This is the 2024 archive of mydaily 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 may be overwritten by new ones. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:48, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
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Happy New Year 2024
Bach composed
Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht,
BWV 134a,
as acongratulatory cantata
for thecourt of Köthen,
first performed
on New Year's Day 1719.
14 July 2010
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"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.
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.
Josef Suk
(4 January 1874 – 29 May 1935)
dedicated his
Asrael Symphony
"to the exalted memory of Dvořák and Otilie",
his father-in-law for whose memory he began the work,
and his daughter, the composer's wife.
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The new
Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel,
listing 420 compositions,
was introduced
at a festival
celebrating Abel's tercentenary
inKöthen
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Hermann Baumann,
a pioneer of thenatural horn in the revival
of bothBaroque andClassical period music,
recorded Mozart'sHorn Concertos
withNikolaus Harnoncourt
and premiered Ligeti'sHorn Trio.
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Dmitri Shostakovich's
Symphony No. 15 inA major,Op. 141,
his final symphony,
intended to be a cheerful work
to mark his 65th birthday,
was premiered on
8 January 1972,
conducted by his son,
Maxim Shostakovich.
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A 1974 recording of
Mozart'sCosì fan tutte with
Ryland Davies
as Ferrando was used in a 1995 film
by theSalzburg Marionette Theatre.
TheAdvent song
"Macht hoch die Tür"
is number 1 in theGerman Protestant hymnal.
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Chris Karrer
was a pioneer of experimentalkrautrock
with the bandAmon Düül II(pictured),
founded in the spirit
of the1960s student movement,
and later played world music withEmbryo
andflamenco guitar.
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Bright Angel,
composed byGraham Waterhouse
for threebassoons andcontrabassoon,
relates to theBright Angel Trail of theGrand Canyon
which the composer hiked
withhis father
at the age of nine.
Kihwan Sim
from South Korea
appeared as Mozart'sFigaro
at theOper Frankfurt
in the first production withthe new music director,
acting with a hint at theFrench Revolution.
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Guido Dessauer
(7 November 1915 – 13 January 2012),
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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In
Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid, BWV 3
(Oh God, how much heartache),
achorale cantata first performed
on 14 January 1725
at theThomaskirche,
based onMoller's hymn in 18 stanzas,
the firstcantus firmus is sung
by the bass supported by a trombone.
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Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst
(How Deserted Lies the City),
amotet composed byRudolf Mauersberger
after thebombing of Dresden,
was first performed
in the destroyedKreuzkirche.
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Thomas Fritzsch,
aviol player
who rediscoveredcompositions
byCarl Friedrich Abel,
established a festival dedicated to him
inKöthen
where he was born 300 years before.
The youthfulHandel
composed four operas
for theOper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg
where they were performed
between 1705 and 1708,
butthe music of three of them is lost,
ofNero,Florindo andDaphne.
(article byBrian Boulton)
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Tamara Milashkina,
the first Soviet Russiansoprano trained atLa Scala,
portrayed Russian characters
with emotion and authenticity
touring with theBolshoi Theatre
as Tchaikovsky'sTatiana at theVienna State Opera
and asLisa at theMetropolitan Opera.
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Romuald Twardowski,
a prolific Polish composer
who studied in Vilnius, Warsaw and Paris,
composed operas such asMaria Stuart,
a Violin Concerto,
and sacred music for both Catholic use
and theOrthodox Church including the
Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom.
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St. Joseph,
a 1909Catholic church
in theRomanesque Revival style
inBerlin-Wedding,
has served as an interim cathedral
since 2018.
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Vivi Vassileva,
a percussionist who was the youngest member
of theGerman national youth orchestra,
has playedGregor Mayrhofer'sRecycling Concerto
on instruments derived from garbage.
listen
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Henri Dutilleux
(22 January 1916 – 22 May 2013)
composed his
Symphony No. 2Le Double
in 1959 as
a concerto for twelve soloists from the orchestra
in a semi-circle around the conductor
as a mirror of the larger group.
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Maria, Königin des Friedens,
aBrutalist pilgrimage church
inNeviges, Germany,
has become the signature building
of architect
Gottfried Böhm
(23 January 1920 – 9 June 2021).
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Ewa Podleś
was a Polishcoloratura contralto,
performing Rossini'sRosina,
La Cenerentola,Isabella andTancredi,
and Handel'sRinaldo andGiulio Cesare
on leading stages of the world.
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TheLate Gothic appearance
of the church of
St. Martin inOestrich
was destroyed in theThirty Years' War
and restored only in 1894.
"Shalom chaverim"
('Peace, friends'),
a Hebrew traditional folk song,
has been sung at events
commemorating the Holocaust
and victims of anti-Semitic violence.
Before the age of thirty,
Anna Nekhames
performed the dual role
of Venus and Chief of the Gepopo
in Ligeti'sLe Grand Macabre,
one of opera's most demandingcoloratura soprano roles.
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Franz Finkconducted
Monteverdi'sVespro della Beata Vergine,
dedicated to the pope
on 1 September 1610,
atSt. Martin, Idstein
on 1 September 2019.
Gerd Uecker
wasartistic director of theBavarian State Opera in Munich,
and from 2003 to 2010 of theSemperoper in Dresden
where he staged operas related to Dresden.
Gertrude Pitzinger,
who toured Europe and the United States,
where she became known as
"the German Lieder singer",
recorded the alto part of Mozart'sRequiem,
conducted byFerenc Fricsay.
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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.
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Max van Egmond
(born 1 February 1936)
recorded thebass arias
of Bach'sSt Matthew Passion
withClaudio Abbado
and the words of Jesus withGustav Leonhardt.
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Bishop of Limburg
Franz Kamphaus
(born 2 February 1932)
opposed thepope,
"convinced that our way of counselling women
would save the lives
of many more children".
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In her opera
Inferno,
premiered in 2021 at theOper Frankfurt,
Lucia Ronchetti
(born 3 February 1963)
gave the main characterDante
a speaking voice and
aninner voice of four male singers.
7 August 2021
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Michael Herrmann
(born 4 February 1944)
is founder-director
of theRheingau Musik Festival,
which holds about 150 concerts every season
in vineyards and historical buildings.
Josef Protschka
(born 5 February 1944),
who sang as a soloist
in Stockhausen'sGesang der Jünglinge at age 12,
later appeared in leadingtenor roles
in the Mozart cycles staged byJean-Pierre Ponnelle
at theCologne Opera and theZürich Opera House.
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Magna Lykseth
appeared as Isolde
when Wagner'sTristan und Isolde
was first performed
at theRoyal Swedish Opera in 1909.
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Stephen Gould,
an Americanheldentenor,
performed three roles
at the 2022Bayreuth Festival:
Tannhäuser,Siegfried andTristan,
earning him nicknames such as "Iron Man".
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Oskar Negt
(1 August 1934 – 2 February 2024),
assistant ofJürgen Habermasin Frankfurt,
mentor of theAPO and
professor of sociologyin Hanover,
believed that democracy was
a form of government
that had to be learned.
