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On May 21, 1925, in Dresden, the first performance of Ferruccio Busoni's Doktor Faust took place.
Busoni: Doktor Faust, AOS/Horenstein (1/3)
http://youtu.be/85lW-96RhY8
Ferruccio Busoni: Doktor Faust (Opera in two prologues, an intermezzo, and three scenes) Doktor Faus...
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My dear Frank, my home computer is dead and at work I cannot connect to YouTube. For this reason, I will not be able to make an active contribution to the musical diary.
However, I would like to remind you that yesterday was the anniversary of Clara Wieck Schumann (Leipzig, September 13, 1819 - Frankfurt am Main, May 20, 1896).
It is important to remember her because, in addition to being an excellent composer, she is also one of the few women who ventured into this art, due to the well-known reasons related to the prejudice faced by the female sex in entering this career field,
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danielescarpetti wrote:It is important to remember her because, in addition to being an excellent composer, she is also one of the few women who ventured into this art, due to the well-known reasons related to the prejudice faced by the female sex in entering this career field,
Speaking of this, I had opened this topic some time ago
http://www.pianoconcerto.it/forum/index.php?/topic/719-donne-musiciste
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May 21, 1912
the composer Arnold Schoenberg finishes in Berlin piece no. 8 ("Nacht") from "Pierrot lunaire" op.21, 21 "melodramas" for "Sprechstimme", piano, flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin/viola and cello, text by Albert Giraud, German translation by Otto Erich Hartleben
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danielescarpetti wrote:My dear Frank, my home computer has died and at work I cannot connect to YouTube. For this reason, I will not be able to make an active contribution to the musical diary.
However, I would like to remind you that yesterday was the anniversary of Clara Wieck Schumann (Leipzig, 13 September 1819 - Frankfurt am Main, 20 May 1896).
It is important to remember her because, in addition to being an excellent composer, she is also one of the few women who ventured into this art, due to the well-known reasons related to the prejudice faced by the female sex in entering this career field,
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Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig on May 22, 1813 (Leipzig, May 22, 1813 – Venice, February 13, 1883).
http://youtu.be/fci7Co3FGB4
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May 22, 1813
Gioachino Rossini
"L'italiana in Algeri" first performance: Venice, Teatro San Benedetto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PBjjD5D_9Q&list=PL38878BF95558878F
One of Rossini's most beautiful and hilarious opera buffas!
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Today we celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of:
Richard Wagner
as Frank has already reminded us. We are talking about one of the greatest musicians in music history and, for this reason, I also want to share something about him here.
"Siegfried Idyll" was composed in 1870, on the occasion of the birth of his son Siegfried, from his union with Cosima, daughter of Franz Liszt.
The following year he decided to build a theater in Bayreuth with particular characteristics, intended to be the venue for an annual festival dedicated solely to his own compositions. The foundation stone was laid on May 22, 187[6], the day of his 59th birthday: It was inaugurated in 1876 with "The Ring of the Nibelung".
In 1882, "Parsifal" was performed, his last great masterpiece.
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.... but, just out of curiosity, how do you do it? Be honest
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thallo wrote:.... but, just out of curiosity, how do you do it? Be honest
Listen to this one, it's good:
Like you, I have read many history books, it's just that I remember them all down to the last detail. (too manic and not very believable)
Then this one is better: I am so passionate that I spent my first 40 years memorizing dates (perverted, manic, and incredible)
...and come on, a little mystery never hurts. Sometimes wiki helps, but as we could see with Giuliani, it is fallible ...
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...I am certainly a date maniac, not for nothing the only subject I was good at in school was history.
But... undoubtedly I have my sources that help me a lot!
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On May 23, 1912, Jean Françaix was born in Le Mans (Le Mans, May 23, 1912 – Paris, September 25, 1997).
Jean FRANÇAIX Sonatine for violin and piano (1934) F.P.Zimmermann, A.Lonquich
http://youtu.be/VXs4-hZ5LP4
Jean FRANÇAIX (1912-1997): Sonatine for violin and piano (1934) -complete- 0:00 / 1. Vivace 2:24 / 2...
