User:Gerda Arendt/Stories

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story on 21 July 2024:

This is the 2024 archive of my daily stories which began in January 2023, with an overview at User:Gerda Arendt/Story list that also features example stories. This archive has daily entries up to the day of the year while those following may be overwritten by new ones. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:48, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

1 January 2024


Happy New Year 2024 Bach composed Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht, BWV 134a, as a congratulatory cantata for the court of Köthen, first performed on New Year's Day 1719. 14 July 2010

Vertraut den neuen Wegen

2 January 2024


"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.

31 January 2021

3 January 2024
 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.

3 January 2022

Le Laudi

4 January 2024
 Josef Suk (4 January 1874 – 29 May 1935) dedicated his Asrael Symphony "to the exalted memory of Dvořák and Otilie", his father-in-law for whose memory he began the work, and his daughter, the composer's wife.

4 January 2024

5 January 2024


The new Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel, listing 420 compositions, was introduced at a festival celebrating Abel's tercentenary in Köthen

5 January 2024

6 January 2024


Instruments in Bach's cantata for Epiphany, Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen, BWV 65 (They will all come from Sheba), have been compared to the salamiya and zurna.

6 January 2024

Stern über Bethlehem

7 January 2024

 * see 7 January 2023: Concentricities



Hermann Baumann, a pioneer of the natural horn in the revival of both Baroque and Classical period music, recorded Mozart's Horn Concertos with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and premiered Ligeti's Horn Trio.

7 January 2024

Stern über Bethlehem

8 January 2024


Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 15 in A major, Op. 141, his final symphony, intended to be a cheerful work to mark his 65th birthday, was premiered on 8 January 1972, conducted by his son, Maxim Shostakovich.

9 January 2024


A 1974 recording of Mozart's Così fan tutte with Ryland Davies as Ferrando was used in a 1995 film by the Salzburg Marionette Theatre.

9 January 2024

The Advent song "Macht hoch die Tür" is number 1 in the German Protestant hymnal.

3 December 2017

10 January 2024


Chris Karrer was a pioneer of experimental krautrock with the band Amon Düül II (pictured), founded in the spirit of the 1960s student movement, and later played world music with Embryo and flamenco guitar.

10 January 2024

The Firebird

11 January 2024


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

Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud

12 January 2024

 * see 12 January 2023: Volodymyr Kozhukhar, Galina Pisarenko

 Kihwan Sim from South Korea appeared as Mozart's Figaro at the Oper Frankfurt in the first production with the new music director, acting with a hint at the French Revolution.

12 January 2024

Joy to the world

13 January 2023


Guido Dessauer (7 November 1915 – 13 January 2012), a German executive and art collector, registered more than 30 patents in paper technology and started the career of Horst Janssen as a lithographer.

23 January 2012

Selig sind, die da Leid tragen

14 January 2023


In Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid, BWV 3 (Oh God, how much heartache), a chorale cantata first performed on 14 January 1725 at the Thomaskirche, based on Moller's hymn in 18 stanzas, the first cantus firmus is sung by the bass supported by a trombone.

23 January 2016

15 January 2024


Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst (How Deserted Lies the City), a motet composed by Rudolf Mauersberger after the bombing of Dresden, was first performed in the destroyed Kreuzkirche.

15 January 2024

listen to 1951 recording

16 January 2024


Thomas Fritzsch, a viol player who rediscovered compositions by Carl Friedrich Abel, established a festival dedicated to him in Köthen where he was born 300 years before.

16 January 2024

listen

17 January 2024
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(article by Brian Boulton)

17 January 2024

18 January 2024
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Tamara Milashkina, the first Soviet Russian soprano trained at La Scala, portrayed Russian characters with emotion and authenticity touring with the Bolshoi Theatre as Tchaikovsky's Tatiana at the Vienna State Opera and as Lisa at the Metropolitan Opera.

18 January 2024

19 January 2023
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Romuald Twardowski, a prolific Polish composer who studied in Vilnius, Warsaw and Paris, composed operas such as Maria Stuart, a Violin Concerto, and sacred music for both Catholic use and the Orthodox Church including the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom.

19 January 2024

20 January 2023

 * see 20 January 2023: Mother and Child

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St. Joseph, a 1909 Catholic church in the Romanesque Revival style in Berlin-Wedding, has served as an interim cathedral since 2018.

20 January 2024

For the beauty of the earth

21 January 2024

 * see 21 January 2023: Elisabeth Waterhouse

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Vivi Vassileva, a percussionist who was the youngest member of the German national youth orchestra, has played Gregor Mayrhofer's Recycling Concerto on instruments derived from garbage.

listen

21 January 2024

(from User:Gerda Arendt/Stories)

22 January 2024

 * see 23 January 2023: [[Messe in A (Tambling)

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Henri Dutilleux (22 January 1916 – 22 May 2013) composed his Symphony No. 2 Le Double in 1959 as a concerto for twelve soloists from the orchestra

in a semi-circle around the conductor as a mirror of the larger group.

listen

23 January 2024
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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).

