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2022-10-24 06:00:43
Bach’s Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C Major, BWV 564: A Rhetorical Flourish
In the autumn of 1705, the 20-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach took a four month leave from his position as organist in the German town of Arnstadt and set out on foot for Lübeck, nearly 300 miles to the north. The purpose of the arduous journey was to visit the famous organist and composer, Dietrich Buxtehude (1637–1707). Buxtehude’s musical influence can be heard in Bach’s Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C Major, BWV 564. ...
2022-10-11 08:36:00
Interest in Arvo Pärt is mushrooming
Gunther Herbig's CD of his transcriptions for electric guitar of Arvo Pärt's music was recommended in my previous post. That new release should also have been recommended for Gunther Herbig's sleeve essay which is a much-needed reminder that great music is a personal and private experience, and not a Facebook moment. Here is an extract: "As wanderers through time and space we navigate by certain key experiences that shape and influence the charts by which we travel. One of those key moments in my life happened on a Sunday. It was the mid-80s in the beautiful North German town of Lübeck where I studied music. It was winter, a magical bright sunny day and, like in a Brueghel painting, the colours mixed between the blue of the sky, the gold of the sun, the white set of the snow and ice and the dark winter clothes of strolling people on the frozen […]
2022-06-08 12:41:11
In addition to the new position at Georgia's Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theatre, Giacomo Sagripanti also serves as the Principal Guest Conductor at the Fondazione Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari. After impressing audiences at his debut performances in the Festival della Valle d’Itria and at the Lübeck Theatre, Sagripanti soon received invitations to conduct at […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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2022-01-27 19:13:04
The funeral took place today in Lübeck of... The post Mourning for a German musicologist, 76 appeared first on Slipped Disc.
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