User:Gerda Arendt/Stories#24 Dec

happy new year

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On 1 January 1725
J. S. Bach led the first performance
of his chorale cantata
Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, BWV 41,
which features the same trumpet fanfares
in the closing chorale
as in the opening chorale fantasia.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h36zasMPHs4 watch]
1 January 2025

"Lobpreiset all zu dieser Zeit",
(Praise all at this time)
for New Year
in the German Catholic hymnal
Gotteslob, takes two stanzas
from a 1851 song by Heinrich Bone,
a third stanza and refrain from 1969,
and a 1529 popular melody by Luther.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJVP93YiZuQ watch]
31 January 2021

Bass-baritone
Johann-Werner Prein
(born 3 January 1954)
took part in the 1994 premiere
of Erwin Schulhoff's only opera, Flammen,
which the Nazis had suppressed.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuKUR1S1sYE listen to opera]
3 January 2022

The first cantata
Bach composed for Christmas Day in Leipzig
was the 1724 chorale cantata
Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 91,
based on Martin Luther's hymn for Christmas
"Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ".File:WalterGelobet.jpg [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnsuvQx42zE watch hymn]
25 December 2010

"Stern über Bethlehem"
is a German song
created in 1964
and often sung by star singers.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGoVq_iwmDg listen] (subtitles)

28 January 2018

Bach ends his
chorale cantata for Epiphany
Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen,
BWV 123,
by repeating the final lines
of the last stanza softly.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVvmucE4Rio listen]

6 January 2025

Dada Masilo,
a South African dancer and choreographer
known for her fusion of classical ballet,
contemporary dance and African dance steps,
presented The Sacrifice,
inspired by Pina Bausch's Frühlingsopfer,
in Vienna in 2011.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1sW15DDp6c watch her talk, and the dancing]

5 January 2025

Tom Johnson,
a music critic for
The Village Voice in New York City
who coined the concept
minimal music in a 1972 article,
composed The Four-Note Opera,
and the Bonhoeffer Oratorio
in Paris where he lived from 1983.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Jw12gS35g watch Nine Bells and listen to him]

8 January 2025

Jean-Michel Defaye,
a pianist, arranger and conductor
known for his collaboration with poet
and singer-songwriter Léo Ferré,
composed pieces for trombone and piano
in the style of composers
from Vivaldi to Stravinsky.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=roWiTw5YxYc watch]
9 January 2025

Librettist Gerhard Müller
and composer Georg Katzer
(10 January 1935 – 7 May 2019)
wrote
Antigone oder die Stadt
in East Germany,
--> but it premiered
at the Komische Oper Berlin
only after reunification.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoRMSTlXIw8 watch]

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19 August 2019

Bright Angel,
composed by Graham Waterhouse
for three bassoons and contrabassoon,
relates to the
Bright Angel Trail of the Grand Canyon
which the composer hiked with his father
at the age of nine.

23 April 2011

Writer Christian Keymann
and composer Andreas Hammerschmidt
collaborated on a hymn,
the base for Bachs chorale cantata
Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht, BWV 124
("I will not let go of my Jesus").

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyHW4WmzMAA watch]

12 January 2012

Ayla Erduran,
a Turkish violinist who studied
at the Conservatoire de Paris,
in the US with Zino Francescatti
and in Moscow with David Oistrakh,
premiered Ulvi Cemal Erkin's Violin Concerto
in Belgium, conducted by the composer.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQWdQKrKPT8 watch playing Schubert]

13 January 2025

Giacomo Puccini's opera
Tosca,
based on the play La Tosca
by Victorien Sardou,
premiered
at the Teatro Costanzi
in Rome on 14 January 1900.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkI0x0HUFsQ watch Berlin trailer]

14 January 2025

Hans Dieter Beck,
a leader of C. H. Beck
legal publishing
in the sixth generation,
usually used a bicycle to work
until age 92.

15 January 2025

Otto Schenk
directed a traditionalist version of
Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
at the Metropolitan Opera in 1986
that remained in the repertoire to 2009,
and Die Fledermaus by J. Strauss
at the Vienna State Opera
that is still played.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwFOAFLtFkg watch Walküre] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef4J-9G1JR8 Adele]

16 January 2025

German stage director
Tobias Kratzer
(born 17 January )
nominated two versions
of Verdi's Rigoletto
for an international competition,
pretending to be an American woman
in the first instance,
and a Bulgarian in the second?.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZGuRvy7b-w watch a trailer]
10 May 2010

Walter Deutsch,
a pioneer of field research
of folk music in Austria,
founded an institute for folk music research
at the Wiener Musikakademie in 1965
and became popular
for presenting folk musicians live
in series of ORF radio and television.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqUq5Kgrsy0 watch]
18 January 2025

In Bach's chorale cantata
Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid, BWV 3,
based on Moller's hymn in 18 stanzas,
the first cantus firmus is sung by the bass
supported by a trombone.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prAcMjvuQQM&t=13s watch]
23 January 2016

Elgar Howarth
conducted the world premiere
of Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre
and four operas by Harrison Birtwistle,
and was one of the trumpeters
who performed with The Beatles
on the song "Magical Mystery Tour".
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpRP_c_1wJw watch interview]
20 January 2025

Elgar Howarth
conducted the world premiere
of Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre
and four operas by Harrison Birtwistle,
and was one of the trumpeters
who performed with The Beatles
on the song "Magical Mystery Tour".
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpRP_c_1wJw watch interview]
21 January 2025

Claire van Kampen,
the founding director of music
at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
from 1997 to 2015,
first as assistant to her husband Mark Rylance,
then with his successor,
wrote a play, Farinelli and the King.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poistilzxu0 watch theatre talk]
22 January 2025

Maria, Königin des Friedens,
a Brutalist pilgrimage church
in Neviges, Germany,
has become the signature building
of architect
Gottfried Böhm
(23 January 1920 – 9 June 2021).
[https://www.baukunst-nrw.de/en/projects/pilgrimage-church-Neviges-%E2%80%9CMaria-Koenigin-des-Friedens%E2%80%9C--257.htm images]
10 February 2020

The theatre organ at the
Loew's Jersey Theatre
was originally installed
at another theater by mistake.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDmjTlwsE6M watch]
24 January 2025

André Soltner
was chef of New York City's
Lutèce from its opening in 1961,
and ran "America's Best French Restaurant"
with his wife from 1973 to 1994,
living in the same house.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebEE6xf9iDk watch]
25 January 2025

Bach based his chorale cantata
for the third Sunday after Epiphany,
Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit,
BWV 111,
on a 1554 hymn by Albert, Duke of Prussia,
who had introduced the Reformation into Prussia.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUkkevIEGT8&t=48s watch]

29 January 2012

In a choral concert
at St. Martin, Idstein,
the conductor connected
Mozart's Requiem
with Pärt's Fratres
and Da pacem Domine.