24 January 2024
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Ewa Podleś was a Polish coloratura contralto, performing Rossini's Rosina, La Cenerentola, Isabella and Tancredi, and Handel's Rinaldo and Giulio Cesare on leading stages of the world.

24 January 2024

25 January 2024
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The Late Gothic appearance of the church of St. Martin in Oestrich was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War and restored only in 1894.

"Shalom chaverim" ('Peace, friends'), a Hebrew traditional folk song, has been sung at events commemorating the Holocaust and victims of anti-Semitic violence.

25 January 2024

26 January 2024
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26 January 2024

27 January 2024

 * see 27 January 2023: Elena Manistina, Clytus Gottwald

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Franz Fink conducted Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine, dedicated to the pope on 1 September 1610, at St. Martin, Idstein on 1 September 2019.

Cum sanctis tuis in aeternum

28 January 2024

 * see 27 January 2023: St. Peter, Syburg

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28 January 2024

Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Glücke, BWV 84

29 January 2024
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29 January 2016

30 January 2024

 * see 30 January 2023: Kreuzschule

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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

1 February 2024

 * see 1 February 2023: Lobt Gott, ihr Christen alle gleich

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Max van Egmond (born 1 February 1936) recorded the bass arias of Bach's St Matthew Passion with Claudio Abbado and the words of Jesus with Gustav Leonhardt.

2 April 2010

2 February 2023

 * see 2 February 2023: Melitta Muszely, Ich habe genug, BWV 82

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Bishop of Limburg Franz Kamphaus (born 2 February 1932) opposed the pope, "convinced that our way of counselling women would save the lives of many more children".

2 February 2014

Missa primi toni octo vocum

3 February 2024

 * see 3 February 2023: August Röckel

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In her opera Inferno, premiered in 2021 at the Oper Frankfurt, Lucia Ronchetti (born 3 February 1963) gave the main character Dante a speaking voice and an inner voice of four male singers. 7 August 2021

4 February 2024
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Michael Herrmann (born 4 February 1944) is founder-director of the Rheingau Musik Festival, which holds about 150 concerts every season in vineyards and historical buildings.

25 August 2011

Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister, BWV 181

5 February 2024

 * see 5 February 2023: Hans Krieger

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5 February 2020

6 February 2024

 * see 6 February 2023: Nicolas Joel

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Magna Lykseth appeared as Isolde when Wagner's Tristan und Isolde was first performed at the Royal Swedish Opera in 1909.

6 February 2024

7 February 2024

 * see 7 February 2023: Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe, BWV 22

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Stephen Gould, an American heldentenor, performed three roles at the 2022 Bayreuth Festival: Tannhäuser, Siegfried and Tristan, earning him nicknames such as "Iron Man".

7 February 2024

Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe

8 February 2024

 * see 8 February 2023: Domen Križaj

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Oskar Negt (1 August 1934 – 2 February 2024), assistant of Jürgen Habermas in Frankfurt, mentor of the APO and professor of sociology in Hanover, believed that democracy was a form of government that had to be learned.

8 February 2024

9 February 2024

 * see 9 February 2023: Der Kontrabaß

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16 April 2010

10 February 2024

 * see 10 February 2023: Oksana Shvets

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Alfred Grosser (1 February 1925 – 7 February 2024), whose Jewish family had to move from Frankfurt to France in 1933, was instrumental to Franco-German cooperation, paving the way for the 1963 Élysée Treaty, and writing books towards better understanding between the Germans and the French.

10 February 2024

11 February 2024

 * see 11 February 2023: Heinz Winbeck

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Bach composed his cantata Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe, BWV 22, for the last Sunday before Lent as an audition piece for the post of Thomaskantor in Leipzig, displaying a "sheer range of forms and musical expression".

22 February 2013

12 February 2024

 * see 12 February 2023: Da pacem Domine (Pärt), Responsories (Reger)

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Seiji Ozawa (September 1, 1935 – February 6, 2024), the first star conductor from Japan, studied in Tanglewood from 1960 with Charles Munch from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, became artistic director there in 1970 and was the orchestra's music director from 1973 for 29 years.

12 February 2024

13 February 2024

 * see 13 February 2023: Helene Wildbrunn

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Helga Paris photographed people and streetscapes in East Germany, Garbage Collectors, Berliner Kneipen, Leipzig Hauptbahnhof, self portraits, and houses and faces from Halle over three years, and then the exhibition was cancelled.

13 February 2024

look

14 February 2024

 * see 14 February 2023: Alte Liebe

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Voltaire's tragedy Olimpie premiered in 1762 and Henze's opera Elegie für junge Liebende (Elegy for Young Lovers) in 1961 at the Schlosstheater Schwetzingen.