Baritone
Wolfgang Schöne
(born 9 February 1940)
created the role of the tomcat
"Tom, Minette's lover"
in the operaDie englische Katze byHans Werner Henze
at theSchwetzingen Festival.
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Alfred Grosser
(1 February 1925 – 7 February 2024),
whose Jewish family had to move
fromFrankfurt to Francein 1933,
was instrumental toFranco-German cooperation,
paving the way for the 1963Élysée Treaty,
and writing books towards better understanding
between the Germans and the French.
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Bach composed hiscantata
Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe, BWV 22,
for thelast Sunday before Lent
as an audition piece
for the post ofThomaskantor in Leipzig,
displaying a
"sheer range of forms
and musical expression".
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Seiji Ozawa
(September 1, 1935 – February 6, 2024),
the first star conductor from Japan,
studiedin Tanglewood from 1960
withCharles Munch
from theBoston Symphony Orchestra,
became artistic director there in 1970
and was the orchestra's music director
from 1973 for 29 years.
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Helga Paris
photographed people and streetscapes
inEast Germany,
Garbage Collectors,Berliner Kneipen,
Leipzig Hauptbahnhof, self portraits,
and houses and faces fromHalle over three years,
and then the exhibition was cancelled.
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Voltaire's tragedyOlimpie
premiered in 1762
and Henze's opera
Elegie für junge Liebende
(Elegy for Young Lovers)
in 1961 at the
Schlosstheater Schwetzingen.
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Felix Mendelssohn subtitled
Sechs Lieder, Op. 59,
six songs for four voices
setting poems byEichendorff and others,
"Im Freien zu singen"
("To be sung outdoors").
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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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BassoonistWilliam Waterhouse
(18 February 1931 – 5 November 2007)
considered the rapport
between violistCecil Aronowitz and cellistTerence Weil
the special distinction of theMelos Ensemble,
playing in the premiere of Britten'sWar Requiem.
Johanna von Koczian
had a breakthrough in the 1959 filmWir Wunderkinder,
landed theschlager hit "Das bißchen Haushalt",
and portrayedFlorence Foster Jenkins on stage at age 77.
Ladislav Burlas,
a composer andmusicologist
at theSlovak Academy of Sciences inBratislava
from 1951 to 1990,
studied themusic history of Slovakia
with a focus on the 20th century.
Rudolf Jansen,
a pianist who taught at theSweelinck Conservatory,
focused onaccompanying singers
Elly Ameling,Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and many more,
"unravelling all the intricacies
of the often independent piano parts".
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For his ordination
at theAltrossgarten Church,
Georg Weissel wrote the text of the hymn
"Such, wer da will, ein ander Ziel"
(Search, whoever wants, for a different goal),
often sung for funerals,
tohis friend's melody
for a wedding song.
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Max Beckschäfer
(born 23 February 1952)
composed an organ version of
Max Reger'sHebbel-Requiem
and played in the 1985 premiere
at theMarktkirche, Wiesbaden
by achoir formed for the occasion
conducted byGabriel Dessauer.
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 as Widow Begbick
in Weill'sAufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny in 2014.
Raymund Weber wrote
the penitential song
"Zeige uns, Herr, deine Allmacht und Güte"
(Show us, Lord, your power and mercy)"
to be sung with a modern melody,
but it appears inthe German Catholic hymnal
with aBaroquecruciform melody.
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.
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Russian Jewish painter
Marc Chagall
created the windows
of the church of
St Stephan in Mainz
as a sign of
Jewish-German reconciliation.
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Elisabeth Waterhouse
(born 28 February 1933)
founded the
National Chamber Music Course
summer school
in 1974
and has managed it since.
String Sextet (Waterhouse)
listen as she did on 5 November 2022
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
WhenHeather Phillips
made her European debut
in Rossini'sBianca e Falliero,
her nuancedcoloraturas served
to portray Bianca's development.
Soprano
Rotraud Hansmann
(born 1 March 1940)
performed six roles in three Monteverdi operas
conducted byNikolaus Harnoncourt,
including Euridice inL'Orfeo.
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Erna Berger sang the title role
ofThe Bartered Bride by
Bedřich Smetana
(2 March 1824 – 12 May 1884)
in a 1955 recording withWilhelm Schüchter
and theNordwestdeutsche Philharmonie.
10 August 2010
Kurt Honolka's mid–20th century German translation
of Smetana'sDalibor
was still being performed in 2019
in a newOper Frankfurt production.
5 January 2020
Gabriela Grillo
(19 August 1952 – 25 February 2024),
who won a gold medal in teamdressage
at the1976 Summer Olympics inMontreal,
later worked as a journalist,
managed the family business
and served the community voluntarily.
Benjamin Britten
composed manyviola parts for
Cecil Aronowitz,
(4 March 1916 – 7 September 1978)
a co-founder of theMelos Ensemble.
The early
Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone
byFrancis Poulenc
was described as offering a
"variety of tone colors, striking rhythms,
delicious dissonances, and elegant wit".
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Dutch soprano
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.
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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,
offering works byWalter Stöhrer
andKarlheinz Oswald.
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Catherine Rückwardt,
who wasGeneralmusikdirektorin
at theStaatstheater Mainz for a decade
and one of only four women in such a position in Germany,
conducted a recording of the First Symphony byHans Rott.
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WhenFriedrich Spitta revised
"Im Frieden dein, o Herre mein",
(In your peace, o my Lord)
a 1530 German Lutheran communion hymn
based on the biblicalNunc dimittis,
he completely changed the meaning.
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German stage director
Tobias Kratzer
nominated two versions of
Verdi'sRigoletto
(premiered 11 March 1851)
for an international competition,
pretending to be an American woman
in the first instance,
and a Bulgarian in the second.
10 May 2018
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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.
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Frank Beermann
(born 13 March 1965)
conducted the first recording
ofBruno Maderna's Requiem,
the German premiere
ofPéter Eötvös's operaLove and Other Demons
at theChemnitz Opera,
andDer Ring in Minden.
Gioachino Rossini
scored the last of his
"sins of old age", the
Petite messe solennelle
(premiered 14 March 1864)
for twelve singers, two pianos,
andharmonium.
Françoise Garner,
first acoloratura soprano at theOpéra-Comique,
brought French singing tradition to Europe,
portraying Gounod'sMarguerite atLa Scala
and hisJuliette at theVerona Arena.
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Guy Touvron,
a French classicaltrumpet player
for whom 25 concertos were composed,
wrote a biography
of his teacherMaurice André
published in 2003.
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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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Requiem
byMax Reger
(19 March 1873 – 11 May 1916)
is a musical setting
not of the LatinRequiem,
but of a poem "Requiem"
written by thedramatistFriedrich Hebbel
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Aribert Reimann
composed
Medea
for a 2010 premiere
at theVienna State Opera,
based on the drama byFranz Grillparzer.
Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen
(lit. 'I will gladly carry the cross-staff'),BWV 56,
achurch cantata composed
byJohann Sebastian Bach
(born 21 March 1685)
is one of few works that
he referred to as a cantata.