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The Romanesque church
St. Peter in Syburg,
now a suburb of Dortmund,
is surrounded by a graveyard
with stones dating back
to the ninth century.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHXR-MNyti0 follow a guide]

28 January 2013

Gabriel Yacoub
was a pioneer of the revival
of traditional French music music
in contemporary formats,
as a founder of Malicorne in 1973,
and also played solo music,
including to his own lyrics.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IdW7gHdkm0 listen]
29 January 2025

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A clinic in Mopti, Mali,
is named after
Werner Bardenhewer,
born 90 years ago today,
who was for decades
priest of St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden,
and then founded a charity group.

30 January 2019

Herr, unser Herr, wie bist du zugegen

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In 2017, Daniel Barenboim
began a projects to perform
the compositions by
Franz Schubert
in the Pierre Boulez Saal
in Berlin,
playing piano and conducting.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=FD6IIFrGTb4 watch trailer]

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Max van Egmond
(born 1 February 1936)
recorded the bass arias
of Bach's St Matthew Passion
with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Claudio Abbado
and the words of Jesus
with Gustav Leonhardt.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ACnabpepVc listen to aria]
2 April 2010

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On the Feast of the Purification,
2 February 1725,
J. S. Bach led the first performance
of his chorale cantata
Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin,
BWV 125,
based on Luther's paraphrase
of the Nunc dimittis.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8UyNOCsk8Q listen with score]
2 February 2025

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Kazuyoshi Akiyama,
who conducted the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
from 1964 for life,
introduced the orchestra to works
such as Schoenberg's Moses und Aron,
John Adams's El Niño
and operas by Leoš Janáček.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHxMimcV8OQ watch short interview, with horn sound]
3 February 2025

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The actor
Horst Janson
was known internationally
for roles as captains,
in films such as Murphy's War
and Breakthrough,
and in Germany as Der Bastian
and more than 200 episodes of
Sesamstraße.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k446QsM0Jvs watch]

In Patrick Süskind's play
Der Kontrabaß,
the double bass in the title role
is a "constant handicap" to its player,
"humanly, socially, sexually, musically".

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sZtm4DabSg watch trailer]

9 February 2014

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The Musiktheater im Revier
in Gelsenkirchen
staged a new musical
for the 100th anniversary
of the soccer club
FC Schalke 04 in 2004.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxIFtWLKktg watch]
6 February 2011

İlhan Usmanbaş,
the director of first
the Ankara State Conservatory and then
the Istanbul State Conservatory,
integrated advanced composition techniques
into Turkish music.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVd9GPv2fuA watch]
7 February 2025

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Helga de Alvear
collected contemporary art from 1967,
by more than 500
Spanish and international artists,
and shared it from 2010
in a house in the historic district of Cáceres,
with a modern annex from 2021, the
Museum of Contemporary Art Helga de Alvear.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2S9k9MmkkE watch homage]
8 February 2025

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Philipp Harnoncourt
initiated the restoration of
a Gothic chapel
with a triangle floorplan,
originally dedicated to the Trinity
and reopened on Trinity Sunday 2020,
the day after he was buried.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odkrHykJokE watch him lecture about it]

29 May 2021

Paul Plishka,
a bass at the Metropolitan Opera
between 1967 and 2018 in 88 roles,
chose the title role of
Verdi's Falstaff
for his 25th anniversary there.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvFyDeOwMtY watch finale]

10 February 2025

Dennis Russell Davies conducted
the premiere of the Fifth Symphony
Now and in the hour of death
by Heinz Winbeck
(11 February 1946 – 26 March 2019),
which reflects Bruckner's Ninth Symphony.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoHeX61Ttjk listen]
11 September 2011

Hans-Peter Lehmann,
intendant of the Staatsoper Hannover
who directed 31 productions,
focused on operas from the 20th century,
both neglected works
and new commissions.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxAs-LNPRbg interview]
12 February 2025

Edith Mathis
portrayed Mozart's young women,
Susanna, Zerlina, Pamina,
took part in new operas,
recorded Bach cantatas with Richter,
and taught Lied interpretation in Vienna.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmhvjF2r5ug interview]

13 February 2025

Because of a pilgrimage
to relics of St. Valentine,
the basilica minor
St. Valentin in Kiedrich
has Gothic-carved pews for the congregation.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNIoymHe1BE watch choir]
22 March 2015

The official premiere of
Paul Creston's Saxophone Sonata
took place at the Carnegie Chamber Hall,
on 15 February 1940
with saxophonist Cecil Leeson,
who commissioned the work,
and Creston on piano.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaxNpfT1p9E listen with score]
15 February 2025

In Bach's chorale cantata
Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn, BWV 92,
for Septuagesima, he created
five different settings for
five stanzas of the hymn
by Paul Gerhardt.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_vjp2hGvDA&t=36s watch]

31 January 2013

Maria Tipo,
an Italian pianist
who played 300 concerts touring the US,
and was compared to Horowitz
for playing Scarlatti sonatas,
revived musc by Muzio Clementi
and became a dedicated teacher.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwYRgSjSgP4 listen]
17 February 2025'''

Sigrid Metz-Göckel
created a didactic centre
for the new Dortmund University
and initiated
a university course of women's studies,
established in 1981.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P-maWj91bM watch interview]
18 February 2025

Gabriele Münter
(19 February 1877 – 19 May 1962)
studied and lived with Wassily Kandinsky
and was a founding member
of the expressionist group
Der Blaue Reiter.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSEYrHJTUVU watch film]

When Tōru Takemitsu
received a commission
from the New York Philharmonic in 1961,
the orchestra's 125th anniversary,
he composed November Steps
for biwa, shakuhachi and orchestra.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjYMz0vVXpA listen]

20 February 2025

When Heather Engebretson
portrayed the title role
of Puccini's Madama Butterfly
for the first time,
a reviewer said that her voice
"can tremble with panic and shine with hope".
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st_bRcJ1CG4 watch trailer]
26 July 2022

Olivier Latry
(born 22 February 1962),
organist at Notre-Dame de Paris,
played a concert at St. Martin in Lorch
in 2019. shortly after the fire.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye4r_csWJDw watch improvising]
23 August 2019

On 23 February 1725,
J. S. Bach led his Tafel-Music
Entfliehet, verschwindet, entweichet, ihr Sorgen
(Shepherd Cantata, BWV 149a),
for the birthday of
Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (pictured).
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztuiHFB3NdI listen]
23 February 2025

Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort, BWV 126

Vladimír Válek
was chief conductor of
the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
from 1985 to 2011,
introducing a broad repertoire
and international tours.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoYPPAurDZs listen to Schulhoff]
24 February 2025