12 December 2011

Zeige uns, Herr, deine Allmacht und Güte

15 February 2024

 * see 15 February 2023: George Alexander Albrecht

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Felix Mendelssohn subtitled Sechs Lieder, Op. 59, six songs for four voices setting poems by Eichendorff and others, "" ("To be sung outdoors").

17 September 2020

O Täler weit, o Höhen

16 February 2024
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Hans-Dieter Bader (16 February 1938 - 18 June 2022) performed the title role of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's opera Sly, recorded live at the Staatsoper Hannover, "as written", while Plácido Domingo had to cut and change the part.

3 May 2016

17 February 2024
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Concert venues of the Rheingau Musik Festival include Eberbach Abbey, Schloss Johannisberg and St. Martin, Lorch. 17 Feb 2010

Madama Butterfly

18 February 2024

 * see 18 February 2023: Robert Hammerstiel

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28 October 2009

Zeige uns, Herr, deine Allmacht und Güte

19 February 2024

 * see 19 February 2023: Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud

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19 February 2024

20 February 2024

 * see 20 February 2023: Johann Georg Reißmüller

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20 February 2024

21 February 2024

 * see 21 February 2023: John Bröcheler

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21 February 2024

22 February 2024

 * see 22 February 2023: Olivier Latry

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For his ordination at the Altrossgarten Church, Georg Weissel wrote the text of the hymn "Such, wer da will, ein ander Ziel" (Search, whoever wants, for a different goal), often sung for funerals, to his friend's melody for a wedding song.

17 March 2016

23 February 2024

 * see 23 February 2023: Nele Hertling

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Max Beckschäfer (born 23 February 1952) composed an organ version of Max Reger's Hebbel-Requiem and played in the 1985 premiere at the Marktkirche, Wiesbaden by a choir formed for the occasion conducted by Gabriel Dessauer.

25 November 2010

Seele, vergiß sie nicht

24 February 2024

 * see 24 February 2023: Artemy Vedel, Prayer for Ukraine

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17 December 2013



Prayer for Ukraine

25 February 2024

 * see 23 February 2023: Selva morale e spirituale

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13 April 2019

26 February 2024
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11 June 2019

27 February 2024

 * see 23 February 2023: Piano Concerto (Reger)

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Russian Jewish painter Marc Chagall created the windows of the church of

St Stephan in Mainz as a sign of Jewish-German reconciliation.

5 December 2006

Take the "A" Train

28 February 2024

 * see 23 February 2023: Doris Stockhausen

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Elisabeth Waterhouse (born 28 February 1933) founded the National Chamber Music Course summer school in 1974 and has managed it since.

21 January 2023

String Sextet (Waterhouse)

listen as she did on 5 November 2022

29 February 2024
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1 March 2024

 * see 1 March 2023: Krzysztof Penderecki

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28 March 2016

2 March 2024

 * see 2 March 2023: Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn, Erfurt Enchiridion

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Erna Berger sang the title role of The Bartered Bride by Bedřich Smetana (2 March 1824 – 12 May 1884) in a 1955 recording with Wilhelm Schüchter and the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie. 10 August 2010

Kurt Honolka mid–20th century German translation of Smetana's Dalibor was still being performed in 2019 in a new Oper Frankfurt production. 5 January 2020

3 March 2024

 * see 2 March 2023: Opernhaus Dortmund, Liselotte Hammes

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3 March 2024

Gott sei gelobet und gebenedeiet

4 March 2024

 * see 4 March 2023: F. W. Bernstein

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14 October 2009

5 March 2024

 * see 4 March 2023: Elisabeth Schärtel

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5 March 2017

6 March 2024

 * see 6 March 2023: Siegfried Vogel

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Dutch soprano 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.

10 April 2020

7 March 2024

 * see 7 March 2023: Willigis Jäger

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Hans-Karl von Kupsch (7 March 1937 – 26 April 2020), who was instrumental in the unification of the East and West German booksellers' associations, ran a gallery of contemporary art together with his wife, offering works by Walter Stöhrer and Karlheinz Oswald.

8 April 2022

8 March 2024

 * see 8 March 2023: Hana Blažíková

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Catherine Rückwardt, who was Generalmusikdirektorin at the Staatstheater Mainz for a decade and one of only four women in such a position in Germany, conducted a recording of the First Symphony by Hans Rott.

8 March 2018

C. P. E. Bach: Magnificat

9 March 2024

 * see 9 March 2023: Azio Corghi

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The titular character of Verdi's Nabucco, the opera that established his fame when it premiered on 9 March 1842 at La Scala in Milan, is a combination of three historic rulers.

15 April 2022

10 March 2024

 * see 10 March 2023: Delores Ziegler

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2 February 2019

11 March 2024

 * see 11 March 2023: The Lord is my Shepherd (Rutter)

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German stage director Tobias Kratzer nominated two versions of Verdi's Rigoletto (premiered 11 March 1851) for an international competition, pretending to be an American woman in the first instance, and a Bulgarian in the second.