Mezzo-soprano
Pamela Dellal,
who recorded music byHildegard von Bingen
andFanny Mendelssohn,
translated all texted works byBach.
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Wolfgang Fortner
composed the chamber opera
In seinem Garten liebt Don Perlimplin Belisa
after Lorca
for theSchlosstheater Schwetzingen,
where it opened theFestival in 1962.
Cecelia Hall
has portrayed title roles,
of women such as
Dido,La Cenerentola, andMaría de Buenos Aires,
and of men including
Serse,Ascanio in Alba andHänsel.
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Comet Hale-Bopp
inspiredGraham Waterhouse
to compose
Celtic Voices and Hale Bopp
forstring orchestra,
which ends with aboy soprano singing
"How Brightly Shines the Morning Star".
Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1,
Bach's chorale cantata
on "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern"
for theFeast of the Annunciation,
was first performed onPalm Sunday
in 1725.
WhenKelsey Lauritano
portrayedMozart's Cherubino in 2023,
a reviewer from theFAZ noted her
"almost metallic-brittle approach that spreads androgynous infatuation".
As music director of theOper Hagen,
Florian Ludwig
promoted a wide repertoire that included
contemporary operas such as Barber'sVanessa and crossover projects.
... sofferte onde serene ...
(serene waves suffered)
is a composition for piano and tape
written byLuigi Nono
in collaboration with pianist
Maurizio Pollini
(pictured).
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In a motet forMaundy Thursday
attributed toJohann Kuhnau,
Tristis est anima mea,
Jesus says inGethsemane
"Sad is my soul even unto death".
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... that on Good Friday 2020,
Benedikt Kristjánsson
sang all roles in a chamber arrangement of
Bach'sSt John Passion,
composed for Good Friday 1724,
broadcast live fromthe composer's burial place.
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In his opera
Tri sestry
(Three Sisters),
composerPéter Eötvös
wanted the three sisters fromChekhov's play
to be sung bycountertenors.
For Easter 1724,
his first asThomaskantor in Leipzig,
Johann Sebastian Bach revived
Christ lag in Todes Banden,
(Christ lay in death's bonds)
BWV 4,
achorale cantata
he had composed in his twenties,
using in all seven movements
the words and tune
of Luther's 1524Easter chorale.
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The opening chorus of
Bach's cantata
for theSecond Day of Easter,
Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen, BWV 66,
first performed in 1724
has been termed
"one of the longest and
most exhilarating of Bach's early works".
25 April 2011
At age 22,
Judith Hemmendinger
helped rehabilitate
nearly 100 child survivors
of theBuchenwald concentration camp,
among themElie Wiesel.
Ladislav Burlas,
a musicologist at theSlovak Academy of Sciences
for almost 40 years,
wrote more than 150 works during his career.
Karsten Januschke's
conducting of Offenbach'sDie Banditen
was described as producing
a "lean, dry, delicate" sound
with an ensemble of 22 soloists, including 11 tenors.
Tilmann Köhler
directed Mozart'sLe nozze di Figaro in 2023
as playful "serious games"
in which the women win by "wit, cleverness and presence of mind".
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Appalachian Spring,
a 1944ballet by
choreographerMartha Graham,
and composerAaron Copland,
follows Bride and Husbandman
in 19th-century Pennsylvania,
with themes of war present
throughout the story,
and the Shaker tune "Simple Gifts".
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Bach created an "operatic scene"
inhis cantata
Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ, BWV 67
(Keep Jesus Christ in mind),
for the Sunday after Easter in 1724,
with Jesus serenely repeating
"Peace be with you"
against the raging of the enemies.
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Notker WolfOSB,
abbot ofSt. Ottilien Archabbey inBavaria
and from 2000 to 2016
Abbot Primate of the international
Benedictine Confederation,
played and recorded
with therock band Feedback.
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After being denied the use
ofConstitution Hall in Washington, D.C.,
contralto
Marian Anderson
gave an open-air concert
at theLincoln Memorial
on 9 April 1939.
Gerhard Lohfink
was professor of theNew Testament
at theUniversity of Tübingen until 1986
when he moved to aCatholic Integrated Community,
following thoughts from his book
Jesus and Community. The Social Dimension of Christian faith.
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The Finnish concert organist and improvisor
Kalevi Kiviniemi,
the first to record the complete organ works byJean Sibelius,
recorded works from different eras
on organs of the world to match,
such as French organ music
on theCavaillé-Coll organ of theChurch of St. Ouen, Rouen.
listen
11 April 2024
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Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras,
und alle Herrlichkeit des Menschen
wie des Grases Blumen.
Das Gras ist verdorret und die Blume abgefallen.
The first performance of Handel's celebrated oratorio
Messiah
took place in Dublin on 13 April 1742.
Part II contains the famousHallelujah Chorus
and the oratorio's longest movement, theair for alto
He was despised.
Johann Sebastian Bach
set the theme of theGood Shepherd
in hiscantata for the second Sunday afterEaster,
Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104,
as apastorale,
a trio ofoboes playingtriplets topedal points.
Michael Boder
conducted many world premieres of operas,
Reimann'sMedea at theVienna State Opera ,
Haas'Morgen und Abend at theRoyal Opera House,
and operas by composers including
Friedrich Cerha,Pascal Dusapin,Hans Werner Henze,
Luca Lombardi,Krzysztof Penderecki, andManfred Trojahn.
Dieter Rexroth,
responsible for the concert programs
ofDeutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin from 1996,
shaped the festivals
Frankfurter Feste at theAlte Oper andYoung Euro Classic.
The second of
Henry Purcell's two settings of
Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts
was composed in an earlier style
for the funeral
of QueenMary II of England.
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Lorenzo Palomo,
conductor of theValencia Orchestra
and pianist of theDeutsche Oper Berlin,
composed a song cycleCanciones españolas,
premiered byMontserrat Caballé
atCarnegie Hall in 1987.
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Diego Fasolis
(born 19 April 1958)
conductedL'incoronazione di Poppea
at the reopenedStaatsoper Unter den Linden,
adding music by other composers
ofMonteverdi's time.
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John Eliot Gardiner
(born 20 April 1943)
conducted theBach Cantata Pilgrimage
and describedBach
as the "best writer of dramatic declamation ...
sinceMonteverdi"
for the dialogue
inSelig ist der Mann, BWV 57.
listen
26 December 2010
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The first choral section
from the 1714Bach cantata forJubilate Sunday,
Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12
(Weeping, lamenting, worrying, fearing),
described as a "deeply affecting"tombeau,
became theCrucifixus of theMass in B minor.
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Kathleen FerrierCBE
(22 April 1912 – 8 October 1953),
an Englishcontralto singer
of international reputation,
chose to perform only two operatic roles on stage,
Britten'sLucretia and Gluck'sOrfeo.
