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The Self-appointed “last romantic composer” Glenn Quilty, who had the privilege to study with Rachmaninoff and who dedicated his Victorian Concerto to him, interviewed the composer at the Ansonia Hotel in New York. On that occasion Rachmaninoff defined himself as the last…
The Fear Surrounding his Piano Concerto n.3 Many pianists fear Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto n.3, deemed one of the most technically challenging concertos in the classical repertoire: Joseph Hofmann, to whom the work was dedicated, never performed it in public. It wasn’t for…
He popularized leitmotifs, which would later become the foundation of many classical film scores It’s hard to imagine what film soundtracks would sound like without leitmotifs—melodies associated with specific characters, events, or themes that can be used to program the…
B-A-C-H and Mystical Numerology In mystical numerology or gematria, B equals 2, A equals 1, C equals 3 and H equals 8: the sum, as you might guess, is 14. Both 14 and its mirror 41 —the number obtained by adding the numerical value J and S to the computation— were among Bach’s…
He and Händel were blinded by the same eye doctor Both Bach and Händel underwent eye surgery performed by the same eye doctor, namely Cavalier John Taylor. Following a failed cataract surgery by Taylor, Händel lived with declining vision for the last decade of his life, while…
His antisemitism was rooted, at first, in petty jealousy and youthful alienation The narrative of Wagner’s antisemitism writes itself: he was living in antisemitic times, and it would have been quite possible for someone who had limited contact with German Jews to develop…
Just like Anton Rubinstein, his hands were huge Rachmaninoff looked up to Anton Rubinstein as a model and, in particular, he singled out out for praise Rubinstein’s rendition of Beethoven’s Appassionata and Chopin’s Funeral March Sonata.”[His playing] gripped my whole…
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No money nor Thank You for his Brandenburg Concertos In 1721, Bach presented the Margrave of Brandenburg with a bound of manuscripts containing six lively concertos for Chamber Orchestra. For that, he never received any payment, nor was he ever thanked. At the time Bach wrote…
Unlike most famous composers, he had no unusual interest in music as a child Most biographies of composers begin with a discussion of their precociousness, but Wagner had no particular interest in music until he’d discovered the theater as a teenager and realized that most…
30 Interesting Facts About Ludwig van Beethoven cmuse.org/ludwig-van-bee…
The Piano Music Of Lesser-known Composers Read: buff.ly/3VvHK4X It’s often said that history is written by the victorious. In a cultural context, this is no different, especially the further one travels back in musical time. We are probably all familiar...
How Did Composers Treat Melody In The Classical Period? buff.ly/42sUkCC
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