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# **BEETHOVEN bust in Bonn at the Beethoven House, German composer 1770-1827. Ludwig van Beethoven.**

# **Ludwig van Beethoven** – Portrait of the German composer seated in an armchair with a score on his lap, playing the piano. Illustration by R. Eichstedt. Pre-Bolshevik Revolution. December 17, 1770 – March…

**Richard Strauss** German composer and conductor (from left): Kalanke, Kloos, conductor **Hans Knappertsbusch**, Hilert, Strauss, NN. Photo: Hanns Hubmann (Photo by Hanns Hubmann/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

## **Theology, Rhetoric, and the North German Mind** When **Johann Sebastian Bach** traveled to northern Germany—above all during his prolonged stay in **Lübeck (1705–1706)**—he absorbed far more than new musical techniques. He encountered a…

# **Bizet - Carmen - Highlights (Sung in German) - Opera Arias - Ferenc Fricsay ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/bizet-carmen-in-147089331?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/bizet-carmen-in-147089331?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Offenbach - Hoffmanns Erzählungen - Heinz Wallberg (Sung in German)** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/offenbach-heinz-146647765?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/offenbach-heinz-146647765?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Jacques Offenbach – *****Hoffmanns Erzählungen***** (Les Contes d’Hoffmann)** **Jacques Offenbach**’s *Hoffmanns Erzählungen* occupies a unique and paradoxical position in the history of…

Conductor **Karl Böhm** performed the German Opera **Christa Ludwig **after the** rehearsal of the Beethoven-Oper Fidelio at the Salzburger Festspiele in August 1968**. (Photo by Gerhard Rauchwetter/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Thomas Mann ( Lübeck , June 6, 1875 – Zurich , August 12, 1955) was a German writer, one of the most important of his generation

Thomas Mann ( Lübeck , June 6, 1875 – Zurich , August 12, 1955) was a German writer, one of the most important of his generation

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche ( Röcken, October 15, 1844 –Weimar, August 25, 1900) was a German philosopher ,poet, composer, and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on contemporary world thought and Western culture

# **Otto Nicolai : Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor)- **Cologne West German Radio Orchestra - **Helmut Froschauer ** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5fkG8QIeZM&list=OLAK5uy_nEB0O_2a74q2WBE0zx0RFHC1XUv9TDfzU&index=1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5fkG8QIeZM&list=OLAK5uy_nEB0O_2a74q2WBE0zx0RFHC1XUv9TDfzU&index=1)

Franz Xaver Scharwenka (6 January 1850 – 8 December 1924) was a German pianist, composer and teacher of Polish descent. FRANZ XAVER SCHARWENKA: PIANO CONCERTO NO.4 IN F MINOR, OP.82, FRANÇOIS XAVIER POIZAT (PIANO)…

# **Schubert - Historical recordings** - Eric simon, Leonard Sharrow, Kolisch Quartet, Anton Webern Schubert: 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐅 𝐦𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫, 𝐃 𝟖𝟎𝟑 Rudolf Kolisch (violin), Eric Simon (clarinet), Leonard Sharrow (bassoon), Wendell Hoss (horn), Anthony…

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐑𝐘𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐊 𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐏𝐈𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐔𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐈𝐍 Ł𝐀𝐙𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐊𝐈 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐊 The celebrated monument to 𝐅𝐫𝐲𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐤 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐧 stands in the western part of 𝐑𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥 Ł𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐤𝐢 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐤 in 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐰, close to the 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐰𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 and the Warsaw University Botanical…

𝟭𝟬 𝗙𝗮𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗟𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗿-𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗩𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝟭. 𝗛𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝘀 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗻 𝗜𝗻 𝗜𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗔 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗢𝗳 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 Born in Dublin in 1852, Stanford spent most of his career…

𝐉𝐎𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐌 𝐑𝐀𝐅𝐅 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐅𝐀𝐌𝐎𝐔𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍 𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐇𝐌𝐒... 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐎𝐓 𝐇𝐈𝐌 One of the nineteenth century's most admired composers almost disappeared from concert halls. When 𝐉𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐑𝐚𝐟𝐟 (𝟏𝟖𝟐𝟐–𝟏𝟖𝟖𝟐) was at the height…

𝗞𝗮𝗿𝗹 𝗕ö𝗵𝗺 (l.), 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗺 𝗙𝘂𝗿𝘁𝘄ä𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗿, 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗮 𝗕ö𝗵𝗺 en 𝗘𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝗙𝘂𝗿𝘁𝘄ä𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗿 This informal photograph was most probably taken around 1948, during the immediate post-war years, possibly in Salzburg, where both conductors were closely connected with…

𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗪𝗮𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗿 — 𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗪𝗮𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗿’𝘀 𝗡𝗶𝗲𝗰𝗲, 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗪𝗮𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗿, also known by her married name 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗝𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗻-𝗪𝗮𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗿, was born on 13 October 1826 in Lohnde, near Hanover, and died on…

𝗝𝗢𝗦𝗘𝗣𝗛 𝗞𝗘𝗜𝗟𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗛 — 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝟭𝟱 𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱, 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗝𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗽𝗵 𝗞𝗲𝗶𝗹𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗵 was one of the most accomplished representatives of the Central European Kapellmeister tradition. His conducting was generally direct, structurally…

𝗝𝗨𝗟𝗜𝗔 𝗙𝗜𝗦𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗥: 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗩𝗜𝗢𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗦𝗧 𝗪𝗛𝗢 𝗡𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗔𝗕𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗜𝗔𝗡𝗢 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝗶𝗮 𝗙𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 is best known as one of the outstanding violinists of her generation, but her musical identity has never been limited to a single…

𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘇 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘇𝘁 𝗕𝘆 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗛𝘂𝗻𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝗩 — 𝗔𝘁 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗲, 𝗪𝗲𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗿, 𝗕𝘂𝗱𝗮𝗽𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝟭𝟴 — 𝗪𝗲𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗿: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 After 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗲, with its cloisters, sacred manuscripts, Catholic ceremonies, and inward religious light,…

𝗠𝗔𝗛𝗟𝗘𝗥 𝗝𝗢𝗦𝗘 𝗟𝗨𝗜𝗦 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗭 𝗗𝗘 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗚𝗔 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧 𝟴 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀, 𝗗𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗟𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗮𝗵𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝗶𝘀 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗲 The young 𝗚𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘃 𝗠𝗮𝗵𝗹𝗲𝗿 did not form his artistic identity in solitude. Vienna gave…

𝗠𝗔𝗛𝗟𝗘𝗥 𝗝𝗢𝗦𝗘 𝗟𝗨𝗜𝗦 𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗭 𝗗𝗘 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗚𝗔 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧 𝟲 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗻-𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿-𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 When 𝗚𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘃 𝗠𝗮𝗵𝗹𝗲𝗿 arrived in 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗮 in 𝟭𝟴𝟳𝟱, he was only fifteen years old, but he had already…

𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗝𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗻 {𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗻: 𝗪𝗶𝗲𝗰𝗸} (13 September 1819–20 May 1896) - 𝗣𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗼 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝗻 𝗔 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗿, 𝗢𝗽. 𝟳, written in 𝟭𝟴𝟯𝟯–𝟭𝟴𝟯𝟱. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHnYlORpL5Q Orchestra: 𝗔𝗹𝗺𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝗵𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗮 Conductor: 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗳𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗮 𝗥𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱𝗶 Soloist: 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗼 𝗡𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶 Year of…