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Andrew Davis,
longtime chief conductor
of theBBC Symphony Orchestra, among others,
broughtThe Makropulos Case andLulu
to theGlyndebourne Festival
and conducted Wagner'sDer Ring des Nibelungen
at theLyric Opera of Chicago.
interview
23 April 2024
Hebe deine Augen auf
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The opera
The Devil in Love
byAlexander Vustin
(born 24 April 1943)
took 15 years to be completed
and 30 more years to be premiered,
debuting at the centenary of the
Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre.
excerpt
11 June 2020
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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,
and then included it with orchestra
in his oratorioElijah.
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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.
Adalbert Kraus
(born 27 April 1937)
portrayed Tom in Henze'sElegy for Young Lovers
at theStaatsoper Hannover
and the tenor part ofPeter the Apostle
in Bach'sEaster Oratorio.
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InPatrick Süskind's play
Der Kontrabaß,
the double bass in the title role
is a "constant handicap" to its player,
"humanly, socially, sexually, musically".
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Samuel Kummer
chose for his first recital
as the organist of
the restoredFrauenkirche in Dresden
music byBach,Brahms,Max Reger,
Louis Vierne and his own.
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Oksana Lyniv
founded the
Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
in 2016 and conducted them
in thirty concerts across ten music festivals
in 2022.
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The choir
Groningse Bachvereniging
sang Bach'sMagnificat
with Harnoncourts'Concentus Musicus Wien
in the orchestra's first appearance
in the Netherlands in 1970.
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Thebaritone
Johannes Hill
was the voice of Jesus and Pilate
inBach's Passions,
and ofPope Francis in the premiere
of Peter Reulein'sLaudato si'.
Hans Stadlmair
(3 May 1929 – 13 February 2019),
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".
Bach's cantata forEaster Monday,
Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden, BWV 6,
is based on theRoad to Emmaus narration
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A prize for contemporary art ofStyria
is named after
Viktor Fogarassy
(6 May 1911 – 24 March 1989),
the managing director ofa department store.
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Peter Demetz,
born in Prague in 1922,
persecuted under the Nazis,
escaped the Communist regime in 1949,
taught German literature atYale University
from 1956 to 1991,
and wrote the book
Prague in Black and Gold:
Scenes from the Life of a European City.
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"Es tönen die Lieder",
a Germanround
about greeting spring with songs,
first appeared in 1869
in a collection of works byAdolf Spieß,
who developed a series
of school-gymnastics steps to it.
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Bach's firstcantata
for theFeast of the Ascension,
Wer da gläubet und getauft wird, BWV 37,
omits the topic of the Ascension
and derives from the quoted Gospel (Mark 16:16)Lutheran thoughts.
A reviewer described the approach ofsoprano
Magdalena Hinterdobler
to her role as Grete in Zemlinsky'sDer Traumgörge
(Görgr the Dreamer)
as "bold" and "sassy".
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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?
InBach's cantata
Sie werden euch in den Bann tun, BWV 44
(They will banish you),
forExaudi Sunday,
the word "töten" (kill) is
"twice emphasized by a sudden, mysteriouspiano and
... chromatically tinged harmonies".
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Klaus Wallrath
(born 13 May 1959)
composed amass for peace
for the 2018Katholikentag inMünster,
performed to an audience of more than 30,000
by a choir, an orchestra, and a dance company.
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The dancer andcabaret artist
Hedi Schoop
emigrated to California with her husband,
the composerFriedrich Hollaender,
where she created and manufactured
California pottery.
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The Franciscan
Helmut Schlegel
(born 15 May 1943)
wrote the lyrics of anoratorio
Laudato si',
including writings
byFrancis of Assisi
andPope Francis,
and theMagnificat.
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Gerhard Müller,
leading bishop of the
United Lutheran Church of Germany
and professor inErlangen andGöttingen,
wrote a book about
Martin Luther's insights then and now.
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The performance of tenor
Julian Prégardien,
first trainedin Limburg,
as theEvangelist in Bach'sSt Matthew Passion
was noted by one reviewer
for its emphatic and penetrating
"profoundly human" nature.
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17 May 2024
Timon Altwegg
(born 18 May 1967)
and his wife Hana Gubenko
recorded a collection entitled
Sonata ebraica (Hebrew Sonata),
after theViola Sonata byGraham Waterhouse.
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In his firstcantata forPentecost,
Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten!
BWV 172,
first performed in 1714 in Weimar,
Johann Sebastian Bach
marked to repeat the opening chorus
after the final chorale.
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Martin Krumbiegel
sang the tenor part inBach's cantata
Erschallet, ihr Lieder (Resound, ye songs)
and Bach's "Pipe Aria".
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Baritone
Liviu Holender
choselieder by five composers
whose music was banned by the Nazis
—Schreker,Zemlinsky,
Mahler,Korngold andSchönberg—
for a recital at theOper Frankfurt.
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Verdi:Messa da Requiem
22 May 1874
22 May 2024
The 1653 hymn
"Jesu, meine Freude"
(Jesus, my joy)
byJohann Franck andJohann Crüger
mentions singing in defiance
of the "old dragon", death, and fear.
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Ethel Smyth,
whose operaThe Wreckers
was premiered in Leipzig in 1906
and revived at theGlyndebourne Festival in 2022,
joined theWomen's Social and Political Union
in 1910, giving up music for two years.
Willi Brokmeier,
a tenor focused on operettas,
participated in the world premiere
of Bernd Alois Zimmermann'sDie Soldaten
at theCologne Opera
and appeared as Beethoven'sJaquino on a tour to Japan.
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TheLutheran
St. Trinitatis
inWolfenbüttel, consecrated in 1719,
is aBaroque church
with a facade recalling that ofa palace.
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"Ständchen"
(Serenade),
the setting of a poem byA. F. v. Schack
by Richard Strauss,
begins with an appeal to creep out quietly
and ends with a climax of expecting
a rose to glow from the rapture of the night.
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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).
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29 March 2015
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In theOpernhaus Wuppertal production
of Stravinsky's
The Rite of Spring,
choreographed byPina Bausch,
the dancers performed on a stage
covered with soil.
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30 July 2013
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Samuel Kummer
chose for his first recital
as the organist of the restored
Frauenkirche in Dresden
music byBach,Brahms,Max Reger,
Louis Vierne, and himself.
Rolf-Ernst Breuer,
who spent almost his whole career atDeutsche Bank,
as CEO from 1997 to 2002, is credited
with expanding the bank to international importance,
and later supported theGoethe University Frankfurt.
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Ludwigsburg Palace,
the "Versailles of Swabia",
was home to four
ofWürttemberg's rulers?
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According toJohn Eliot Gardiner,
Bach was "fired up as never before"
when he began his
second cycle of chorale cantatas
with
O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20
(O eternity, you word of thunder),
on the first Sunday afterTrinity
in 1724.
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Franz Kafka
(3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924)
wrote the 109
Zürau Aphorisms
at the estate
of his sisterOttla and her husband inZürau
where he sought recovery from tuberculosis.
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During his tenure as director of theParis Opera,
Hugues Gall
added 60 ballets to the repertoire of the company
and world premieres of operas
byPhilippe Fénelon,Philippe Manoury,
Pascal Dusapin andMatthias Pintscher.