Ilkka Kuusisto,
who began his career as a church organist,
worked for the broadcaster Yle
and as artistic director of the publisher Musiikki-Fazer,
was choirmaster of the Finnish National Opera chorus
and general manager of the opera from 1984 and 1992,
was one of Finland's most prolific composers of operas.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzkJvrLe8vU listen to Symphony]
25 February 2025

The art of Ruth-Margret Pütz
(26 February 1930 – 1 April 2019)
a leading coloratura soprano of the 1960s,
was published in a 2018 Recital,
including excerpts as Konstanze and Zerbinetta.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0Xbr7Vmz0A listen]
11 June 2019

Mirella Freni
(27 February 1935 – 9 February 2020)
appeared as Mimì in Puccini's La bohème
from 1957 to 1999,
at La Scala and the Vienna State Opera in 1963,
and for her debut
at the Metropolitan Opera.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_1OtRt0_ho watch] (27:45)

Ricardo Kanji,
a Brazilian recorder player
who taught at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague
and co-founded the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century,
returned to Brazil where he
promoted historically informed performance
and directed a project History of Brazilian Music
to explore the music of colonial Brazil.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqbVPBwXzQo watch]
28 February 2025

Gioachino Rossini
(born 29 February 1792)
scored the last of his "sins of old age",
the Petite messe solennelle,
for twelve singers, two pianos, and harmonium.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPRWnO6frpI listen]
When Heather Phillips
made her European debut
in Rossini's Bianca e Falliero,
her nuanced coloraturas served
to portray Bianca's development.

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In his
Berceuse,
Frédéric Chopin
(1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849)
created a lullaby for piano
in 16 continuous variations
on an ostinato ground bass.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek98_B0f8jA listen]
13 October 2018

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A trumpet appears in the fourth movement of
Herr Jesu Christ, wahr' Mensch und Gott, BWV 127,
Bach's chorale cantata for
the last Sunday before Lent
based on a hymn by Paul Eber,
in a "grand, tableau-like evocation of the Last Judgement".
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1A6dq4kK6k&t=92 watch]
19 February 2012

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Bizet's
Carmen
premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris
on 3 March 1875,
with Célestine Galli-Marié
in the title role.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EseMHr6VEM0 watch Callas in concert]
3 March 2025

Simon Lindley,
Organist and Master of the Music
at Leeds Minster from 1975 to 2016,
held daily Evensongs,
performed neglected pieces
and commissioned new works.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FKeV2GktHg watch service]
4 March 2025

Ferenc Rados,
who trained a generation of pianists
at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music
including Zoltán Kocsis, Dezső Ránki
and András Schiff,
recorded four-hand Mozart sonatas
with Kirill Gerstein in his 80s.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeCr1nuySgA watch]
5 March 2025

Jo Vincent
(6 March 1898 – 28 November 1989)
appeared in Willem Mengelberg's 1939 recording
of Bach's St Matthew Passion,
and, with Kathleen Ferrier and Peter Pears,
in the world premiere
of Britten's Spring Symphony in 1949.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6HXXKdTmK8 listen to Reger]
10 April 2020

Maurice Ravel
wrote texts and music for
Trois Chansons,
his only composition for choir a cappella,
in response to the outbreak
of World {{nowrap|War I}}.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6HXXKdTmK8 watch with score]
3 April 2019

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Hana Blažíková
is a soprano
with the Bach Collegium Japan,
conducted by Masaaki Suzuki,
for the project to record
the complete Bach cantatas

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=PAV8CYGZd_U&t=0s watch speaking and singing]

8 March 2016

Raymund Weber wrote
"Zeige uns, Herr, deine Allmacht und Güte"
to be sung with a modern melody,
but it appears in the German Catholic hymnal
with a Baroque melody,
beginning with a cruciform motif.

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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9jEP4f5eNs watch]

13 April 2019

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Thousands of former slaves, the
Great Dismal Swamp maroons,
settled in the marshlands
of Virginia and North Carolina
from the early 1700s to 1865.

10 March 2012

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The first performance of Verdi's
Rigoletto
took place at La Fenice in Venice
on 11 March 1851.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvtjryJqy6Y watch quartet there]
11 March 2025

Edesio Alejandro,
a Cuban guitarist and singer,
composed more than 50 film scores
such as Clandestinos and Suite Habana.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpjAK2mhvxc watch]
12 March 2025

Jean-Louis Pichon,
manager and director of the
Opéra de Saint-Étienne from 1983 to 2008,
co-founded the Massenet Festival,
reviving the works of the composer
who was born there as Pichon as well
beginning with Cléopâtre.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xNS1XzvYFM watch]
13 March 2025

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The last of Rossini's
"sins of old age", the
Petite messe solennelle
for twelve singers, two pianos,
and harmonium
was premiered on 14 March 1864.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gRWE-X1ncs watch]
14 March 2025

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Antonietta Stella,
a spinto soprano,
made her debut in Spoleto in 1950
as Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore,
and performed as Aida
at the Metropolitan Opera in 1956.

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Sofia Gubaidulina
composed chamber, orchestral and choral works,
including Offertorium and Johannes-Passion,
characterised as
"innovative use of microtonality and chromaticism,
rhythm over form and contrasting tonalities".

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvHeTWOfL1c listen to first violin concerto with score]

16 March 2025

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Ana María Iriarte
made her debut in Valencia in 1945,
retired from the stage as Carmen
in Bordeaux in 1960,
and created a foundation
promoting zarzuela in 2006.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVsfkpQgvtQ watch]
17 March 2025

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Christa Wolf
(18 March 1929 – 1 December 2011)
wrote Der geteilte Himmel
in a "quest for personal integrity
within a flawed system",
published in East Germany in 1963
and called a "socialist bestseller".

1 May 2019

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Hans Peter Korff
was an actor on stage,
in films such as Pappa Ante Portas
and television series
like Diese Drombuschs.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESeJy4sb5Qg watch cooking]

19 March 2025

In his
Requiem für einen jungen Dichter,
Bernd Alois Zimmermann
combined the Latin Requiem
with literary, philosophical,
religious and political texts
that shaped his lifetime.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mas3AA2VTVw listen]

30 May 2017

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Ravel's opera
L'enfant et les sortilèges,
to a libretto by Colette,
was premiered
at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo
on 21 March 1925.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbqySviU4YQ watch]

21 March 2025

Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227

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Manfred Schukowski,
responsible for mathematics and physics
at schools of education,
calculated a new calendar disc
for the astronomical clock
of St. Mary's Church in Rostock,
running from 2018 to 2150.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdWjeeLNHJU watch]

22 March 2025

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St. Martin, Idstein
Geistliche Abendmusik
Rheinberger: Kyrie

Pachelbel: Tröste, tröste uns, Gott
Kuhnau/Bach:
Der Gerechte kömmt um
Pachelbel: Singet dem Herrn
Gounod: D'un cœur qui t'aime
Johann Christoph Bach:
Lieber Herr Gott, wecke uns auf
Pachelbel: Nun danket alle Gott

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA0tz1A6n9k listen]

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Annette Dasch
(born 24 March 1976)
appeared as Elettra in Mozart's Idomeneo
at the reopening of the Cuvilliés Theatre,
where that opera
had been premiered in 1781.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoLH8pYXzxw watch portrait]
23 March 2010

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Bach's chorale cantata
Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1
was first performed
on the Feast of the Annunciation
on 25 March 1725,
which coincided that year
with Palm Sunday.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LucVZEqLH0M watch]

25 March 2025

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Architect
Jörg Streli
(26 March 1940 – 13 February 2019)
and his two colleagues designed
the Sankt-Margarethen-Kapelle
in Tyrol, which rises
like a tower on a circular floor.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78VCKLbvC-Y watch lecture]

26 March 2025

Jahrhundertring

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Erminia Frezzolini
created the title role
in Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco
at La Scala
opposite her husband,
Antonio Poggi,
as Charles VII of France.

