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# **Igor Stravinsky’s Views on Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, and Brahms ** ## **Igor Stravinsky and the Classical–Romantic Canon** Stravinsky did not approach past composers sentimentally or historically. He judged them **as living presences**,…

# **Rameau and Opera — How He Composed, Where His Language Came From, and What He Left to History ** Jean-Philippe Rameau arrived late to the operatic stage, but when he did, he did…

# **J.S.Bach - The Weimar Crucible: Complexity Forged** During his **Weimar years (1708–1717)**, **Johann Sebastian Bach** refined his organ style to a level of **complexity, coherence, and expressive depth unprecedented in German music**. This…

# **J.S Bach - Reprimanded for Too Much Music** In the years **1703–1707**, during his first important post as organist at the **New Church (Neue Kirche) in Arnstadt**, **Johann Sebastian Bach** encountered a conflict…

# **Mozart - Piano Concertos No.16 KV 451 - No.19 KV 459 - Christian Zacharias - Neville Marriner ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/mozart-piano-no-147533827?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/mozart-piano-no-147533827?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concertos No. 16 in D major, K. 451…

# **The encounter between Giovanni Punto (Bohemian Composer) and Ludwig van Beethoven (Vienna, 1800) ** Giovanni Punto, born **Jan Václav Stich** on **28 September 1746** in Žehušice, Bohemia, stands as one of the most…

# **Lovro von Matačić (1899–1985)** ## **A Life in 20 Chapters** Lovro von Matačić stands as one of the **most profound, uncompromising, and morally complex conductors of the 20th century**. Revered by musicians for…

# **Tugan Sokhiev, Conductor — Life and Musical Career ** **Tugan Sokhiev** was born on **September 21, 1977**, in **Vladikavkaz**, in North Ossetia–Alania (then part of the Soviet Union). He grew up in a…

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 83 - 94 - 101 - Capella Istropolitana - Barry Wordsworth ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146895866?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146895866?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **Symphony No. 83 in G minor, Hob. I:83 – “La Poule” (1785)** Symphony No. 83…

# **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. 64 - 84 - 90 - Nikolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia - Bela Drahos ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146634816?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146634816?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Symphony No. 64 in A major, Hob. I:64 (c. 1775)** **A work at the edge…

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 62 - 107 - 108 - Toronto Chamber Orchestra - Kevin Mallon ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146487956?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146487956?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **Symphony No. 62 in D major, Hob. I:62 (c. 1780)** Symphony No. 62 dates…

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 54 - 56 - 57 - Cologne Chamber Orchestra - Helmut Müller-Brühl ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146487781?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146487781?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Joseph Haydn — Symphonies Nos. 54, 56, and 57 (c. 1774)** These three symphonies belong…

# **Mozart: His Favorite Instrument — the Clarinet** Although **Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart** was universally admired as a master of the **keyboard** and an excellent **violinist**, his **true instrumental affection** lay elsewhere. Among all orchestral…

# **José de Nebra - Miserere - Al Ayre Español - Eduardo López Banzo** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/jose-de-nebra-al-146248362?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/jose-de-nebra-al-146248362?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) The ***Miserere*** by **José de Nebra (1702–1768)** stands among the most powerful achievements of **Spanish Baroque sacred music**, and…

# **Mozart and Johann Christian Bach (London, 1764–1765)** When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arrived in London in the spring of **1764**, he was not merely a prodigious child touring Europe with his family; he was…

# **Where Haydn Was More Genius Than Mozart — A Clear, Honest Comparison** The question is delicate, but entirely legitimate. Mozart is often — and rightly — regarded as the absolute musical genius. Yet…

# **Biographical Portraits of the Key Figures Who Shaped the Göttingen Handel Tradition** ## **I. Oskar Hagen (1888–1957) — The Visionary Who Reawakened Handel’s Theatre** Oskar Hagen was not a musician by training but…

# **Handel - Saul - Oratorio - 1739 - Laurence Cummings ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-saul-145465444?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-saul-145465444?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **I. The Genesis of a Revolutionary Oratorio (1738–1739)** When **George Frideric Handel** began work on *Saul* in the summer of…

# **Francesco Feo — A Life** *The forgotten master of the Neapolitan Baroque* Francesco Feo (1691–1761) lived during one of the most brilliant periods in Italian musical history, when Naples stood at the center…

# **Francesco Feo - San Francesco di Sales - Oratorio - Bologna 1734 - Fabio Biondi ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/francesco-feo-di-145171436?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/francesco-feo-di-145171436?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) *A luminous masterpiece of Neapolitan sacred drama* Francesco Feo (1691–1761), one of the central composers of…

# **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…

# **Haydn - String Quartets Op.54 - Leipziger Streichquartet** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-string-op-144880511?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-string-op-144880511?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) By the late 1780s, Haydn had reached a moment of extraordinary artistic mastery. Having transformed the quartet genre through the clarity and wit of…

# **THE DEATH OF MODEST MUSSORGSKY — A COMPLETE ANALYSIS** Modest Mussorgsky’s death in **March 1881** stands as one of the most tragic in 19th-century music. Unlike the serene death of Verdi or the…