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Peter Demetz,
who taught German literature
atYale University
from 1956 to 1991,
was born in Prague
where he was persecuted under the Nazis
and escaped the Communist regime in 1949.
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Alexander Lang,
actor atDeutsches Theater inEast Berlin from 1969,
was invited to direct plays byKleist,Lessing andGoethe
at theComédie-Française in Paris.
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Dimitri,
agrand opera byVictorin de Joncières,
based on Schiller's incomplete playDemetrius
about the RussianpretenderFalse Dmitriy I,
was first performed in Paris in 1776.
Martin Luther
created the Pentecost hymn
"Komm, Heiliger Geist, Herre Gott"
by adding two stanzas
to an earlier German version of
"Veni Sancte Spiritus",
keeping its melody.
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Mozart built the final scene
of his operaDie Zauberflöte
"upon a solemn fugato"
around the chorale
"Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein"
and Bach composed
a chorale cantata
for the Second Sunday after Trinity 1724
based on it.
Ernst Gutstein,
an Austrian operaticbaritone
whose signature role was Faninal inDer Rosenkavalier,
created the role of Perlimplin
in Fortner'sIn seinem Garten liebt Don Perlimplin Belisa
at the 1962Schwetzingen Festival.
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"O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort",
translated as
"Eternity! tremendous Word",
is a hymn byJohann Rist
that served as the basis for
the first work in Bach'schorale cantata cycle.
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"Nun jauchzt dem Herren, alle Welt"
(Now rejoice to the Lord, all the world),
a 1646 paraphrase ofPsalm 100
byDavid Denicke andJustus Gesenius,
appears in current
Protestant and Catholic hymnals.
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Jürgen Moltmann,
professor ofsystematic theology
at theUniversity of Tübingen,
was internationally known
for books such as
Theology of Hope,
The Crucified God
andGod in Creation.
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Andreas Schager
was called a "sensation"
when he first performed Wagner'sTristan
inMinden, and went on
toSiegfried at theStaatsoper Berlin,
La Scala, andThe Proms.
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 Bach's fourth1724 chorale cantata,
Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder,BWV 135,
for the third Sunday afterTrinity
based on a hymn byCyriakus Schneegass,
the first movement is a polyphonicchorale fantasia
with thebass as thecantus firmus.
Four Epigraphs after Escher
is a 1993piano trio
byGraham Waterhouse
forviola,heckelphone and piano
based on four graphic artworks by
M. C. Escher
(17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972)
includingReptiles.
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InNoye's Fludde,
a one-act opera byBenjamin Britten.
based on a 15th-centuryChester "mystery" play
and premiered on 18 June 1968
only the roles of Noye (Noah) and his wife
are intended to be sung by professionals,
the others by child and adolescent performers.
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Éric Tappy,
a member of theGrand Théâtre de Genève,
has been regarded as legendary
for portraying Monteverdi'sOrfeo,
Tamino in Mozart'sDie Zauberflöte
and Debussy'sPelléas
with a tenor voice of exemplary clarity and diction.
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19 June 2024
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The main work of sculptor
Fritz Koenig
(20 June 1924 – 22 February 2017)
isThe Sphere,
the world's largest bronze sculpture of modern times,
on the plaza beneath the twoWorld Trade towers,
and recovered largely intact from the ruins
after theSeptember 11 attacks.
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Ernst Pepping composed in 1937
inNazi Germany
theEvangelienmotette
Jesus und Nikodemus
onJohn 3:1–15, showing
"the reality of a different, heavenly world".
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21 June 2015
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The 2024Rheingau Musik Festival
opens atEberbach Abbey
withAlain Altinoglu
conductingChristian Tetzlaff
and theFrankfurt Radio Symphony
in Dvořák'sViolin Concerto.
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John Rutter
wrote the text and music of
A Clare Benediction
for choir and orchestra
to honour
Clare College, Cambridge,
where he had studied.
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.
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As stage director and scenic designer
of Puccini'sTurandot
for the 2024Internationale Maifestspiele,
Daniela Kerck
crafted a new ending
to the music left unfinished in 1924
and Puccini's "Requiem".
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The first solo album of
Jodie Devos,
second-prize winner of
theQueen Elisabeth Competition in 2014
who appeared as Philine
inMignon by Ambroise Thomas
at theOpéra Royal de Wallonie,
wasOffenbach – Colorature.
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The favourite role of
Wilma Schmidt,
who performed at theStaatsoper Hannover
for more than five decades
in German, Italian and Slavic operas,
was the Marschallin inDer Rosenkavalier.
20 July 2022
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Richard Strauss
reportedly composed
"Traum durch die Dämmerung"
("Dream in the Twilight"),
from a love poem
byOtto Julius Bierbaum,
in 20 minutes.
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Margarita Voites,
from 1969 to 1990coloratura soprano
at theEstonia Theatre,
portrayed tragic characters
such asLucia di Lammermoor
and well as comic roles
likeLa fille du régiment.
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Paul Gerhardt's hymn
"Du meine Seele singe"
(You my soul sing),
a paraphrase ofPsalm 146,
became known for a melody
beginning with a rocket motif.
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The first public performance
in Vienna in 1903
ofArnold Schönberg's
Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1,
two expressivelieder of thanks and farewell
to contemporary poems,
withZemlinsky at the piano,
was met with hostile audience reactions.
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In 1724Johann Sebastian Bach
composed thechurch cantata
Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWV 10,
based on Luther'sGerman Magnificat,
translating" to "My soul magnifies the Lord",
for the Feast of theVisitation,
as the fifth work in hischorale cantata cycle.
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Libuše Domanínská,
a soprano of Prague'sNational Theatre,
performed in all operas by
Leoš Janáček
(3 July 1854 – 12 August 1928),
and a recording she made
as hisJenůfa
made his works better known
beyond their home country.
Lando Bartolini
was aspintotenor who performed worldwide,
as Luigi in Puccini'sIl tabarro in Philadelphia in 1968,
as Verdi'sErnani atLa Scala in 1982,
as Radames inAida at theArena di Verona in 1983
and as Calaf in Puccini'sTurandot in Beijing in 1999.
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Diana Tishchenko,
a violinist from Ukraine,
played Myroslav Skoryk's
Melody
on a tour of
theKyiv Symphony Orchestra
to Poland and Germany
in April 2022.
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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.
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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".
Martti Wallén,
a Finnishbass singer
who was a member of theRoyal Swedish Opera from 1975 to 2000,
performed in world premieres byAulis Sallinen,
inThe Horseman at theSavonlinna Opera Festival in 1975,
and inKullervo inLos Angeles in 1992.
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On theMozart family grand tour
to the cultural centres of Europe,
undertaken byLeopold Mozart,
his wifeAnna Maria,
and their childrenMaria Anna (Nannerl)
andWolfgang Theophilus (Wolferl)
from 9 July 1763 to 1766
theWunderkinder
amazed and gratified their audiences.
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InBio's Bahnhof,
a German live music talk show series
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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Liana Isakadze,
who won the 1970
Jean Sibelius Violin Competition,
recorded as soloist, arranger and conductor
concertos byOtar Taktakishvili
andTigran Mansurian
with the Chamber Orchestra of Georgia,
inIngolstadt.