9 September 2010

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Willem Mengelberg,
chief conductor of
the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra,
established in 1899
the annual tradition of performing
Bach's St Matthew Passion
on Palm Sunday.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K18WgNy6QG8 listen 1939]

Soprano
Leonore Kirschstein
appeared as Alice Ford with
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Falstaff.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw47B2oTUAM listen] (Cardillac)

29 March 2017

Alan Cuckston
was the harpsichordist
in the 1968 Proms concert
of Monteverdi's
Vespro della Beata Vergine
by the Monteverdi Choir
and recorded the piano music
by Alan Rawsthorne.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtaWIpZJa-Y&list=OLAK5uy_lsK6QCwrOwGRLWS8aRiamzOqWu13H0Kc0&index=23 listen]
30 March 2025

As a principal dancer
of the Stuttgart Ballet
in the John Cranko era,
Ray Barra
created Romeo and Onegin.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfqmNejtO3Q watch his choreography]
31 March 2025

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Sergei Rachmaninoff,
composed in a personal idiom
of song-like melodicism,
expressiveness,
dense textures,
and rich orchestral colours,
exploring the possibilities of the piano.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEGOihjqO9w watch concerto]

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Alchymic Quartet
is a string quartet
by Graham Waterhouse,
to be performed
alongside chemical experiments
of Andrew Szydlo,
his former teacher at Highgate School.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dovIiJr6rF8&t=2679s watch music]
2 April 2023

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After the Italian soprano
Fausta Labia
worked at the Royal Swedish Opera,
she appeared as Mascagni's Iris
at La Fenice in Venice
and as Wagner's Sieglinde
at La Scala in Milan.

26 July 2022

Hans-Josef Klauck OFM,
who wrote his thesis about
allegories in the parables of Jesus,
taught in Würzburg, Munich,
and at the
University of Chicago Divinity School.

4 April 2025

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Klara Höfels,
who played on stage
at Schauspiel Frankfurt,
in film and television including SOKO,
produced film documentaries
and founded Autorentheater in Berlin
for new theatre projects.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQz4520PHN8 watch her]

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A chorale fantasia on
"O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß"
(O man, bewail thy sins so great)
by Sebald Heyden
concludes Part{{nbsp}}I of
Bach's {{nowrap|St Matthew Passion}}
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym-PdZuaEqA listen]
3 April 2015

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Tout est lumière,
a setting by Maurice Ravel
for soprano, choir and orchestra
of a poem by Victor Hugo,
earned Ravel a place
in the second round
of the 1901 Prix de Rome.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhigah2Ukag listen]

7 April 2025

Christof May,
regens of the seminary
of the Diocese of Limburg,
advocated for
admitting couples to the eucharist
who were homosexual, remarried,
or from different Christian denominations.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IVFsuZLUcU watch in mass]
8 April 2025

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Enrique Bátiz,
who founded the
Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México
in 1971 and conducted it
with a short interruption until 2018,
recorded the complete orchestral works
by Joaquín Rodrigo.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nufz3oytFww listen]
9 April 2025

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Barbara Frischmuth
from Altaussee,
who studied Turkish in Turkey in 1960
and Hungarian in Hungary in 1963,
wrote two trilogies of novels
in the 1970s and 1980s.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBb7TZGNOhw watch lecture]

10 April 2025

The contralto
Maria Radner,
who died in the Germanwings plane crash,
performed Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder
at his villa, Wahnfried.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSdtU9GhWG0 watch]
11 April 2015

Peter Stuhlmacher,
who taught New Testament studies
in Tübingen from 1972 to 2000,
wrote books translated into several languages
and was invited by Pope Benedict XVI
to the 2008 Circle of Alumni.
[https://www.patreon.com/posts/dr-peter-between-87299082 read a bit]
12 April 2025

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Mirella Freni
portrayed Mimì
in Puccini's La bohème
between 1957 and 1999,
including in her debut
at the Metropolitan Opera
in 1965.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_1OtRt0_ho watch opera]

13 April 2025

Eleonore Schönborn
(14 April 1920 – 25 February 2022),
who had to leave Czechoslovakia in 1945
with two young children,
received an Austrian award in 2013
for cultural and social improvement.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0cbaQ6PvuA watch film]

28 March 2022

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Roberto De Simone,
who researched early music from Naples
and co-founded the
Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare,
was recognised internationally
for the musical La Gatta Cenerentola
that he authored, composed and directed
for the Festival dei Due Mondi
in Spoleto in 1976.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-hQ7CmWvzY watch memorial]
15 April 2025

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Roberto Cani,
who studied the violin
in Milan, Moscow and Los Angeles,
became concertmaster
of the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra
and first violinist
of the New Hollywood String Quartet.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OURDdUq4btY watch in trio]
16 April 2025

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Peter Seiffert,
a lyric tenor based at the Deutsche Oper Berlin,
caused a sensation as Lohengrin in 1990,
and made his Met debut as Tannhäuser in 2004.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArVyWvHYCII listen to Lohengrin 1989]
17 April 2025

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For her 2000
Johannes-Passion,
inspired by Bach's work,
composer Sofia Gubaidulina
combined the Passion narration by John
with text from the Book of Revelation.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY1C2oVt55E watch]

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Max Reger
conducted the premiere of
"An die Hoffnung"
(To Hope),
a setting of Hölderlin's poem
and his only orchestral song,
with contralto
Anna Erler-Schnaudt.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcv5XrVwnLA listen with score]

19 April 2017

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The first known collaboration
of Bach and Picander
resulted in the Shepherd Cantata
and, mostly with the same music,
the future Easter Oratorio,
first performed at the Nikolaikirche
for Easter 1725.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5ICH1gK5fQ watch] with Gardiner

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Bach's cantata for Easter Monday,
Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden, BWV 6,
is based on the
Road to Emmaus narration.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOtAvqH_A9k watch]
21 April 2025

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Édouard de Reszke,
a bass from Warsaw,
made his operatic debut
as the King in Verdi's Aida
in Paris on 22 April 1876,
chosen by the composer.

