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my stories
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Hana Blažíková
is a soprano with the
Bach Collegium Japan,
conducted by
Masaaki Suzuki,
for the project to record
the complete Bach cantatas.
This is the 2025 archive of my daily stories which began in January 2023, with an overview at User:Gerda Arendt/Story list that also features example stories. This archive has daily entries up to the day of the year while those following, from 2024, may be overwritten by new ones. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:48, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
January
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1 January 2025
[edit]happy new year
On 1 January 1725
J. S. Bach led the first performance
of his chorale cantata
Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, BWV 41,
which features the same trumpet fanfares
in the closing chorale
as in the opening chorale fantasia.
watch
1 January 2025
2 January 2025
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"Lobpreiset all zu dieser Zeit",
(Praise all at this time)
for New Year
in the German Catholic hymnal
Gotteslob, takes two stanzas
from a 1851 song by Heinrich Bone,
a third stanza and refrain from 1969,
and a 1529 popular melody by Luther.
watch
31 January 2021
3 January 2025
[edit]Bass-baritone
Johann-Werner Prein
(born 3 January 1954)
took part in the 1994 premiere
of Erwin Schulhoff's only opera, Flammen,
which the Nazis had suppressed.
listen to opera
3 January 2022
4 January 2025
[edit]Bach composed for Christmas Day in Leipzig
was the 1724 chorale cantata
Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 91,
based on Martin Luther's hymn for Christmas
"Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ".
25 December 2010
5 January 2025
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"Stern über Bethlehem"
is a German song
created in 1964
and often sung by star singers.
listen (subtitles)
6 January 2025
[edit]
Bach ends his
chorale cantata for Epiphany
Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen,
BWV 123,
by repeating the final lines
of the last stanza softly.
7 January 2024
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Dada Masilo,
a South African dancer and choreographer
known for her fusion of classical ballet,
contemporary dance and African dance steps,
presented The Sacrifice,
inspired by Pina Bausch's Frühlingsopfer,
in Vienna in 2011.
8 January 2025
[edit]Tom Johnson,
a music critic for
The Village Voice in New York City
who coined the concept
minimal music in a 1972 article,
composed The Four-Note Opera,
and the Bonhoeffer Oratorio
in Paris where he lived from 1983.
9 January 2025
[edit]Jean-Michel Defaye,
a pianist, arranger and conductor
known for his collaboration with poet
and singer-songwriter Léo Ferré,
composed pieces for trombone and piano
in the style of composers
from Vivaldi to Stravinsky.
watch
9 January 2025
10 January 2025
[edit]Librettist Gerhard Müller
and composer Georg Katzer
(10 January 1935 – 7 May 2019)
wrote
Antigone oder die Stadt
in East Germany,
--> but it premiered
at the Komische Oper Berlin
only after reunification.
watch
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11 January 2025
[edit] |
Bright Angel,
composed by Graham Waterhouse
for three bassoons and contrabassoon,
relates to the
Bright Angel Trail of the Grand Canyon
which the composer hiked with his father
at the age of nine.
12 January 2025
[edit]Writer Christian Keymann
and composer Andreas Hammerschmidt
collaborated on a hymn,
the base for Bachs chorale cantata
Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht, BWV 124
("I will not let go of my Jesus").
13 January 2025
[edit]- see 13 January 2023 and 2024: Guido Dessauer
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Ayla Erduran,
a Turkish violinist who studied
at the Conservatoire de Paris,
in the US with Zino Francescatti
and in Moscow with David Oistrakh,
premiered Ulvi Cemal Erkin's Violin Concerto
in Belgium, conducted by the composer.
watch playing Schubert
13 January 2025
14 January 2025
[edit]- see 14 January 2023 and 2024: Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid, BWV 3
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Giacomo Puccini's opera
Tosca,
based on the play La Tosca
by Victorien Sardou,
premiered
at the Teatro Costanzi
in Rome on 14 January 1900.
15 January 2025
[edit] |
Hans Dieter Beck,
a leader of C. H. Beck
legal publishing
in the sixth generation,
usually used a bicycle to work
until age 92.
16 January 2025
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Otto Schenk
directed a traditionalist version of
Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
at the Metropolitan Opera in 1986
that remained in the repertoire to 2009,
and Die Fledermaus by J. Strauss
at the Vienna State Opera
that is still played.
watch Walküre and Adele
17 January 2025
[edit]German stage director
Tobias Kratzer
(born 17 January )
nominated two versions
of Verdi's Rigoletto
for an international competition,
pretending to be an American woman
in the first instance,
and a Bulgarian in the second?.
watch a trailer
10 May 2010
18 January 2025
[edit]Walter Deutsch,
a pioneer of field research
of folk music in Austria,
founded an institute for folk music research
at the Wiener Musikakademie in 1965
and became popular
for presenting folk musicians live
in series of ORF radio and television.
watch
18 January 2025
19 January 2025
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In Bach's chorale cantata
Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid, BWV 3,
based on Moller's hymn in 18 stanzas,
the first cantus firmus is sung by the bass
supported by a trombone.
watch
23 January 2016
20 January 2025
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Elgar Howarth
conducted the world premiere
of Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre
and four operas by Harrison Birtwistle,
and was one of the trumpeters
who performed with The Beatles
on the song "Magical Mystery Tour".
watch interview
20 January 2025
21 January 2024
[edit] |
Elgar Howarth
conducted the world premiere
of Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre
and four operas by Harrison Birtwistle,
and was one of the trumpeters
who performed with The Beatles
on the song "Magical Mystery Tour".
watch interview
21 January 2025
22 January 2025
[edit] |
Claire van Kampen,
the founding director of music
at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
from 1997 to 2015,
first as assistant to her husband Mark Rylance,
then with his successor,
wrote a play, Farinelli and the King.
watch theatre talk
22 January 2025
23 January 2024
[edit]- see 23 January 2024: same
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Maria, Königin des Friedens,
a Brutalist pilgrimage church
in Neviges, Germany,
has become the signature building
of architect
Gottfried Böhm
(23 January 1920 – 9 June 2021).
images
10 February 2020
24 January 2025
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The theatre organ at the
Loew's Jersey Theatre
was originally installed
at another theater by mistake.
watch
24 January 2025
25 January 2025
[edit]André Soltner
was chef of New York City's
Lutèce from its opening in 1961,
and ran "America's Best French Restaurant"
with his wife from 1973 to 1994,
living in the same house.
watch
25 January 2025
26 January 2025
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Bach based his chorale cantata
for the third Sunday after Epiphany,
Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit,
BWV 111,
on a 1554 hymn by Albert, Duke of Prussia,
who had introduced the Reformation into Prussia.
27 January 2024
[edit] |
In a choral concert
at St. Martin, Idstein,
the conductor connected
Mozart's Requiem
with Pärt's Fratres
and Da pacem Domine.
28 January 2024
[edit] |
The Romanesque church
St. Peter in Syburg,
now a suburb of Dortmund,
is surrounded by a graveyard
with stones dating back
to the ninth century.
29 January 2025
[edit] |
Gabriel Yacoub
was a pioneer of the revival
of traditional French music music
in contemporary formats,
as a founder of Malicorne in 1973,
and also played solo music,
including to his own lyrics.
listen
29 January 2025
30 January 2025
[edit]- see 30 January 2023: Kreuzschule, 2024: Werner Bardenhewer
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A clinic in Mopti, Mali,
is named after
Werner Bardenhewer,
born 90 years ago today,
who was for decades
priest of St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden,
and then founded a charity group.
31 January 2025
[edit]see 31 January 2023: Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn, BWV 92
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In 2017, Daniel Barenboim
began a projects to perform
the compositions by
Franz Schubert
in the Pierre Boulez Saal
in Berlin,
playing piano and conducting.
February
[edit]
1 February 2025
[edit] |
Max van Egmond
(born 1 February 1936)
recorded the bass arias
of Bach's St Matthew Passion
with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Claudio Abbado
and the words of Jesus
with Gustav Leonhardt.
listen to aria
2 April 2010
2 February 2025
[edit] |
On the Feast of the Purification,
2 February 1725,
J. S. Bach led the first performance
of his chorale cantata
Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin,
BWV 125,
based on Luther's paraphrase
of the Nunc dimittis.
listen with score
2 February 2025
3 February 2024
[edit] |
Kazuyoshi Akiyama,
who conducted the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
from 1964 for life,
introduced the orchestra to works
such as Schoenberg's Moses und Aron,
John Adams's El Niño
and operas by Leoš Janáček.
watch short interview, with horn sound
3 February 2025
4 February 2025
[edit] |
The actor
Horst Janson
was known internationally
for roles as captains,
in films such as Murphy's War
and Breakthrough,
and in Germany as Der Bastian
and more than 200 episodes of
Sesamstraße.
watch
5 February 2025
[edit]In Patrick Süskind's play
Der Kontrabaß,
the double bass in the title role
is a "constant handicap" to its player,
"humanly, socially, sexually, musically".
6 February 2025
[edit] |
The Musiktheater im Revier
in Gelsenkirchen
staged a new musical
for the 100th anniversary
of the soccer club
FC Schalke 04 in 2004.
watch
6 February 2011
7 February 2025
[edit]İlhan Usmanbaş,
the director of first
the Ankara State Conservatory and then
the Istanbul State Conservatory,
integrated advanced composition techniques
into Turkish music.
watch
7 February 2025
8 February 2024
[edit] |
Helga de Alvear
collected contemporary art from 1967,
by more than 500
Spanish and international artists,
and shared it from 2010
in a house in the historic district of Cáceres,
with a modern annex from 2021, the
Museum of Contemporary Art Helga de Alvear.
watch homage
8 February 2025
9 February 2025
[edit] |
Philipp Harnoncourt
initiated the restoration of
a Gothic chapel
with a triangle floorplan,
originally dedicated to the Trinity
and reopened on Trinity Sunday 2020,
the day after he was buried.