10 May 2018

12 March 2024
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Odile Pierre (12 March 1932 – 29 February 2020), who became interested in the organ at a recital by Marcel Dupré at the age of seven, later served as the organist of La Madeleine in Paris and played around 2,000 recitals herself.

22 March 2020

13 March 2024

 * see 13 March 2023: Hans Krieger

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Frank Beermann (born 13 March 1965) conducted the first recording of Bruno Maderna's Requiem, the German premiere of Péter Eötvös's opera Love and Other Demons at the Chemnitz Opera, and Der Ring in Minden.

11 July 2017

14 March 2024

 * see 14 March 2023: Ludwig Finscher

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Dona nobis pacem.

14 March 2024

15 March 2024

 * see 15 March 2023: Lorenzo Viotti

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16 March 2024

 * see 15 March 2023: Volodymyr Kozhukhar

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Guy Touvron, a French classical trumpet player for whom 25 concertos were composed, wrote a biography of his teacher Maurice André published in 2003.

16 March 2024

17 March 2024
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Arvo Pärt composed the motet The Deer's Cry on a commission from Louth, Ireland, setting the conclusion of Saint Patrick's Breastplate, "Christ with me".

listen

17 March 2019

18 March 2024
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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

19 March 2024
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19 July 2010

20 March 2024

 * see 20 March 2023: Stefan Keil

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Aribert Reimann composed Medea for a 2010 premiere at the Vienna State Opera, based on the drama by Franz Grillparzer.

look and listen

20 March 2024

21 March 2024

 * see 21 March 2023: Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191, Gächinger Kantorei

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Mezzo-soprano Pamela Dellal, who recorded music by Hildegard von Bingen and Fanny Mendelssohn, translated all texted works by Bach.

21 March 2016

22 March 2024

 * see 22 March 2023: Margit Bokor

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Wolfgang Fortner composed the chamber opera In seinem Garten liebt Don Perlimplin Belisa after Lorca for the Schlosstheater Schwetzingen, where it opened the Festival in 1962.

8 September 2017

23 March 2024

 * see 23 March 2023: Maria Friesenhausen

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23 March 2024

24 March 2024

 * see 24 March 2023: Annette Dasch

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Comet Hale-Bopp inspired Graham Waterhouse to compose Celtic Voices and Hale Bopp for string orchestra, which ends with a boy soprano singing "How Brightly Shines the Morning Star".

August 2010

Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern

25 March 2024
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20 March 2016

26 March 2024

 * see 26 March 2023: Jörg Streli

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26 March 2024

As music director of the Oper Hagen, Florian Ludwig promoted a wide repertoire that included contemporary operas such as Barber's Vanessa and crossover projects.

27 March 2024

 * see 27 March 2023: Klassische Philharmonie Bonn

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24 February 2019

28 March 2024

 * see 28 March 2023: Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden, BWV 1083

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In a motet for Maundy Thursday attributed to Johann Kuhnau, Tristis est anima mea , Jesus says in Gethsemane "Sad is my soul even unto death".

2 April 2015

29 March 2024

 * see 29 March 2023: Leonore Kirschstein

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... that on Good Friday 2020, Benedikt Kristjánsson sang all roles in a chamber arrangement of Bach's St John Passion, composed for Good Friday 1724, broadcast live from the composer's burial place.

look and listen · look forward

22 May 2020

30 March 2024

 * see 30 March 2023: Jan Müller-Wieland

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In his opera Tri sestry (Three Sisters), composer Péter Eötvös wanted the three sisters from Chekhov's play to be sung by countertenors.

30 March 2024

31 March 2024

 * see 31 March 2023: Munich Biennale

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24 April 2011

listen

1 April 2024

 * see 1 April 2023: Rotraud Hansmann

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The opening chorus of Bach cantata for the Second Day of Easter, Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen, BWV 66, first performed in 1724 has been termed "one of the longest and most exhilarating of Bach's early works". 25 April 2011

listen

2 April 2024

 * see 2 April 2023: Alchymic Quartet

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At age 22, Judith Hemmendinger helped rehabilitate nearly 100 child survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp, among them Elie Wiesel.

2 April 2024

3 April 2024

 * see 3 April 2023: Renate Behle

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3 April 2024

Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud

4 April 2024

 * see 4 April 2023: Hans-Karl von Kupsch, Karlheinz Oswald

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29 March 2024

5 April 2024

 * see 5 April 2023: Marjon Lambriks

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5 April 2024

6 April 2024

 * see 6 April 2023: Tristis est anima mea

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Appalachian Spring, a 1944 ballet by choreographer Martha Graham, and composer Aaron Copland, follows Bride and Husbandman in 19th-century Pennsylvania, with themes of war present throughout the story, and the Shaker tune "Simple Gifts".