22 April 2025

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Aquilegia vulgaris
was associated with
a fertility goddess in ancient Greece,
symbolized sacredness
for Flemish painters,
and was an omen of death
in Hamlet.

23 April 2025

The opera
The Devil in Love
by Alexander Vustin
(born 24 April 1943)
took 15 years to be completed
and 30 more years to be premiered,
debuting at the centenary of the
Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKVu0WUsxpo excerpt]

11 June 2020

Felix Mendelssohn first composed the motet
Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen
(For He shall give His angels charge)
for an eight-part choir,
and then included it with orchestra
in his oratorio Elijah.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHaDfV6yROc watch]

6 April 2019

Contralto Marga Höffgen
(26 April 1921 – 7 July 1995),
known as a Bach singer for Karajan
and as Erda in Bayreuth,
recorded Max Reger's Requiem compositions.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay3EyEhz4MY&t=700s Seele, vergiß sie nicht]

16 March 2015

Adalbert Kraus
(born 27 April 1937)
portrayed Tom in Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers
at the Staatsoper Hannover
and the tenor part of Peter the Apostle
in Bach's Easter Oratorio.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAL55k7X9Zs listen to oratorio]

16 April 2010

In Patrick Süskind's play
Der Kontrabaß,
the double bass in the title role
is a "constant handicap" to its player,
"humanly, socially, sexually, musically".

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrIV5h0s2Fw trailer]

9 February 2014

Wo gehest du hin? BWV 166

Samuel Kummer
chose for his first recital
as the organist of
the restored Frauenkirche in Dresden
music by Bach, Brahms, Max Reger,
Louis Vierne and his own.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIVIPLNFMWg Sortie]

29 April 2024

Oksana Lyniv
founded the
Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
in 2016 and conducted them
in thirty concerts across ten music festivals
in 2022.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYwiARJBM8A watch]

30 April 2024

The choir
Groningse Bachvereniging
sang Bach's Magnificat
with Harnoncourts' Concentus Musicus Wien
in the orchestra's first appearance
in the Netherlands in 1970.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHAE7G0rJuw listen to a chorale]

28 January 2012

The baritone
Johannes Hill
was the voice of Jesus and Pilate
in Bach's Passions,
and of Pope Francis in the premiere
of Peter Reulein's Laudato si'.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OUhuMDuxWA listen]

29 March 2018

Hans Stadlmair
(3 May 1929 – 13 February 2019),
conductor of the Münchener Kammerorchester for almost four decades,
in 1971 premiered
Wilhelm Killmayer{{'s}} Fin al punto,
of which the composer said,
"The calm already contains the catastrophe".

7 April 2011

Bach's cantata for Easter Monday,
Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden, BWV 6,
is based on the Road to Emmaus narration

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOtAvqH_A9k&t=7s watch]

13 April 2017

Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden,
BWV 6
Du Hirte Israel, höre,
BWV 104
Ascension Oratorio

Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen,
BWV 11

2024 concert

[https://www.wiesbadener-kurier.de/lokales/kreis-rheingau-taunus/idstein-kreis-rheingau-taunus/himmelfahrtsoratorium-in-der-katholischen-kirche-st-martin-3546272 pictured]

A prize for contemporary art of Styria
is named after
Viktor Fogarassy
(6 May 1911 – 24 March 1989),
the managing director of a department store.

Segne, Vater, diese Gaben

21 August 2019

Peter Demetz,
born in Prague in 1922,
persecuted under the Nazis,
escaped the Communist regime in 1949,
taught German literature at Yale University
from 1956 to 1991,
and wrote the book
Prague in Black and Gold:
Scenes from the Life of a European City.

7 May 2024

Seele, vergiß sie nicht

"Es tönen die Lieder",
a German round
about greeting spring with songs,
first appeared in 1869
in a collection of works by Adolf Spieß,
who developed a series of school-gymnastics steps to it.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hytk5co2bjM listen]

8 May 2022

Bach's first cantata
for the Feast of the Ascension,
Wer da gläubet und getauft wird, BWV 37,
omits the topic of the Ascension
and derives from the quoted Gospel ({{Sourcetext|source=Bible|version=King James|book=Mark|chapter=16|verse=16}}) Lutheran thoughts.

9 May 2013

Ascension Oratorio

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzbOSm_xj8w watch]

A reviewer described the approach of soprano
Magdalena Hinterdobler
to her role as Grete in Zemlinsky's Der Traumgörge
(Görgr the Dreamer)
as "bold" and "sassy".

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV4Zh41HgpE&t=344s watch her talk about it and sing]

10 May 2024

The late-Gothic church
St. Lamberti in Hildesheim
was rebuilt after destruction in World War II,
but a southern annex was kept in ruins
as a memorial?

11 May 2013

In Bach's cantata
Sie werden euch in den Bann tun, BWV 44
(They will banish you),
for Exaudi Sunday,
the word "töten" (kill) is
"twice emphasized by a sudden, mysterious piano and
 ... chromatically tinged harmonies".

19 May 2012

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Klaus Wallrath
(born 13 May 1959)
composed a mass for peace
for the 2018 Katholikentag in Münster,
performed to an audience of more than 30,000
by a choir, an orchestra, and a dance company.

3 May 2022

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The dancer and cabaret artist
Hedi Schoop
emigrated to California with her husband,
the composer Friedrich Hollaender,
where she created and manufactured
California pottery.

14 May 2019

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The Franciscan
Helmut Schlegel
(born 15 May 1943)
wrote the lyrics of an oratorio
Laudato si',
including writings
by Francis of Assisi
and Pope Francis,
and the Magnificat.

Glauben können wie du ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbEnOwIB32M&t=880 listen])

14 November 2019

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Gerhard Müller,
leading bishop of the
United Lutheran Church of Germany
and professor in Erlangen and Göttingen,
wrote a book about
Martin Luther's insights then and now.

16 May 2024

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The performance of tenor
Julian Prégardien,
first trained in Limburg,
as the Evangelist in Bach's St Matthew Passion
was noted by one reviewer
for its emphatic and penetrating
"profoundly human" nature.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-X30SMQgLc watch]
17 May 2024

Ave Maria

Timon Altwegg
(born 18 May 1967)
and his wife Hana Gubenko
recorded a collection entitled
Sonata ebraica (Hebrew Sonata),
after the Viola Sonata by Graham Waterhouse.