10 February 2025
[edit]Paul Plishka,
a bass at the Metropolitan Opera
between 1967 and 2018 in 88 roles,
chose the title role of
Verdi's Falstaff
for his 25th anniversary there.
watch finale
11 February 2025
[edit]Dennis Russell Davies conducted
the premiere of the Fifth Symphony
Now and in the hour of death
by Heinz Winbeck
(11 February 1946 – 26 March 2019),
which reflects Bruckner's Ninth Symphony.
listen
11 September 2011
12 February 2025
[edit] |
Hans-Peter Lehmann,
intendant of the Staatsoper Hannover
who directed 31 productions,
focused on operas from the 20th century,
both neglected works
and new commissions.
interview
12 February 2025
13 February 2025
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Edith Mathis
portrayed Mozart's young women,
Susanna, Zerlina, Pamina,
took part in new operas,
recorded Bach cantatas with Richter,
and taught Lied interpretation in Vienna.
14 February 2025
[edit]
Because of a pilgrimage
to relics of St. Valentine,
the basilica minor
St. Valentin in Kiedrich
has Gothic-carved pews for the congregation.
watch choir
22 March 2015
15 February 2025
[edit]The official premiere of
Paul Creston's Saxophone Sonata
took place at the Carnegie Chamber Hall,
on 15 February 1940
with saxophonist Cecil Leeson,
who commissioned the work,
and Creston on piano.
listen with score
15 February 2025
16 February 2025
[edit]
In Bach's chorale cantata
Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn, BWV 92,
for Septuagesima, he created
five different settings for
five stanzas of the hymn
by Paul Gerhardt.
17 February 2025
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Maria Tipo,
an Italian pianist
who played 300 concerts touring the US,
and was compared to Horowitz
for playing Scarlatti sonatas,
revived musc by Muzio Clementi
and became a dedicated teacher.
listen
17 February 2025
18 February 2025
[edit] |
Sigrid Metz-Göckel
created a didactic centre
for the new Dortmund University
and initiated
a university course of women's studies,
established in 1981.
watch interview
18 February 2025
19 February 2025
[edit] |
Gabriele Münter
(19 February 1877 – 19 May 1962)
studied and lived with Wassily Kandinsky
and was a founding member
of the expressionist group
Der Blaue Reiter.
watch film
20 February 2025
[edit] |
When Tōru Takemitsu
received a commission
from the New York Philharmonic in 1961,
the orchestra's 125th anniversary,
he composed November Steps
for biwa, shakuhachi and orchestra.
listen
21 February 2025
[edit]When Heather Engebretson
portrayed the title role
of Puccini's Madama Butterfly
for the first time,
a reviewer said that her voice
"can tremble with panic and shine with hope".
watch trailer
26 July 2022
22 February 2025
[edit] |
Olivier Latry
(born 22 February 1962),
organist at Notre-Dame de Paris,
played a concert at St. Martin in Lorch
in 2019. shortly after the fire.
watch improvising
23 August 2019
23 February 2025
[edit] |
On 23 February 1725,
J. S. Bach led his Tafel-Music
Entfliehet, verschwindet, entweichet, ihr Sorgen
(Shepherd Cantata, BWV 149a),
for the birthday of
Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (pictured).
listen
23 February 2025
24 February 2025
[edit]Vladimír Válek
was chief conductor of
the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
from 1985 to 2011,
introducing a broad repertoire
and international tours.
listen to Schulhoff
24 February 2025
25 February 2025
[edit] |
Ilkka Kuusisto,
who began his career as a church organist,
worked for the broadcaster Yle
and as artistic director of the publisher Musiikki-Fazer,
was choirmaster of the Finnish National Opera chorus
and general manager of the opera from 1984 and 1992,
was one of Finland's most prolific composers of operas.
listen to Symphony
25 February 2025
26 February 2025
[edit]- see 26 February 2023, 2024: same
The art of Ruth-Margret Pütz
(26 February 1930 – 1 April 2019)
a leading coloratura soprano of the 1960s,
was published in a 2018 Recital,
including excerpts as Konstanze and Zerbinetta.
listen
11 June 2019
27 February 2025
[edit] |
Mirella Freni
(27 February 1935 – 9 February 2020)
appeared as Mimì in Puccini's La bohème
from 1957 to 1999,
at La Scala and the Vienna State Opera in 1963,
and for her debut
at the Metropolitan Opera.
watch (27:45)
28 February 2025
[edit]Ricardo Kanji,
a Brazilian recorder player
who taught at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague
and co-founded the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century,
returned to Brazil where he
promoted historically informed performance
and directed a project History of Brazilian Music
to explore the music of colonial Brazil.
watch
28 February 2025
29 February 2024
[edit]
Gioachino Rossini
(born 29 February 1792)
scored the last of his "sins of old age",
the Petite messe solennelle,
for twelve singers, two pianos, and harmonium.
listen
When Heather Phillips
made her European debut
in Rossini's Bianca e Falliero,
her nuanced coloraturas served
to portray Bianca's development.
March
[edit]
1 March 2025
[edit] |
In his
Berceuse,
Frédéric Chopin
(1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849)
created a lullaby for piano
in 16 continuous variations
on an ostinato ground bass.
listen
13 October 2018
2 March 2025
[edit]- see 2 March 2023: Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn, Erfurt Enchiridion, 2024: Wilhelm Schüchter, Kurt Honolka (Smetana)
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A trumpet appears in the fourth movement of
Herr Jesu Christ, wahr' Mensch und Gott, BWV 127,
Bach's chorale cantata for
the last Sunday before Lent
based on a hymn by Paul Eber,
in a "grand, tableau-like evocation of the Last Judgement".
watch
19 February 2012
3 March 2025
[edit]
Bizet's
Carmen
premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris
on 3 March 1875,
with Célestine Galli-Marié
in the title role.
4 March 2025
[edit] |
Simon Lindley,
Organist and Master of the Music
at Leeds Minster from 1975 to 2016,
held daily Evensongs,
performed neglected pieces
and commissioned new works.
watch service
4 March 2025
5 March 2025
[edit]Ferenc Rados,
who trained a generation of pianists
at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music
including Zoltán Kocsis, Dezső Ránki
and András Schiff,
recorded four-hand Mozart sonatas
with Kirill Gerstein in his 80s.
watch
5 March 2025
6 March 2025
[edit]- see 6 March 2023: Siegfried Vogel, 2024: Jo Vincent
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Jo Vincent
(6 March 1898 – 28 November 1989)
appeared in Willem Mengelberg's 1939 recording
of Bach's St Matthew Passion,
and, with Kathleen Ferrier and Peter Pears,
in the world premiere
of Britten's Spring Symphony in 1949.
listen to Reger
10 April 2020
7 March 2025
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Maurice Ravel
wrote texts and music for
Trois Chansons,
his only composition for choir a cappella,
in response to the outbreak
of World War I.
watch with score
3 April 2019
8 March 2025
[edit]
Hana Blažíková
is a soprano
with the Bach Collegium Japan,
conducted by Masaaki Suzuki,
for the project to record
the complete Bach cantatas
9 March 2025
[edit]- see 9 March 2023: Azio Corghi, 2024: Nabucco
Raymund Weber wrote
"Zeige uns, Herr, deine Allmacht und Güte"
to be sung with a modern melody,
but it appears in the German Catholic hymnal
with a Baroque melody,
beginning with a cruciform motif.
watch
10 March 2025
[edit]
Thousands of former slaves, the
Great Dismal Swamp maroons,
settled in the marshlands
of Virginia and North Carolina
from the early 1700s to 1865.
11 March 2025
[edit]
The first performance of Verdi's
Rigoletto
took place at La Fenice in Venice
on 11 March 1851.
watch quartet there
11 March 2025
12 March 2025
[edit]Edesio Alejandro,
a Cuban guitarist and singer,
composed more than 50 film scores
such as Clandestinos and Suite Habana.
watch
12 March 2025
13 March 2025
[edit]Jean-Louis Pichon,
manager and director of the
Opéra de Saint-Étienne from 1983 to 2008,
co-founded the Massenet Festival,
reviving the works of the composer
who was born there as Pichon as well
beginning with Cléopâtre.
watch
13 March 2025
14 March 2025
[edit]
The last of Rossini's
"sins of old age", the
Petite messe solennelle
for twelve singers, two pianos,
and harmonium
was premiered on 14 March 1864.
watch
14 March 2025
15 March 2025
[edit]
Antonietta Stella,
a spinto soprano,
made her debut in Spoleto in 1950
as Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore,
and performed as Aida
at the Metropolitan Opera
in 1956.
16 March 2025
[edit]
Sofia Gubaidulina
composed chamber, orchestral and choral works,
including Offertorium and Johannes-Passion,
characterised as
"innovative use of microtonality and chromaticism,
rhythm over form and contrasting tonalities".
17 March 2025
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Ana María Iriarte
made her debut in Valencia in 1945,
retired from the stage as Carmen
in Bordeaux in 1960,
and created a foundation
promoting zarzuela in 2006.
18 March 2025
[edit] |
Christa Wolf
(18 March 1929 – 1 December 2011)
wrote Der geteilte Himmel
in a "quest for personal integrity
within a flawed system",
published in East Germany in 1963
and called a "socialist bestseller".
19 March 2025
[edit] |
Hans Peter Korff
was an actor on stage,
in films such as Pappa Ante Portas
and television series
like Diese Drombuschs.
20 March 2025
[edit]In his
Requiem für einen jungen Dichter,
Bernd Alois Zimmermann
combined the Latin Requiem
with literary, philosophical,
religious and political texts
that shaped his lifetime.
listen
21 March 2025
[edit]- see 21 March 2023: Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191, Gächinger Kantorei, 21 March 2023: Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen
Ravel's opera
L'enfant et les sortilèges,
to a libretto by Colette,
was premiered
at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo
on 21 March 1925.
watch
22 March 2025
[edit]
Manfred Schukowski,
responsible for mathematics and physics
at schools of education,
calculated a new calendar disc
for the astronomical clock
of St. Mary's Church in Rostock,
running from 2018 to 2150.
23 March 2025
[edit]
St. Martin, Idstein
Geistliche Abendmusik
Rheinberger: Kyrie
Pachelbel: Tröste, tröste uns, Gott
Kuhnau/Bach:
Der Gerechte kömmt um
Pachelbel: Singet dem Herrn
Gounod: D'un cœur qui t'aime
Johann Christoph Bach:
Lieber Herr Gott, wecke uns auf
Pachelbel: Nun danket alle Gott
24 March 2025
[edit] |
Annette Dasch
(born 24 March 1976)
appeared as Elettra in Mozart's Idomeneo
at the reopening of the Cuvilliés Theatre,
where that opera
had been premiered in 1781.
watch portrait
23 March 2010
25 March 2025
[edit]
Bach's chorale cantata
Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1
was first performed
on the Feast of the Annunciation
on 25 March 1725,
which coincided that year
with Palm Sunday.