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Variations for Cello Solo,
premiered by the composer
Graham Waterhouse
in Vienna in 2020,
depict characteristics
of the members of his family.
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Violeta Dinescu
(born 13 July 1953)
composed the children's opera
Der 35. Mai
based on
The 35th of May,
or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas
byErich Kästner.
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Albert Schweitzer
likened the bass line
of an aria mentioningSatan
in Bach'schorale cantata
for the seventh Sunday after Trinity,
Was willst du dich betrüben,
BWV 107
(Why would you grieve),
"to the contortions of a huge dragon.
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Soprano
Melitta Muszely
appeared as
the four women Hoffmann loves
inOffenbach's opera
inFelsenstein's production
at theKomische Oper Berlin in 1958,
and still sang recitals at age 80.
AfterMozart's opera
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
premiered at theBurgtheater in Vienna
on 16 July 1782,
Emperor Joseph II anecdotally remarked
that it had "too many notes".
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Marina Kondratyeva,
a leading ballerina
at theBolshoi Ballet from 1952
described as
"weightless, airy, poetic and spiritual",
was admired asGiselle
also in New York and London
and became a master tutor at the Bolshoi,
passing its tradition for decades.
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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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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".
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Thomas Hoepker,
aphotojournalist forStern andGeo
and president ofMagnum Photos,
with a desire to photograph human conditions
on assignments around the globe,
took
View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11.
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In 1524,
Justus Jonas wrote the hymn text
Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält
(If God the Lord does not remain on our side),
paraphrasingPsalm 124,
and in 1724,
Bach composed thechorale cantata
Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält, BWV 178,
for the eighth Sunday afterTrinity,
with five differentchorale settings
for six of its stanzas.
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31 July 2012
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Sarah Gibson,
who formed the piano duo
HOCKET withThomas Kotcheff,
composedwarp & weft for large orchestra,
inspired by the art ofMiriam Schapiro
and scheduled for theBBC Proms.
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Gerhard Klingenberg,
who had a successful early career in Austria
as an actor at theBurgtheater in Vienna at age 18
and as stage director at theStadttheater Klagenfurt
but followed an invitation byBertold Brecht
to hisBerliner Ensemble inEast Germany,
was Intendant of the Burgtheater from 1971 to 1976,
bringing inavant-garde European directors
and staging innovative plays
byThomas Bernhard,Harold Pinter andTom Stoppard.
tribute
23 July 2024
April Cantelo
created soprano roles such as
Helena in Benjamin Britten's
A Midsummer Night's Dream
and Miss Beswick in Malcolm Williamson's
English Eccentrics.
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Max Reger
based fourtone poems,
Vier Tondichtungen nach A. Böcklin,
on four paintings by Arnold Böcklin,
includingIsle of the Dead.
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Elena Mauti Nunziata,
who gained international recognition
as Verdi'sLa traviata
at theTeatro Real in Madrid in 1977,
portrayed Puccini'sMimi
at theMetropolitan Opera
andMadama Butterfly
at theOpéra de Paris.
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Lothar Zenetti's poem
"Segne dieses Kind"
became a song
of blessing for a child,
often sung
atbaptism.
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In 1724,
Johann Sebastian Bach had
an excellentflauto traverso player
at hand for
Was frag ich nach der Welt, BWV 94
(What should I ask of the world),
thechorale cantata
for the ninth Sunday afterTrinity.
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The
Rheingauer Kantorei
performed Mendelssohn's oratorio
Elias
in theRheingauer Dom
and in theMarktkirche Wiesbaden.
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Eugene Sârbu,
who won the 1978Paganini Competition
and made an international career,
premiered the Violin Concerto
thatEinojuhani Rautavaara dedicated to him.
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Wolfgang Rihm
composedDionysos,
an "opera fantasia"
with text only byNietzsche,
which was votedpremiere of the year
after its first performance
at theSalzburg Festival in 2010.
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The opera
Die Hamletmaschine
byWolfgang Rihm
has been described as
"a total theatre of sound
and nonnarrative, ritualistic drama".
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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 stanzas
by Martin Luther
relate tofaith, love and hope.
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Johann Münzberg
(3 August 1799 – 1 September 1878)
ran leading textile factories inBohemia
and promoted the building
of theEmpress Elisabeth Bridge
over theElbe inTetschen.
The central movement
ofBach's cantata
Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101,
a "furious ritornello" of three oboes,
is followed unexpectedly
by a line of the chorale,
with the melody of
"Vater unser im Himmelreich".
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Verses 2 to 6 of
Psalm 97,
"The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice",
in Czech were set to music
byAntonín Dvořák
in hisBiblical Songs.
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In celebration of the tercentenary of the birth
ofCarl Philipp Emanuel Bach, tenor
Markus Schäfer
performed in his oratorio
Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu
at theRheingau Musik Festival.
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Jürgen Ahrend
restored the GothicRysum organ
and theArp Schnitger organs
in Groningen'sMartinikerk
and Hamburg'sSt. Jacobi.
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Sarah Gibson,
who formed the piano duo
Hocket withThomas Kotcheff,
composedwarp & weft for large orchestra,
inspired by the art ofMiriam Schapiro
and scheduled for theBBC Proms.
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22 July +8 August 2024
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Antônio Meneses,
the last cellist of theBeaux Arts Trio,
recorded the BrahmsDouble Concerto
withAnne-Sophie Mutter and theBerlin Philharmonic
in 1983
and thecello concertos byHeitor Villa-Lobos
in 2023.
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The opera
Behold the Sun
byAlexander Goehr
(born 10 August 1932),
about theAnabaptists inMünster,
was premiered atTheater Münster
in an abridged version in German,
but theBBC aired it in full in English.
listen
26 August 2019
Bach's cantata
Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut, BWV 113,
is based on apenitential chorale,
matching the prescribed reading,
theparable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector.
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Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez,
chief conductor of the
RTVE Symphony Orchestra,
Nationaltheater Mannheim
and theOrquesta de Valencia,
conducted a recording of
hisSinfonía del descubrimiento.
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12 August 2024
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Johann Sebastian Bach led
theThomanerchor inLeipzig
in the first performance of
thechorale cantata,
Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101,
on 13 August 1724.
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Countertenor
David Erler
was one of five singers invited byamarcord
for the performance of Monteverdi'sVespers
as the annualMarienvesper
of theRheingau Musik Festival inEberbach Abbey.
After an absence of four years,
theInkpot Madonna,
holding a naked Baby Jesus
with quill in hand,
returned to theHildesheim Cathedral
on 15 August 2014.
The 80th birthday of
Walter Fink
was celebrated at theRheingau Musik Festival
with compositions of
Kirchner,Lachenmann,Rihm,Widmann andHosokawa
on 16 August 2010.
Celestina Casapietra,
the glamourous Italian soprano
at theBerlin State Opera
in East Berlin from the 1960s,
was the partner ofFranco Corelli
in a DVD of Giordano'sAndrea Chénier.
