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# **Jean-Baptiste Lully, Super-Intendant of Royal Music under Louis XIV**

# **Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Ludwig Suthaus - Kirsten Flagstad - Century's record.: Wilhelm Furtwängler ** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGAKgoclJ6A&t=381s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGAKgoclJ6A&t=381s) ## **Why This *****Tristan und Isolde***** Is the Recording of the Century** To call a single…

# **Anecdotes and Curiosities from the Life and Work of Mikhail Glinka** **1. A sickly child who heard bells before music** Glinka spent his childhood at the family estate of Novospasskoye under the strict…

# **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,…

# **Mozart’s Poverty at the Time of His Greatest Achievements** One of the most persistent misunderstandings about Mozart’s life is the belief that his financial difficulties were the result of failure, neglect, or declining…

# **Mozart: Composing the *****Requiem***** under a Sense of Fatality** During the final months of his life in 1791, as Mozart worked on the *Requiem*, he developed an increasingly explicit conviction that the work…

# **Mozart: The Late Composition of the *****Don Giovanni***** Overture** Among the most revealing episodes in Mozart’s creative life is the **composition of the overture to *****Don Giovanni***, completed in **Prague in October 1787**,…

# **Mozart and the Problem of Patronage** Mozart’s relationship with patronage represents one of the most **radical ethical and professional positions taken by any major composer of the 18th century**. In an era when…

# **Handel - Brockes-Passion - 1716 - Laurence Cummings ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-brockes-145844286?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-brockes-145844286?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) Handel’s *Brockes-Passion* is one of the most remarkable Passion settings of the early 18th century, not least because it is based on a…

# **Antonio Caldara - Morte e sepoltura di Christo - Oratorio - 1724 - Fabio Biondi ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/antonio-caldara-145171183?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/antonio-caldara-145171183?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)** ** *A monumental Viennese oratorio of grief, devotion, and Baroque drama* Antonio Caldara, one of the…

# **NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT AND THE SYMPHONIES OF HAYDN** *A Full Narrative Analysis, Including the Paris Symphonies (Concentus Musicus) and the London Symphonies (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra)* To speak about **Haydn under Nikolaus Harnoncourt** is to…

# THE INNER LANDSCAPE OF NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT — A FULL PSYCHOLOGICAL PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST Nikolaus Harnoncourt was one of those rare musicians whose artistic identity was inseparable from the structure of his mind…

# **RENATA TEBALDI — Anecdotes and Curiosities from a Legendary Life** ## **1. “The Voice of an Angel”: Toscanini’s Unforgettable Whisper** During the rehearsals for the reopening of La Scala in 1946, Arturo Toscanini,…

# MODEST MUSSORGSKY & VARVARA MIRONOVA A TRAGIC LOVE OF CLASS, FRAGILITY, AND FATE ## **I. A Soul Searching for Warmth** Modest Mussorgsky was a man of extraordinary sensitivity, a composer whose inner world…

# **Haydn - String Quartets Op.2 - Leipziger Streichquartet** [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-string-op-144731982?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-string-op-144731982?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-string-op-144731982?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) The string quartets collected under **Op. 2** belong to the same early period as the Op. 1 set, when Haydn was still exploring the…

# **Haydn - String Quartets Op.1 - Leipziger Streichquartet ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-string-op-144731620?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-string-op-144731620?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **I. The Birth of a New Genre (c. 1757–1760)** The works later gathered under **Op. 1** belong to one of the most…

# **Handel - Lotario - Attilio Cremonesi ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-lotario-144573739?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-lotario-144573739?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **I. A Turbulent Operatic Climate in London (1729) and the End of an Era** When Handel composed *Lotario*, he was navigating one of the…

# **THE DEATH OF FANNY MENDELSSOHN — A COMPLETE ANALYSIS** ## **I. The Final Spring of 1847: A Life at Full Intensity** During the spring of 1847, **Fanny Mendelssohn** lived one of the most…

# **A PSYCHOLOGICAL PORTRAIT OF FELIX MENDELSSOHN IN HIS FINAL YEAR (1847)** Felix Mendelssohn’s final year unfolded like a slow-breaking storm. On the surface he remained the elegant Kapellmeister of Leipzig — refined, disciplined,…

# **THE DEATH OF FELIX MENDELSSOHN — A COMPLETE ANALYSIS** Felix Mendelssohn’s final weeks in the autumn of **1847** form one of the most tragic and bewildering chapters in 19th-century musical history. The composer…

# **Leopold Kupelwieser (1796–1862): A Life** Leopold Kupelwieser was born on October 17, 1796, in Markt Piesting, a quiet Lower Austrian town surrounded by hills and forests. His father, a respected court official, instilled…

# **Bach - Cantatas Vol. 01 - Bach-Stiftung, Rudolf Lutz - BWV 182 - 81 - 129 ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/bach-cantatas-01-144504166?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/bach-cantatas-01-144504166?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **I. BWV 182 — *****Himmelskönig, sei willkommen***** (Weimar, 1714)** **1. Historical Setting: Bach’s First…

# **A PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE OF HENRY PURCELL IN HIS FINAL YEAR (1694–1695)** *Genius under pressure, fragile health, private fears, and creative illumination* ## **I. A Mind Exhausted Yet Burning Intensely** The last year of…

# **CHOPIN, A LIFE: The Brilliant Student and Rising Composer (1826–1829)** The years between 1826 and 1829 marked a decisive turning point in Frédéric Chopin’s youth—years in which the shy, observant boy from Żelazowa…