20 June 2017

In his first cantata for Pentecost,
Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten!
BWV 172,
first performed in 1714 in Weimar,
Johann Sebastian Bach
marked to repeat the opening chorus
after the final chorale.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVpkgUL_1YY&t=32s watch]

6 April 2010

"I will sing with the spirit"
was composed
by John Rutter
for the Royal School of Church Music.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7__xTriGAQ listen and look]

8 June 2014

Erschallet, ihr Lieder, BWV 172

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVpkgUL_1YY&t=32s watch]

20 May 2024

Martin Krumbiegel
sang the tenor part in Bach's cantata
Erschallet, ihr Lieder (Resound, ye songs)
and Bach's "Pipe Aria".

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2FQ81TDUlo&t=424s listen]

21 May 2013

Baritone
Liviu Holender
chose lieder by five composers
whose music was banned by the Nazis
—Schreker, Zemlinsky,
Mahler, Korngold and Schönberg—
for a recital at the Oper Frankfurt.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7EiL326J2Y watch one]

Verdi: Messa da Requiem 22 May 1874
22 May 2024

The 1653 hymn
"Jesu, meine Freude"
(Jesus, my joy)
by Johann Franck and Johann Crüger
mentions singing in defiance
of the "old dragon", death, and fear.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A4L-LDqRQI listen to Bach]

23 May 2014

Ethel Smyth,
whose opera The Wreckers
was premiered in Leipzig in 1906
and revived at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2022,
joined the Women's Social and Political Union
in 1910, giving up music for two years.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbpp2tiNCXk listen]

24 May 2024

Willi Brokmeier,
a tenor focused on operettas,
participated in the world premiere
of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Die Soldaten
at the Cologne Opera
and appeared as Beethoven's Jaquino on a tour to Japan.

[https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=willi+brokmeier+youtube watch]

25 May 2024

The Lutheran
St. Trinitatis
in Wolfenbüttel, consecrated in 1719,
is a Baroque church
with a facade recalling that of a palace.

26 May 2024

O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad, BWV 165

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp77VkWUva8 listen]

"Ständchen"
(Serenade),
the setting of a poem by A. F. v. Schack
by Richard Strauss,
begins with an appeal to creep out quietly
and ends with a climax of expecting
a rose to glow from the rapture of the night.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NerUhrS17Bg listen]

27 May 2016

Johann Sebastian Bach
used music of thanks
from his cantata
Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29,
for his final
Dona nobis pacem
(Grant us peace).
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffrsc3wdBt4 watch]
29 March 2015

Vespro della Beata Vergine

In the Opernhaus Wuppertal production
of Stravinsky's
The Rite of Spring,
choreographed by Pina Bausch,
the dancers performed on a stage covered with soil.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3i7r79dtFo watch a bit]
30 July 2013

Samuel Kummer
chose for his first recital
as the organist of the restored
Frauenkirche in Dresden
music by Bach, Brahms, Max Reger,
Louis Vierne, and himself.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIVIPLNFMWg watch him improvising]

30 May 2024

Ave verum corpus

Rolf-Ernst Breuer,
who spent almost his whole career at Deutsche Bank,
as CEO from 1997 to 2002, is credited
with expanding the bank to international importance,
and later supported the Goethe University Frankfurt.

31 May 2024

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Ludwigsburg Palace,
the "Versailles of Swabia",
was home to four
of Württemberg's rulers?

1 June 2024

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSEnPRNc0Mg listen to 2022 festival]

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According to John Eliot Gardiner,
Bach was "fired up as never before"
when he began his
second cycle of chorale cantatas
with
O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20
(O eternity, you word of thunder),
on the first Sunday after Trinity
in 1724.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJX8hlCZC8M&t=35s watch]

12 June 2012

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Franz Kafka
(3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924)
wrote the 109
Zürau Aphorisms
at the estate
of his sister Ottla and her husband in Zürau
where he sought recovery from tuberculosis.

3 June 2024

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During his tenure as director of the Paris Opera,
Hugues Gall
added 60 ballets to the repertoire of the company
and world premieres of operas
by Philippe Fénelon, Philippe Manoury,
Pascal Dusapin and Matthias Pintscher.

3 June 2024

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Peter Demetz,
who taught German literature
at Yale University
from 1956 to 1991,
was born in Prague
where he was persecuted under the Nazis
and escaped the Communist regime in 1949.

5 June 2024

Alexander Lang,
actor at Deutsches Theater in East Berlin from 1969,
was invited to direct plays by Kleist, Lessing and Goethe
at the Comédie-Française in Paris.

6 June 2024

Dimitri,
a grand opera by Victorin de Joncières,
based on Schiller's incomplete play Demetrius
about the Russian pretender False Dmitriy I,
was first performed in Paris in 1776.

7 June 2024

Martin Luther
created the Pentecost hymn
"Komm, Heiliger Geist, Herre Gott"
by adding two stanzas
to an earlier German version of
"Veni Sancte Spiritus",
keeping its melody.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64SKZk3aau0 listen]

8 June 2014

Mozart built the final scene
of his opera Die Zauberflöte
"upon a solemn fugato"
around the chorale
"Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein"
and Bach composed
a chorale cantata
for the Second Sunday after Trinity 1724
based on it.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rO_RVMLrZk listen]

10 August 2011

Ernst Gutstein,
an Austrian operatic baritone
whose signature role was Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier,
created the role of Perlimplin
in Fortner's In seinem Garten liebt Don Perlimplin Belisa
at the 1962 Schwetzingen Festival.

10 June 2019

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"O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort",
translated as
"Eternity! tremendous Word",
is a hymn by Johann Rist
that served as the basis for
the first work in Bach's chorale cantata cycle.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU1CZy-pb4Y&t=1622s listen]

23 July 2021

Das Wandern ist des Müllers Lust

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"Nun jauchzt dem Herren, alle Welt"
(Now rejoice to the Lord, all the world),
a 1646 paraphrase of Psalm 100
by David Denicke and Justus Gesenius,
appears in current
Protestant and Catholic hymnals.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_hOK175j_k listen]

29 June 2018

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Jürgen Moltmann,
professor of systematic theology
at the University of Tübingen,
was internationally known
for books such as
Theology of Hope,
The Crucified God
and God in Creation.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s04zdvrBz-c interview]

13 June 2024

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Andreas Schager
was called a "sensation"
when he first performed Wagner's Tristan
in Minden, and went on
to Siegfried at the Staatsoper Berlin,
La Scala, and The Proms.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmGz7-Dbhdw watch]

14 June 2017

The oboist and composer
Rolf Riehm
(born 15 June 1937)
taught music theory in Frankfurt from 1974 to 2000
and wrote an opera, Sirenen, for a 2014 premiere at the Oper Frankfurt.

20 July 2019

In Bach's fourth 1724 chorale cantata,
{{langr|de|Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder}}, {{abbr|BWV|Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (catalogue of Bach's works)}}{{nbsp}}135,
for the third Sunday after Trinity
based on a hymn by Cyriakus Schneegass,
the first movement is a polyphonic chorale fantasia
with the bass as the cantus firmus.