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AfterKasper König
curated exhibitions of works
byClaes Oldenburg andAndy Warhol
in his 20s, he initiated the
Skulptur Projekte Münster
for large sculptures in public space.
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Librettist Gerhard Müller
and composerGeorg Katzer wrote
Antigone oder die Stadt
inEast Germany,
but it premiered at theKomische Oper Berlin
only afterreunification.
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19 August 2019
Christof Nel
directed plays invited to theBerliner Theatertreffen,
like the world premiere ofThomas Brasch'sRotter in 1978,
and operas such as Wagner'sTristan und Isolde in 2003
and the first production in German of Aulis Sallinen'sKullervo in 2011.
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Hans-Georg Münzberg
(21 August 1916 – 7 November 2000)
continued to work on the development
of theSnecma Atar engine in France
despite being a professor at theTechnical University of Berlin.
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Chieftain's Salute,
composed by
Graham Waterhouse,
is scored for
Great Highland Bagpipe
andstring orchestra.
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Debussy:Cello Sonata
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Zofia Posmysz
(23 August 1923 – 8 August 2022),
Auschwitz inmate No. 7566,
wrote an audio play on her memories,
which became the basis for
her 1962 novelPassenger,
a 1963 film,
anda 1968 opera.
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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Bach composed hischorale cantata
Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 33,
for the 13th Sunday afterTrinity
on a hymn byKonrad Hubert
and first performed it
on 3 September 1724.
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Wolfgang Rihm
said of the music of his 1987 opera
Oedipus:
"Sound is a weapon here – or a scalpel?".
Maryvonne Le Dizès
was violinist of theensemble intercontemporain,
working with composers
such asPierre Boulez andGyörgy Ligeti,
and commissioning newchamber music works like
a trio for saxophone, trombone, and violin byGilbert Amy.
Jerzy Artysz,
abaritone who performed title roles
fromOrfeo toKing Roger
at theGrand Theatre in Warsaw,
created the role ofJosep Soler's Oedipus
at theLiceu in Barcelona in 1986.
MDR Rundfunkchor,
the radio choir of theMDR in Leipzig,
performed Dvořák'sStabat Mater
in the opening concert of the
2019Rheingau Musik Festival
atEberbach Abbey.
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Siegfried Lorenz
(30 August 1945 – 24 August 2024),
the first lyricalbaritone of theBerlin State Opera,
recorded 151 songs bySchubert
and sang, according toAlan Blyth,
"with an enviable control of line and dynamics".
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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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Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78,
Bach'schorale cantata
for the 14th Sunday afterTrinity,
uses the same bass line
in apassacaglia as in
Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12.
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Alexander Goehr,
who introduced compositions
of the Europeanavant-garde to England
as.a central figure of theManchester School,
composed the operaArianna in 1995,
setting thelibretto of Monteverdi'slost opera.
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Anja Kaesmacher
(born 3 September 1974)
and clarinetistSabine Meyer were the soloists in
Manfred Trojahn'sAriosi
for soprano,basset horn and orchestra,
conducted by the composer.
listen to Mozart
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Maxim Berezovsky
is thought to have been the first
Russian or Ukrainian
to writean opera and a violin sonata.
watch symphony
In the motet
Locus iste,
composed for the dedication
of the votive chapel ofLinz Cathedral,
Anton Bruckner
(4 September 1824 – 11 October 1896)
requests a pause
"by carefully measuring out five beats".
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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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 melody of the Christian hymn
"Ik sta voor U in leegte en gemis"
(I stand before You in emptiness and loss)
is written withoutbar lines,
reflecting the singer's insecurity and questions.
Schloss Weilburg,
a Baroque garden palace,
contains a Renaissance palace.
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International mezzo-soprano
Soňa Červená
(9 September 1925 – 7 May 2023)
won theAlfréd Radok Award for Best Actress
when she was 83 years old.
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On 10 September 1724
Johann Sebastian Bach
led the first performance of
Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78,
achorale cantata based on
apassion hymn byJohann Rist.
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Eric Sams remarked
"what bride ever had a finer wedding gift?"
of the song collection
Myrthen
whichRobert Schumann dedicated
toClara.
Günter Reich
recorded the role ofMoses in
Schoenberg's operaMoses und Aron
with bothMichael Gielen andPierre Boulez.
listen
27 August 2010
Alban Berg dedicated his
Three Pieces for Orchestra
"with immeasurable gratitude and love"
to his teacher,
Arnold Schönberg,
for his fortieth birthday
on 13 September 1914.
Tilman Michael,
who is set to be
theMetropolitan Opera's chorus master
from the 2024/25 season,
helped theOper Frankfurt win multiple
awards for operatic choir of the year.
Haydn:Stabat Mater
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The theologian
Friedrich Schorlemmer
was a speaker at the
1989Alexanderplatz demonstration
in East Berlin,
as a prominent member
of thePeaceful Revolution.
Lieder singer and voice teacher
Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann's
textbook for singers
Der wissende Sänger
was recommended for general readers
interested in "the human instrument".
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Hans Otto Jung
was a jazz musician during World War II,
ran a winery from theBoosenburg,
and was co-founder
of theRheingau Musik Festival.
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Caterina Valente,
who performed 1,500 songs in 13 languages
as one of few world stars
from a German-speaking country,
knew that she wanted to become a singer
when she heard jazz singerBillie Holiday
at age five.
watch with Count Basie
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Raymond Arritt
(September 19, 1957 – November 14, 2018),
contributing author of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
encouraged a fellow editor:
"go on with life, have a laugh, don't get too upset".
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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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Philippe Herreweghe
conducted theCollegium Vocale Gent
in Monteverdi'sVespro della Beata Vergine
at theKonzerthaus Dortmund.
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Bach based hischorale cantata
Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost, BWV 114,
on the hymn byJohannes Gigas
and first performed it on 1 October 1724,
two days after his
previous chorale cantata.
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Beppe Menegatti
directed first Italian performances
of plays byBeckett andBabel
and productions with his wife,
ballerinaCarla Fracci.
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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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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.
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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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Baritone
Franz Grundheber
(born 27 September 1937)
performed the title role
in Alban Berg'sWozzeck in Paris and Berlin,
staged byPatrice Chéreau
and filmed in 1994.
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Benny Golson,
a jazz tenor saxophonist
who had played
withJohn Coltrane in high school,
composedI Remember Clifford
in memory of trumpeterClifford Brown.
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J. S. Bach
led the first performance of
Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130,
based onPaul Eber's hymn
in twelve stanzas about the angels,
for the feast ofarchangel Michael.
Bach:Mass in B minor
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Mozart conducted
the premiere of his last opera,
Die Zauberflöte
at theTheater auf der Wieden
in a suburb of Vienna
on 30 September 1791.
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"Sozusagen grundlos vergnügt"
("Call it causelessly merry")
was one of about 40 poems
byMascha Kaléko
set to music on a 2011 album.