6 April 2024

listen

7 April 2024

 * see 7 April 2023: Passions (Homilius)

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Bach created an "operatic scene" in his cantata Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ, BWV 67 (Keep Jesus Christ in mind), for the Sunday after Easter in 1724, with Jesus serenely repeating "Peace be with you" against the raging of the enemies.

listen

19 April 2012

8 April 2024

 * see 8 April 2023: O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß

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Notker Wolf , abbot of St. Ottilien Archabbey in Bavaria and from 2000 to 2016 Abbot Primate of the international Benedictine Confederation, played and recorded with the rock band Feedback.

look and listen

8 April 2024

9 April 2024

 * see 9 April 2023: Messe solennelle (Vierne), Surrexit a mortuis

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After being denied the use of Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., contralto Marian Anderson gave an open-air concert at the Lincoln Memorial on 9 April 1939.

listen

9 April 2024

10 April 2024

 * see 10 April 2023: [[Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen, BWV 66

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listen to him lecturing

10 April 2024

11 April 2024

 * see 11 April 2023: Heinz Hennig

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The Finnish concert organist and improvisor Kalevi Kiviniemi, the first to record the complete organ works by Jean Sibelius, recorded works from different eras on organs of the world to match, such as French organ music on the Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Church of St. Ouen, Rouen.

listen

11 April 2024

12 April 2024

 * see 12 April 2023: Günther Leib

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Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras,

und alle Herrlichkeit des Menschen

wie des Grases Blumen.

Das Gras ist verdorret und die Blume abgefallen.

Aber des Herrn Wort bleibet in Ewigkeit.

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Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt

13 April 2023
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13 April 2024

Part II contains the famous Hallelujah Chorus and the oratorio's longest movement, the air for alto He was despised.

29 July 2011

14 April 2023

 * see 14 April 2023: Eleonore Schönborn

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listen

8 May 2011

15 April 2023

 * see 15 April 2023: Ik sta voor U in leegte en gemis

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listen to him

14 April 2024

16 April 2024

 * see 16 April 2023: Johanna Geisler

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16 April 2024

17 April 2024

 * see 17 April 2023: Lichtental Church

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17 April 2020

18 April 2024

 * see 18 April 2023: Herr, unser Herr, wie bist du zugegen

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Lorenzo Palomo, conductor of the Valencia Orchestra and pianist of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, composed a song cycle Canciones españolas, premiered by Montserrat Caballé at Carnegie Hall in 1987.

listen

18 April 2024

19 April 2024

 * see 19 April 2023: Zeichenstaub

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Diego Fasolis (born 19 April 1958) conducted L'incoronazione di Poppea at the reopened Staatsoper Unter den Linden, adding music by other composers of Monteverdi's time.

trailer

16 January 2018

20 April 2024
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John Eliot Gardiner (born 20 April 1943) conducted the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage and described Bach as the "best writer of dramatic declamation ... since Monteverdi" for the dialogue in Selig ist der Mann, BWV 57. listen 26 December 2010

Dona nobis pacem

21 April 2024

 * see 21 April 2023: Anna and Bernhard Blume

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The first choral section from the 1714 Bach cantata for Jubilate Sunday, Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12 (Weeping, lamenting, worrying, fearing), described as a "deeply affecting" tombeau, became the Crucifixus of the Mass in B minor.

listen

29 April 2012

22 April 2024

 * see 22 April 2023: Passions (Homilius) · Hans Uwe Hielscher

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Kathleen Ferrier CBE (22 April 1912 – 8 October 1953), an English contralto singer of international reputation, chose to perform only two operatic roles on stage, Britten's Lucretia and Gluck's Orfeo.

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22 April 2024

Brahms: O Tod, wie bitter bist du

23 April 2024

 * see 23 April 2023: Erhard Egidi · Martin Petzold

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Andrew Davis, longtime chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, among others, brought The Makropulos Case and Lulu to the Glyndebourne Festival and conducted Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. interview 23 April 2024 Hebe deine Augen auf

24 April 2024

 * see 24 April 2023: Matti Lehtinen

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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.

excerpt

11 June 2020

25 April 2024

 * see 25 April 2023: Schiersteiner Kantorei

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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.

watch

6 April 2019

26 April 2024
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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.

Seele, vergiß sie nicht

16 March 2015

27 April 2024

 * see 27 April 2023: Poèmes pour Mi

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listen to oratorio

16 April 2010

28 April 2024

 * see 28 April 2023: Quattro pezzi sacri

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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".

trailer

9 February 2014

Wo gehest du hin? BWV 166

29 April 2024

 * see 29 April 2023: Hana Blažíková

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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.

Sortie

29 April 2024

30 April 2024

 * see 30 April 2023: Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4

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

watch

30 April 2024

1 May 2024

 * see 1 May 2023: Litanies à la Vierge Noire: Lance Ryan

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

listen to a chorale

28 January 2012

2 May 2024

 * see 2 May 2023: Manfred Weiss

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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'.

