Hugo Riemann News
German musicologist (1849-1919)
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- conductor, composer, musicologist, writer, music theorist, music teacher, university teacher, pianist
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2017-04-12 17:00:55
How do you solve a problem like Medea?
[…] of the Fleece in his family leads him to defy the Oracle, whose messenger arrives with a “chorus” of mute soldiers resembling a frieze on a temple. This Herold, by the way, is another spectacular coloratura role, this time for countertenor, composed for Max Emmanuel Cencic but on this occasion performed by Daichi Fujiki, whose voice has the body and creamy quality of the modern operatic avatar of that species as well as dazzling note-spinning. Riemann thus joins the modern composers who have found this antique timbre useful and plausible for the latest music. Medea, blamed and excoriated by all, goes mad. Barainsky grovels in the sand and ransacks the stage, and her vocal lines become ever wilder—the relationship to Handel’s Dejanira and Mozart’s Elettra is clear, however untuneful. But the staging accords intriguingly with her psychic universe: The backstage full of boulders and rocks in an oppressive desert landscape […]
2016-03-19 12:00:32
Saturday, March 19, 2016 You can listen to the Classical Music Almanac Podcast Daily here. Birthdays Max Reger In 1873 Max Reger was born in Brand, Bavaria. Reger studied music in Munich and Wiesbaden with Hugo Riemann. From September 1901 he settled in Munich, where he obtained concert offers and where his rapid rise to fame began. During his first Munich season, Reger appeared in ten concerts as an organist, chamber pianist and accompanist. He continued to compose without interruption. From 1907 he worked in Leipzig, where he was music director of the university until 1908 and professor of composition at the conservatory until his death. In 1911 he moved to Meiningen where he got the position of Hofkapellmeister at the court of Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. In 1915 he moved to Jena, commuting once a week to teach in Leipzig. He died in May 1916 on one […]
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2016-03-04 10:47:31
Fischer-Dieskau’s partner is 80 today
Hat-tip to Aribert Riemann, accompanist to the great recitalist in the later stage of his career and a composer of two stark operas, King Lear and Medea. Fischer-Dieskau personified his Lear.
2015-05-05 01:33:25
Commissioned by Kevin Norton, University of Cincinnati – College Conservatory of Music. Score and parts will be made available for sale after the premiere. Recording will be posted as soon as I have it. “PRN,” in this case, has numerous meanings. “P,” “R,” and “N” refer to types of harmonic progression within Hugo Riemann’s theoretical system. Starting from a given triad, “P” moves to the parallel major/minor triad, “R” goes to the relative major/minor triad, and “N,” if the previous chord was major goes to the minor subdominant and, if minor, goes to the major dominant. These relationships are exploited as the fundamental harmonic and melodic building blocks of the piece. Rhythmically, the “PRN” is regarded alphabetically. “P” is the 16th letter of the alphabet, “R” the 18th, and “N” the 14th letter. The distance from “P” to “R” is two letters and the distance from […]
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