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German opera singer (buffo bass), actor and comedian, 1796-1851
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2023-12-04 15:01:32
Ernst Toch and more, 2023
This Week in Classical Music: December 4, 2023. Ernst Toch and more. Erns Toch, the Jewish-Austrian composer, was born on December 7th of 1887 in Leopoldstadt, a poor, mostly Jewish area in Vienna. Toch was one of a group of Austrian and German composers whose lives were upended by the rise of Nazism (Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Schreker, Karl Weigl, Egon Wellesz, Hans Gál, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Berthold Goldschmidt, all Jewish, mostly forgotten except of course for Schoenberg, all talented if to a different degree, had their lives broken in 1933). One thing we find interesting is the ease with which they moved from Austria to Germany. These were two very different empires, one, declining, ruled by the peace-seeking Emperor Franz Joseph from Vienna, another – very much on the ascent, economically, politically and militarily, ruled by the arrogant and insecure Keiser Wilhelm II. But musicians thought nothing of moving from […]
2022-01-18 07:35:19
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj6YFAGZ1cE Happy 76th birthday soprano Katia Ricciarelli. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQY3bqFMXfk On this day in 1907 the Metropolitan Opera premiered Puccini’s Manon Lescaut with the composer in attendance. Lina Cavalieri and Enrico Caruso were Manon and DeGrieux. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHb8m0e-k1Q Birthday anniversaries of composer Emmanuel Chabrier (1841), composer Berthold Goldschmidt (1903), conductor János Ferencsik (1907), and soprano Marianne Schech (1941).
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2021-02-21 21:56:55
Do we need silence more than we need music?
From a new essay by Chicago psychoanalyst Gerald Stein. … (Simon) Rattle’s mentor Berthold Goldschmidt said to him, “Will you please remember what the phrase “ohne hast” (without haste) means in a time when there were no automobiles.” Nor the sounds from such motor cars, he might have added. Amplified sound became like floor-to-ceiling audio wallpaper […]
2021-02-07 00:00:00
Berthold Goldschmidt - Concertos and Symphonic Music - Rattle - Dutoit - Kreizberg
Berthold Goldschmidt (1903-1996) The Goldschmidt Album Passacaglia - Commedy of Errors - overture Ciacona Sinfonica - Chronica Les Petits Adieux - Rondeau Simon Rattle Charles Dutoit Yakob Kreizberg Berthold Goldschmidt London Entartete Musik 1996 Cello Concerto Violin Concerto Clarinet Concerto Yo Yo Ma cello Sabine Meyer clarinet Chamtal Juillet violin Charles Dutoit Yakob Kreizberg Berthold Goldschmidt London Entartete Musik 1997 Berthold Goldschmidt (1903-1996) could well be a poster boy for one kind of composer in exile. A rising superstar in Germany, his move to England certainly ensured his survival and opened up many opportunities. However, he toiled as a composer, mostly in obscurity, for decades after his emigration. By the late 1950’s he had stopped composing entirely, devoting himself instead to conducting, where he played a vital role in Mahler’s ascendancy in Great Britain. Then around the age of 80, with the growing […]
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