26 March 2025
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Architect
Jörg Streli
(26 March 1940 – 13 February 2019)
and his two colleagues designed
the Sankt-Margarethen-Kapelle
in Tyrol, which rises
like a tower on a circular floor.
27 March 2025
[edit]
Erminia Frezzolini
created the title role
in Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco
at La Scala
opposite her husband,
Antonio Poggi,
as Charles VII of France.
28 March 2025
[edit]
Willem Mengelberg,
chief conductor of
the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra,
established in 1899
the annual tradition of performing
Bach's St Matthew Passion
on Palm Sunday.
listen 1939
29 March 2025
[edit]Soprano
Leonore Kirschstein
appeared as Alice Ford with
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Falstaff.
30 March 2025
[edit]Alan Cuckston
was the harpsichordist
in the 1968 Proms concert
of Monteverdi's
Vespro della Beata Vergine
by the Monteverdi Choir
and recorded the piano music
by Alan Rawsthorne.
listen
30 March 2025
31 March 2025
[edit]As a principal dancer
of the Stuttgart Ballet
in the John Cranko era,
Ray Barra
created Romeo and Onegin.
April
[edit]
1 April 2025
[edit] |
Sergei Rachmaninoff,
composed in a personal idiom
of song-like melodicism,
expressiveness,
dense textures,
and rich orchestral colours,
exploring the possibilities of the piano.
2 April 2025
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Alchymic Quartet
is a string quartet
by Graham Waterhouse,
to be performed
alongside chemical experiments
of Andrew Szydlo,
his former teacher at Highgate School.
watch music
2 April 2023
3 April 2025
[edit]
After the Italian soprano
Fausta Labia
worked at the Royal Swedish Opera,
she appeared as Mascagni's Iris
at La Fenice in Venice
and as Wagner's Sieglinde
at La Scala in Milan.
4 April 2025
[edit]Hans-Josef Klauck OFM,
who wrote his thesis about
allegories in the parables of Jesus,
taught in Würzburg, Munich,
and at the
University of Chicago Divinity School.
5 April 2025
[edit] |
Klara Höfels,
who played on stage
at Schauspiel Frankfurt,
in film and television including SOKO,
produced film documentaries
and founded Autorentheater in Berlin
for new theatre projects.
watch her
6 April 2025
[edit]
A chorale fantasia on
"O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß"
(O man, bewail thy sins so great)
by Sebald Heyden
concludes Part I of
Bach's St Matthew Passion
listen
3 April 2015
7 April 2025
[edit]
Tout est lumière,
a setting by Maurice Ravel
for soprano, choir and orchestra
of a poem by Victor Hugo,
earned Ravel a place
in the second round
of the 1901 Prix de Rome.
8 April 2025
[edit]Christof May,
regens of the seminary
of the Diocese of Limburg,
advocated for
admitting couples to the eucharist
who were homosexual, remarried,
or from different Christian denominations.
watch in mass
8 April 2025
9 April 2025
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Enrique Bátiz,
who founded the
Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México
in 1971 and conducted it
with a short interruption until 2018,
recorded the complete orchestral works
by Joaquín Rodrigo.
listen
9 April 2025
10 April 2025
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Barbara Frischmuth
from Altaussee,
who studied Turkish in Turkey in 1960
and Hungarian in Hungary in 1963,
wrote two trilogies of novels
in the 1970s and 1980s.
watch lecture
11 April 2025
[edit]The contralto
Maria Radner,
who died in the Germanwings plane crash,
performed Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder
at his villa, Wahnfried.
watch
11 April 2015
12 April 2025
[edit]Peter Stuhlmacher,
who taught New Testament studies
in Tübingen from 1972 to 2000,
wrote books translated into several languages
and was invited by Pope Benedict XVI
to the 2008 Circle of Alumni.
read a bit
12 April 2025
13 April 2024
[edit] |
Mirella Freni
portrayed Mimì
in Puccini's La bohème
between 1957 and 1999,
including in her debut
at the Metropolitan Opera
in 1965.
14 April 2025
[edit]Eleonore Schönborn
(14 April 1920 – 25 February 2022),
who had to leave Czechoslovakia in 1945
with two young children,
received an Austrian award in 2013
for cultural and social improvement.
15 April 2025
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Roberto De Simone,
who researched early music from Naples
and co-founded the
Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare,
was recognised internationally
for the musical La Gatta Cenerentola
that he authored, composed and directed
for the Festival dei Due Mondi
in Spoleto in 1976.
watch memorial
15 April 2025
16 April 2025
[edit] |
Roberto Cani,
who studied the violin
in Milan, Moscow and Los Angeles,
became concertmaster
of the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra
and first violinist
of the New Hollywood String Quartet.
watch in trio
16 April 2025
17 April 2025
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Peter Seiffert,
a lyric tenor based at the Deutsche Oper Berlin,
caused a sensation as Lohengrin in 1990,
and made his Met debut as Tannhäuser in 2004.
18 April 2025
[edit] |
For her 2000
Johannes-Passion,
inspired by Bach's work,
composer Sofia Gubaidulina
combined the Passion narration by John
with text from the Book of Revelation.
19 April 2025
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Max Reger
conducted the premiere of
"An die Hoffnung"
(To Hope),
a setting of Hölderlin's poem
and his only orchestral song,
with contralto
Anna Erler-Schnaudt.
20 April 2025
[edit]- see 20 April 2023 and 2024: John Eliot Gardiner
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The first known collaboration
of Bach and Picander
resulted in the Shepherd Cantata
and, mostly with the same music,
the future Easter Oratorio,
first performed at the Nikolaikirche
for Easter 1725.
21 April 2025
[edit] |
Bach's cantata for Easter Monday,
Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden, BWV 6,
is based on the
Road to Emmaus narration.
watch
21 April 2025
22 April 2025
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Édouard de Reszke,
a bass from Warsaw,
made his operatic debut
as the King in Verdi's Aida
in Paris on 22 April 1876,
chosen by the composer.
23 April 2025
[edit] |
Aquilegia vulgaris
was associated with
a fertility goddess in ancient Greece,
symbolized sacredness
for Flemish painters,
and was an omen of death
in Hamlet.
24 April 2025
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Werner Thissen,
auxiliary bishop of Münster
and the second Archbishop of Hamburg,
was responsible for Misereor
in the German Bishops' Conference.
25 April 2025
[edit]Peter Ablinger
from Vienna settled in Berlin in 1982
to teach experimental music
at a music school,
founded an ensemble and a publishing house,
and composed series such as
White / Whitish,
of various aspects of white noise.
listen
25 April 2025
26 April 2025
[edit]- see 26 April 2023 and 2024: Marga Höffgen
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In 2016 Peter Reulein
conducted the premiere of his oratorio
Laudato si',
described as a Franciscan Magnificat,
with more than 250 performers
at the Limburg Cathedral.
watch
29 January 2017
27 April 2025
[edit] |
Bach's cantata
for the St. Thomas Sunday of 1725,
Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats, BWV 42,
is the only one in his second annual cycle beginning with a Sinfonia.
watch
1 May 2011
28 April 2025
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Havergal Brian described his
Second Symphony,
inspired by Goethe's
Götz von Berlichingen,
as dealing with man
"in his cosmic loneliness: ambition,
loves, battles, death".
listen
29 April 2025
[edit] |
Hana Blažíková
is a soprano with the
Bach Collegium Japan,
conducted by
Masaaki Suzuki,
for the project to record
the complete Bach cantatas.
30 April 2024
[edit] |
Oksana Lyniv
founded the
Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
in 2016 and conducted them
in thirty concerts across ten music festivals
in 2022.
watch
May
[edit]
1 May 2024
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The choir
Groningse Bachvereniging
sang Bach's Magnificat
with Harnoncourts' Concentus Musicus Wien
in the orchestra's first appearance
in the Netherlands in 1970.
2 May 2024
[edit]- see 2 May 2023: Manfred Weiss
 |
The baritone
Johannes Hill
was the voice of Jesus and Pilate
in Bach's Passions,
and of Pope Francis in the premiere
of Peter Reulein's Laudato si'.
3 May 2024
[edit]Hans Stadlmair
(3 May 1929 – 13 February 2019),
conductor of the Münchener Kammerorchester for almost four decades,
in 1971 premiered
Wilhelm Killmayer's Fin al punto,
of which the composer said,
"The calm already contains the catastrophe".
4 May 2024
[edit]- see 4 May 2023: Kurt Huber
Bach's cantata for Easter Monday,
Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden, BWV 6,
is based on the Road to Emmaus narration
5 May 2024
[edit] |
6 May 2024
[edit] |
A prize for contemporary art of Styria
is named after
Viktor Fogarassy
(6 May 1911 – 24 March 1989),
the managing director of a department store.
7 May 2024
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Peter Demetz,
born in Prague in 1922,
persecuted under the Nazis,
escaped the Communist regime in 1949,
taught German literature at Yale University
from 1956 to 1991,
and wrote the book
Prague in Black and Gold:
Scenes from the Life of a European City.
8 May 2024
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"Es tönen die Lieder",
a German round
about greeting spring with songs,
first appeared in 1869
in a collection of works by Adolf Spieß,
who developed a series of school-gymnastics steps to it.
9 May 2024
[edit]- see 9 May 2023: Colin Mawby
|
Bach's first cantata
for the Feast of the Ascension,
Wer da gläubet und getauft wird, BWV 37,
omits the topic of the Ascension
and derives from the quoted Gospel (Mark 16:16) Lutheran thoughts.
10 May 2024
[edit]A reviewer described the approach of soprano
Magdalena Hinterdobler
to her role as Grete in Zemlinsky's Der Traumgörge
(Görgr the Dreamer)
as "bold" and "sassy".
11 May 2024
[edit] |
The late-Gothic church
St. Lamberti in Hildesheim
was rebuilt after destruction in World War II,
but a southern annex was kept in ruins
as a memorial?