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29 March 2018

3 May 2024
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7 April 2011

4 May 2024

 * see 4 May 2023: Kurt Huber

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13 April 2017

5 May 2024

 * see 5 May 2023: Wie als een God wil leven, Solang es Menschen gibt auf Erden

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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

pictured

6 May 2024

 * see 6 May 2023: Te Deum

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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

7 May 2024

 * see 7 May 2023: Te Deum (Reulein)

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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

8 May 2024

 * see 8 May 2023: Philipp Wolfrum

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"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.

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8 May 2022

9 May 2024

 * see 9 May 2023: Colin Mawby

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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 Lutheran thoughts.

9 May 2013

Ascension Oratorio

watch

10 May 2024

 * see 10 May 2023: Bernd Redmann, Jörg Duda, Bassoon Quintet (Waterhouse)

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watch her talk about it and sing

10 May 2024

11 May 2024
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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

12 May 2024

 * see 12 May 2023: Raimund Hoghe

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19 May 2012

13 May 2024

 * see 13 May 2023: Kari Løvaas

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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

14 May 2024

 * see 14 May 2023: Wahrlich, wahrlich, ich sage euch, BWV 86

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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

15 May 2024

 * see 15 May 2023: Zofia Kilanowicz

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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 (listen)

14 November 2019

16 May 2024

 * see 15 May 2023: Faustas Latėnas

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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

17 May 2024

 * see 17 May 2023: Günter Wewel

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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. watch 17 May 2024

Ave Maria

18 May 2024
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20 June 2017

19 May 2024

 * see 19 May 2023: Stephen Varcoe

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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.

watch

6 April 2010

20 May 2024

 * see 20 May 2023: Christiana Mariana von Ziegler

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

listen and look

8 June 2014

Erschallet, ihr Lieder, BWV 172

watch

20 May 2024

21 May 2024

 * see 21 May 2023: Irma Blank

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listen

21 May 2013

22 May 2024

 * see 22 May 2023: Maria Mies

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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. watch one

Verdi: Messa da Requiem 22 May 1874 22 May 2024

23 May 2024

 * see 23 May 2023: Mass in B minor structure

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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.

listen to Bach

23 May 2014

24 May 2024

 * see 24 May 2023: Cathinka Buchwieser

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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.

listen

24 May 2024

25 May 2024

 * see 25 May 2023: Services in B-flat major

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watch

25 May 2024

26 May 2024

 * see 26 May 2023: Es ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding, BWV 176

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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

listen

27 May 2024

 * see 27 May 2023: Surrexit a mortuis

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"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.

listen

27 May 2016

28 May 2024

 * see 28 May 2023: Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! BWV 172

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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). watch 29 March 2015

Vespro della Beata Vergine

29 May 2024

 * see 29 May 2023: Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt, BWV 68

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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. watch a bit 30 July 2013

30 May 2023

 * see 30 May 2023: Die Elenden sollen essen, BWV 75

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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.

watch him improvising

30 May 2024

Ave verum corpus

31 May 2024

 * see 31 May 2023: Eva Randová

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31 May 2024

1 June 2023

 * see 1 June 2023: Javier Álvarez (composer)

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

1 June 2024

listen to 2022 festival

2 June 2024

 * see 2 June 2023: Kölner Domchor

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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.

watch

12 June 2012

3 June 2024

 * see 3 June 2023: Michael Hampe

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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

4 June 2023

 * see 4 June 2023: Erasmus Schöfer

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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

5 June 2024

 * see 5 June 2023: Aile Asszonyi

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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

6 Jun 2023

 * see 6 June 2023: Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, BWV 76

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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

7 June 2024

 * see 7 June 2023: Kurt Widmer

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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

8 June 2024

 * see 8 June 2023: St. Stephan, Baden

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8 June 2014

9 June 2023

 * see 9 June 2023: Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Die Schöpfung

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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.

listen

10 August 2011

10 June 2024

 * see 10 June 2023: Hanns-Martin Schneidt

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10 June 2019

11 June 2023

 * see 11 June 2023: Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227, Mass in B minor structure

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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.

listen

23 July 2021

Das Wandern ist des Müllers Lust

12 June 2024

 * see 12 June 2023: Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud

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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.

listen

29 June 2018

13 June 2024

 * see 13 June 2023: Kurt Equiluz

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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.

interview

13 June 2024

14 June 2024

 * see 14 June 2023: Hedwig Fassbender

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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.

