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Polish pianist, composer of Czech origin; Frédéric Chopin's piano teacher
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2017-10-20 08:59:00
Opera North's 'Little Greats'
Opera North’s season of ‘The Little Greats’ is bringing six short operas to The Lowry, in pairs, from November 15 to 18, with a Saturday matinee of one also available on the 18th. Thanks to the generosity of Opera North, I saw them all in Leeds, in slightly different combinations from the Salford ones, so this is a preview/review.First off on this side of the Pennines are the classic pair of Italian ‘verismo’ tragedies, Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, only in this case Pagliacci comes first. On the Thursday it’s Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, followed by a rarity from Janáček - Osud (meaning Destiny). On the Friday two lighter, shorter works take the stage with Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti and Trial by Jury by Gilbert & Sullivan, and on the Saturday L’Enfant et les Sortilèges is repeated in the afternoon, and then Pagliacci and Cavalleria Rusticana recur […]
2017-10-20 08:59:00
Opera North's 'Little Greats'
Opera North’s season of ‘The Little Greats’ is bringing six short operas to The Lowry, in pairs, from November 15 to 18, with a Saturday matinee of one also available on the 18th. Thanks to the generosity of Opera North, I saw them all in Leeds, in slightly different combinations from the Salford ones, so this is a preview/review.First off on this side of the Pennines are the classic pair of Italian ‘verismo’ tragedies, Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, only in this case Pagliacci comes first. On the Thursday it’s Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, followed by a rarity from Janáček - Osud (meaning Destiny). On the Friday two lighter, shorter works take the stage with Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti and Trial by Jury by Gilbert & Sullivan, and on the Saturday L’Enfant et les Sortilèges is repeated in the afternoon, and then Pagliacci and Cavalleria Rusticana recur […]
2017-07-30 16:31:22
[…] months after Chopin was born, the family moved to Warsaw where Nicolas gained a job teaching French at the Warsaw Lyceum. This meant the family were housed in the Saxon Palace, and it was here that Chopin began receiving informal music lessons. Both his mother and father played instruments such as flute, violin and piano. After his mother informally taught him piano, Chopin then began receiving professional music lessons in 1816 from Czech pianist Wojchiech Żywny. It was at this point that Chopin began giving public concerts, as well as writing out some of his first compositions. After receiving organ lessons from Wilhelm Würfel between 1823-1826, Chopin began a three-year course under Silesian composer Józef Elsner at the Warsaw Conservatory, where he studied figured bass, composition and music theory. Whilst studying, Chopin often gave public recitals of both his own compositions and other people’s, this relied a lot on his […]
2017-07-30 16:31:22
[…] months after Chopin was born, the family moved to Warsaw where Nicolas gained a job teaching French at the Warsaw Lyceum. This meant the family were housed in the Saxon Palace, and it was here that Chopin began receiving informal music lessons. Both his mother and father played instruments such as flute, violin and piano. After his mother informally taught him piano, Chopin then began receiving professional music lessons in 1816 from Czech pianist Wojchiech Żywny. It was at this point that Chopin began giving public concerts, as well as writing out some of his first compositions. After receiving organ lessons from Wilhelm Würfel between 1823-1826, Chopin began a three-year course under Silesian composer Józef Elsner at the Warsaw Conservatory, where he studied figured bass, composition and music theory. Whilst studying, Chopin often gave public recitals of both his own compositions and other people’s, this relied a lot on his […]
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