds,
was killed in the
2019 Turkish offensive into Syria.
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The 1964 church
for the new parish
Zu den heiligen Engeln
(To the Holy Angels)
inHannover
was designed byJosef Bieling
to symbolize thetent of God among men.
Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist
Nun danket all und bringet Ehr
Soprano
Rachel Yakar,
who received international attention in 1977
asPoppea withNikolaus Harnoncourt,
was also described as an "ideal"Mélisande
and "a Mozartian at heart and in style".
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Andris Nelsons
(born 18 November 1978)
conducted
Bartok'sViola Concerto
and Mahler'sFifth Symphony
in the final concert with his
Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie.
In 2008
Naji Hakim composed
variations foroboe andorgan
on Philipp Nicolai'schorale
"Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern",
published in 1599.
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Claude Kahn
(9 November 1935 – 17 November 2023),
who won theFranz Liszt Competition at age 15,
founded and directed
a piano competition in his name in 1970,
and the conservatoire ofAntibes in 1971.
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Twoconductors
shared performances
of Verdi'sMessa da Requiem
inSt. Martin, Idstein.
Palmeri:Misatango
Reulein:Te Deum
look and listen to us
Benjamin Britten
(22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976),
composed
Canticle I: My beloved is mine and I am his
for the tenor voice of
Peter Pears,
using poetry from
A Divine Rapture byFrancis Quarles.
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Thanksgiving
Lea Ackermann,
a German nun of the
Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa,
fought against
forced prostitution andsex tourism
in East Africa.
Colette Maze,
the last pianist who studied withAlfred Cortot,
recorded music byClaude Debussy,
who was still alive when she was born in 1914,
in 2023.
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Burgenland Croat sculptor
Thomas Resetarits
(25 November 1939 – 18 May 2022)
createdStations of the Cross.
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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Luca Salsi
performed leading roles
in two operas in a row at theMetropolitan Opera,
stepping in on 30 minutes' notice
in Verdi'sErnani
and singing as planned
inLucia di Lammermoor?
Verdi:Macbeth
François Glorieux
was a Belgian pianist and improvisor,
conductor of theBBC Radio Orchestra andStan Kenton's band,
and arranger forMichael Jackson.
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Contralto
Sonia Prina
(born 30 November 1975)
performed the title role
of Antonio Vivaldi's 1727 operaOrlando furioso
at theOper Frankfurt,
staged as arocker.
American lyric tenor
Douglas Ahlstedt,
who appeared as a child as Miles
in the U.S. premiere of Britten'sThe Turn of the Screw,
performed at theMet 191 times,
before and after he was a member
of theDeutsche Oper am Rhein.
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Bernard Ładysz,
abass-baritone who performed in world premieres
ofKrzysztof Penderecki's music
in Hamburg andin Salzburg,
was the only Polish singer to appear with
Maria Callas
(2 December 1923 – 16 September 1977).
Andréa Guiot appeared internationally
in Frenchsoprano roles
such asMireille,Marguerite,Manon,
and Micaëla in Bizet'sCarmen,
which she recorded alongside
Maria Callas
in the title role.
TheAdvent song
"Macht hoch die Tür"
(Fling wide the door),
with text byGeorg Weissel written for the inauguration ofthe church
where he would be ordained pastor a week later,
isnumber 1 in theGerman Protestant hymnal.
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Gabriel Dessauer
(born 4 December 1955)
conducted the premiere of Reger'sHebbel Requiem
in the organ version ofMax Beckschäfer
witha project choir at theMarktkirche in Wiesbaden.
The prolific composer andWestminster Cathedral conductor
Colin Mawby
said, "I cannot write choral music unless I work with choirs ...
I have to write for particular people".
Christof Loy
(born 5 December 1962)
received the 2008Der Faust award as best opera director
for staging Mozart'sCosì fan tutte at theOper Frankfurt.
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Wilhelm II,
German Emperor,
called the
Kurhaus in Wiesbaden
"the most beautiful spa in the world"
at the opening ceremony.
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Ignace Michiels
(born 7 December 1963)
of theSt. Salvator's Cathedral in Bruges
has been theorganist
for the German-FlemishReger-Chor
in works such as Reger'sRequiem.
Reger:Der 100. Psalm
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Max Reger
composed "in new simplicity"
Unser lieben Frauen Traum,
amotet suitable forAdvent,
about a dream ofMary
of a tree growing in her.
