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Lithuanian painter, composer and writer (1875-1911)
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2022-10-10 14:19:21
[…] the early Baroque era, considered by many as the most important German composer before Bach, was born on October 8th of 1585. Camille Saint-Saëns was born a day and two and a half centuries later, on October 9th of 1835. And then there were several composer who were very important to their particular nations if not necessarily on the same level as some of the names we’ve just mentioned: Komitas, the national Armenian composer; Mikalojus Čiurlionis, who occupied a similar place in Lithuanian culture; the Polish composer Andrzej Panufnik; and the American, George Gershwin, born on September 26th of 1898. And finally, Alexander von Zemlinsky, who played such an important part in the life of Schoenberg – and also was a very interesting composer -- was born on October 14th of 1871. Several eminent pianists were born during the same period, among them the American William Kapell, whose 100th anniversary […]
2021-09-20 14:57:25
Gustav Holst and more, 2021
[…] was Arnold Bax. Holst was a wonderful teacher, among his students were composers Michael Tippett and Benjamin Britten. The Planets were composed between 1914 and 1917. Each of the “planet” movements is supposed to have an astrological meaning, which escapes us, and a certain mood, which can be heard much clearer. Here, for example, is the fourth movement of the suite: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity. James Levine conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Mikalojus Čiurlionis, a Lithuanian composer, painter and writer, was born on September 22nd of 1875. He’s one of the central cultural figures in modern Lithuanian history. Andrzej Panufnik, one of the most interesting Polish composers of the 20th century, was born on September 24th of 1914 in Warsaw. Here’s what we wrote about him to commemorate his 100th anniversary. Jean-Philippe Rameau, born on September 25th of 1683 in Dijon, was one of the greatest French composers […]
2020-11-12 06:08:00
Some New Releases (CD mini-reviews)
By Karl W. NehringAfter being closed for many months because of the pandemic, a few days ago my favorite public library partially reopened. I stopped by to see what might be available and was pleasantly surprised by the amazingly large number of new classical CDs in the rack. I greedily grabbed 10 to check out, but by some strange machinations of moral reasoning I concluded that to take home 10 was just too darn greedy, so I wound up reconsidering my choices carefully and ended up walking out the door with a mere nine CDs and a 10% better opinion of myself. With neither the time, space, nor motivation to offer full reviews, I thought it would be at least useful to publish some brief remarks and recommendations concerning these recently become available releases; I hope this proves to be of at least some minor usefulness to our Classical Candor […]
2020-09-21 13:22:59
Lokshin 100
This Week in Classical Music: September 21, 2020. Alexander Lokshin. Several great composers were born this week: Jean-Philippe Rameau, for example, on September 25th of 1683, or Dmitry Shostakovich, on the same day in 1906. George Gershwin was born on September 26th of 1898. Komitas, the national composer of Armenia, was also born on the 26th, in 1869, while Mikalojus Čiurlionis, who occupies a similar place in the musical history of Lithuania, was born on September 22nd of 1875. And let’s not forget Andrzej Panufnik, one of the most interesting Polish composer of the 20th century: he was born on September 24th of 1914. We’ve written about every single one of them, but this week we’d like to compensate for a significant date we missed last week. September 19th marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Lokshin, a very talented Soviet composer whose tragic life in a way mirrors […]
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