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2019-05-27 14:03:02
Giovanni de Macque, 2019
May 27, 2019. An “unknown” Italian. Well, we know that Marin Marais was born this week (on May 31st of 1656), but despite the popularity brought by the film Tous les matins du monde we find his music repetitive and not very interesting. If somebody disagrees, please send us a reference to a good piece. We’re not big fans of Sir Edward Elgar either (he was born on June 2nd of 1857) and will postpone, yet again, a more elaborate entry on this popular British composer. Erich Wolfgang Korngold, born on May 29th of 1897, started brilliantly, and in his early years was considered the greatest child prodigy since Mozart. He did write several pieces that remain in the contemporary repertoire, the Violin concerto being probably the best known (and the most interesting) but his life was changed by the rise of the Nazis; he moved to the US and […]
2018-05-28 05:53:12
Six composer and two pianists
May 28, 2018. Six composer and two pianists. Six composers were born this week: Isaac Albéniz and Erich Wolfgang Korngold on May 29th, the former in 1860, the latter in 1897. Marin Marais, the Frenchman – on May 31st of 1656, Georg Muffat – on June 1st of 1653. We didn’t mention Muffat’s nationality, as it’s hard to determine: he was born to a Scottish father and French mother in the Dutchy of Savoy, which back then was an independent state with Turin as its capital but now is part of France. He studied in Paris for six years and then moved to Alsace, which, formerly part of the Holy Roman Empire, was conquered by the French King Louis XIII in 1639. Even though under the formal control of France, most of Alsace was independent, German-speaking and Lutheran. Later in his life, Muffat lived in Vienna, Prague, Salzburg and […]
2016-11-12 01:00:00
Mike Wheeler listens to Chopin, Debussy, Ligeti, Liszt, Grigory Ginzburg and Scarlatti, played by Isata Kanneh-Mason
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