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  • Juan Carlos Zorzi El Maestro Juan Carlos Zorzi
    10 years 5 months ago

    El Maestro Juan Carlos Zorzi ha sido mi profesor de musica en los anos 50 designado por el Concervatorio Nacional de Musica. El maestro Zorzi ha sido siempre un luchador infatigable trabajando y estudiando sin descanso. Sus concierto como director de orquesta en la Universidad de Abogacia han sido siempre un exito notable. El era un visionario de su propio destino. Juan Carlos Zorzi siempre ha vivido componiendo y dando conciertos sin descanso siempre cargado con su maleta de cuero marron, llena de libros de musica. He conocido a sus padres y a su esposa en el tiempo que eran novios. Ha sido un honor el haberlo conocido y estudiado con el y saber que su musica y personalidad vivira siempre en el mundo musical. My nombre es Esther Raber (Reinders)

  • Nadia (Juliette) Boulanger ????
    10 years 5 months ago

    i was trying to here madam nadia boulanger's music and i need it to b exact because its for a class im not sure if thts her music

  • Fabrizio Ferrari Grazie!
    10 years 5 months ago

    Maestro Fabrizio Ferrari's work is terrific. I have enjoyed using some of the music sheets he has provided, as well as have enjoyed listening to several of his violin compositions.
    Meraviglioso (Wonderful)!
    Duane Bagaas

  • Martin Luther Oh SHIT!
    10 years 5 months ago

    This sucked ass. The info is not accurate. Martin hated jews.

  • Orlando di Lasso Oh Orlando
    10 years 5 months ago

    I cannot find out the name of one of Lassus's madrigals. it has some sort of bum bum bum part in it! I love it so much and i really want to play it for my Music history class because I know they will love it! Any help?

  • Vincenzo Bellini Paul Helm RULES!
    10 years 5 months ago

    What a great representation of the Bel Canto hero, Vincenzo Bellini! There are so many standard jpgs and pictures, but the artistic transformation to the image with music from La Sonnambula as the background is excellent. I also saw a good etching of Schubert on the internet. Thank you for the images, and you know that musicians will borrow them.

  • Francesca Caccini change,reaction, addendum
    10 years 5 months ago

    The Italian should read "Udi in Firenze la signora figliola..." (spelling of last word.) Very interesting article. It should be followed in the list by the name of Giulio (Romano) Caccini, her father, born in Rome about 1550 and died in 1618, one of the first composers of opera.

  • Giovanni Battista Bononcini another fact
    10 years 5 months ago

    This Bononcini was the principal rival of George Frideric Handel before he was disgraced by the discovery of his false claim to have composed "in una siepe ombrosa" and moved away from England. One observer of the time compared Handel and Bononcini as "tweedledum and tweededee".

  • Nikolai Yakovlevich Miaskovsky I want that sheet music!
    10 years 5 months ago

    I have been listening to Miaskovsky's quartets (especially the 13th) rather obsessively, and would love to play them. Where is the sheet music? The Taneyev Quartet has to be playing from something!

  • Franz Schubert Schubert’s Music: Heavenly
    10 years 5 months ago

    When someone told Stravinsky that Schubert’s works were so boring that they put listeners to sleep, he replied that it did not matter when he woke up he was in paradise. It is not only Stravinsky that felt that Schubert’s music is heavenly, but many listeners got similar impression. In fact, the word “heavenly” is more suitable for describing Bach’s and Mozart’s music. Out of religious piety Bach aimed for the heavenly world. The impeccable perfection of Mozart’s music brings heaven itself to our mind. In contrast, Schubert’s music is closer to “Song of the Earth” which expresses the beauty of earthly beings. Certainly his music seems loose and flawed in comparison with Mozart’s. Its key elements are all of earthly character: (1) Sensuous melody-like themes appeal to listeners’ heart (rather than spirit). (2) Frequent modulations (Schubert’s specialty) make his music very colorful. (3) Human emotion is displayed as it is (rather than sublimated).
    One may wonder why Schubert’s music sounds heavenly in spite of that. Schubert does not control his musical materials strictly, but takes “let-go” attitude instead. In other words, he does not try to grasp something in his music, but let it flow aimlessly. When listening to Schubert’s music, we are often reminded of “the world of innocence” far from worldly obsession. Only those children who feel one with everything around them belong to this world. It is not different from “the beautiful world” (Schone Welt, Wo bist du?) that Schubert yearns for in his music.

