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# **The Life of Hector Berlioz as Written by Himself** **Complete Book: ** [https://classicalarchive.org/the-life-of-hector-berlioz-as-written-by-himself/](https://classicalarchive.org/the-life-of-hector-berlioz-as-written-by-himself/) **Publication & Textual History** * **Original French:** *Mémoires* (completed in the 1860s; published **1870**) * **English editions:** Multiple 19th-century translations;…

# **MOZART AND “THE ETERNAL-FEMININE”** **(Book: Mozart, His Character, His Work** by Alfred Einstein) There is **no biography of Mozart** that does not contain a chapter devoted to the theme of **“Mozart and women,”**…

# **Ludwig van Beethoven the Elder (1712–1773): An Extensive Biography** **Origins and Early Years** Ludwig van Beethoven the Elder was born in **1712** in **Mechelen (Malines)**, then part of the **Austrian Netherlands**. He came…

# **Dorothea von Ertmann (1781–1849):** A Life at the Heart of Beethoven’s Piano World Dorothea von Ertmann, born **Dorothea Graumann on 3 May 1781 in Frankfurt am Main**, occupies a singular place in the…

# **Telemann - Der Geduldige Socrates - Nicholas McGegan ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/telemann-der-147371706?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/telemann-der-147371706?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Georg Philipp Telemann – *****Der geduldige Socrates*** (*The Patient Socrates*) ## **Date, place, and genre** **Composed and premiered: 1721, Hamburg** **Genre: Comic–philosophical opera…

# **Franz Schubert - Die Zwillingsbrüder - Helen Donath - Nicolai Gedda - Kurt Moll - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Wolfgang Sawallisch ** [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/franz-schubert-147249652?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/franz-schubert-147249652?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/franz-schubert-147249652?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Franz Schubert – *****Die Zwillingsbrüder***** (D 647): Youthful Comedy, Operatic Ambition,…

# **Offenbach, La Belle Helene - Michael Plasson - Norman, Aler, Bacquier - (Toulouse 1984) ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/offenbach-la-146649251?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/offenbach-la-146649251?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Jacques Offenbach – *****La Belle Hélène*** *(1864)* **Jacques Offenbach**’s *La Belle Hélène* is one of the supreme…

# **G.P. Telemann - Der Geduldige Sokrates - **Musical comedy in 3 acts - First performance: Theater am Gänsemarkt, Hamburg, 28 January 1721. - **(Rene Jacobs, Live Concert in 2007) ** [[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf_EBIHTm2E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf_EBIHTm2E)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf_EBIHTm2E)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf_EBIHTm2E)** ** **Libretto**:…

# **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…

𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮, 𝗚𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻, 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗵𝗺𝘀 with wife and daughter of 𝗩𝗶𝗸𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝘃𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝘇𝘂 𝗔𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗵𝗼𝗹𝘇 in 1890 The photo was taken in 1890 in 𝗚𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻, 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮, a lakeside town in 𝗨𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮 that had become…

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗹 — 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝟯 𝗟𝗔𝗪 𝗢𝗥 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗖? 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗚 𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗟 𝗖𝗛𝗢𝗢𝗦𝗘𝗦 𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗣𝗔𝗧𝗛 (𝟭𝟳𝟬𝟮–𝟭𝟳𝟬𝟯) By the beginning of the eighteenth century, the essential question in Handel’s life was no longer whether…

# Austria, Gmunden, Johannes Brahms with wife and daughter of Viktor von Miller zu Aichholz in 1890 The photo was taken in **1890 in Gmunden, Austria**, a lakeside town in Upper Austria that had…

**Andre Cluytens** (conductor) Receiving "The Disk d'Or" from **Pierre Bourgueois **(CEO of Pathe Marconi) in presence of **Alfred Cortot**, **George Auric et Marguerite Long **- **October 1958**