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danielescarpetti wrote:George Enescu
(Liveni, August 19, 1881 - Paris, May 4, 1955)
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Happy birthday: May 4, 1744 - Marianne von Martinez is born in Vienna (Vienna, May 4, 1744 – Vienna, December 13, 1812).
Marianne Von Martinez: Piano Sonata No.3 1st Movement
sonata no.3 in A major for keyboard. ***dear my friend, my personal top 25 composers will be publish...
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It happened today: April 30, 1902 - the first performance of Claude Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande takes place in Paris.
http://youtu.be/03z4urZB8Ek
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It happened today: April 29, 1798 - the first performance of Franz Joseph Haydn's The Creation takes place in Vienna.
http://youtu.be/B42kFiPBy6Y
Haydn: Die Schopfung - Harnoncourt/CMW(2010Live)
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Die Schöpfung Hob.XXI-2 Nikolaus Harnoncourt Concentus Musicus Wien...
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George Enescu
(Liveni, August 19, 1881 - Paris, May 4, 1955)
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It happened today: 28 April 1865 - the first performance of L'Africaine by Giacomo Meyerbeer takes place in Paris.
Work: L'Africaine, Grand opéra in five acts, first performance 28 April 1865, Opéra, Paris.
Libretto: August Eugène Scribe / Birch-Pfeiffer
http://youtu.be/3rIyDkOpW2M
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5 May 1726
première at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket in London of "Alessandro" HWV.21, dramma per musica (1st version) in 3 acts by Georg Friedrich Handel, libretto by Paolo Antonio Rolli (from Bartolomeo Ortensio Mauro: "The Pride of Alexander"), conducted by the composer {litigious sopranos Faustina Bordoni-Hasse (Rossane) and Francesca Cuzzoni-Sandoni "la Parmigiana" (Lisaura), contralto Anna Vincenza Dotti (Cleone), contraltists Francesco Bernardi "Senesino" (Alexander the Great) and Antonio Baldi (Tassile), tenor Luigi Antinori (Leonato), bass Giuseppe Maria Boschi (Clito)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86f8RFEtinI
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It happened today: May 5, 1930 - the first performance of Darius Milhaud's Cristoforo Colombo takes place in Berlin.
Here is a rare radio broadcast from November 9, 1952. Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts this English perf...
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It happened today: May 6, 1897 - the first performance of Ruggero Leoncavallo's La Bohème takes place in Venice.
Plácido DOMINGO. Adored head. La Bohème. R. Leoncavallo.
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Happy Birthday: 7 May 1840 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is born in Kamsko-Votkinsk (Kamsko-Votkinsk, 7 May 1840 – Saint Petersburg, 6 November 1893).
http://youtu.be/KvGC8hZC29UTCHAIKOVSKY
- Symphony no. 6 (Pathétique) - Herbert von Karajan & Wiener Philharmonic
The FULL symphony - all four movements The Symphony no. 6 "Pathétique" in B minor was written betwee...
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...good Daniele will forgive me
7 May 1824 – For the first time, Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is performed, at the Carinzia Gate in Vienna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKP4S2KXAFY
Herbert von Karajan, 1947 - Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125
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Johannes Brahms
(Hamburg, 7 May 1833 – Vienna, 3 April 1897)
This is a great day. Two of my most beloved composers had the fortune of being born on the same day and, what I love more than anything else, his (our) Ninth premiered.
Regarding the real causes of Tchaikovsky's death, many conjectures have been made but it appears increasingly clear that the great composer was driven to suicide by a deeply bigoted society because he was homosexual. The "Pathétique" which you, Frank, have rightly proposed, closes with that wonderful "Adagio lamentoso" which can be seen as his very sad farewell to the world.
On this page of this magnificent forum, gathered here today, we find these three pages which, symbolically, speak of fraternity, equality and justice, values that we must never stop asking for and demanding.
On 7 May 1824, along with the Ninth, three parts of the "Missa Solemnis" and the Overture "The Consecration of the House Opus 124" were also performed and, dear Frank, very happy with your choice and that you preceded me, I will take the liberty of proposing this music too which, for me, is Beethoven's greatest symphonic masterpiece, albeit unfairly seldom performed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UwcFisphsg
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After this poem of yours Daniele, I almost regret remembering the first one in Milan of Montag's aus Licht by Stockhausen
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It happened today: May 8, 1946 - the first performance of La Medium by Gian Carlo Menotti takes place in New York.
Gian Carlo Menotti - The Medium (Studio One, 1948)
Director: Paul Nickell Story (Music) by Gian Carlo Menotti Original Air Date: 12 December 1948
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Obviously also best wishes to Keith Jarrett, today he turns 68
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq0EWNuR1H8
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Dear Daniele!
Thanks to your post yesterday, I have remedied one of my countless serious shortcomings: I listened to the Chants of Destiny for the first time.
I liked it. But I must listen to them several more times.
But goodness!!! Opus 126, Die Weihe des Hauses, Beethoven's greatest symphonic masterpiece!!!???
I knew you appreciated it immensely, but I didn't expect such a "total" statement.
In a certain sense, it pleases me. Because if, on one hand, what I always like about you is your balance (the logos-Daniele that Armando speaks of), now… I like to see that all of this is momentarily erased by such an "unbalanced" statement!.... A statement that one can make at twenty years old (as you can see, I try not to be any less by using exclamation points excessively… as if I were Beethoven writing fff in the first movement of the Op. 101!!!).
But about six years ago, you had written that the first movement of the Ninth was your most beloved symphonic piece. I remember correctly, right?
Life is beautiful also because non-rigid people change their views! While I am writing, I am listening to (several times) Die Weihe des Hauses: and it is truly wonderful!
It is like a large, luminous, sonic plateau. What more could one desire!? But with those initial strikes, all of this immediately opens up to our ears: we arrive at this plateau by helicopter, without that struggle (the hard struggle of the climbs) that is perceived in so many of Beethoven's works that elevate us from darkness to strong light.
My favorite – and yes, I dare too: the most beautiful Overture ever written – is Leonore III. Even in that one, we arrive 'at the light' of the finale. But what a climb to get there !!!! And, even after the trumpet blasts… how much road is still left to travel!
Die Weihe des Hauses! … Tell me more about it.
Warm regards to you and everyone!
Luca
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May 8, 1878
first performance at the Königlich-Sächsisches Hoftheater (Sächsische Hofoper-Semperoper) in Dresden of "Carmen", comic opera in 4 acts and 26 numbers by Georges Bizet (recitatives by Ernest Guiraud), libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy (after Prosper Mérimée)
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danielescarpetti wrote:Mauro Giuliani
Think that on wiki the date of death is reported incorrectly... marked as yesterday. I have done some checks and it is today, just as you rightly remember
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danielescarpetti wrote:May 8, 1878
first performance at the Königlich-Sächsisches Hoftheater (Sächsische Hofoper-Semperoper) in Dresden of "Carmen", comic opera in 4 acts and 26 numbers by Georges Bizet (recitatives by Ernest Guiraud), libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy (after Prosper Mérimée)
Speaking of wikis
http://it.wikipedia..../Carmen_(opera)
Its first performance took place at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on March 3, 1875.
A naive question, because why do you consider the date you indicated important, Daniele?