  • William Francis McBeth George
    10 years 5 months ago

    I am proud to say that I took part, as an Alto Clarinetist in my high school band. We received a Superior rating, and recorded an album in 1979 for the performance of The Seventh Seal, by McBeth, Williamsburg Suite, by Sousa, and Overture in C minor by Tchicovsky. This was a very soul stirring time for me! Under the direction of John Clement...we brought the house down at LSU! I shall never forget the jubilation of that day!

  • Orlando di Lasso Oh Orlando
    10 years 5 months ago

    I think our are looking for "Matona mia cara". Good luck. I love O. di Lasso too!!

  • Antonio Salieri poop
    10 years 5 months ago

    im doin this gay ass report on this guy his music sucks dick. so he can just go fuck off

  • Alessandro Stradella Date of birth...again
    10 years 5 months ago

    Date of birth is wrong... again! Sorry.
    Stradella was born on April 3, 1639.

  • Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli Inconsistencies
    10 years 5 months ago

    The inconsistencies are in fact mine in my original submission… He is recorded in Messina in 1655 (not 1675) and in Madrid from 1659 to 1660, (not as I mistakenly wrote 79/80) Apologies

  • Philip Cannon More compositions
    10 years 5 months ago

    Sinfonietta fro Chamber Orchestra, 1947
    Symphonie, 1998-9

  • Antonio Vivaldi stop saying he looks like a
    10 years 5 months ago

    stop saying he looks like a girl. does anyone know how annoying it is f**k

  • Robert Greenberg Real identity
    10 years 5 months ago

    On one of his CDs, Robert Greenberg remarks that he were Italian, his name would be Monteverdi. Is this remark a mere divertimento, or is it a riddle that really means "Who is Robert Greenberg?” I go for the latter and here's my answer. Robert Greenberg is the Darwin of musicology. If I could travel in time, I would not go back to the Enlightenment; I would go into the future, anxious to hear how the new composers have discovered more of the infinitely rich genome of music.

  • Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis Amazing
    10 years 5 months ago

    Čiurlionis music is very amazing, I can listen to it all the time, it represents feeling very well.
    My favorite is Miške (In the forest).

  • Chung Shih Hoh A brilliant composer that has
    10 years 5 months ago

    A brilliant composer that has done well to promote asian music. He has explored the boundaries of tonality and pushed it to the limits. Despite often being at odds with musicians for his seemingly nonsensical composition, mots have come to recognize and accept his eccentric ways. A true Schoenberg No.2

  • Leonel Power hey
    10 years 5 months ago

    there is almost nothing here man !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • John Bull apparently John Bull was one
    10 years 5 months ago

    apparently John Bull was one of my husbands ancestors I understand he was a bit of a scoundrel

  • Richard Addinsell First
    10 years 5 months ago

    I'm coming in first time. It seems good. I Think, I found what I Want

  • Antonio Vivaldi Dude or Girl?
    10 years 5 months ago

    This dude looks like a girl.. So what is he?

  • Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz He was a Czech composer, see
    10 years 5 months ago
  • Ludovico Einaudi I just heard Ludovico Einaudi
    10 years 5 months ago

    I just heard Ludovico Einaudi last night in Denver. His performance and music was astonishing, brillant, deeply moving. I am so appriciative of KVOD, the loscal classical, public radio music station for sponsoring him. I plan to tell my friends about him and give his CD's for Christmas presents. His music is the right antidote for this society's frenetic lifestyle.

