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2019-07-15 14:40:04
Eugène Ysaÿe, 2019
July 15, 2019. Mostly violinists. The famous Belgian violinist and composer, Eugène Ysaÿe was born this week, on July 16th of 1858 in Liège. At the age of seven Eugène entered the Liège Conservatory, dropped out four years later but then returned to graduate with a silver medal. After leaving the Conservatory, he took lessons with two of the greatest violinists of the time, with Henryk Wieniawski in Brussels and with Henry Vieuxtemps in Paris. In 1879 he became the concertmaster of the Bilse orchestra in Berlin, that eventually evolved into the Berlin Philharmonic. Anton Rubinstein, the famous Russian pianist and the founder of the Saint Petersburg conservatory, heard him play and helped Ysaÿe with his first contracts as a soloist. After touring several countries, Ysaÿe returned to Paris, already an acclaimed virtuoso. While in Paris, Ysaÿe met many contemporary composers, among them Saint-Saëns, Franck and Fauré. He played at the […]
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2019-01-10 07:15:00
New Year's Concert 2019 – Wiener Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann (Download 96kHz/24bit & 44.1kHz/16bit)
[…] hall. It is contained in a suite of ballet numbers published in 1905, where it appears under the title Tanz auf der Spitze (Dancing en Pointe).With Johann Strauss' polka mazur Lob der Frauen (In Praise of Women), the 2019 New Year's Concert returns to the 1867 Paris World Fair. For his guest performances Strauss relied on the support of the Austrian ambassador, Prince Metternich, and his wife Pauline. He had also made contact with Benjamin Bilse, who had played in his father's orchestra in 1842 before running his own orchestra in Silesia and Berlin. It was from the Berlin-based Bilse'sche Kapelle that the Berlin Philharmonic emerged in 1882. In 1867 Strauss and Bilse shared the conducting of the latter's orchestra. Among the works Strauss performed was Lob der Frauen, which had first been heard at the Vienna Carnival earlier that same year.If the official part of Christian Thielemann's programme for […]
2018-09-02 03:26:25
Classical-Music.comBenjamin Bilse. Tight-fisted and autocratic, Benjamin Bilse was the conductor who unwittingly caused the Berlin Philharmonic to be formed. In 1882, 54 players from the Bilsesche Kapelle orchestra he'd founded 15 years earlier lost patience with their ...
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