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# **Bach - Cantatas BWV 202 - BWV 209 - Elly Ameling - Neville Marriner ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/bach-cantatas-147444629?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/bach-cantatas-147444629?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Two Secular Masterpieces: BWV 202 and BWV 209** Among Bach’s secular cantatas, **BWV 202** and **BWV 209**…

# **André Rieu: A Life Between Tradition, Showmanship, and Musical Conviction** **1. Early Life and Musical Roots (1949–1970s)** André Léon Marie Nicolas Rieu was born on **October 1, 1949**, in Maastricht, a city whose…

# **Johann Christoph Bach (1671–1721) ** ## **Johann Christoph Bach (1671–1721): A Life of Discipline, Duty, and Quiet Influence** **Johann Christoph Bach** was born in **1671**, into the vast Bach musical dynasty of Thuringia.…

# **J.S.Bach - Orphanhood and the Discipline of Johann Christoph** In **1694**, when **Johann Sebastian Bach** was only **nine years old**, he lost his mother, **Elisabeth Lämmerhirt**. Less than a year later, in **1695**,…

# **Johann Strauss I (1804–1849): A Complete Life and Historical Portrait** **1. Origins and Early Hardship (1804–1817)** Johann Strauss I was born on **14 March 1804** in **Vienna**, at a time when the city…

# **Handel - Teseo (highlights) - Nicholas McGegan ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-teseo-147142014?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-teseo-147142014?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **George Frideric Handel – *****Teseo***** (HWV 9): Myth, Magic, and the First English-Style Handelian Opera (1712–1713)** **1. Handel in London: A Composer in…

# **Handel - Solomon - Nicholas McGegan ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-solomon-147140986?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-solomon-147140986?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) By the late **1740s**, Handel was at the **absolute height of his artistic authority** in London. Having definitively abandoned Italian opera, he had reshaped English…

# **André Cluytens — A Life in 20 Chapters** A conductor of **quiet authority, intellectual balance, and human decency**, André Cluytens occupies a singular place in twentieth-century musical history. Neither a revolutionary nor a…

# **André Cluytens — Anecdotes and Curiosities from a Life in Music** André Cluytens (1905–1967) remains one of the most **subtle, intelligent, and paradoxically understated conductors** of the twentieth century. Revered by musicians, quietly…

# **Wolfgang Sawallisch — Anecdotes and Curiosities from a Life in Music (1923–2013)** **1. A Bavarian Childhood Marked by Discipline and Silence** Wolfgang Sawallisch was born on **August 26, 1923, in Munich**, into a…

Luciano Chailly (father) and Riccardo

# **Riccardo Chailly — Anecdotes and Curiosities from a Life in Music** **1. A Childhood Immersed in the Orchestra Pit** Riccardo Chailly did not “discover” music—he was born into it. As the son of…

# **Erica Morini*****, *****A Life in 20 Chapters** **Chapter 1 – Vienna, 1904** Erica Morini was born on **5 February 1904 in Vienna**, then the musical capital of Europe. She entered a world where…

# **Handel - Acis & Galatea (arr. Felix Mendelssohn) - Stephen Darlington ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-acis-arr-146839510?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-acis-arr-146839510?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **1. Handel’s Original Work (1718): A Pastoral Masque** **Acis and Galatea** was composed in **1718** for the Duke of Chandos…

# **Bach J.C - Missa da Requiem - Miserere - Hans Christoph Rademann ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/bach-j-c-missa-146666360?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/bach-j-c-missa-146666360?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) Johann Christian Bach’s sacred works are far less numerous than those of his father, yet they are **exceptionally revealing**…

# **Bach JCF - Die Auferweckung Lazarus - Gilbert Bezzina ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/bach-jcf-die-146665553?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/bach-jcf-die-146665553?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, often called the **“Bückeburg Bach”**, occupies a unique position within the Bach family. Standing stylistically between his father…

# **HUGO WOLF — A LIFE IN 20 CHAPTERS** **Chapter 1 — Origins in Windischgrätz (1860–1868)** Hugo Wolf was born on **13 March 1860** in Windischgrätz, a small provincial town in what was then…

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 77 - 78 - 79 - Northern Chamber Orchestra - Nicholas Ward** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146635765?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146635765?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **Symphony No. 77 in B-flat major, Hob. I:77 (c. 1781–1782)** **Confidence without display** Symphony No.…

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 70 - 71 - 73 - Nikolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia - Bela Drahos ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146635300?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146635300?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **Symphony No. 70 in D major, Hob. I:70 (1779)** **Ceremonial confidence and architectural solidity**…

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 69 - 89 - 91 - Nikolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia - Bela Drahos ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146635137?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146635137?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **Symphony No. 69 in C major, Hob. I:69 “Loudon” (c. 1776–1777)** Despite its later…

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 66 - 67 - 68 - Nikolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia - Bela Drahos ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146634996?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146634996?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Symphony No. 66 in B-flat major, Hob. I:66 (c. 1775)** **Light as structure, not superficiality**…

# **Johann Gottfried Walther - 15 Barock konzerte für Orgel - Wolfgang Rübsam** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/johann-gottfried-146568251?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/johann-gottfried-146568251?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) The collection usually known as **“15 Baroque Concertos for Organ”** by Johann Gottfried Walther does not constitute a single, unified…

# **Why Mahler’s Seventh Symphony conducted by Klemperer is so special—and so controversial** **Mahler "Symphony No 7" Otto Klemperer ** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wMdEGIdZPU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wMdEGIdZPU) **Gustav Mahler’s** **Seventh Symphony** has always occupied a problematic, ambiguous, and deeply unsettling…

# **Joseph Haydn — 50 Curiosities and Anecdotes from an Extraordinary Life** 1. **He was born into humble circumstances**: Haydn was born in **1732 in Rohrau**, the son of a wheelwright and a cook.…