  • Franz Schubert Nietzsche’s remark on
    10 years 5 months ago

    While reading a German Schubert’s biography, I learned that Nietzsche made a meaningful remark on Schubert and Beethoven. “Beethoven sei der Musiker, der dem Spielmann zuhore (listen), Schubert aber sei selber ein Spielmann” Frankly, I cannot make out what he actually meant by this quotation, but I tried to interpret it philosophically anyway. In Beethoven’s musical world, the subject is separated from the object and the former spreads out to the latter. In Schubert’s the object and subject become one and move and play together. Similar attitude is found in the East where importance is attached to the thought of “wu wo he yi” (literally translated as “Thing and I become one”). It is also known that Eastern artists aimed at expressing its ultimate state fully. Schubert’s music always gives the impression that he seems to have nothing to grasp and all that he does is just to dance to the rhythm of nature, because man is fundamentally one with nature.

  • Franz Schubert John Purser
    10 years 5 months ago

    Has anyone ever considered the similarities between Schubert and Chopin and their obvious limitations as composers. It makes a fascinating study.
    Also due to mental health problems the two men were very similar in their lifestyles mainly in their constant debacheries and ill treatment of women.
    Has anyone got any collaboratory evidence or opinions?

  • Villa Puccini Chiatri The Villa exists but the
    10 years 5 months ago

    The Villa exists but the postion on the map is not correct. The small village is named now Chiatri Puccini and the Villa of the composer Giacomo Puccini is 200 meters north west from the red sign on your map. It is the unique residence that Puccini has built and in 1910 he composed in that Villa "La Fanciulla del West". From the House an astonishing view on the lake of Massaciuccoli, on the Mediterranean sea and Tuscan Islands.

  • Franz Schubert Schubert deserves respect of
    10 years 5 months ago

    Schubert deserves respect of his personality as human being regardless of his musical achievements. Ill-intentioned personal attack on him is very shameful and deplorable. If he does not suit taste, why don’t just disregard or leave him alone? The reason why I wrote my thought on this page is just because I love Schubert and his music, but very regrettably my writings brought about only offensive and obnoxious remarks on Schubert. I am an Asian, geographically far off the home of classical music. I don’t understand why Schubert receives such bad treatment here.

  • Edward Elgar Clive Brearly
    10 years 5 months ago

    Your first reaction writer asks who is David Wright?
    David is a relative of Sir Ivor Atkins who was allegedly a friend of Elgar but David has the originals of letters between Atkins and Elgar which have not been published. These letters reveal Elgar as a pervert and voyeur and a thoroughly objectionable man.
    David studied at RCM was a very fine pianist and organist as well as a clever and admired composer. He has won prodigious prizes for composition. He has written many detailed studies of composers and their muisc and written about them in a honest and worthy manner
    Musicians seek his advice.Composers send their new scores to him for comment and editing. He has spent money on sponsoring CDs of unusual and neglected music. In some cases it is due to him exclusively that we have premiere recordings of some works...
    He is a fine music teacher and his personality is one of modesty and courtesy.
    He is not liked for telling the truth about some composers but, nonetheless , it is the truth.
    He hates falsity and myths about composers.
    He supports women in music whereas others decry women.
    But one does wonder why he writes essays about composers who are not worthy of his time and efforts but I suspect it is to make the truth known and to puncture ridiculous and unmertited praise heaped upon them

  • Johann Pachelbel His precise birth date is
    10 years 5 months ago

    His precise birth date is unknown; he was baptized on 1 September 1653.

  • José Fernando Macario Sor His precise birth date is
    10 years 5 months ago

    His precise birth date is unknown; he was baptized on 14 February 1778.

  • George Muffat His precise birth date is
    10 years 5 months ago

    His precise birth date is unknown; he was baptized on 1 June 1653.

  • William Boyce His precise birth date is
    10 years 5 months ago

    His precise birth date is unknown; he was baptized on 11 September 1711.