[https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-135 listen]

14 July 2011

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Four Epigraphs after Escher
is a 1993 piano trio
by Graham Waterhouse
for viola, heckelphone and piano
based on four graphic artworks by
M. C. Escher
(17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972)
including Reptiles.

7 November 2022

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In Noye's Fludde,
a one-act opera by Benjamin Britten.
based on a 15th-century Chester "mystery" play
and premiered on 18 June 1968
only the roles of Noye (Noah) and his wife
are intended to be sung by professionals,
the others by child and adolescent performers.

18 June 2024

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Éric Tappy,
a member of the Grand Théâtre de Genève,
has been regarded as legendary
for portraying Monteverdi's Orfeo,
Tamino in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte
and Debussy's Pelléas
with a tenor voice of exemplary clarity and diction.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgUT9q_QBOs watch]
19 June 2024

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The main work of sculptor
Fritz Koenig
(20 June 1924 – 22 February 2017)
is The Sphere,
the world's largest bronze sculpture of modern times,
on the plaza beneath the two World Trade towers,
and recovered largely intact from the ruins
after the September 11 attacks.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkSJX6GQA54 listen to him]

20 June 2024

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Ernst Pepping composed in 1937
in Nazi Germany
the {{lang|de|Evangelienmotette}}
{{lang|de|Jesus und Nikodemus}}
on {{Sourcetext|source=Bible|version=King James|book=John|chapter=3|verse=1|range=–15}}, showing
"the reality of a different, heavenly world".
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et69y9bfZ4E listen]
21 June 2015

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The 2024 Rheingau Musik Festival
opens at Eberbach Abbey
with Alain Altinoglu
conducting Christian Tetzlaff
and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony
in Dvořák's Violin Concerto.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoV_40CHYtA listen]

17 February 2010

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John Rutter
wrote the text and music of
A Clare Benediction
for choir and orchestra
to honour
Clare College, Cambridge,
where he had studied.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks-HLiJxI6Y watch in a service]

Nun jauchzt dem Herren, alle Welt

31 July 2019

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In the third chorale cantata,
Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7,
first performed
on St. John's Day 1724,
based on Luther's hymn
about the baptism of Jesus,
Bach gave the cantus firmus to the tenor.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06PQgj_K8dI&t=55s watch]

24 June 2024

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As stage director and scenic designer
of Puccini's Turandot
for the 2024 Internationale Maifestspiele,
Daniela Kerck
crafted a new ending
to the music left unfinished in 1924
and Puccini's "Requiem".
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKLdPFWcIp0 trailer]

25 June 2024

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The first solo album of
Jodie Devos,
second-prize winner of
the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2014
who appeared as Philine
in Mignon by Ambroise Thomas
at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie,
was Offenbach – Colorature.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ9X_IsNrTM in memory]

26 June 2024

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The favourite role of
Wilma Schmidt,
who performed at the Staatsoper Hannover
for more than five decades
in German, Italian and Slavic operas,
was the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier.
20 July 2022

Mein Gott, wie schön ist deine Welt

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Richard Strauss
reportedly composed
"Traum durch die Dämmerung"
("Dream in the Twilight"),
from a love poem
by Otto Julius Bierbaum,
in 20 minutes.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LulntUnGnfs listen]

28 June 2014

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Margarita Voites,
from 1969 to 1990 coloratura soprano
at the Estonia Theatre,
portrayed tragic characters
such as Lucia di Lammermoor
and well as comic roles
like La fille du régiment.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCQ35kIceKE watch]

29 June 2024

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Paul Gerhardt's hymn
"Du meine Seele singe"
(You my soul sing),
a paraphrase of Psalm 146,
became known for a melody
beginning with a rocket motif.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjvicFMbIlg listen]

30 June 2015

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The first public performance
in Vienna in 1903
of Arnold Schönberg's
Zwei Gesänge, Op. 1,
two expressive lieder of thanks and farewell
to contemporary poems,
with Zemlinsky at the piano,
was met with hostile audience reactions.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbGZ4KlKXQs listen with score]

1 July 2024

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In 1724 Johann Sebastian Bach
composed the church cantata
Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWV 10,
based on Luther's German Magnificat,
translating" to "My soul magnifies the Lord",
for the Feast of the Visitation,
as the fifth work in his chorale cantata cycle.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrSAMOojQ08&t=7s watch]

2 July 2024

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Libuše Domanínská,
a soprano of Prague's National Theatre,
performed in all operas by
Leoš Janáček
(3 July 1854 – 12 August 1928),
and a recording she made
as his Jenůfa
made his works better known
beyond their home country.

25 February 2021

Lando Bartolini
was a spinto tenor who performed worldwide,
as Luigi in Puccini's Il tabarro in Philadelphia in 1968,
as Verdi's Ernani at La Scala in 1982,
as Radames in Aida at the Arena di Verona in 1983
and as Calaf in Puccini's Turandot in Beijing in 1999.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hur8Hxrlq_A listen]

4 July 2024

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Diana Tishchenko,
a violinist from Ukraine,
played Myroslav Skoryk's
Melody
on a tour of
the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra
to Poland and Germany
in April 2022.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4dA7udrP8U&t=1684s watch]

5 July 2022

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In 2016,
Leonore von Zadow-Reichling
and Günter von Zadow from
Edition Güntersberg
published
12 Fantasias for Viola da Gamba
by Telemann
that had been lost.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hit7yzZjcN8 listen] to Thomas Fritzsch

18 July 2016

Prince Nikolaus Esterházy,
who commissioned
Beethoven's Mass in C major
for his wife's name day,
found it
"unbearably ridiculous and detestable".

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWwT-Vd5yas listen]

7 July 2015

Martti Wallén,
a Finnish bass singer
who was a member of the Royal Swedish Opera from 1975 to 2000,
performed in world premieres by Aulis Sallinen,
in The Horseman at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in 1975,
and in Kullervo in Los Angeles in 1992.

8 July 2024

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On the Mozart family grand tour
to the cultural centres of Europe,
undertaken by Leopold Mozart,
his wife Anna Maria,
and their children Maria Anna (Nannerl)
and Wolfgang Theophilus (Wolferl)
from 9 July 1763 to 1766
the Wunderkinder
amazed and gratified their audiences.

