EXPLORING MUSIC BLOG POSTS
View all-
These Can't Be Any Good
Virtuoso performing skill was virtually a prerequisite for any self-respecting 17th-, 18th-, or 19th-century composer. Biber, Corelli, Locatelli, Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, and Brahms were all renowned performers....
These Can't Be Any Good
Virtuoso performing skill was virtually a prerequisite for any self-respecting 17th-, 18th-, or 19th-century composer. Biber, Corelli, Locatelli, Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, and Brahms were all renowned performers....
-
Jewels, or Would You Buy a Symphony From This Man?
Ferruccio Busoni, Kurt Weill's revered mentor and teacher at the Prussian Academy of the Arts, often found his "serious'' compositions problematical. Anton Webern is reported to have asked in dismay:...
Jewels, or Would You Buy a Symphony From This Man?
Ferruccio Busoni, Kurt Weill's revered mentor and teacher at the Prussian Academy of the Arts, often found his "serious'' compositions problematical. Anton Webern is reported to have asked in dismay:...
-
Chips From Beethoven's Workbench
Chips from Beethoven's workbench: this record reminded me--as so many things do these days--of time's swift and inexorable passage. To put it another way, it, to all intents and purposes,...
Chips From Beethoven's Workbench
Chips from Beethoven's workbench: this record reminded me--as so many things do these days--of time's swift and inexorable passage. To put it another way, it, to all intents and purposes,...