12 May 2024
[edit]- see 12 May 2023: Raimund Hoghe
In Bach's cantata
Sie werden euch in den Bann tun, BWV 44
(They will banish you),
for Exaudi Sunday,
the word "töten" (kill) is
"twice emphasized by a sudden, mysterious piano and
... chromatically tinged harmonies".
13 May 2024
[edit]- see 13 May 2023: Kari Løvaas
 |
Klaus Wallrath
(born 13 May 1959)
composed a mass for peace
for the 2018 Katholikentag in Münster,
performed to an audience of more than 30,000
by a choir, an orchestra, and a dance company.
14 May 2024
[edit] |
The dancer and cabaret artist
Hedi Schoop
emigrated to California with her husband,
the composer Friedrich Hollaender,
where she created and manufactured
California pottery.
15 May 2024
[edit] |
The Franciscan
Helmut Schlegel
(born 15 May 1943)
wrote the lyrics of an oratorio
Laudato si',
including writings
by Francis of Assisi
and Pope Francis,
and the Magnificat.
16 May 2024
[edit] |
Gerhard Müller,
leading bishop of the
United Lutheran Church of Germany
and professor in Erlangen and Göttingen,
wrote a book about
Martin Luther's insights then and now.
17 May 2024
[edit]- see 17 May 2023: Günter Wewel
 |
The performance of tenor
Julian Prégardien,
first trained in Limburg,
as the Evangelist in Bach's St Matthew Passion
was noted by one reviewer
for its emphatic and penetrating
"profoundly human" nature.
watch
17 May 2024
18 May 2024
[edit]Timon Altwegg
(born 18 May 1967)
and his wife Hana Gubenko
recorded a collection entitled
Sonata ebraica (Hebrew Sonata),
after the Viola Sonata by Graham Waterhouse.
19 May 2024
[edit] |
In his first cantata for Pentecost,
Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten!
BWV 172,
first performed in 1714 in Weimar,
Johann Sebastian Bach
marked to repeat the opening chorus
after the final chorale.
20 May 2024
[edit] |
21 May 2024
[edit]- see 21 May 2023: Irma Blank
Martin Krumbiegel
sang the tenor part in Bach's cantata
Erschallet, ihr Lieder (Resound, ye songs)
and Bach's "Pipe Aria".
22 May 2024
[edit]- see 22 May 2023: Maria Mies
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Baritone
Liviu Holender
chose lieder by five composers
whose music was banned by the Nazis
—Schreker, Zemlinsky,
Mahler, Korngold and Schönberg—
for a recital at the Oper Frankfurt.
watch one
Verdi: Messa da Requiem 22 May 1874
22 May 2024
23 May 2024
[edit]
The 1653 hymn
"Jesu, meine Freude"
(Jesus, my joy)
by Johann Franck and Johann Crüger
mentions singing in defiance
of the "old dragon", death, and fear.
24 May 2024
[edit] |
Ethel Smyth,
whose opera The Wreckers
was premiered in Leipzig in 1906
and revived at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2022,
joined the Women's Social and Political Union
in 1910, giving up music for two years.
25 May 2024
[edit]Willi Brokmeier,
a tenor focused on operettas,
participated in the world premiere
of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Die Soldaten
at the Cologne Opera
and appeared as Beethoven's Jaquino on a tour to Japan.
26 May 2024
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The Lutheran
St. Trinitatis
in Wolfenbüttel, consecrated in 1719,
is a Baroque church
with a facade recalling that of a palace.
27 May 2024
[edit] |
"Ständchen"
(Serenade),
the setting of a poem by A. F. v. Schack
by Richard Strauss,
begins with an appeal to creep out quietly
and ends with a climax of expecting
a rose to glow from the rapture of the night.
28 May 2024
[edit] |
Johann Sebastian Bach
used music of thanks
from his cantata
Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29,
for his final
Dona nobis pacem
(Grant us peace).
watch
29 March 2015
29 May 2024
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In the Opernhaus Wuppertal production
of Stravinsky's
The Rite of Spring,
choreographed by Pina Bausch,
the dancers performed on a stage covered with soil.
watch a bit
30 July 2013
30 May 2023
[edit] |
Samuel Kummer
chose for his first recital
as the organist of the restored
Frauenkirche in Dresden
music by Bach, Brahms, Max Reger,
Louis Vierne, and himself.
31 May 2024
[edit]- see 31 May 2023: Eva Randová
Rolf-Ernst Breuer,
who spent almost his whole career at Deutsche Bank,
as CEO from 1997 to 2002, is credited
with expanding the bank to international importance,
and later supported the Goethe University Frankfurt.
June
[edit]
1 June 2023
[edit] |
Ludwigsburg Palace,
the "Versailles of Swabia",
was home to four
of Württemberg's rulers?
2 June 2024
[edit] |
According to John Eliot Gardiner,
Bach was "fired up as never before"
when he began his
second cycle of chorale cantatas
with
O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20
(O eternity, you word of thunder),
on the first Sunday after Trinity
in 1724.
3 June 2024
[edit]- see 3 June 2023: Michael Hampe
 |
Franz Kafka
(3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924)
wrote the 109
Zürau Aphorisms
at the estate
of his sister Ottla and her husband in Zürau
where he sought recovery from tuberculosis.
4 June 2023
[edit] |
During his tenure as director of the Paris Opera,
Hugues Gall
added 60 ballets to the repertoire of the company
and world premieres of operas
by Philippe Fénelon, Philippe Manoury,
Pascal Dusapin and Matthias Pintscher.
5 June 2024
[edit]- see 5 June 2023: Aile Asszonyi
|
Peter Demetz,
who taught German literature
at Yale University
from 1956 to 1991,
was born in Prague
where he was persecuted under the Nazis
and escaped the Communist regime in 1949.
6 Jun 2023
[edit] |
Alexander Lang,
actor at Deutsches Theater in East Berlin from 1969,
was invited to direct plays by Kleist, Lessing and Goethe
at the Comédie-Française in Paris.
7 June 2024
[edit]- see 7 June 2023: Kurt Widmer
 |
Dimitri,
a grand opera by Victorin de Joncières,
based on Schiller's incomplete play Demetrius
about the Russian pretender False Dmitriy I,
was first performed in Paris in 1776.
8 June 2024
[edit]
Martin Luther
created the Pentecost hymn
"Komm, Heiliger Geist, Herre Gott"
by adding two stanzas
to an earlier German version of
"Veni Sancte Spiritus",
keeping its melody.
9 June 2023
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Mozart built the final scene
of his opera Die Zauberflöte
"upon a solemn fugato"
around the chorale
"Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein"
and Bach composed
a chorale cantata
for the Second Sunday after Trinity 1724
based on it.
10 June 2024
[edit]Ernst Gutstein,
an Austrian operatic baritone
whose signature role was Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier,
created the role of Perlimplin
in Fortner's In seinem Garten liebt Don Perlimplin Belisa
at the 1962 Schwetzingen Festival.
11 June 2023
[edit] |
"O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort",
translated as
"Eternity! tremendous Word",
is a hymn by Johann Rist
that served as the basis for
the first work in Bach's chorale cantata cycle.
12 June 2024
[edit] |
"Nun jauchzt dem Herren, alle Welt"
(Now rejoice to the Lord, all the world),
a 1646 paraphrase of Psalm 100
by David Denicke and Justus Gesenius,
appears in current
Protestant and Catholic hymnals.
13 June 2024
[edit]- see 13 June 2023: Kurt Equiluz
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Jürgen Moltmann,
professor of systematic theology
at the University of Tübingen,
was internationally known
for books such as
Theology of Hope,
The Crucified God
and God in Creation.
14 June 2024
[edit] |
Andreas Schager
was called a "sensation"
when he first performed Wagner's Tristan
in Minden, and went on
to Siegfried at the Staatsoper Berlin,
La Scala, and The Proms.
15 June 2024
[edit]- same as 2023
The oboist and composer
Rolf Riehm
(born 15 June 1937)
taught music theory in Frankfurt from 1974 to 2000
and wrote an opera, Sirenen, for a 2014 premiere at the Oper Frankfurt.
16 June 2024
[edit]In Bach's fourth 1724 chorale cantata,
Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BWV 135,
for the third Sunday after Trinity
based on a hymn by Cyriakus Schneegass,
the first movement is a polyphonic chorale fantasia
with the bass as the cantus firmus.
17 June 2024
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Four Epigraphs after Escher
is a 1993 piano trio
by Graham Waterhouse
for viola, heckelphone and piano
based on four graphic artworks by
M. C. Escher
(17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972)
including Reptiles.
18 June 2024
[edit]- see 18 June 2023: Jörg Faerber
 |
In Noye's Fludde,
a one-act opera by Benjamin Britten.
based on a 15th-century Chester "mystery" play
and premiered on 18 June 1968
only the roles of Noye (Noah) and his wife
are intended to be sung by professionals,
the others by child and adolescent performers.
19 June 2024
[edit]- see 19 June 2023: Jörg Widmann
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Éric Tappy,
a member of the Grand Théâtre de Genève,
has been regarded as legendary
for portraying Monteverdi's Orfeo,
Tamino in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte
and Debussy's Pelléas
with a tenor voice of exemplary clarity and diction.
watch
19 June 2024
20 June 2024
[edit] |
The main work of sculptor
Fritz Koenig
(20 June 1924 – 22 February 2017)
is The Sphere,
the world's largest bronze sculpture of modern times,
on the plaza beneath the two World Trade towers,
and recovered largely intact from the ruins
after the September 11 attacks.
21 June 2024
[edit] |
Ernst Pepping composed in 1937
in Nazi Germany
the Evangelienmotette
Jesus und Nikodemus
on John 3:1–15, showing
"the reality of a different, heavenly world".
listen
21 June 2015
22 June 2024
[edit] |
The 2024 Rheingau Musik Festival
opens at Eberbach Abbey
with Alain Altinoglu
conducting Christian Tetzlaff
and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony
in Dvořák's Violin Concerto.
23 June 2024
[edit] |
John Rutter
wrote the text and music of
A Clare Benediction
for choir and orchestra
to honour
Clare College, Cambridge,
where he had studied.
24 June 2024
[edit]
In the third chorale cantata,
Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7,
first performed
on St. John's Day 1724,
based on Luther's hymn
about the baptism of Jesus,
Bach gave the cantus firmus to the tenor.
