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# **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…

# **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.…

# **Joseph Haydn: Born into Humble Origins** **Joseph Haydn** was born on **31 March 1732** in the small village of **Rohrau**, near the Hungarian border of Lower Austria. His beginnings were strikingly modest, especially…

# **Mozart: Early Compositions and the Astonishing Years from 7 to 11** By the age of six, **Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart** was already composing with ease: **five minuets, a sonata, and an allegro**, works that,…

# **Mozart and Clementi: The Musical Duel of Christmas Eve (1781)** One of the most revealing anecdotes of **Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart**’s early career took place on **Christmas Eve, 24 December 1781**, in **Vienna**, and…

# **Gounod - Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 - Iceland SO, Yan Pascal Tortelier ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/gounod-nos-1-2-146349458?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/gounod-nos-1-2-146349458?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **Charles Gounod and the Symphony: An Unlikely Encounter** Although today **Charles Gounod** is remembered above all as…

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 50 - 51 - 52 - Swedish Chamber Orchestra - Bela Drahos ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146341790?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146341790?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **Symphony No. 50 in C major, Hob. I:50 (c. 1773)** At first glance, a…

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 44 - 88 - 104 - Capella Istropolitana - Barry Wordsworth ** [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146340009?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146340009?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146340009?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **Symphony No. 44 in E minor, Hob. I:44 “Trauer” (c. 1771)** Symphony No. 44 belongs…

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 41 - 58 - 59 - Cologne Chamber Orchestra - Helmut Müller-Brühl** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146274519?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146274519?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) During the late 1760s and early 1770s, **Joseph Haydn** was no longer simply supplying elegant entertainment.…

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 32 - 33 - 34 - Cologne Chamber Orchestra - Helmut Müller-Brühl** [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146274101?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146274101?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146274101?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) Around **1763–1766**, **Joseph Haydn** was still consolidating his position within the Esterházy establishment. These were years…

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 30 - 55 - 63 - Northern Chamber Orchestra - Nicholas Ward** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146273857?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146273857?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) By the early 1760s, **Joseph Haydn** had entered a decisive phase of his career. As Vice-Kapellmeister…

# **Bruno Walter in Nazi Germany before the War (1933–1936)** Bruno Walter’s position in Germany during the early years of National Socialism represents one of the most painful and revealing chapters in his life,…

# **Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804–1857): A Life** ## **Chapter I — Noble Origins and Early Sensibility (1804–1817)** **Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka** was born on **1 June 1804** in **Novospasskoye**, Smolensk province, into a landowning Russian…

# **M.I. Glinka during the composition of the opera "Ruslan and Lyudmila" ** **Mikhail I. Glinka died in 1857**, and the opera was composed between **1837 and 1842**, premiering in **St Petersburg on 27…

# **Mieczysław Horszowski and Pau Casals: Friendship, Artistic Affinity, and Musical Collaboration** **1. Two Moral Artists from Different Worlds** At first glance, **Mieczysław Horszowski** and **Pau Casals** seemed to come from different musical universes.…

# **Mozart: Haydn’s Famous Judgment: ***Before God, and as an honest man, I tell you that your son is the greatest composer known to me, either in person or by name* Among the many…

# **Mozart: The Composer Who Loved the Vulgar** Mozart’s private correspondence—especially the letters exchanged with his cousin Maria Anna Thekla Mozart (“Bäsle”) and with close family members—is saturated with scatological humor, wordplay, and deliberate…

# **Manuscripts with Minimal Revision: Mozart’s Mental Compositional Process** A striking feature of many surviving Mozart autographs—particularly from his **mature Viennese years (1781–1791)**—is the **remarkable continuity and cleanliness of the notation**. Pages often unfold…

# **Mozart and Contrapuntal Improvisation in Social Settings** Among the many abilities attributed to Mozart, none was more consistently reported by contemporaries—and yet more poorly understood by later audiences—than his capacity for **contrapuntal improvisation**.…

# **Mozart and the Transcription of Allegri’s *****Miserere***** (Rome, 1770)** When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arrived in **Rome in April 1770**, he was fourteen years old and already widely known across Europe as a prodigy.…

# **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…

# **Handel - Susanna - Oratorio** - **1749 - Laurence Cummings** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-susanna-145976191?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-susanna-145976191?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **George Frideric Handel — *****Susanna*****: The History of Its Composition** Handel’s ***Susanna*** occupies a distinctive and revealing place in his output, standing…

# **Pinchas Zukerman and His Relationships with Other Musicians** Pinchas Zukerman’s career cannot be understood in isolation. From the beginning, his artistic identity was shaped—and continually refined—through **intense personal and musical relationships** with performers,…

# **Pinchas Zukerman — A Life in 20 Chapters** **Chapter 1 — Origins in Tel Aviv (1948–1957)** Pinchas Zukerman was born in Tel Aviv in 1948 into a family where music was not an…