  • Edward Elgar Professor Jack Watling
    10 years 5 months ago

    I was incensed by Dr Wright's article at first
    But then I investigated all he said and found proof of all his quotes and therefore it is wrong of correspondents to criticise and abuse Dr Wright. What he writes is not pretentious drivel or pointless. I note your correspondents do not offer any defence or offer any proof to contradict the truths he tells.
    That Elgar was a simply horrible man is irrefutable. But his music is dreadful. The opening movement of his First Sympnony is marked allegro. It is not an allegro It lasts about 18-20 minutes . If it were an allegro alla Haydn it would last seven minutes.
    The Cello Concerto is ghastly with two bar themes ,ugly portamentos ,constant changes of tempi ,irritating nobilementes ,badly written for the cello ( remember what Casals wrote) and Betrice Harrison saying ,I have to play it next week and I haven't amy navy blue knickers . I will have to go out and some.
    Elgar was rotten to women and stole other men's wives such as Windflower.The VIolin Concerto does have one good theme of two bars but it has nothing to say and takes 50 minutes to say it.
    Elgar moved heaven and earth to prevent other composers works being performed as his work was superior. He is a composer who deserves nothing but contempt which he has deservedly earned.

  • Paulo Cesar Maia de Aguiar Corrected the name of the
    10 years 5 months ago

    Corrected the name of the composer

    Paulo cesar Maia de Aguiar

  • Donald James Erb Performances
    10 years 5 months ago

    I would love to see more of performances of Donald Erb's music. He was truly an american original and uncompromising in his dedication to his craft.

  • Claude Champagne Quadrilha Brasileira
    10 years 5 months ago

    I agree that this piece should be added to the list of Champagne's list of compositions. I performed this piece for my RCM A.R.C.T. exam. It has tons of character and rhythmic freedom. I thoroughly enjoyed performing it.

  • Carl Albert Löschhorn JOHN CLEMENTS
    10 years 5 months ago

    Consult Dr Wright's article on this composer on wrightmusic.net

  • Ivor Atkins JOHN CLEMENTS
    10 years 5 months ago

    Consult Dr Wright's excellent article on this composer on his website wrightmusic.net

  • Jean Sibelius PAUL PATTERSON
    10 years 5 months ago

    Could I recommend Dr Wright's article about Ginette Neveu on wrightmusic.net

  • Grace Williams Peter Kirkup
    10 years 5 months ago

    Read Professor Wright's excellent essay on wrightmusic.net

  • Franz Schubert Franz Lachner
    10 years 5 months ago

    Awful composer repetitious, boring, lacking in development often long winded as in late Piano Sonatas ,the ghastly String Quintet and Octet. No invention in his modulations, inept sequences, no sense of contrapuctualism, the composer of the most recorded failures and, to quote someone else, every print of his music is a waste of a tree.
    An appalling man of appalling music, should be banned and never heard again

  • Rosalind Frances Ellicott betty Tisdale
    10 years 5 months ago

    REad Professor Wright's article about this composer on wrightmusic.net

  • Irving Fine Claude Rirvaux
    10 years 5 months ago

    Typical Dr Wright sensitivity. He tells us about the man as well as his music. You feel you have met the composer. Fine's symphony is greatest American symphony full of music ,skill and every emotion. It is a masterpiece

  • Derek Bourgeois Paul Stevenson
    10 years 5 months ago

    This is so out of date. Derek has written 58 symphonies to date and it is hoped that Dr David Wright will write an essay about this prolific composer. Derek's Symphony no. 30 is dedicated to Dr Wright

  • Frank Stiles Clive Matthews
    10 years 5 months ago

    Once again we are indebted to Dr Wright for finding another unknown composer. Professor Wright deserves a medal and the tanks of all interested in music..

  • Humphrey Searle Stuart McCallum
    10 years 5 months ago

    Having known Humphrey, I can say with truth that David Wright is the authority on this composer. Other wrritings have errors but not Dr Wright's essay. David has done more for Humphrey than anyone else.

  • Robert Greenberg Do a Program on Brahms
    10 years 5 months ago

    He should make a course on the Brahms Symphonies. He's great on what he's done so far.

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