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Danish-born composer (1883-1946)
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2022-06-09 17:51:00
Li-Tai-Pe, Theater Bonn, 4 June 2022
[…] Paul Graener) on the subject of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. What of Franckenstein? It seems—and here I must note Juliane Brandes’s helpful programme essay—that a crucial figure in placing his musical language is his teacher, Ludwig Thuille, now likewise little known as a composer though he retained currency in German postwar conservatories through his decidedly non-Schoenbergian Harmonielehre. Historically, though, Thuille, whose other pupils included Hermann Abendroth, Walter Braunfels, Rudi Stephan, Ernest Bloch, and Paul von Klenau, was accounted a key figure in the so-called Munich School of composers, from whom Richard Strauss now dwarfs all others, but which also includes Hans Pfitzner, Max Schillings, and Alexander Ritter. Lest this become a game of ‘degrees of separation’, perhaps it is best to say that Wagnerisms in harmonic language were not necessarily matched by Wagnerian technique, let alone by the techniques of composers such as Mahler, Strauss, Debussy, and Schoenberg whom we […]
2011-12-24 22:52:00
DECEMBER 25 Today in classical music history
[…] Chaplin at age 88 in Vevey, Switzerland. b-London, 16 APR 1889. BOOK-Charlie Chaplin: A Photo Diary. The Film Music of Charles Chaplin.1979 Death of tenor Mario Filippeschi. Born 7 June 1907 in Pisa. Died 25 Dec 1979, Debut as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti) Jul 1937 Teachers:- Arturo Pessina, Vicidomini. 1982 Death of tenor Gerhard Witting. Born 23 Sep 1889 in Bromberg. Debut 1912 Created Second Beggar in Rembrandt van Rijn (Klenau) Andres in Wozzeck (Berg).1995 Death of music historian and editor of Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Classical Musicians, Nicolas Slonimsky at the age of 101. Some sources indicate date as 26th or 27th. b-St. Petersburg, 27 APR 1894. BOOK-Slonimsky's Book of Musical Anecdotes Search Nicolas Slonimsky.
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