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Dear friends and members, As we welcome **2026**, I would like to send you my warmest wishes for a year filled with **hope, happiness, health, and prosperity**. I want to express my **deepest gratitude**…

Dear friends and members, As we welcome **2026**, I would like to send you my warmest wishes for a year filled with **hope, happiness, health, and prosperity**. I want to express my **deepest gratitude**…

Dear friends and members, As we welcome **2026**, I would like to send you my warmest wishes for a year filled with **hope, happiness, health, and prosperity**. I want to express my **deepest gratitude**…

Dear friends and members, As we welcome **2026**, I would like to send you my warmest wishes for a year filled with **hope, happiness, health, and prosperity**. I want to express my **deepest gratitude**…

Dear friends and members, As we welcome **2026**, I would like to send you my warmest wishes for a year filled with **hope, happiness, health, and prosperity**. I want to express my **deepest gratitude**…

Dear friends and members, As we welcome **2026**, I would like to send you my warmest wishes for a year filled with **hope, happiness, health, and prosperity**. I want to express my **deepest gratitude**…

**A brief note to the members of this group** During the past **20 months**, this Facebook group—together with **21 other public classical-music groups** I manage—has grown organically into a network of **more than 165,000…

**A brief note to the members of this group** During the past **20 months**, this Facebook group—together with **21 other public classical-music groups** I manage—has grown organically into a network of **more than 165,000…

**A brief note to the members of this group** During the past **20 months**, this Facebook group—together with **21 other public classical-music groups** I manage—has grown organically into a network of **more than 165,000…

**A brief note to the members of this group** During the past **20 months**, this Facebook group—together with **21 other public classical-music groups** I manage—has grown organically into a network of **more than 165,000…

**A brief note to the members of this group** During the past **20 months**, this Facebook group—together with **21 other public classical-music groups** I manage—has grown organically into a network of **more than 165,000…

**A brief note to the members of this group** During the past **20 months**, this Facebook group—together with **21 other public classical-music groups** I manage—has grown organically into a network of **more than 165,000…

# **Handel - Atalanta - Nicholas McGegan ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-atalanta-146975336?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-atalanta-146975336?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **A Festive Opera with a Public Purpose** **Atalanta** was composed by **George Frideric Handel** in **1736** and premiered at the **King’s Theatre in London** on…

## **Yannick Nézet-Séguin — Anecdotes and Curiosities from a Musical Life** **A Conductor Who Began as a Pianist-Partner** Before he ever stood regularly on the podium, Nézet-Séguin spent countless hours **accompanying singers and instrumentalists…

# **Beethoven - Piano Sonatas Nos. 13 - 14 - 15 - Emil Gilels** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/beethoven-piano-146777945?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/beethoven-piano-146777945?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 13, 14, and 15 – History, Dates, and Artistic Context** **Vienna, 1800–1802: Crisis,…

# **Bach JS - In Tempore Nativitatis - Ricercar Consort, Philippe Pierlot - Christmas Cantatas BWV 110, 151, 63 ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/bach-js-in-noel-146665854?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/bach-js-in-noel-146665854?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Johann Sebastian Bach — Christmas (Noël) Cantatas** **BWV 110 · BWV 151 ·…

# **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. 74 - 75 - 76 - Cologne Chamber Orchestra - Helmut Müller-Brühl ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146635629?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146635629?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **Symphony No. 74 in E-flat major, Hob. I:74 (c. 1781)** **Grace, balance, and controlled…

# **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**…

# **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…

# **Joseph Haydn — Survival and Self-Education in Vienna (1749–1755)** After his abrupt dismissal from the choir of **St. Stephen’s Cathedral** in **late 1749** (when his voice broke), Haydn entered what he later described…

# **Haydn: Choirboy at St. Stephen’s Cathedral (1740–1749)** In **1740**, when **Joseph Haydn** was just **eight years old**, his musical abilities brought him to **Vienna**, where he was admitted as a **boy soprano at…

# **Haydn: Separation from His Family and Early Hardship in Vienna** **1738 (age 6)** – Haydn leaves Rohrau for the first time, sent to **Hainburg an der Donau** to live with **Johann Matthias Franck**,…

# **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.…