Medea Amiranashvili,
a Georgian operaticsoprano and academic teacher,
portrayed characters such asRevaz Lagidze's Lela,
Verdi's Leonora inIl trovatore and Puccini'sMadama Butterfly,
with "fierce inner expression".
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In 1973
Luten Petrowsky
(10 December 1933 – 10 July 2023)
played the saxophone in a quartet
that made the first record
with jazz musicians
from both East and West Germany.
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The lawyer
Wolfgang Wieland,
a co-founder of the BerlinGreens
and their speaker in the city parliament,
represented the joint plaintiff
in theMykonos restaurant assassinations.
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TheAdvent hymn
"O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf"
(O Saviour, tear open the heavens)
was written against a backdrop
of theThirty Years' War, theplague,
andwitch trials.
Rabbi
Michael Robinson
(December 13, 1924 – July 20, 2006)
and 15 otherReform rabbis
were arrested and jailed after answering Martin Luther King's
call to stand with him for civil rights in St. Augustine, Florida.
Wolfgang Rennert
conducted the world premieres
of Louise Talma'sDie Alkestiade at theOper Frankfurt
andRainer Kunad'sSabellicus at theStaatsoper Berlin.
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Erna Berger sang the title role
of Smetana'sThe Bartered Bride
in a 1955 recording with
Wilhelm Schüchter
(15 December 1911 – 27 May 1974)
and theNordwestdeutsche Philharmonie.
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Prince Nikolaus Esterházy,
who commissioned
Beethoven'sMass in C major
for his wife'sname day,
found it "unbearably ridiculous and detestable".
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In 2018
Lydia Steier,
born inHartford, Connecticut,
became the first woman
to stage Mozart'sDie Zauberflöte
at theSalzburg Festival.
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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 and Bach.
"Mit Ernst, o Menschenkinder",
a 1642Advent hymn,
includes a call to penitence
thatJohn the Baptist took
from the prophetIsaiah.
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The GermanAdvent song
"Tochter Zion, freue dich"
has words byFriedrich Heinrich Ranke
set to music used
for triumphant entrances
in two ofHandel'soratorios.
Soprano
Nadine Secunde
(born 21 December 1953)
was praised for "formidable acting skills"
in the title role of Dmitri Shostakovich'sLady Macbeth of Mtsensk.
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Der neue
Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel
wurde 2023 in Köthen vorgestellt,
wo der Gambist
vor 300 Jahren geboren wurde.
The new
Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel
(AbelWV)
was introduced inKöthen,
where theviol virtuoso was born
on 22 December 1723.
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Gunther Emmerlich,
bass singer and television presenter,
appeared as Kuno
in the performance of Weber'sDer Freischütz
to open the restoredSemperoper.
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On Christmas Eve in 1818,
the Christmas carol
"Stille Nacht"
("Silent Night")
was first performed in the
Nikolauskirche
inOberndorf, Austria.
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"Verbum caro factum est",
a Christmasmotet for six voices
byHans Leo Hassler
in theVenetian polychoral style,
has been arranged
forbrass ensembles.
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Bach's cantata for the second day of Christmas,
Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes
("For this the Son of God appeared"),
BWV 40,
is his firstChristmas cantata
composed for Leipzig.
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Bach has
a choir oftrombones double
the choir inhis cantata
Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget, BWV 64,
for theThird Day of Christmas,
dedicated toJohn the Evangelist
and first performed on 27 December 1723.
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Diethard Hellmann
(28 December 1928 – 14 October 1999),
the director of church music at theChristuskirche in Mainz,
reconstructed the music
of the lostBach cantata for the Third Sunday inAdvent,
Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, BWV 186a.
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Rebekka Habermas,
a German historian
at theUniversity of Göttingen,
who also taught
in Paris, Montreal and New York,
focused on people
in the social and cultural conditions
of 19th-century Germany.
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Heike Matthiesen
recorded a 2016 album
Guitar Ladies
of compositions for guitar solo by women
including Sidney Pratten (1821–1895),
María Luisa Anido,Ida Presti,
Sofia Gubaidulina,Sylvie Bodorová,
Annette Kruisbrink, andMaria Linnemann
who had dedicated her work to the player.
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A German theologian wrote
"Vertraut den neuen Wegen"
(Trust the new ways)
to the melody of
Lob Gott getrost mit Singen
(Praise God confidently with singing)
to be sung at a wedding inEisenach
shortly before thefall of the Wall.
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