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# **THE LAST 48 HOURS OF JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH** ## **I. July 26, 1750 — Morning Faintness, The Slow Dimming** The morning of July 26 arrived like many others in that stifling Leipzig summer:…

25-10-1892, Year 1892. Letter received by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) from Hans von Bulow (1830-1894). Bülow asks Mahler to coach and conduct his own songs for the concert on 07-11, since he is unable to…

Year 1895. Letter by Richard Strauss (1864-1949) to Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) ‘Lieber Freund’. Explaining that he cannot help him over Guntram, since Munich has behaved so badly over the opera, that he feels he…

LIPATTI WITH MENGELBERG On February 16, 1942, Willem Mengelberg conducted the National Radio Orchestra in a second historical concert; the solo part of Liszt’s E flat major concerto was given by Dinu Lipatti. https://www.dinulipatti.org/on-february-16-1942-willem...…

Composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein kisses his former piano teacher Helen Grace Coates Composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein kisses his former piano teacher Helen Grace Coates after the Founder’s Day Convocation honoring Coates and Bernstein at Pine Manor…