25 June 2024
[edit] |
As stage director and scenic designer
of Puccini's Turandot
for the 2024 Internationale Maifestspiele,
Daniela Kerck
crafted a new ending
to the music left unfinished in 1924
and Puccini's "Requiem".
trailer
26 June 2024
[edit]- see 26 June 2023: Alte Liebe
 |
The first solo album of
Jodie Devos,
second-prize winner of
the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2014
who appeared as Philine
in Mignon by Ambroise Thomas
at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie,
was Offenbach – Colorature.
27 June 2024
[edit] |
The favourite role of
Wilma Schmidt,
who performed at the Staatsoper Hannover
for more than five decades
in German, Italian and Slavic operas,
was the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier.
20 July 2022
28 June 2024
[edit] |
Richard Strauss
reportedly composed
"Traum durch die Dämmerung"
("Dream in the Twilight"),
from a love poem
by Otto Julius Bierbaum,
in 20 minutes.
29 June 2024
[edit]- see 29 June 2023: Soňa Červená
 |
Margarita Voites,
from 1969 to 1990 coloratura soprano
at the Estonia Theatre,
portrayed tragic characters
such as Lucia di Lammermoor
and well as comic roles
like La fille du régiment.
watch
30 June 2024
[edit] |
Paul Gerhardt's hymn
"Du meine Seele singe"
(You my soul sing),
a paraphrase of Psalm 146,
became known for a melody
beginning with a rocket motif.
July
[edit]
1 July 2024
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The first public performance
in Vienna in 1903
of Arnold Schönberg's
Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1,
two expressive lieder of thanks and farewell
to contemporary poems,
with Zemlinsky at the piano,
was met with hostile audience reactions.
2 July 2024
[edit] |
In 1724 Johann Sebastian Bach
composed the church cantata
Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWV 10,
based on Luther's German Magnificat,
translating" to "My soul magnifies the Lord",
for the Feast of the Visitation,
as the fifth work in his chorale cantata cycle.
3 July 2024
[edit]- see 3 July 2023: Rachel Yakar
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Libuše Domanínská,
a soprano of Prague's National Theatre,
performed in all operas by
Leoš Janáček
(3 July 1854 – 12 August 1928),
and a recording she made
as his Jenůfa
made his works better known
beyond their home country.
4 July 2024
[edit]Lando Bartolini
was a spinto tenor who performed worldwide,
as Luigi in Puccini's Il tabarro in Philadelphia in 1968,
as Verdi's Ernani at La Scala in 1982,
as Radames in Aida at the Arena di Verona in 1983
and as Calaf in Puccini's Turandot in Beijing in 1999.
listen
5 July 2023
[edit] |
Diana Tishchenko,
a violinist from Ukraine,
played Myroslav Skoryk's
Melody
on a tour of
the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra
to Poland and Germany
in April 2022.
6 July 2023
[edit] |
In 2016,
Leonore von Zadow-Reichling
and Günter von Zadow from
Edition Güntersberg
published
12 Fantasias for Viola da Gamba
by Telemann
that had been lost.
7 July 2024
[edit]- see 7 July 2023: Wolkentanz
 |
Prince Nikolaus Esterházy,
who commissioned
Beethoven's Mass in C major
for his wife's name day,
found it
"unbearably ridiculous and detestable".
8 July 2024
[edit]Martti Wallén,
a Finnish bass singer
who was a member of the Royal Swedish Opera from 1975 to 2000,
performed in world premieres by Aulis Sallinen,
in The Horseman at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in 1975,
and in Kullervo in Los Angeles in 1992.
9 July 2024
[edit] |
On the Mozart family grand tour
to the cultural centres of Europe,
undertaken by Leopold Mozart,
his wife Anna Maria,
and their children Maria Anna (Nannerl)
and Wolfgang Theophilus (Wolferl)
from 9 July 1763 to 1766
the Wunderkinder
amazed and gratified their audiences.
10 July 2024
[edit] |
In Bio's Bahnhof,
a German live music talk show series
presented by
Alfred Biolek
(10 July 1934 – 23 July 2021)
in a former train depot,
Kate Bush
made her first television appearance.
11 July 2024
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Liana Isakadze,
who won the 1970
Jean Sibelius Violin Competition,
recorded as soloist, arranger and conductor
concertos by Otar Taktakishvili
and Tigran Mansurian
with the Chamber Orchestra of Georgia,
in Ingolstadt.
12 July 2024
[edit]- see 12 July 2023: Frank Stähle
 |
Variations for Cello Solo,
premiered by the composer
Graham Waterhouse
in Vienna in 2020,
depict characteristics
of the members of his family.
13 July 2024
[edit] |
Violeta Dinescu
(born 13 July 1953)
composed the children's opera
Der 35. Mai
based on
The 35th of May,
or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas
by Erich Kästner.
14 July 2024
[edit] |
Albert Schweitzer
likened the bass line
of an aria mentioning Satan
in Bach's chorale cantata
for the seventh Sunday after Trinity,
Was willst du dich betrüben,
BWV 107
(Why would you grieve),
"to the contortions of a huge dragon.
15 July 2024
[edit] |
Soprano
Melitta Muszely
appeared as
the four women Hoffmann loves
in Offenbach's opera
in Felsenstein's production
at the Komische Oper Berlin in 1958,
and still sang recitals at age 80.
16 July 2024
[edit]
After Mozart's opera
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna
on 16 July 1782,
Emperor Joseph II anecdotally remarked
that it had "too many notes".
17 July 2024
[edit] |
Marina Kondratyeva,
a leading ballerina
at the Bolshoi Ballet from 1952
described as
"weightless, airy, poetic and spiritual",
was admired as Giselle
also in New York and London
and became a master tutor at the Bolshoi,
passing its tradition for decades.
watch
18 July 2024
[edit]
After signing the Camp David Accords in 1978,
Prime Minister Menachem Begin
ended a speech with a desire to sing the peace song
"Hevenu shalom aleichem"
with the people of Israel.
watch
19 July 2024
[edit]- see 19 July 2023: Martin Janus
When Ruth Hesse
appeared at the Royal Opera House
as the Nurse in Die Frau ohne Schatten,
a critic described her performance as
"tirelessly ingenious and vocally in splendid command".
20 July 2024
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Thomas Hoepker,
a photojournalist for Stern and Geo
and president of Magnum Photos,
with a desire to photograph human conditions
on assignments around the globe,
took
View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11.
21 July 2024
[edit]- see 21 July 2023: Casals Forum
 |
In 1524,
Justus Jonas wrote the hymn text
Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält
(If God the Lord does not remain on our side),
paraphrasing Psalm 124,
and in 1724,
Bach composed the chorale cantata
Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält, BWV 178,
for the eighth Sunday after Trinity,
with five different chorale settings
for six of its stanzas.
watch
31 July 2012
22 July 2024
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Sarah Gibson,
who formed the piano duo
HOCKET with Thomas Kotcheff,
composed warp & weft for large orchestra,
inspired by the art of Miriam Schapiro
and scheduled for the BBC Proms.
23 July 2024
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Gerhard Klingenberg,
who had a successful early career in Austria
as an actor at the Burgtheater in Vienna at age 18
and as stage director at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt
but followed an invitation by Bertold Brecht
to his Berliner Ensemble in East Germany,
was Intendant of the Burgtheater from 1971 to 1976,
bringing in avant-garde European directors
and staging innovative plays
by Thomas Bernhard, Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard.
tribute
23 July 2024
24 July 2024
[edit]April Cantelo
created soprano roles such as
Helena in Benjamin Britten's
A Midsummer Night's Dream
and Miss Beswick in Malcolm Williamson's
English Eccentrics.
25 July 2024
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Max Reger
based four tone poems,
Vier Tondichtungen nach A. Böcklin,
on four paintings by Arnold Böcklin,
including Isle of the Dead.
26 July 2024
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Elena Mauti Nunziata,
who gained international recognition
as Verdi's La traviata
at the Teatro Real in Madrid in 1977,
portrayed Puccini's Mimi
at the Metropolitan Opera
and Madama Butterfly
at the Opéra de Paris.
27 July 2024
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Lothar Zenetti's poem
"Segne dieses Kind"
became a song
of blessing for a child,
often sung
at baptism.
28 July 2024
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In 1724,
Johann Sebastian Bach had
an excellent flauto traverso player
at hand for
Was frag ich nach der Welt, BWV 94
(What should I ask of the world),
the chorale cantata
for the ninth Sunday after Trinity.
listen
29 July 2024
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The
Rheingauer Kantorei
performed Mendelssohn's oratorio
Elias
in the Rheingauer Dom
and in the Marktkirche Wiesbaden.
30 July 2024
[edit] |
Eugene Sârbu,
who won the 1978 Paganini Competition
and made an international career,
premiered the Violin Concerto
that Einojuhani Rautavaara dedicated to him.
31 July 2024
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Wolfgang Rihm
composed Dionysos,
an "opera fantasia"
with text only by Nietzsche,
which was voted premiere of the year
after its first performance
at the Salzburg Festival in 2010.
trailer - with Rihm explaining
3 October 2017 and today
August
[edit]
1 August 2024
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The opera
Die Hamletmaschine
by Wolfgang Rihm
has been described as
"a total theatre of sound
and nonnarrative, ritualistic drama".
29 July 2013 and today
2 August 2024
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The first stanza of the hymn
"Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist",
asking the Holy Spirit
for the right faith most of all,
is documented in German
in the 13th century,
and the later three stanzas
by Martin Luther
relate to faith, love and hope.
3 August 2024
[edit] |
Johann Münzberg
(3 August 1799 – 1 September 1878)
ran leading textile factories in Bohemia
and promoted the building
of the Empress Elisabeth Bridge
over the Elbe in Tetschen.
4 August 2024
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The central movement
of Bach's cantata
Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101,
a "furious ritornello" of three oboes,
is followed unexpectedly
by a line of the chorale,
with the melody of
"Vater unser im Himmelreich".
5 August 2024
[edit] |
Verses 2 to 6 of
Psalm 97,
"The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice",
in Czech were set to music
by Antonín Dvořák
in his Biblical Songs.
listen
6 August 2024
[edit]In celebration of the tercentenary of the birth
of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, tenor
Markus Schäfer
performed in his oratorio
Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu
at the Rheingau Musik Festival.
