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# **ANECDOTES & CURIOSITIES FROM THE LIFE OF MARIA CALLA*****S*** ## **1. Her Mother Sold Her Singing for Money** According to *Evangelia Callas’s memoir* and interviews with Maria in *Time Magazine* (1956), her mother…

# **Handel - The Occasional Oratorio - Robert King ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-oratorio-144926391?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-oratorio-144926391?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) The genesis of **Handel’s *****Occasional Oratorio***** (1746)** cannot be understood without the turbulent atmosphere of mid-18th-century London. In the winter of 1745–1746, England…

# **THE DEATH OF GIACOMO PUCCINI — A COMPLETE ANALYSIS** *Cancer, suffering, stubborn hope, desperation, and the unfinished ending of a genius* Giacomo Puccini’s death on **29 November 1924** in Brussels stands as one…

# **HENRY HOLDEN HUSS — A LIFE** ## **I. Origins, Musical Childhood, and Early American Formation** Henry Holden Huss was born on **June 21, 1862**, in Newark, New Jersey, at a time when the…

# **HENRY CHARLES LITOLFF — A LIFE** ## **I. Origins, Childhood, and Early Musical Awakening** Henry Charles Litolff was born in London on **August 7, 1818**, the son of a Scottish mother, Sophie Hayes,…

# **THE CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE OF MODEST MUSSORGSKY** ## **Chapter I — Origins in Karevo: A Childhood Rooted in Russia’s Landed Nobility** Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was born on **21 March 1839** in the remote…

# **Saint Cecilia: Patron Saint of Music — History, Symbolism, and Musical Works Inspired by Her** Saint Cecilia, long revered as the **patron saint of music**, occupies a unique place at the intersection of…

# **Chopin’s early compositions ** ## 1. The First Polonaises: Childhood Pieces That Already “Sound Polish” Chopin’s earliest surviving works are **polonaises** written when he was still a child, especially the **Polonaise in G…

# **CHOPIN – A LIFE (1810-1849)** # **Childhood in Żelazowa Wola and Warsaw (1810–1820)** ## **Early Life and Family Circle** Frédéric François Chopin was born on **1 March 1810** in the small Polish village…

# **Handel, Israel in Agypten, arr Mendelssohn - Hermann Max ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-israel-in-144033157?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-israel-in-144033157?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **Felix Mendelssohn’s arrangement and revival (1833)** ## **I. Background: Why Mendelssohn Chose *****Israel in Egypt*** By the early 19th century, Handel…

# **THOMAS TALLIS – A LIFE** ## **I. Beginnings in an England on the Brink of Change** Thomas Tallis was born around **1505**—a date never precisely fixed—into an England poised between medieval stability and…