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## **𝗠𝗢𝗭𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗜𝗡 𝗦𝗪𝗔𝗙𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗗’𝗦 𝗕𝗜𝗢𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗣𝗛𝗬 — Chapter 5 — Liars, Slanderers, and Envious Creatures** **1) Salzburg After the Grand Tour: Spoils, Secrecy, and Leopold’s Next Calculations** After returning to Salzburg in **November 1766**, Leopold…

𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐇 𝐖𝐎𝐋𝐅𝐆𝐀𝐍𝐆 𝐊𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐆𝐎𝐋𝐃: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐃 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐃𝐈𝐆𝐘 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐍𝐀 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐑𝐄𝐈𝐍𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐘𝐖𝐎𝐎𝐃 — 𝐀 𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐍𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐄 (𝟏𝟖𝟗𝟕–𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟕) 𝐈. 𝐀 𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐄 𝐌𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐋𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐃 (𝟏𝟖𝟗𝟕–𝟏𝟗𝟎𝟖) 𝐄𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐖𝐨𝐥𝐟𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐠 𝐊𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐝 was born on 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞: 𝟐𝟗 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟖𝟗𝟕…

## 𝗠𝗢𝗭𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗜𝗡 𝗦𝗪𝗔𝗙𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗗’𝗦 𝗕𝗜𝗢𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗣𝗛𝗬 — CHAPTER 2 - 𝗣𝗔𝗣𝗔: 𝗟𝗘𝗢𝗣𝗢𝗟𝗗, 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗟𝗘, 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗙 𝗔 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗗𝗜𝗚𝗬 𝗟𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗱’𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗯𝘆 In Swafford’s portrait, **the “miracle” in…

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗛 𝗚𝗢𝗟𝗗𝗘𝗡 𝗖𝗜𝗥𝗖𝗟𝗘 — 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗕𝗔𝗨𝗗, 𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗢𝗧, 𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗔𝗟𝗦 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗙𝗔𝗨𝗥𝗘́ The relationship between Jacques Thibaud, Alfred Cortot, Pablo Casals, and Gabriel Fauré forms one of the most beautiful artistic constellations of early 20th-century French…

# **Francesco Antonio Bonporti (1672–1749)** **Francesco Antonio Bonporti** was an Italian Baroque composer and priest whose music became surprisingly influential—especially through its later association with **Johann Sebastian Bach**, who studied and even copied some…

# Austria, Gmunden, Johannes Brahms with wife and daughter of Viktor von Miller zu Aichholz in 1890 The photo was taken in **1890 in Gmunden, Austria**, a lakeside town in Upper Austria that had…

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐡𝐦𝐬’𝐬 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭, 𝐕𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐄𝐫𝐚 Johannes Brahms is often described as the great Classical Romantic, a composer who stood apart from…

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐚𝐲𝐝𝐧’𝐬 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 Joseph Haydn stands at the heart of the Classical style, yet his musical language grew directly out of the Baroque world that…

# **Beulah Collection 3 ** * Alfred Brendel Early Recordings 1 – **Beethoven, Liszt & Mozart – Alfred Brendel** (1957–1962) * Alfred Brendel Early Recordings 2 – **Mussorgsky, Stravinsky, Balakirev & Liszt – Alfred…

# **Beulah Collection 1 ** * **Arturo Toscanini conducts Wagner (1946–1952)** * **Bach** – Brandenburg Concertos – New York Sinfonietta, Max Goberman (1960) * **Bach** – Mass in B Minor – Hans Grischkat (1958)…

# **The Legacy of Leonid Kogan [16 CD Box Set] ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/legacy-of-leonid-150266813?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/legacy-of-leonid-150266813?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **CD 1** **ALBAN BERG – Violin Concerto** Soviet RTV Large Symphony Orchestra — Gennady Rozhdestvensky **ÉDOUARD LALO – Symphonie espagnole in D…

# **Andromeda Remastered 2 ** **ANDRCD5085** Donizetti – *L’elisir d’amore* – Nino Sanzogno (1957) **ANDRCD5086** Verdi – *Aida* – Fausto Cleva (1957) **ANDRCD5087** Offenbach – *Orphée aux enfers* – René Leibowitz (1953) **ANDRCD5089** Massenet…

# **Archipel Digital Remastered 7 ** **ARPCD0819** George Szell & Pierre Fournier – Live in Cologne 1962 – **Mozart**, **Debussy** & **Dvořák** **ARPCD0820** **Tchaikovsky** – Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 – **Willem Mengelberg** **ARPCD0821**…

# **ARIA AND SONG (II) - (Book: **Mozart, His Character, His Work by Alfred Einstein**) ** ## Mozart on *Il curioso indiscreto*: Success, Intrigue, and a Printed “Notice” (Letter of **2 July**) On **2…

# **CHURCH MUSIC (V)** **(Book: **Mozart, His Character, His Work by Alfred Einstein**)** ## The C-minor Mass in Context: Between Bach and Beethoven It has been said—entirely rightly—that this unfinished Mass stands **midway between…

# **PIANO WORKS - (Book: **Mozart, His Character, His Work by Alfred Einstein**)** ## Mozart as Pianist and “Virtuoso” in His Own Sense Mozart was, as we know, a **great pianist**, one of the…

# **DIVERTIMENTO, CASSATION, SERENADE - (Book: **Mozart, His Character, His Work by Alfred Einstein**)** Mozart was born into an age when **the sharp boundaries** that later (by around **1800**) separated **chamber from symphonic**, **theatrical…

# **CHAMBER MUSIC FOR STRING INSTRUMENTS (2) - (Book: **Mozart, His Character, His Work by Alfred Einstein**)** **The Viennese Shock of 1773: K. 168–173 and the Encounter with Haydn** Judging by numbering and chronology,…

# **CHAMBER MUSIC FOR STRING INSTRUMENTS (1) - (Book: **Mozart, His Character, His Work by Alfred Einstein**)** **When Mozart Wrote His First String Quartet** When Mozart composed his first string “quartet” (K. 80)—during his…

# **Mozart’s Tonal Circle: Restraint as a Quiet Revolution (Book: **Mozart, His Character, His Work by Alfred Einstein**)** **Impossible—yet precisely here Mozart’s revolutionary nature reveals itself**, even though **he never advertises it** and **never…

# **Mozart and Counterpoint (Book: Mozart, His Character, His Work** by Alfred Einstein) What time and environment could offer him was **no longer genuinely living polyphony**, but rather **a survival—something rigid, petrified, a textbook…

# **Fragments and the Creative Process (Book: Mozart, His Character, His Work** by Alfred Einstein) Mozart’s habitual—indeed almost instinctive—use of a compositional “springboard” can explain why **so many fragments and opening sketches** have survived.…

# **Archipel Digital Remastered 2 ** **ARPCD0246** Vladimir Horowitz – The London recordings 1932–1936 **ARPCD0247** **Donizetti** – *Lucia di Lammermoor* – **Fausto Cleva** **ARPCD0248** Sviatoslav Richter plays **Ravel** & **Rachmaninov** **ARPCD0251** **Bach** – *Die…

# **FRANZ SCHUBERT - DG EDITION 1 - (39CDs, DG, 2016) ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/franz-schubert-1-149222924?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/franz-schubert-1-149222924?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Franz Schubert — Symphony No. 1 in D major, D.82** — Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Claudio Abbado **Franz Schubert — Symphony…