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for about a year now, I've had a sort of confirmation that I am a "minus habens": according to a friend of mine who is an educator, I show the traits of compensated dyscalculia; that is, I probably had traits of dyscalculia as a child (some problems handling and remembering numbers, number series, dates, and calculations) and over the years I have created "creative" methods to approach numbers. However, the anxiety towards numbers reappears during moments of stress. Very often I cannot type numbers correctly on the telephone keypad, for example, I confuse 6 with 7 and, even though I have a decent memory for words, I have a TERRIBLE memory for dates... terrible means that I don't remember the date of the French Revolution...
so, I envy you all to death...
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thallo wrote:about a year ago I received a sort of confirmation that I am a "minus habens": according to a friend of mine who is an educator, I show the traits of a compensated dyscalculic, meaning that, probably as a child, I had traits of dyscalculia (some problems handling and remembering numbers, number series, dates, and calculations) and over the years I have created "creative" methods to approach numbers. However, the anxiety towards numbers reappears during moments of stress. Very often I am unable to type numbers correctly on the telephone keypad, for example, I confuse 6 with 7 and, even though I have a decent memory for words, I have a TERRIBLE memory for dates... terrible means that I don't remember the date of the French Revolution...
so, I envy you to death...
Claudio, believe me, you have very little to envy me for; if anything, the opposite should be true!
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3 May 1974
first absolute performance at the Saarländisches Staatstheater in Saarbrücken (Saar) of the Variations for cello and orchestra by Salvatore Sciarrino
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Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff
(Juteborg 25 November 1895 - Positano 23 May 1991)
He was a composer and librettist but, above all, he was one of the greatest pianists of all time and, in particular, he was a tremendous interpreter of Beethoven.
To me he was the greatest even if, perhaps, to many his interpretations may seem a bit dated today. He will always remain, however, a milestone of Beethovenian interpretation.
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Umberto Emilio Bindi
(Bugliasco 12 May 1932 - Rome 23 May 2002)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxXjYjnzkiw
It is my childhood! That wonderful Grundig - still beside me - that belonged to my father, in addition to Beethoven's Fifth, Brahms' Fourth, Verdi's Aida... used to broadcast this unforgettable song!
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Hans-Martin Linde was born in Werne on May 24, 1930 (Werne, May 24, 1930).
Vivaldi / Hans-Martin Linde, 1960: Concerto For Recorder and Strings, PV 79
From the LP shown above, a sampler produced by Archiv and distributed in 1964. Other tracks from thi...
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On the evening of May 24, 1803, at the Augarten in Vienna, Beethoven at the piano played together with the English violinist Bridgetower, for the first time in public, his new Violin Sonata in A major - the one we know today as the “Kreutzer Sonata Opus 47”. The audience was large and, the violinist so esteemed by Beethoven and for whom he composed this Sonata, played in a very extravagant manner, and many chuckled in the hall, also because they struggled to understand that music; music that Kreutzer himself, another violin virtuoso to whom it was re-dedicated in 1805 at the time of publication, refused to perform because he deemed it "outrageously incomprehensible". On the other hand, the criticism of the time substantially confirmed this judgment: "bizarre composition, almost crazy".
The lion's share in this Sonata is taken by the first movement “Adagio sostenuto, Presto” where Beethoven wanted to experiment with different paths from Mozartian balance, between the concertante character and the chamber dimension.
The concertante character that Beethoven impressed is evident from the very first four bars of the solo violin...
We are facing a first-magnitude star in the Beethovenian cosmogony; not even Sonata Opus 96 – Beethoven's last sonata for this formation – considered the highest, from my point of view, exceeds the greatness of this exhilarating monument.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uPGz7NU-mk
I chose this edition because it is the first one I bought at 16 years old. I remember everything as if it were today: I entered the “Casa del disco" - which unfortunately, like many other record stores, no longer exists - on Via Indipendenza in Bologna. Even I didn't know what I would buy. My eyes fell upon those Philips cassette tapes containing all the Violin and Piano Sonatas by Beethoven that I absolutely did not know. The shop owner, looking at me at the time of payment, probably seeing a young lad like me, said to me: "Oh, you can't even imagine what a precious thing you have purchased". And she was perfectly right!
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May 24, 1974
band-leader, arranger, composer and jazz pianist Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington dies in New York
