Excerpt from Anne Schuster Hunter’s blogpost from May 2021 “No hope, nor help there doth remain, but down, down, down I fall” “Sorrow stay”: lyric by anonymous, music by John Dowland (1562 – 1626), John Dowland. Renowned.
In his prime, Georg Reutter was âthe single most influential musician in Vienna,â according to British musicologist, David Wyn Jones. He was also noted to be one of the most prolific composers of his time..
2. Weiss The Composer Silvius Leopold Weiss is my favorite lute composer. His reputation stands today, as in his own time, as the finest lutenist and lute composer of the German high baroque, a period.
From: San Francisco Classical Voice Born in Germany and trained in Italy, Handel immigrated to London and became one of the most celebrated composers in English history. Vital Statistics Born: Feb. 23, 1685 in Halle, Saxony.
Tonightâs The Faithful Music Master program at the American Philosophical Society in Old City (8:00, 427 Chestnut Street) is devoted to Telemannâs instrumental chamber music, with works that span the period he devoted to the.
The title for the orchestral program of our Telemann 360° events, Fire and Invention, quotes a letter to Telemann from an admiring contemporary composer, Johann Joachim Quantz (1697â1773), in which Quantz was explaining to Telemann.
One of the two concertos in our Fire and Invention orchestral program might be my favorite orchestral work by Telemann. And that said, I love both. But the one Iâm talking about, a concerto for.
The set of âEntractesâ that weâll premiere in our Fire and Invention orchestral programâOctober 14, 8pm, at the Kimmel Centerâcome thanks to Dr. Steven Zohnâs detective work and his generosity. Six of the pieces in.
In Telemannâs time, the city of Dresden was something out of a fairy tale. In the upcoming show Fire and Invention: Telemannâs Showpieces for the Dresden Virtuosi, Tempesta di Mare revisits Dresdenâs magic moment with.
Imagine Bach and Handel in their music rooms in Leipzig and London, sitting down, opening the fresh, clean pages of music straight off the press, and playing something new theyâd just received from their good.