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14 June 2017

15 June 2024

 * same as 2023

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20 July 2019

16 June 2024

 * see 16 June 2023: Pascal Rophé (Henri Dutilleux)

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14 July 2011

17 June 2024

 * see 17 June 2023: Albert Dohmen

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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

18 June 2024

 * see 18 June 2023: Jörg Faerber

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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

19 June 2024

 * see 19 June 2023: Jörg Widmann

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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. watch 19 June 2024

20 June 2024

 * see 20 June 2023: Sonata ebraica

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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.

listen to him

20 June 2024

21 June 2024

 * see 21 June 2023: Gabriele Schnaut

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Ernst Pepping composed in 1937 in Nazi Germany the Evangelienmotette Jesus und Nikodemus on, showing "the reality of a different, heavenly world". listen 21 June 2015

22 June 2024

 * see 22 June 2023: Cornel Țăranu

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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.

listen

17 February 2010

23 June 2024

 * see 23 June 2023: Josef Protschka

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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.

watch in a service

Nun jauchzt dem Herren, alle Welt

31 July 2019

24 June 2024

 * see 24 June 2023: Rheingau Musik Festival

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watch

24 June 2024

25 June 2024

 * see 25 June 2023: The Company of Heaven

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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". trailer

25 June 2024

26 June 2024

 * see 26 June 2023: Alte Liebe

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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.

in memory

26 June 2024

27 June 2024

 * see 27 June 2023: Doris Stockhausen

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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

28 June 2024

 * see 28 June 2023: Mass in B minor structure

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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.

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28 June 2014

29 June 2024

 * see 29 June 2023: Soňa Červená

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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. watch

29 June 2024

30 June 2024

 * see 30 June 2023: Peter Brötzmann

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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.

listen

30 June 2015

1 July 2024

 * see 1 July 2023: Cantata academica

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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.

listen with score

1 July 2024

2 July 2024

 * see 2 July 2023: Missa brevis in B-flat

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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.

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2 July 2024

3 July 2024

 * see 3 July 2023: Rachel Yakar

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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

4 July 2024

 * see 4 July 2023: Christopher Lowrey

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4 July 2024

5 July 2023
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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.

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5 July 2022

6 July 2023
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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.

listen to Thomas Fritzsch

18 July 2016

7 July 2024

 * see 7 July 2023: Wolkentanz

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

listen

7 July 2015

8 July 2024

 * see 8 July 2023: Twelve Fantasias for Viola da Gamba solo

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8 July 2024

9 July 2024

 * see 9 July 2023: ensemble amarcord

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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

10 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.

watch

30 August 2021

11 July 2024

 * see 11 July 2023: Frank Beermann

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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.

watch

11 July 2024

12 July 2024

 * see 12 July 2023: Frank Stähle

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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.

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7 November 2020

13 July 2024

 * see 13 July 2023: Anthony Gilbert (composer)

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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.

watch

10 November 2009

14 July 2024

 * see 14 July 2023: Graham Clark (tenor)

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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.

watch

8 August 2011

15 July 2024

 * see 15 July 2023: Violeta Hemsy de Gainza

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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.

watch

30 March 2019

16 July 2024

 * see 16 July 2023: Requiem (Reger)

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watch in Dresden, 1977

16 July 2024

17 July 2024

 * see 17 July 2023: Yvonne, Prinzessin von Burgund

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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. watch

17 July 2024

18 July 2024

 * see 18 July 2023: Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz, BWV 136

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2 November 2023

19 July 2024

 * see 19 July 2023: Martin Janus

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19 July 2024

20 July 2024

 * see 20 July 2023: Heide Simonis

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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.

As it was

20 July 2024

21 July 2024

 * see 21 July 2023: Casals Forum

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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. watch 31 July 2012

22 July 2023
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The Empress Elisabeth Bridge , a 1855 chain bridge over the Elbe connecting Tetschen to the railroad to Dresden, was named in honor of the newly married Elisabeth of Austria.

14 September 2019

23 July 2023
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23 July 2023

24 July 2023
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Singers Anne Sofie von Otter and Christian Gerhaher (born 24 July 1969) recorded music written in the concentration camp of Terezín by artists such as Ilse Weber, Hans Krása, Pavel Haas and Viktor Ullmann.

19 March 2010

25 July 2023
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After Tenebrae received the Rheingau Musikpreis during a concert at Eberbach Abbey, they performed Talbot's Path of Miracles, a 2005 one-hour work for choir a cappella inspired by the Camino de Santiago.

25 July 2023

The Love for Three Oranges

26 July 2023
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Romanian musicologist Cornel Țăranu (20 June 1934 – 18 June 2023) completed unfinished scores by George Enescu that Enescu did not wish to publish.

26 July 2023

27 July 2023
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In 1973 Luten Petrowsky played the saxophone in a quartet that made the first record with jazz musicians from both East and West Germany.

27 July 2023

Vi gå över daggstänkta berg

28 July 2023
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Silvana Lattmann, biologist, poet and author, published the memoir Nata il 1918 in 2019.

28 July 2023

Prayer for Ukraine

29 July 2023
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Rhythm Is It! is a 2004 documentary film about 250 public school students trained by Royston Maldoom to dance Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps with the Berlin Philharmonic.

