It is hard to imagine two composers more different in talent and temperament than the French, mostly self-taught Hector Berlioz and German, highly cultivated Felix Mendelssohn. The two were an "odd couple" Berlioz grew up in provincial France, the son of a country doctor; he moved to Paris to study medicine but gravitated toward music in his early twenties. His views and music represent the more progressive Romantic ideals of the nineteenth-century. Mendelssohn, on the other hand, was probably the most talented musician after Mozart. He enjoyed a comfortable life and a fine education in...
It is hard to imagine two composers more different in talent and temperament than the French, mostly self-taught Hector Berlioz and German, highly cul...
As a distinguished scholar of Renaissance music, James Haar has had an abiding influence on how musicology is undertaken, owing in great measure to a substantial body of articles published over the past three decades. Collected here for the first time are representative pieces from those years, covering diverse themes of continuing interest to him and his readers: music in Renaissance culture, problems of theory as well as the Italian madrigal in the sixteenth century, the figures of Antonfrancesco Doni and Giovanthomaso Cimello, and the nineteenth century's views of early music.
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As a distinguished scholar of Renaissance music, James Haar has had an abiding influence on how musicology is undertaken, owing in great measure to...
Ludwig Fischer (1745-1825) was one of the most famous basses of his day, and he created numerous roles, including Osmin in Mozart's "Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail" (1782). Around 1792 he wrote an autobiography with anecdotes about his singing teacher Anton Raaff, his travels through Europe, and some of the operas he performed in. This book includes a facsimile of his autobiography, along with a transcription, the first complete English translation, an introduction and commentary. Also included are seven of the arias he sang in piano-vocal score by Anton Schweitzer, Ignaz Holzbauer, Antonio...
Ludwig Fischer (1745-1825) was one of the most famous basses of his day, and he created numerous roles, including Osmin in Mozart's "Die Entfuhrung au...
The "Musik am Dankfeste," H 823 was written for the dedication of the new church tower at St. Michaelis in Hamburg on Reformation Sunday 1786. The festive cantata incorporates the composer's double-choir Heilig, Wq 217.
The "Musik am Dankfeste," H 823 was written for the dedication of the new church tower at St. Michaelis in Hamburg on Reformation Sunday 1786. The fes...
