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2021-04-06 08:08:27
The fifteenth of the 1820-21 series of Concerts spirituels conducted by Franz Gebauer included Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony, as well as three choral hymns by Ignaz von Mosel (1772-1844), is held about this time. This performance would conclude the cycle of all of Beethoven’s symphonies in this series (the Ninth having …
2020-07-27 09:04:02
Towards German romantic opera: Carl Maria von Weber's struggle to create modern German opera
[…] Franz Schubert's most satisfactory opera Fierrabras (which had to wait until seven years after Schubert's death before any of the music from it was performed).. Helmina von Chézy With Euryanthe, Weber would break new ground and abandon spoken dialogue and write a through composed opera with the orchestra playing all the time. It was not the first German opera to do so, Johann Nepomuk Poissl (1783-1865) and Ignaz von Mosel (1772-1844) had already got there first, and Louis Spohr (a friend of Weber's, though a professional rival) was planning his own opera in the same style, Jessonda (which premiered in Kassel in 1823). It seems fairly certain that Spohr and Weber influenced each other in this development.Unfortunately for the libretto, Weber turned to the writer Helmina von Chézy (1783-1856), who was part of the same literary circle in Dresden as Weber and […]
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Faces of classical music
2019-03-01 09:01:00
Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No.7 in B flat major – Olga Scheps (HD 1080p)
German-Russian pianist Olga Scheps performs Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No.7 in B flat major ("War Sonata 2, Stalingrad"), Op.83. Recorded at Mosel Musikfestival, Barocksaal Kloster Machern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on August 30, 2015.✻On 20 June 1939 Sergei Prokofiev's close friend and professional associate, the director Vsevolod Meyerhold, was arrested by the NKVD just before he was due to rehearse Prokofiev's new opera Semyon Kotko; he was shot on 2 February 1940. Although his death was not publicly acknowledged, let alone widely known about until after Stalin's reign, the brutal murder of Meyerhold's wife, Zinaida Raikh, less than a month after his arrest was a notorious event. Only months afterwards, Prokofiev was "invited" to compose Zdravitsa (literally translated "Cheers!", but more often given the English title Hail to Stalin, Op. 85) to celebrate Joseph Stalin's 60th birthday.Later that year, Prokofiev started composing his Piano Sonatas Nos 6, 7, and 8, Opp. 82-84, widely known today as the […]
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Faces of classical music
2019-02-27 05:10:00
Frédéric Chopin: Piano Sonata No.3 in B minor – Olga Scheps (HD 1080p)
German-Russian pianist Olga Scheps performs Frédéric Chopin's Piano Sonata No.3 in B minor, Op.58. Recorded at Mosel Musikfestival, Barocksaal Kloster Machern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on August 30, 2015.✻Although Chopin was essentially a miniaturist, he handled the sonata form with remarkable assurance. To a degree, his fairly hefty ballades, scherzos, and impromptus provided good preparation for writing the four movements of his third and final piano sonata, but this work's first movement, in particular, displays compositional skills that Chopin had few other opportunities to practice.The first movement, Allegro maestoso, falls into traditional sonata form, constructed from a decisive and sometimes impulsive first theme and a more extended second theme, highly lyrical with a detailed accompanimental filigree – music that would not be out of place in Chopin's nocturnes. The musical texture thickens considerably in the central development section; Chopin devotes long passages to variants on the second subject, but much of the development is […]
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