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# **Haydn: Separation from His Family and Early Hardship in Vienna** **1738 (age 6)** – Haydn leaves Rohrau for the first time, sent to **Hainburg an der Donau** to live with **Johann Matthias Franck**,…

## **Mozart: His Physical Appearance** Descriptions of **Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart**’s physical appearance, preserved in contemporary testimonies, letters, and early biographies, present a figure **very different from the idealized image** often suggested by later romantic…

# **Berlioz - Messe Solennelle - 1824 - Herve Niquet ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/berlioz-messe-146349743?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/berlioz-messe-146349743?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **Hector Berlioz – *****Messe solennelle***** (1824)** The *Messe solennelle* occupies a **crucial but long-hidden place** in the creative life of **Hector…

# **Bruno Walter in Nazi Germany before the War (1933–1936)** Bruno Walter’s position in Germany during the early years of National Socialism represents one of the most painful and revealing chapters in his life,…

# **Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov** with **Irène (Eneri) Gorainoff** **Irène (Eneri) Gorainoff** was a **Russian-born pianist and composer**, a remarkable musical prodigy whose early brilliance placed her among the most striking child musicians of the…

# **Mozart and His Family: Love, Control, and the Cost of Genius ** The **family relationships of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart** were deep, complex, and decisive for his personal and artistic development. Far from being…

# **Mozart: The Burial and the Myth of the Mass Grave** Few episodes in Mozart’s life have been more distorted by legend than the circumstances of his burial. The image of the greatest musical…

# **Mozart: The Composer Who Loved the Vulgar** Mozart’s private correspondence—especially the letters exchanged with his cousin Maria Anna Thekla Mozart (“Bäsle”) and with close family members—is saturated with scatological humor, wordplay, and deliberate…

# **Mozart: Composing the *****Requiem***** under a Sense of Fatality** During the final months of his life in 1791, as Mozart worked on the *Requiem*, he developed an increasingly explicit conviction that the work…

# **Mozart vs. Gluck — Work-by-Work Comparison** What follows is not a “who is better” exercise, but a close look at how two radically different operatic minds approach **myth, morality, character, time, and musical…

# **Hector Berlioz on Mozart — Opinions, Quotes, and Sources** Few 19th-century composers revered Mozart with the same mixture of awe, affection, and artistic gratitude as **Hector Berlioz**. Although Berlioz was temperamentally distant from…

She was an indispensable voice for Karajan’s opera and concert projects in the 1950s and 1960s – Leontyne Price. [[https://karajan.org/stories/karajan-artists-leontyne-price/](https://karajan.org/stories/karajan-artists-leontyne-price/)](https://karajan.org/stories/karajan-artists-leontyne-price/) The soprano from Mississippi is one of the first Afro-American divas in classical music…

# **Franco Corelli, Leontyne Price, Rudolf Bing ** Metropolitan Opera audiences began an extraordinary love affair with American soprano Leontyne Price immediately upon her debut on January 27, 1961 Price was a known entity…

# **Conductor (and flutist) Nicholas McGegan fell in love with opera as a kid.** *It came by way of a newfangled record player and one heavenly Mozart recording: * **Herbert von Karajan's recording of…

# **NICHOLAS McGEGAN — A LIFE IN 20 CHAPTERS** *A narrative biography of one of the most influential Baroque conductors of our time* ## **Chapter 1 — Manchester Beginnings (1950)** Nicholas McGegan was born…

# **John Eliot Gardiner (left) with his successor Nicholas McGegan ** **In the year 1981, John Eliot Gardiner became the artistic director of the Göttingen festival. **With him, historical instruments and the contemporary understanding…

# **Fritz Lehmann is a musician and conductor. ** In the year 1923, he goes to Göttingen and continues with his studies of musicology at the University of Göttingen. During that time he becomes…

# **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…

# **ANECDOTES ABOUT KATHLEEN BATTLE** *The angelic voice, the perfectionist temperament, the legend of impossible beauty* ## **1. The Telephone Audition that Started Everything** Kathleen Battle’s first professional break came when conductor Thomas Schippers…

# **Why Joseph Haydn Rightfully Belongs Among the Seven Most Important Composers in the History of Classical Music** Yes—there is every reason to argue that **Joseph Haydn** deserves a secure place among the **seven…

# **Antonio Caldara - La Passione di Gesù Cristo Signor Nostro - Fabio Biondi ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/antonio-caldara-145173511?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/antonio-caldara-145173511?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) *A monumental Venetian–Austrian oratorio, where Pietro Metastasio’s poetry meets Caldara’s spiritual depth* ## **1. A Masterpiece Born at…

# **Anecdotes and Curiosities from the Life of Tito Schipa** *The intimate, charming, surprising world of the greatest tenore di grazia of the 20th century* ## **1. The Boy Who Sang Instead of Playing…

# **Anecdotes & Curiosities from the Life of Pauline Viardot** **Her Friendships, Secrets, Collaborations, and Influence on the Composers of Her Century** ## **1. Berlioz and the moment he found his true Orfeo** Hector…

# THE BACH CANTATAS — LEONHARDT & HARNONCOURT AND A NARRATIVE COMPARISON WITH OTHER COMPLETE CYCLES When **Gustav Leonhardt** and **Nikolaus Harnoncourt** began recording the Bach cantatas in **1971**, the world of Baroque performance…