7 August 2024
[edit] |
Jürgen Ahrend
restored the Gothic Rysum organ
and the Arp Schnitger organs
in Groningen's Martinikerk
and Hamburg's St. Jacobi.
8 August 2024
[edit] |
Sarah Gibson,
who formed the piano duo
Hocket with Thomas Kotcheff,
composed warp & weft for large orchestra,
inspired by the art of Miriam Schapiro
and scheduled for the BBC Proms.
watch 2022 interview and performance
22 July + 8 August 2024
9 August 2024
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Antônio Meneses,
the last cellist of the Beaux Arts Trio,
recorded the Brahms Double Concerto
with Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Berlin Philharmonic
in 1983
and the cello concertos by Heitor Villa-Lobos
in 2023.
10 August 2024
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The opera
Behold the Sun
by Alexander Goehr
(born 10 August 1932),
about the Anabaptists in Münster,
was premiered at Theater Münster
in an abridged version in German,
but the BBC aired it in full in English.
listen
26 August 2019
11 August 2024
[edit]Bach's cantata
Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut, BWV 113,
is based on a penitential chorale,
matching the prescribed reading,
the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector.
12 August 2024
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Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez,
chief conductor of the
RTVE Symphony Orchestra,
Nationaltheater Mannheim
and the Orquesta de Valencia,
conducted a recording of
his Sinfonía del descubrimiento.
watch Mahler
12 August 2024
13 August 2024
[edit] |
Johann Sebastian Bach led
the Thomanerchor in Leipzig
in the first performance of
the chorale cantata,
Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101,
on 13 August 1724.
watch
14 August 2024
[edit]Countertenor
David Erler
was one of five singers invited by amarcord
for the performance of Monteverdi's Vespers
as the annual Marienvesper
of the Rheingau Musik Festival in Eberbach Abbey.
15 August 2024
[edit]
After an absence of four years,
the Inkpot Madonna,
holding a naked Baby Jesus
with quill in hand,
returned to the Hildesheim Cathedral
on 15 August 2014.
16 August 2024
[edit]The 80th birthday of
Walter Fink
was celebrated at the Rheingau Musik Festival
with compositions of
Kirchner, Lachenmann, Rihm, Widmann and Hosokawa
on 16 August 2010.
17 August 2024
[edit]Celestina Casapietra,
the glamourous Italian soprano
at the Berlin State Opera
in East Berlin from the 1960s,
was the partner of Franco Corelli
in a DVD of Giordano's Andrea Chénier.
18 August 2024
[edit] |
After Kasper König
curated exhibitions of works
by Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol
in his 20s, he initiated the
Skulptur Projekte Münster
for large sculptures in public space.
19 August 2024
[edit] |
Librettist Gerhard Müller
and composer Georg Katzer wrote
Antigone oder die Stadt
in East Germany,
but it premiered at the Komische Oper Berlin
only after reunification.
watch
19 August 2019
20 August 2024
[edit]Christof Nel
directed plays invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen,
like the world premiere of Thomas Brasch's Rotter in 1978,
and operas such as Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in 2003
and the first production in German of Aulis Sallinen's Kullervo in 2011.
watch Aida
21 August 2024
[edit]Hans-Georg Münzberg
(21 August 1916 – 7 November 2000)
continued to work on the development
of the Snecma Atar engine in France
despite being a professor at the Technical University of Berlin.
22 August 2024
[edit] |
Chieftain's Salute,
composed by
Graham Waterhouse,
is scored for
Great Highland Bagpipe
and string orchestra.
listen
Debussy: Cello Sonata
23 August 2024
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Zofia Posmysz
(23 August 1923 – 8 August 2022),
Auschwitz inmate No. 7566,
wrote an audio play on her memories,
which became the basis for
her 1962 novel Passenger,
a 1963 film,
and a 1968 opera.
24 August 2024
[edit]Conductor Roland Bader
(born 24 August 1938)
recorded late choral works by Max Reger,
including his Hebbel Requiem,
and the First Symphony by Richard Wetz.
25 August 2024
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Bach composed his chorale cantata
Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 33,
for the 13th Sunday after Trinity
on a hymn by Konrad Hubert
and first performed it
on 3 September 1724.
26 August 2024
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Wolfgang Rihm
said of the music of his 1987 opera
Oedipus:
"Sound is a weapon here – or a scalpel?".
27 August 2024
[edit]Maryvonne Le Dizès
was violinist of the ensemble intercontemporain,
working with composers
such as Pierre Boulez and György Ligeti,
and commissioning new chamber music works like
a trio for saxophone, trombone, and violin by Gilbert Amy.
28 August 2024
[edit]Jerzy Artysz,
a baritone who performed title roles
from Orfeo to King Roger
at the Grand Theatre in Warsaw,
created the role of Josep Soler's Oedipus
at the Liceu in Barcelona in 1986.
29 August 2024
[edit]MDR Rundfunkchor,
the radio choir of the MDR in Leipzig,
performed Dvořák's Stabat Mater
in the opening concert of the
2019 Rheingau Musik Festival
at Eberbach Abbey.
watch
30 August 2024
[edit]Siegfried Lorenz
(30 August 1945 – 24 August 2024),
the first lyrical baritone of the Berlin State Opera,
recorded 151 songs by Schubert
and sang, according to Alan Blyth,
"with an enviable control of line and dynamics".
listen
31 August 2024
[edit] |
Of thrice-married composer
Alma Mahler
(31 August 1879 – 11 December 1964)
Tom Lehrer crooned,
"Alma, tell us!
All modern women are jealous
Which of your magical wands
got you Gustav and Walter and Franz".
September
[edit]
1 September 2024
[edit] |
Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78,
Bach's chorale cantata
for the 14th Sunday after Trinity,
uses the same bass line
in a passacaglia as in
Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12.
2 September 2024
[edit] |
Alexander Goehr,
who introduced compositions
of the European avant-garde to England
as.a central figure of the Manchester School,
composed the opera Arianna in 1995,
setting the libretto of Monteverdi's lost opera.
listen
3 September 2024
[edit] |
Anja Kaesmacher
(born 3 September 1974)
and clarinetist Sabine Meyer were the soloists in
Manfred Trojahn's Ariosi
for soprano, basset horn and orchestra,
conducted by the composer.
listen to Mozart
4 September 2024
[edit] |
Maxim Berezovsky
is thought to have been the first
Russian or Ukrainian
to write an opera and a violin sonata.
watch symphony
In the motet
Locus iste,
composed for the dedication
of the votive chapel of Linz Cathedral,
Anton Bruckner
(4 September 1824 – 11 October 1896)
requests a pause
"by carefully measuring out five beats".
5 September 2023
[edit]When Robert Hale
appeared as Wagner's Wotan at the Kennedy Center in 1989,
a reviewer noted that he captured "the spirit,
from tragic grandeur to ironic detachment,
from flooding tenderness to grim rage".
6 September 2024
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A 2009 recording of Louis Vierne's
Messe solennelle
for choir and two organs at Saint-Sulpice,
where it was first performed in 1901,
was called "musical and spiritual time-travel".
7 September 2024
[edit] |
The melody of the Christian hymn
"Ik sta voor U in leegte en gemis"
(I stand before You in emptiness and loss)
is written without bar lines,
reflecting the singer's insecurity and questions.
8 September 2024
[edit]
Schloss Weilburg,
a Baroque garden palace,
contains a Renaissance palace.
9 September 2024
[edit] |
International mezzo-soprano
Soňa Červená
(9 September 1925 – 7 May 2023)
won the Alfréd Radok Award for Best Actress
when she was 83 years old.
10 September 2024
[edit] |
On 10 September 1724
Johann Sebastian Bach
led the first performance of
Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78,
a chorale cantata based on
a passion hymn by Johann Rist.
11 September 2024
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12 September 2024
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Eric Sams remarked
"what bride ever had a finer wedding gift?"
of the song collection
Myrthen
which Robert Schumann dedicated
to Clara.
13 September 2024
[edit]
Günter Reich
recorded the role of Moses in
Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron
with both Michael Gielen and Pierre Boulez.
listen
27 August 2010
Alban Berg dedicated his
Three Pieces for Orchestra
"with immeasurable gratitude and love"
to his teacher,
Arnold Schönberg,
for his fortieth birthday
on 13 September 1914.
14 September 2024
[edit]
Tilman Michael,
who is set to be
the Metropolitan Opera's chorus master
from the 2024/25 season,
helped the Oper Frankfurt win multiple
awards for operatic choir of the year.
Haydn: Stabat Mater
15 September 2024
[edit] |
The theologian
Friedrich Schorlemmer
was a speaker at the
1989 Alexanderplatz demonstration
in East Berlin,
as a prominent member
of the Peaceful Revolution.
16 September 2024
[edit]Lieder singer and voice teacher
Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann's
textbook for singers
Der wissende Sänger
was recommended for general readers
interested in "the human instrument".
watch
17 September 2024
[edit] |
Hans Otto Jung
was a jazz musician during World War II,
ran a winery from the Boosenburg,
and was co-founder
of the Rheingau Musik Festival.
18 September 2024
[edit] |
Caterina Valente,
who performed 1,500 songs in 13 languages
as one of few world stars
from a German-speaking country,
knew that she wanted to become a singer
when she heard jazz singer Billie Holiday
at age five.
watch with Count Basie
19 September 2024
[edit] |
Raymond Arritt
(September 19, 1957 – November 14, 2018),
contributing author of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
encouraged a fellow editor:
"go on with life, have a laugh, don't get too upset".
20 September 2024
[edit] |
Georg Christoph Biller (r.)
(20 September 1955 – 27 January 2022)
was the Thomaskantor,
the conductor of the Thomanerchor in Leipzig,
the 16th successor of Johann Sebastian Bach
in this position.
21 September 2024
[edit] |
Philippe Herreweghe
conducted the Collegium Vocale Gent
in Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine
at the Konzerthaus Dortmund.
22 September 2024
[edit] |
Bach based his chorale cantata
Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost, BWV 114,
on the hymn by Johannes Gigas
and first performed it on 1 October 1724,
two days after his
previous chorale cantata.
watch
23 September 2024
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Beppe Menegatti
directed first Italian performances
of plays by Beckett and Babel
and productions with his wife,
ballerina Carla Fracci.
