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# **A Psychological Portrait of Mozart Lovers — And a Guide to Mozart’s Works for Every Emotional State** Studies in musical psychology (North, Hargreaves, Rentfrow, Gosling, Levitin, Levitin) consistently show that those who feel…

# **REYNALDO HAHN — A LIFE** ## **I. Origins, Childhood in Caracas and Paris, and the Awakening of a Poet-Musician** Reynaldo Hahn was born on **August 9, 1874**, in Caracas, Venezuela, the youngest of…

# **IGNAZ BRÜLL — A LIFE ** **A Brahms' friend ** **I. Origins, Childhood, and the Making of a Young Pianist** Ignaz Brüll was born on **November 7, 1846**, in the Moravian town of…

# **IGNAZ BRÜLL — A LIFE** ## **I. Origins, Childhood, and the Making of a Young Pianist** Ignaz Brüll was born on **November 7, 1846**, in the Moravian town of Proßnitz (today Prostějov, Czech…

# **BERNHARD KLEE (1936–2025), A LIFE** ## **I. Early Years and Musical Formation (1936–1960)** Bernhard Klee was born on 17 April 1936 in **Schwerin**, in a Germany still grappling with the shadows cast by…

# **THE WORLD OF THE SCHUBERTIADE ** ## **CHAPTER I — Vienna Awakens: The City that Created Schubert’s World** In the early decades of the 19th century, Vienna was a city suspended between imperial…

# **Johann David Heinichen (1683–1729): *****Der glückliche Liebeswechsel oder Paris und Helena*****, Opera in Three Acts (Naumburg, 1710)** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/johann-david-der-144575499?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/johann-david-der-144575499?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ** Gesche Geier (Enone)**, soprano **Melanie Hirsch (Rusilla)**, soprano **Susanne Ellen Kirchesch (Helena)**, soprano **Ulrich…

# **TELEMANN AND THE BACH FAMILY: ENCOUNTERS, INFLUENCES, AND A QUIET, ENDURING FRIENDSHIP** *A narrative study of the human and musical ties between two dynasties* When one speaks of German Baroque music, the imagination…

# **KLAUS TENNSTEDT – A LIFE IN 20 CHAPTERS** ## **Chapter I – Childhood in Merseburg (1926–1939)** Klaus Tennstedt was born in Merseburg, in the German province of Saxony-Anhalt, in 1926. His childhood was…

The Deep Benefits of Classical Music for the Human Being Classical music, across centuries of evolution, has proven to be far more than an expression of beauty, genius, and artistic complexity. It is a…

"The Ring of the Nibelung" Vienna, August 1897 Mahler's invitation to Vienna, for the performance of the Nibelung cycle that Richter had entrusted entirely to him, reached me in the wooded solitude of Knittelfeld,…