9 July 2024

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In Bio's Bahnhof,
a German live music talk show series
presented by
Alfred Biolek
(10 July 1934 – 23 July 2021)
in a former train depot,
Kate Bush
made her first television appearance.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01wl9hbMfTo watch]

30 August 2021

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Liana Isakadze,
who won the 1970
Jean Sibelius Violin Competition,
recorded as soloist, arranger and conductor
concertos by Otar Taktakishvili
and Tigran Mansurian
with the Chamber Orchestra of Georgia,
in Ingolstadt.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYISMyasjlI watch]

11 July 2024

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Variations for Cello Solo,
premiered by the composer
Graham Waterhouse
in Vienna in 2020,
depict characteristics
of the members of his family.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qStrfnxkEuc&t=1764s watch]

7 November 2020

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Violeta Dinescu
(born 13 July 1953)
composed the children's opera
Der 35. Mai
based on
The 35th of May,
or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas
by Erich Kästner.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tc3GLb0Cjk watch]

10 November 2009

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Albert Schweitzer
likened the bass line
of an aria mentioning Satan
in Bach's chorale cantata
for the seventh Sunday after Trinity,
Was willst du dich betrüben,
BWV 107
(Why would you grieve),
"to the contortions of a huge dragon.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHIL0UTuc7Y&t=1007s watch]

8 August 2011

Soprano
Melitta Muszely
appeared as
the four women Hoffmann loves
in Offenbach's opera
in Felsenstein's production
at the Komische Oper Berlin in 1958,
and still sang recitals at age 80.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkkksSGiCXc watch]

30 March 2019

After Mozart's opera
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna
on 16 July 1782,
Emperor Joseph II anecdotally remarked
that it had "too many notes".

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpUAV10QXDo watch in Dresden, 1977]

16 July 2024

Marina Kondratyeva,
a leading ballerina
at the Bolshoi Ballet from 1952
described as
"weightless, airy, poetic and spiritual",
was admired as Giselle
also in New York and London
and became a master tutor at the Bolshoi,
passing its tradition for decades.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mh8vEGhnio watch]

17 July 2024

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After signing the Camp David Accords in 1978,
Prime Minister Menachem Begin
ended a speech with a desire to sing the peace song
"Hevenu shalom aleichem"
with the people of Israel.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuNA5j2YwyU watch]

2 November 2023

When Ruth Hesse
appeared at the Royal Opera House
as the Nurse in Die Frau ohne Schatten,
a critic described her performance as
"tirelessly ingenious and vocally in splendid command".

19 July 2024

Thomas Hoepker,
a photojournalist for Stern and Geo
and president of Magnum Photos,
with a desire to photograph human conditions
on assignments around the globe,
took
View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlJIBSCA2Vs As it was]

20 July 2024

In 1524,
Justus Jonas wrote the hymn text
Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält
(If God the Lord does not remain on our side),
paraphrasing Psalm 124,
and in 1724,
Bach composed the chorale cantata
Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält, BWV 178,
for the eighth Sunday after Trinity,
with five different chorale settings
for six of its stanzas.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGV0Z2X5Lac watch]
31 July 2012

Sarah Gibson,
who formed the piano duo
HOCKET with Thomas Kotcheff,
composed warp & weft for large orchestra,
inspired by the art of Miriam Schapiro
and scheduled for the BBC Proms.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVw5_evUsTU watch duo in 2014]

22 July 2024

Gerhard Klingenberg,
who had a successful early career in Austria
as an actor at the Burgtheater in Vienna at age 18
and as stage director at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt
but followed an invitation by Bertold Brecht
to his Berliner Ensemble in East Germany,
was Intendant of the Burgtheater from 1971 to 1976,
bringing in avant-garde European directors
and staging innovative plays
by Thomas Bernhard, Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgKZSc-BmbA&t=1487s tribute]
23 July 2024

April Cantelo
created soprano roles such as
Helena in Benjamin Britten's
A Midsummer Night's Dream
and Miss Beswick in Malcolm Williamson's
English Eccentrics.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGUzNfKIDzM listen]

24 July 2024

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Max Reger
based four tone poems,
Vier Tondichtungen nach A. Böcklin,
on four paintings by Arnold Böcklin,
including Isle of the Dead.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySlHdaC8wCg&t=797s listen]

25 July 2016

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Elena Mauti Nunziata,
who gained international recognition
as Verdi's La traviata
at the Teatro Real in Madrid in 1977,
portrayed Puccini's Mimi
at the Metropolitan Opera
and Madama Butterfly
at the Opéra de Paris.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSeSyVpsBwE&t=1536s watch as La Traviate]

26 July 2024

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Lothar Zenetti's poem
"Segne dieses Kind"
became a song
of blessing for a child,
often sung
at baptism.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hNxpzk6N3w listen]

27 July 2016

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In 1724,
Johann Sebastian Bach had
an excellent flauto traverso player
at hand for
Was frag ich nach der Welt, BWV 94
(What should I ask of the world),
the chorale cantata
for the ninth Sunday after Trinity.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmtTuCgUeT4&t=35s listen]

1 August 2010

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The
Rheingauer Kantorei
performed Mendelssohn's oratorio
Elias
in the Rheingauer Dom
and in the Marktkirche Wiesbaden.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C8YXEe_wM0 listen] to Handel's Halleluja

29 July 2014

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Eugene Sârbu,
who won the 1978 Paganini Competition
and made an international career,
premiered the Violin Concerto
that Einojuhani Rautavaara dedicated to him.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODAzd637L-Y watch Vivaldi]

Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält, BWV 178

30 July 2024

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Wolfgang Rihm
composed Dionysos,
an "opera fantasia"
with text only by Nietzsche,
which was voted premiere of the year
after its first performance
at the Salzburg Festival in 2010.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOGLi4vykcU trailer - with Rihm explaining]

3 October 2017 and today

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The opera
Die Hamletmaschine
by Wolfgang Rihm
has been described as
"a total theatre of sound
and nonnarrative, ritualistic drama".

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRE9Jv7zXeg trailer]

29 July 2013 and today

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The first stanza of the hymn
"Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist",
asking the Holy Spirit
for the right faith most of all,
is documented in German
in the 13th century,
and the later three stanzas
by Martin Luther
relate to faith, love and hope.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuKhY1AyTHo listen]

13 November 2011

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Johann Münzberg
(3 August 1799 – 1 September 1878)
ran leading textile factories in Bohemia
and promoted the building
of the Empress Elisabeth Bridge
over the Elbe in Tetschen.

3 August 2019

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The central movement
of Bach{{'s}} cantata
Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101,
a "furious ritornello" of three oboes,
is followed unexpectedly
by a line of the chorale,
with the melody of
"{{langr|de|Vater unser im Himmelreich}}".

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S67N9W3wP6I&t=758s watch]

29 August 2011

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Verses 2 to 6 of
Psalm 97,
"The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice",
in Czech were set to music
by Antonín Dvořák
in his Biblical Songs.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08IeG2QSggQ listen]

5 August 2019

In celebration of the tercentenary of the birth
of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, tenor
Markus Schäfer
performed in his oratorio
Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu
at the Rheingau Musik Festival.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex-HSCxWOfs listen to Schubert]

6 August 2014

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Jürgen Ahrend
restored the Gothic Rysum organ
and the Arp Schnitger organs
in Groningen's Martinikerk
and Hamburg's St. Jacobi.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eml6w6-tsH4 listen to him and music]

7 August 2024