24 September 2023
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For the morning song
"Die güldne Sonne
voll Freud und Wonne",
the poet found a new metre,
and the composer a new melody,
to reflect the many meanings
of "rising".
25 September 2024
[edit] |
The Baroque orchestra
L'arpa festante
produced the first recording
of a Passion by Telemann
and played Bach's Mass in B minor
in the Cathedral of Trier.
26 September 2024
[edit] |
A loop from the anthem
O clap your hands,
a setting of verses from Psalm 47
by Ralph Vaughan Williams
for choir, brass, organ and percussion,
was used by the Beatles for "Revolution 9".
27 September 2024
[edit] |
Baritone
Franz Grundheber
(born 27 September 1937)
performed the title role
in Alban Berg's Wozzeck in Paris and Berlin,
staged by Patrice Chéreau
and filmed in 1994.
28 September 2024
[edit] |
Benny Golson,
a jazz tenor saxophonist
who had played
with John Coltrane in high school,
composed I Remember Clifford
in memory of trumpeter Clifford Brown.
watch
29 September 2024
[edit] |
J. S. Bach
led the first performance of
Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130,
based on Paul Eber's hymn
in twelve stanzas about the angels,
for the feast of archangel Michael.
Bach: Mass in B minor
30 September 2024
[edit] |
Mozart conducted
the premiere of his last opera,
Die Zauberflöte
at the Theater auf der Wieden
in a suburb of Vienna
on 30 September 1791.
October
[edit]
1 October 2024
[edit] |
"Sozusagen grundlos vergnügt"
("Call it causelessly merry")
was one of about 40 poems
by Mascha Kaléko
set to music on a 2011 album.
2 October 2024
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After the Chernobyl disaster
Michael Sladek
and his wife Ursula
initiated a movement to become
independent of nuclear energy
and achieved green power for Schönau.
3 October 2024
[edit]Maryvonne Le Dizès,
the first woman to win
the Paganini Competition,
became violinist of the ensemble intercontemporain,
playing the solo
in Ligeti's Violin Concerto.
4 October 2024
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|
In 2016 Peter Reulein
conducted the premiere of his oratorio
Laudato si',
described as a Franciscan Magnificat,
with more than 250 performers
at the Limburg Cathedral.
5 October 2024
[edit]Stoika Milanova,
who made an international career
after winning the 1970 Carl Flesch Competition,
passed her father's violin teaching method
to students in Venezuela and Bulgaria.
6 October 2024
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A solo viola part
in Bach's chorale cantata
Wo soll ich fliehen hin, BWV 5,
has been described as
"the cleansing motions of
some baroque washing machine".
watch
4 November 2011
7 October 2024
[edit]Rohan de Saram,
the cellist of the Arditti Quartet
trained by Pablo Casals
played Sequenza XIV that Luciano Berio wrote for him,
inspired by his Kandyan drumming.
8 October 2024
[edit] |
Tabea Zimmermann
(born 8 October 1966)
prepared her own version of Bartók's Viola Concerto
from the composer's sketches,
and played it at the Casals Forum,
with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony
conducted by Christoph Eschenbach.
9 October 2023
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Alain Altinoglu
(born 9 October 1975)
conducted the opening concert of the
2023 Rheingau Musik Festival
at Eberbach Abbey,
featuring Poulenc's Stabat Mater
with the MDR Rundfunkchor
and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony.
10 October 2024
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The baritone Björn Bürger
(born 10 October 1985),
who won the
Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Berlin in 2012,
performed the title role
in Arnulf Herrmann's Der Mieter
in its 2017 world premiere
at the Oper Frankfurt.
watch talk about Gaveston
11 October 2024
[edit] |
Martin Lücker
(born 11 October 1953)
played 3,000 free organ concerts
at the Katharinenkirche in Frankfurt.
12 October 2023
[edit] |
Helmut Bauer,
emerited auxialiary bishop in Würzburg,
was responsible for church music in the diocese
and presided the commission
for the common Gotteslob hymnal.
13 October 2023
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The opening chorus
of Bach's chorale cantata
Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV 180,
has been regarded as
"perfectly tailored to the idea of the soul
dressing itself up in all its wedding finery".
14 October 2024
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Amaury du Closel,
a French conductor and composer,
founded the Forum Voix Etouffées
to raise attention to
the music of composers persecuted or exiled
by totalitarian regimes of the 20th century.
15 October 2023
[edit]Violinist
Mela Tenenbaum
recorded in the United States works
that Dmitri Klebanov had composed for her in Ukraine,
including Japanese Silhouettes
for soprano, viola d'amore and ensemble.
listen
16 October 2024
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Beginning in 2016
Leif Segerstam
conducted recordings of
the four Symphonies by Johannes Brahms,
each paired with one of his own,
Nos. 288, 289, 294 and 295.
17 October 2023
[edit] |
The tenor
Thomas Mohr,
who sang the roles
of Loge, Siegmund, and Siegfried
in Der Ring in Minden,
and Florestan in Fidelio in Hamm,
hosts concerts in his cowshed.
18 October 2024
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When pianist
Clara Wieck
composed her
Piano Concerto in A minor
as a teenager,
her future husband
Robert Schumann
helped with the orchestration.
19 October 2023
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Residenz Ansbach
and the churches
of St. Gumbertus
and St. Johannis
are venues for the biennial
Bachwoche Ansbach.
Bach Mass in B minor
20 October 2023
[edit]
When Bach composed
the chorale cantata
Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir, BWV 38,
on Luther's 200-year old hymn
based on Psalm 130,
he let four trombones, two oboes and strings
all play with the voices.
21 October 2024
[edit] |
Barbara Owen
worked as organist in Newburyport for 40 years,
as pipe voicer,
librarian of the Organ Library
of the American Guild of Organists
at Boston University,
and wrote books such as
The Organ Music of Johannes Brahms.
22 October 2024
[edit]Garbis Aprikian,
who was born in Egypt,
grew up in the Armenian Diaspora
and studied at the Conservatoire de Paris,
conducted the Armenian mixed chorus Sipan-Komitas for around 50 years,
composing music fusing Armenian melodies
with Western harmonies and counterpoint.
23 October 2024
[edit] |
Toshio Hosokawa
(born 23 October 1955)
composed several operas
based on Japanese Noh theatre, including
Vision of Lear after Shakespeare,
and the oratorio
Voiceless Voice in Hiroshima.
24 October 2024
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Swiss composer Hermann Suter's
symphonic oratorio
Le Laudi
(The Praises)
is a setting of St. Francis of Assisi's
Canticle of the Sun
in Italian
for choir, soloists, voci di ragazzi,
organ and orchestra.
25 October 2024
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Peruvian theologian
Gustavo Gutiérrez,
a founder of
Latin American liberation theology,
focused on connecting salvation and liberation
through the option for the poor.
26 October 2043
[edit] |
Janusz Olejniczak,
at age 18 placed at the Chopin Competition,
played Chopin's works on modern and period instruments,
portrayed the composer in Andrzej Żuławski's 1991 film Blue Note,
and played piano music in Polanski's 2002 film The Pianist,
some as the hand double.
27 October 2024
[edit]Bach created
a "musical sleep scene ...
that could have graced any opera of the time"
in his chorale cantata
Mache dich, mein Geist, bereit, BWV 115.
28 October 2024
[edit] |
Barbara Kolb,
the first women to win the Rome Prize,
composed Millefoglie for chamber orchestra and tape
while in residence at IRCAM,
premiered at the Centre Pompidou in 1985
by the Ensemble intercontemporain
conducted by Peter Eötvös.
listen to album Millefoglie
28 October 2024
29 October 2024
[edit] |
Walter Jacob
a Reform rabbi
at the Rodef Shalom Congregation in Pittsburgh
from 1955 to 1997,
co-founded and presided
the Abraham Geiger College,
the first rabbinic seminary in Central Europe
since the Holocaust, in 1999.
30 October 2024
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Rodolfo Halffter
(30 October 1900 – 14 October 1987),
who left for Mexico
after the Spanish Civil War,
was the first composer there
to use Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique,
in Tres hojas de album.
31 October 2024
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Cucurbita
is a genus of herbaceous fruits
in the gourd family
native to the Andes and Mesoamerica,
with edible species grown
known as squash, gourd or pumpkin.
November
[edit]
1 November 2024
[edit] |
The Ukrainian mixed chamber choir
OREYA
won a special prize
for the best interpretation
of a religious choral work at the 14th
International Chamber Choir Competition Marktoberdorf.
listen to Prayer for Ukraine (2000 CD)
2 November 2024
[edit] |
Bishop
Franz Kamphaus
opposed Pope John Paul II,
"convinced that
our way of counselling women
would save the lives
of many more children".
3 November 2024
[edit] |
Salve Regina,
composed by Arvo Pärt
to venerate the Golden Madonna
of the Essen Cathedral,
"builds very gradually
to a late, majestic climax".
4 November 2024
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"Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud",
written by Paul Gerhardt
after the Thirty Years War,
was translated as
"Go Forth, My Heart, and Seek Delight".
5 November 2024
[edit]Monika Buczkowska,
who made her stage debut as a student in Poznań
as Mozart's Susanna,
was a soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
at a charity concert for Ukraine
at the Alte Oper Frankfurt in April 2022.
6 November 2024
[edit] |
On 6 November 2016
Peter Reulein
conducted the premiere
of his oratorio
Laudato si',
subtitled
A Franciscan Magnificat,
with more than 250 performers
at the Limburg Cathedral.
7 November 2024
[edit]- 7 November 2023: also Myrthen
Bach composed four dialogues for his cantata
O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60,
first performed 7 November 1723,
three between Fear and Hope,
and one between Fear and the Voice of Christ.
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8 November 2024
[edit] |
Silvana Lattmann,
biologist, poet and author,
published the memoir
Nata il 1918
in 2019.
9 November 2024
[edit] |
Russian Jewish painter
Marc Chagall
created the stained-glass windows
of the church of St. Stephan in Mainz
as a sign of Jewish-German reconciliation.
10 November 2024
[edit] |
Paul Gerhardt's
song of thanks and praise
"Nun danket all und bringet Ehr"
was first published
along with 17 of his other hymns
in 1647, during the Thirty Years' War.
