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2022-09-05 14:11:39
Over-abundance, 2022
This Week in Classical Music: September 5, 2022. An overly-abundant week. Here are some of the composers born this week: one of the greatest English composers Henry Purcell; his compatriot William Boyce; Johann Christian Bach, or “the London Bach,” Johann Sebastian’s youngest son; Giacomo Meyerbeer, a Jewish-German composer who spent much of his time in France and, according to the musicologist Matthias Brzoska was “the most frequently performed opera composer during the 19th century, linking Mozart and Wagner”; Isabella Leonarda, an Italian nun and a prolific composer, a contemporary of Lully, Buxtehude, Corelli and Purcell (Purcell’s life was very short, just 36 years, whereas Leonarda lived for 84 years; she was born 39 years before Purcell and outlived him by almost nine years). Then, as we jump ahead more than a century, we meet the Czech composers Antonin Dvořák (probably the most famous of a rather small number of Czech classical […]
2022-07-15 14:41:39
LEBRECHT LISTENS | Isabella Leonarda: A Fresh Voice From The 17th Century
Seventeenth century composer Isabella Leonarda demands attention from every serious music lover.
2022-07-15 13:25:51
In the inexhaustible search for women in history, Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704) has emerged from the mists of Novara as the most prolific composer of the 17th century. Overshadowed by the likes of Allegri, Albinoni and Corelli, Leonarda was a Ursuline nun who dedicated each of her works to the Virgin Mary – as well as [...]
2022-04-23 05:01:00
Classical Music News of the Week, April 23, 2022
[…] fireworks.From the delicate and spatial interplay of three violins in Marini’s Sonata in Ecco to the full-throated and lovelorn dramatic vocal works of Monteverdi — including two epic narratives from his Madrigals of Love and War — this is a program that moves from mystery to magic and from the sacred to the secular.Titled "PIOUS & PROFANE" — indicative of the moving sacred works and dramatic secular music on the program — you'll hear Isabella Leonarda’s entrancing Sonata XII, Monteverdi’s Magnificat a 6 from the Vespers of 1610, and the same composer’s powerfully arresting setting of Torquato Tasso’s Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda.For more information, visit https://americanbach.org/--American Bach SoloistsComposer Ana Sokolovic Appointed New Artistic Director of the SMCQAnik Shooner, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ), is pleased to announce the appointment of Ana Sokolovic as Artistic Director. The internationally renowned composer […]
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