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Dear friends and members, As we welcome **2026**, I would like to send you my warmest wishes for a year filled with **hope, happiness, health, and prosperity**. I want to express my **deepest gratitude**…

Dear friends and members, As we welcome **2026**, I would like to send you my warmest wishes for a year filled with **hope, happiness, health, and prosperity**. I want to express my **deepest gratitude**…

# **Handel - Atalanta - Nicholas McGegan ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-atalanta-146975336?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-atalanta-146975336?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **A Festive Opera with a Public Purpose** **Atalanta** was composed by **George Frideric Handel** in **1736** and premiered at the **King’s Theatre in London** on…

# **Joseph Haydn and the Esterházy Family: The Appointment That Changed a Life Forever** When **Joseph Haydn** entered the service of the **Esterházy family** in **1761**, he crossed a decisive threshold—not merely from insecurity…

# **Shostakovich Collection - Box Set 28CDs** **CD 1** **Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10** **Shostakovich: Symphony No. 2 in B major, Op. 14 for Chorus & Orchestra “To October”** **Shostakovich:…

**Columbia Records** introduces long playing micro-groove records. Pictured from left is **CBS chief engineer Dr. Peter Carl Goldmark**, **Columbia Records engineer William Bachman** and **Conductor, composer Bruno Walter **looking at how the records are…

# **Bruno Walter** The **world premiere of Gustav Mahler’s Ninth Symphony** took place **after the composer’s death**. The work was premiered by **Bruno Walter**, conducting the **Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra**, on **26 June 1912**, in…

# **Beverly Sills — A Life ** ## **Chapter 1 — Brooklyn Beginnings (1929–1933)** Beverly Sills was born Belle Miriam Silverman on May 25, 1929, in Brooklyn, New York, to immigrant parents of Russian-Jewish…

# **WHY MOZART WAS THE ABSOLUTE GENIUS IN THE HISTORY OF MUSIC** ## **1. An unrepeatable combination of natural gifts: intuition, ear, and total memory** Many composers were prodigies, but **none combined such a…

# **Vivaldi - Griselda - Opera - 1735** - **Aradia Ensemble - Kevin Mallon ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/vivaldi-griselda-145332306?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/vivaldi-griselda-145332306?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) *A masterpiece of Venetian opera, refinement, and emotional tension* ## **1. Background and Context** *Griselda* is an **opera…

# **Handel - Arias - Kathleen Battle - Academy of St Martin in the Fields - Sir Neville Marriner ** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmXSbOcX7ng&list=OLAK5uy_k9COmfRTORmcr7DaVM9Q77t8eY4_tEuVg&index=1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmXSbOcX7ng&list=OLAK5uy_k9COmfRTORmcr7DaVM9Q77t8eY4_tEuVg&index=1) 1. **Acis and Galatea, oratorio, HWV 49** - Oh, didst thou know...As when…

# **JOSEPH MARX — A LIFE** ## **I. Origins, Childhood, and the Awakening of a Rich Inner World** Joseph Marx was born on **May 11, 1882**, in Graz, a city whose cultural life blended…

# **THE DEATH OF ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK — A COMPLETE ANALYSIS** Antonín Dvořák’s final days unfolded with none of the dramatic turbulence that marked the deaths of Beethoven, Mozart, Schumann, or Wagner. Instead, his departure…

# Pianist **Arthur Rubinstein** rehearsing with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by **Zubin Mehta**, for gala performance at Royal Festival Hall, London, **May 28th 1968. ** (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

# **A PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE OF BRAHMS DURING HIS LAST YEAR** *(May 1896 – April 1897)* The final year of Johannes Brahms’s life is one of the most revealing psychological periods in the history of…

# **THE DEATH OF JOHANNES BRAHMS — A COMPLETE ANALYSIS** **Vienna, 1896–1897** **Age at death: 63 years** # **I. The Final Chapter Begins: The Collapse of 1896** The death of Clara Schumann on **20…

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…

13-09-1883, Year 1883. Letter received by Gustav Mahler from Franz Liszt (1811-1886) (in Weimar). Waldmarchen (from Das klagende Lied) is rejected. Writing in formal style: Your composition Waldmarchen which you kindly sent to me…

Auer, Max * May 6, 1880 Vöcklabruck, Upper Austria/A, † September 24, 1962 Bad Ischl, Upper Austria/A. teacher, writer. One of the most important Bruckner researchers alongside August Göllerich and Franz Gräflinger , completed…

Glenn Gould and Herbert von Karajan in Berlin, Erich Lessing, 1957 Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 I. Allegro con brio- Glenn Gould, piano-Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra-Herbert von Karajan Recorded 26 May…