11 November 2024
[edit]Madeleine Riffaud
wrote poems,
fought in the French Resistance,
reported on the Algerian War
for the Communist L'Humanité,
worked in Vietnam for the Viet Cong resistance,
wrote poems.
watch
10 November 2024
Reger: Seele, vergiß sie nicht
12 November 2024
[edit] |
The dissertation of
Barbara Stühlmeyer
(born 12 November 1964)
about the chants
by Hildegard of Bingen
became a standard work.
13 November 2024
[edit]Johannes Beutler SJ,
who taught theology at the
Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology
and the Pontifical Gregorian University,
is known for his 2013
A Commentary on the Gospel of John.
14 November 2024
[edit] |
In 2016,
Edition Güntersberg
published
Twelve Fantasias for Viola da Gamba solo
by Georg Philipp Telemann
that had been lost.
Leonore von Zadow-Reichling and Günter von Zadow (r.)
received the first biennial Abel Prize of Köthen
for their efforts to retrieve and publish
compositions by Carl Friedrich Abel.
15 November 2024
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Barbara Aland
was internationally recognized
for her work on the
Novum Testamentum Graece
and the Greek New Testament,
which she undertook with
her husband, Kurt Aland.
16 November 2024
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The 1964 church
for the new parish
Zu den heiligen Engeln
(To the Holy Angels)
in Hannover
was designed by Josef Bieling
to symbolize the tent of God among men.
Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist
Nun danket all und bringet Ehr
17 November 2024
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Marina Kondratyeva,
a leading ballerina
at the Bolshoi Ballet from 1952
described as
"weightless, airy, poetic and spiritual",
was admired as Giselle
also in New York and London
and became a master tutor at the Bolshoi,
passing its tradition for decades.
watch
18 November 2024
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Andris Nelsons
(born 18 November 1978)
conducted
Bartok's Viola Concerto
and Mahler's Fifth Symphony
in the final concert with his
Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie.
19 November 2024
[edit]was still in his twenties
when appointed professor for cello
at the Folkwang Hochschule.
20 November 2024
[edit]responsible for church music
in Würzburg
and president of the commission
for the Gotteslob hymnal,
confirmed around
150,000 young people,
including 500 in Tanzania.
21 November 2024
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Two conductors
shared performances
of Verdi's Messa da Requiem
in St. Martin, Idstein.
Palmeri: Misatango
Reulein: Te Deum
look and listen to us
22 November 2024
[edit]Benjamin Britten
(22 November 1913
– 4 December 1976)
was said to have composed his
Canticle V:
The Death of Saint Narcissus
"in the face of death".
Pablo Barragán
was the clarinet soloist
for an arrangement of
Bartók's Romanian Folk Dances
for clarinet, cimbalom and strings.
23 November 2024
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In 2005, composer
Krzysztof Penderecki
added a Ciaccona for strings
to his Polish Requiem,
begun in 1980.
24 November 2024
[edit]Bach used
a trio of oboes for a Totentanz
in his chorale cantata
Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig, BWV 26
(Ah how fleeting, ah how futile).
25 November 2024
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Amaury du Closel
founded the Forum Voix Etouffées
to revive music
that was suppressed
by 20th-century totalitarian regimes.
26 November 2024
[edit]
Director Frank Stähle revived
the choir and orchestra
of Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium
and conducted them in
Mozart's Requiem
for the centenary of
the Lutherkirche in Wiesbaden.
27 November 2023
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Jerome Kohl
(November 27, 1946 – August 4, 2020),
a music theorist of the University of Washington,
was recognized internationally
as an authority on the composer
Karlheinz Stockhausen,
publishing a book on his Zeitmaße in 2017.
28 November 2023
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Paul Gerhardt's song
of thanks and praise
"Nun danket all und bringet Ehr"
was first published
along with 17 of his other hymns in 1647,
during the Thirty Years' War.
watch
29 November 2024
[edit]Odile Bailleux,
long-time organist of both
Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés
and Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux,
cofounded the first French
Baroque ensemble with early instruments.
30 November 2024
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Contralto
Sonia Prina
(born 30 November 1975)
performed the title role
of Antonio Vivaldi's 1727 opera
Orlando furioso
at the Oper Frankfurt,
staged as a rocker.
December
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1 December 2024
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The scoring in Bach's cantata
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62,
based on Luther's chorale for Advent,
is said to be simple
because Advent was a "season of abstinence".
2 December 2024
[edit]Siegfried Thiele,
who taught at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig
from 1962, serving as rector from 1990,
composed an extended work for soloists, choir and orchestra
for the opening of the new Leipzig Gewandhaus.
3 December 2024
[edit]
Anton Webern's Symphony,
a miniature symphony,
is his first twelve-tone orchestral work,
known for Alpine topics, abstraction,
and intricate musical form.
4 December 2024
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Gabriel Dessauer
(born 4 December 1955)
conducted
Ein deutsches Requiem
by Johannes Brahms
in his last concert with the
Chor von St. Bonifatius
on 3 October 2018.
5 December 2024
[edit]Alois Ickstadt
founded a children's choir and an adult choir
for the public broadcaster
Hessischer Rundfunk,
conducting the latter for 45 years.
6 December 2024
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Karl Amadeus Hartmann
finished his Kammerkonzert,
a concerto for clarinet, string quartet
and string orchestra
dedicated to Zoltán Kodály,
in 1935 during inner emigration.
7 December 2024
[edit]Cellist Rohan de Saram's background
as a geta bera drummer
inspired Luciano Berio's
Sequenza XIV.
8 December 2024
[edit]The Advent song
"Kündet allen in der Not",
an appeal to those in need to take courage,
was written by Friedrich Dörr,
based on Isaiah's prophecy,
in preparation of the first Catholic
Gotteslob of 1975.
watch
9 December 2024
[edit]Marianne Preger-Simon,
dancer and later psychotherapist,
was Merce Cunningham's first student from 1949
and a founding member of his Dance Company in 1953.
10 December 2024
[edit]Michael Ruetz
became first known for documentary photos
of the West German student movement,
published by international papers,
but turned to series of photos
taken over years at some locations,
visualizing time and transience.
11 December 2024
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Uwe Eric Laufenberg,
general manager of the Staatstheater Wiesbaden,
presented his staging of
Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
at the Internationale Maifestspiele in 2017.
watch trailer
12 December 2024
[edit]Perplexities after Escher,
a composition for
heckelphone, string quartet and double bass,
is based on five graphic artworks
by M. C. Escher.
13 December 2024
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Bach interpolated music
from his secular cantata BWV 36c
with four stanzas from two Advent hymns in
Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36,
for the first Sunday in Advent, 2 December 1731.
14 December 2024
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Christmas Eve
is a fairy-tale opera
by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
that plays
on the night before Christmas
at a Ukrainian village,
in mid-air
and at a royal court.
15 December 2024
[edit]
The German Advent song
"Tochter Zion, freue dich"
has words by Friedrich Heinrich Ranke
set to music used
for triumphant entrances
in two of Handel's oratorios.
16 December 2024
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Beethoven's
Third Cello Sonata,
first performed in 1809,
has been described
as the first sonata for piano and cello
to treat the instruments
as equal partners.
17 December 2023
[edit]Thomas Hertel
composed and directed musical-scenic projects,
as head of incidental music
at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden from 1974 to 1982,
at the Donaueschinger Musiktage
and the Lucerne Festival,
and finally at the Schauspiel Leipzig.
18 December 2024
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Martin Luther's hymn
"Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin",
a reflection of the canticle of Simeon,
is the base of funeral music
by Schütz, Buxtehude and Bach.
19 December 2024
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Wolfgang Becker
co-founded a film production company
which produced his first successful feature film,
Das Leben ist eine Baustelle,
in 1997, and his international success,
Good Bye, Lenin!, in 2003.
20 December 2024
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Friederike Mayröcker
(20 December 1924 – 4 June 2021)
described her working process:
"I live in pictures.
I see everything in pictures, my complete past,
memories are pictures.
I transform pictures into language
by climbing into the picture.
I walk into it until it becomes language."
21 December 2024
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The Hauptfriedhof,
the main cemetery of Mainz,
was established in 1803
and became the model for the
Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris.
22 December 2024
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The new
Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel
(AbelWV)
was introduced in Köthen,
where the viol virtuoso was born
on 22 December 1723.
23 December 2024
[edit]Sigrid Kehl,
"voice and face" of the Leipzig Opera,
performed as both Fricka and Brünnhilde
in the same legendary
Ring production by Joachim Herz.
24 December 2024
[edit]Jan Sandström
composed the Motorbike Concerto, and
a setting of "Es ist ein Ros entsprungen"
for two choirs a cappella:
one in four parts, singing Praetorius,
and the other in eight parts.
25 December 2024
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Merry Christmas!
On Christmas Day 1724,
Bach led the first performance of
Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 91,
based on the Christmas hymn
written by Martin Luther
in 1524.
26 December 2024
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Merry Christmas!
On the second Day of Christmas 1724
J. S. Bach led the first performance
of his chorale cantata
Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 121,
based on a hymn written by Luther
in 1524 as a paraphrase of
"A solis ortus cardine".
27 December 2024
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The opening chorus
of Bach's chorale cantata
Ich freue mich in dir, BWV 133,
is thought to persuasively express
"the essence, the exuberance
and the sheer exhilaration of Christmas".
28 December 2024
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Playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz
turned his controversial play Stallerhof
into an opera libretto for
Gerd Kühr
(born 28 December 1952),
premiered at the Munich Biennale.
29 December 2024
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Brigitte Kronauer,
a writer who won
the Georg Büchner Prize,
the Jean Paul Prize,
and the Thomas Mann Prize,
was described as both "a master of spite"
and having "great kindness".
watch interview
17 September 2019
30 December 2024
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In the fairy-tale opera
Der Schuhu und die fliegende Prinzessin
by Udo Zimmermann,
premiered in Dresden on 30 December 1976,
two orchestras play on stage,
representing two empires in conflict.
listen
9 November 2018
31 December 2024
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happy new year
Helmut Schlesinger
pursued as
President of the Bundesbank
from 1991 to 1993,
at the time of the Maastricht Treaty,
monetary stability in Germany,
a model for the European Union.
31 December 2024