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

Marcel Proust (París, 1871-1922)

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

Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (Copenhagen, May 5, 1813 –ibid., November 11, 1855) was a Danish philosopher and theologian , considered the father of existentialism. His philosophy focuses on the condition of human existence, the individual…

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ( Vienna , April 26, 1889 – Cambridge , April 29, 1951), known as Ludwig Wittgenstein , was an Austrian philosopher , mathematician , linguist , and logician , later…

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 3, 33, 108, 14 - Heidelberger Sinfoniker - Johannes Klumpp ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-145663661?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-145663661?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 2, 17, 18, 19, 20 - Heidelberger Sinfoniker - Johannes Klumpp ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-145663262?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-145663262?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 107, 11, 32, 15 - Heidelberger Sinfoniker - Johannes Klumpp ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-145663124?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-145663124?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 63, 38, 37, 9 - Heidelberger Sinfoniker - Benjamin Spillner ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-145662810?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-145662810?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 12, 13, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30, 72, 55, 67, 68 - Heidelberger Sinfoniker - Johannes Klumpp ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-145662467?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-145662467?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Mozart Seen by the Great Composers** When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died in December 1791, the world did not yet understand what it had lost. His contemporaries admired him, yes, but the depth of…

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 62, 66, 71, 74, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 91 - Heidelberger Sinfoniker - Johannes Klumpp ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-145661932?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-145661932?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Brahms on Mozart — Opinions, Quotes, and Primary Sources** ## **1. “That’s the only thing that means anything to me — Mozart!”** A de las declaraciones más célebres de Brahms proviene de un…

# **Beethoven on Mozart — Opinions, Quotes, and Primary Sources** ## **1. “I shall never forget Mozart’s *****Requiem*****.”** Beethoven admired Mozart’s *Requiem* intensely. In an 1801 conversation relayed by his friend Franz Gerhard Wegeler,…

# **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…

# **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…

**Pierre Monteux at the Ravinia Festival in 1949** Victor Charbulak collection, Rosenthal Archives of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association

# **Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Guests in the House - Ormandy - Stokowski - Slatkin - Schippers - Giulini - Szell - Ansermet - Leinsdorf - Munch ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/chicago-symphony-145634307?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/chicago-symphony-145634307?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Leontyne Price in front of La Scala, 1960**

# Leontyne Price with bass-baritone Paul Robeson at joint concert, Dayton, Ohio, 1948

# **Soprano Leontyne Price, conductor Karl Bohm, and George Shirley posing during a production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” 1966-67.**

# **Leontyne Price with conductor Herbert von Karajan**