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# **Mussorgsky - Rachmaninov - Stravinsky - Pictures from Russia - organ transcriptions - Hansjörg Albrecht ** [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/mussorgsky-from-144754238?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/mussorgsky-from-144754238?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/mussorgsky-from-144754238?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Giulini Remastered - Complete Studio Recordings on Columbia, HMV, Pathé & Electrola - Box Set 60CDs ** CD 1 Beethoven Egmont Overture; Symphony No. 6 ‘Pastoral’ CD 2 Beethoven Symphony No. 7 CD…

# **Haydn - String Quartets Op.2 - Leipziger Streichquartet** [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-string-op-144731982?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-string-op-144731982?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-string-op-144731982?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) The string quartets collected under **Op. 2** belong to the same early period as the Op. 1 set, when Haydn was still exploring the…

# **Haydn - String Quartets Op.1 - Leipziger Streichquartet ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-string-op-144731620?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-string-op-144731620?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **I. The Birth of a New Genre (c. 1757–1760)** The works later gathered under **Op. 1** belong to one of the most…

# **Haydn - The Seven Last Words of Christ Op.51 - Leipziger Streichquartet ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-seven-last-144731123?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-seven-last-144731123?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) The genesis of *The Seven Last Words of Christ* lies far from Haydn’s central European world. Around **1785**, the…

# **THE ROMANCE OF RICHARD WAGNER AND COSIMA LISZT:** PASSION, SCANDAL, AND A LIFE BUILT ON ART AND TURMOIL** Their story is one of the most **intense, controversial, and transformative love affairs** in classical…

Richard Strauss & Pauline de Ahna

Chopin and George Sand

Bela BARTOK, 1881-1945 Hungarian composer, with his first wife Marta ZIEGLER

Verdi and Marguerite Barazzi

Bartok and second wife

# **EPIDEMIC TYPHUS: THE GREAT DISEASE OF THE BAROQUE (1600–1750)** *Why it eclipsed even plague in shaping society, war, culture, and the emotional world of Baroque Europe* **NOTE: Typhus, not to be confused with…

# **MICHAEL VOGL (1768–1840): THE DEVOTED MENTOR-FRIEND** ## **I. Origins, Early Formation, and the Making of a Viennese Baritone** Michael Vogl was born on **August 10, 1768**, in the Upper Austrian market town of…

# **Where Could Claudio Monteverdi Have Contracted Malaria?** *A historical–medical reconstruction* Claudio Monteverdi’s final illness — described in contemporary sources as a *“quartana fever”* — is highly compatible with **chronic malaria**. The key question…

# **THE DEATH OF CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI — A COMPLETE ANALYSIS** *Illness, exhaustion, spirituality, and the twilight of the first great opera composer* Claudio Monteverdi, who transformed Western music from Renaissance polyphony into dramatic Baroque…