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After theChernobyl disaster
Michael Sladek
and his wifeUrsula
initiated a movement to become
independent of nuclear energy
and achievedgreen power forSchönau.
Maryvonne Le Dizès,
the first woman to win
thePaganini Competition,
became violinist of theensemble intercontemporain,
playing the solo
in Ligeti'sViolin Concerto.
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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.
Stoika Milanova,
who made an international career
after winning the 1970Carl Flesch Competition,
passed her father's violin teaching method
to students in Venezuela and Bulgaria.
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A soloviola part
in Bach'schorale cantata
Wo soll ich fliehen hin, BWV 5,
has been described as
"the cleansing motions of
some baroque washing machine".
watch
4 November 2011
Rohan de Saram,
the cellist of theArditti Quartet
trained byPablo Casals
playedSequenza XIV thatLuciano Berio wrote for him,
inspired by hisKandyan drumming.
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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.
watch talk aboutGaveston
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Martin Lücker
(born 11 October 1953)
played 3,000 free organ concerts
at theKatharinenkirche in Frankfurt.
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Helmut Bauer,
emerited auxialiarybishop in Würzburg,
was responsible for church music in the diocese
and presided the commission
for the commonGotteslob hymnal.
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The opening chorus
of Bach'schorale 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".
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Amaury du Closel,
a French conductor and composer,
founded the Forum Voix Etouffées
to raise attention to
the music of composers persecuted or exiled
by totalitarian regimes of the 20th century.
Violinist
Mela Tenenbaum
recorded in the United States works
thatDmitri Klebanov had composed for her inUkraine,
includingJapanese Silhouettes
for soprano, viola d'amore and ensemble.
listen
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Beginning in 2016
Leif Segerstam
conducted recordings of
the four Symphonies byJohannes Brahms,
each paired with one of his own,
Nos. 288, 289, 294 and 295.
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The tenor
Thomas 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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When pianist
Clara Wieck
composed her
Piano Concerto in A minor
as a teenager,
her future husband
Robert Schumann
helped with theorchestration.
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Residenz Ansbach
and the churches
ofSt. Gumbertus
andSt. Johannis
are venues for the biennial
Bachwoche Ansbach.
BachMass in B minor
WhenBach composed
thechorale cantata
Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir, BWV 38,
onLuther's200-year old hymn
based onPsalm 130,
he let four trombones, two oboes and strings
all play with the voices.
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Barbara Owen
worked as organistin Newburyport for 40 years,
as pipe voicer,
librarian of the Organ Library
of theAmerican Guild of Organists
atBoston University,
and wrote books such as
The Organ Music of Johannes Brahms.
Garbis Aprikian,
who was born in Egypt,
grew up in theArmenian Diaspora
and studied at theConservatoire de Paris,
conducted the Armenian mixed chorus Sipan-Komitas for around 50 years,
composing music fusing Armenian melodies
with Western harmonies and counterpoint.
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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.
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Swiss composerHermann Suter's
symphonicoratorio
Le Laudi
(The Praises)
is a setting ofSt. Francis of Assisi's
Canticle of the Sun
in Italian
for choir, soloists,voci di ragazzi,
organ and orchestra.
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Peruvian theologian
Gustavo Gutiérrez,
a founder of
Latin American liberation theology,
focused on connecting salvation and liberation
through theoption for the poor.
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Janusz Olejniczak,
at age 18 placed at theChopin Competition,
playedChopin's works on modern and period instruments,
portrayed the composer inAndrzej Żuławski's 1991 filmBlue Note,
and played piano music in Polanski's 2002 filmThe Pianist,
some as the hand double.
Bach created
a "musical sleep scene ...
that could have graced any opera of the time"
in hischorale cantata
Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit, BWV 115.
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Barbara Kolb,
the first women to win theRome Prize,
composedMillefoglie for chamber orchestra and tape
while in residence atIRCAM,
premiered at theCentre Pompidou in 1985
by theEnsemble intercontemporain
conducted byPeter Eötvös.
listen to album Millefoglie
28 October 2024
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Walter Jacob
aReformrabbi
at theRodef Shalom Congregation inPittsburgh
from 1955 to 1997,
co-founded and presided
theAbraham Geiger College,
the first rabbinic seminary in Central Europe
since the Holocaust, in 1999.
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Rodolfo Halffter
(30 October 1900 – 14 October 1987),
who left for Mexico
after theSpanish Civil War,
was the first composer there
to use Schoenberg'stwelve-tone technique,
inTres hojas de album.
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Cucurbita
is agenus ofherbaceous fruits
in thegourdfamily
native to theAndes andMesoamerica,
with edible species grown
known as squash, gourd or pumpkin.
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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 (2000 CD)
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Bishop
Franz Kamphaus
opposedPope John Paul II,
"convinced that
our way of counselling women
would save the lives
of many more children".
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Salve Regina,
composed byArvo Pärt
to venerate theGolden Madonna
of the Essen Cathedral,
"builds very gradually
to a late, majestic climax".
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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".
Monika Buczkowska,
who made her stage debut as a student inPoznań
asMozart's Susanna,
was a soloist inBeethoven's Ninth Symphony
at a charity concert for Ukraine
at theAlte Oper Frankfurt in April 2022.
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On 6 November 2016
Peter Reulein
conducted the premiere
of his oratorio
Laudato si',
subtitled
A Franciscan Magnificat,
with more than 250 performers
at theLimburg Cathedral.
Bach composed four dialogues for his cantata
O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60,
first performed 7 November 1723,
three between Fear and Hope,
and one between Fear and theVoice of Christ.
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Russian Jewish painter
Marc Chagall
created thestained-glass windows
of the church ofSt. Stephan inMainz
as a sign of Jewish-German reconciliation.
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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.
Madeleine Riffaud
wrote poems,
fought in theFrench Resistance,
reported on theAlgerian War
for the CommunistL'Humanité,
worked in Vietnam for theViet Cong resistance,
wrote poems.
watch
10 November 2024
Reger:Seele, vergiß sie nicht
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The dissertation of
Barbara Stühlmeyer
(born 12 November 1964)
about the chants
byHildegard of Bingen
became a standard work.
Johannes BeutlerSJ,
who taught theology at the
Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology
and thePontifical Gregorian University,
is known for his 2013
A Commentary on the Gospel of John.
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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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Barbara Aland
was internationally recognized
for her work on the
Novum Testamentum Graece
and the Greek New Testament,
which she undertook with
her husband,Kurt Aland.
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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
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Marina Kondratyeva,
a leading ballerina
at theBolshoi Ballet from 1952
described as
"weightless, airy, poetic and spiritual",
was admired asGiselle
also in New York and London
and became a master tutor at the Bolshoi,
passing its tradition for decades.
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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.
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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)
was said to have composed his
Canticle V:
The Death of Saint Narcissus
"in the face of death".
Pablo Barragán
was the clarinet soloist
for an arrangement of
Bartók'sRomanian Folk Dances
for clarinet,cimbalom and strings.
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In 2005, composer
Krzysztof Penderecki
added aCiaccona for strings
to hisPolish Requiem,
begun in 1980.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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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