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Austrian singer and opera singer
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2014-01-16 08:00:00
In memoriam of Gustav Leonhardt: 16.01.2012 - 16.01.2014
A concert by Gustav Leonhardt was not like any other. He approached his harpsichord with the air of a mortician, slightly flexing his long, delicate hands. As he played he sat bolt upright, gaunt and aquiline, unsmiling in his crisp, perfect suit, with his elbows held close to his sides. No unnecessary gesture, no hint of emotion: senza baldanza, as a composer might have marked it. He did not have the look of a man on a mission. But he was. Mr Leonhardt's life-work was to persuade the world how beautiful the harpsichord was, and how the harpsichord repertoire should be played. When he first fell in love with it, in the shape of the fairly bad instrument his parents bought for their house at Graveland in the Netherlands, he recognised it as the king of keyboards. Organs were noble characters, and he played church organ for years. Virginals […]
2012-12-19 10:33:00
A Forgotten Friend
I boarded a tram in Strasbourg with a Bayreuth-born director and publicist called Peter P. Pachl. We had been at the same Schreker conference that weekend and our previous conversations had naturally focussed on the task in hand. But as we journeyed back to the station to get our respective trains, Peter to Germany and I back to London, he handed me two CDs of a composer of whom I had heard nothing. There was something almost surreptitious about it. Like musical contraband passed from hand to hand. Peter was off that evening to hear a performance of this composer's violin concerto. I felt truly ignorant in response, especially as Erich J. Wolff (1874-1913) was very much part and parcel of a world I though I knew and knew I loved. Wolff was born in Vienna in 1874, the year of Die Fledermaus and the birth of Arnold […]
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