31 August 2020

He was despised

30 July 2023
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Paul Gerhardt's song of thanks and praise "Nun danket all und bringet Ehr" was first published along with 17 of his other hymns in 1647, during the Thirty Years' War.

4 June 2018

31 July 2023
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A French team, with Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Boulez, created the Jahrhundertring of Richard Wagner's Ring cycle at the centenary Bayreuth Festival in 1976, causing "a near-riot".

6 November 2013

1 August 2023
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Martin Walser's Ein fliehendes Pferd (Runaway Horse), his most successful book with readers and critics, was adapted for the screen in 1986 by Peter Beauvais, and again in 2007 by Rainer Kaufmann.

1 August 2023

2 August 2023
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Andris Nelsons conducted Bartok's Viola Concerto and Mahler's Fifth Symphony in the final concert with his Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie.

2 August 2010

pictured:

Jonathon Heyward announcing on 3 March 2022 at the Stadttheater Minden that the concert (which included Stavinsky's The Firebird) was dedicated to the victims of the Russian invasion into Ukraine

3 August 2023
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Kaiser Wilhelm II called the Kurhaus in Wiesbaden "the most beautiful spa in the world" at the opening ceremony.

8 April 2012

Beethoven: Violin Concerto

4 August 2023
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Felix Mendelssohn first composed the motet Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen (For He shall give His angels charge) for an eight-part choir, then included it with orchestra in Elijah.

4 August 2023

Hebe deine Augen auf

5 August 2023
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Nancy Van de Vate's opera Quiet at the Western Front was performed at the New York City Opera.

5 August 2023

Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen

6 August 2023
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After the Ukrainian soprano Olga Bezsmertna (born 6 August 1983) won the Neue Stimmen competition in 2011, she was engaged at the Vienna State Opera.

29 March 2022

Dove sono

7 August 2023
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Igor Stravinsky said of his cousin and first wife, Yekaterina "Katya", that they were "closer than lovers sometimes are".

7 August 2023

The Firebird

8 August 2023
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Mariana Sîrbu, who played first violin in a string quartet that she founded as a student in Bucharest in 1967 and moved to Ireland, was concertmaster of I Musici from 1993 to 2003.

listen to Mozart

8 August 2023

9 August 2023
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9 August 2023

10 August 2023
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10 August 2014

Hebe deine Augen auf

11 August 2023
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11 August 2021

12 August 2023
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The Überwasserkirche, a Gothic hall church in Münster, was the location of the second of three sermons held in 1941 by Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen in defiance of the Nazi regime.

15 September 2018

13 August 2023
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The "extreme lightness and luminous agility" of Michael McCown voice in the roles of Britten's Tempter and Nebuchadnezzar has been likened to that of Peter Pears.

13 August 2023

Meermenschen

14 August 2023
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14 August 2014

15 August 2023
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After an absence of four years, the Inkpot Madonna, holding a naked Baby Jesus with quill in hand, returns to the Hildesheim Cathedral today.

15 August 2014

Countertenor David Erler was one of five singers invited by amarcord for the performance of Monteverdi's Vespers as the annual Marienvesper of the Rheingau Musik Festival in Eberbach Abbey.

16 August 2023
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Hans-Jochen Jaschke, who was responsible for ecumenism and inter-religious dialogue as an auxiliary bishop of Hamburg, represented the Catholic Church in the media.

16 August 2023

17 August 2023
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Marie Lehmann, one of the Rhinemaidens at the first Bayreuth Festival (13–17 August 1876), sang the soprano solo in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony for the groundbreaking of the Bayreuth Festival Theatre.

13 August 2018

18 August 2023
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18 August 2015

Mahler: Second Symphony

19 August 2023
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Vilde Frang (born 19 August 1986) played Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy, with Mariss Jansons conducting the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, at age 13.

8 May 2013

Mahler: Fourth Symphony

20 August 2023
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Renata Scotto made her opera debut as La traviata in Milan, portrayed Madama Butterfly for her debut at the Met, and was Mimi in the first Live from the Met telecast in 1977, alongside Luciano Pavarotti.

20 August 2023

Verdi: Requiem

21 August 2023
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7 April 2011

22 August 2023
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Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) described his Cello Sonata, composed within a few weeks in July 1915 at a Normandy seaside town, in a letter to his publisher Durand as of "almost classical form".

22 August 2022

23 August 2023
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23 August 2017

24 August 2023
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23 February 2013

25 August 2023
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Thomas Gabriel (born 25 August 1957) composed the Missa mundi for the 2005 World Youth Day, representing the continents in style and instrumentation with pan flute, sitar, drums and didgeridoo.

28 April 2013

Gott hat mir längst einen Engel gesandt

26 August 2023
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31 March 2014

Mahler: Ninth Symphony

27 August 2023
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The First Symphony "Music on Open Strings" by Gloria Coates was the first composition by a woman in the Musica Viva series of Bayerischer Rundfunk.

27 August 2023

Goldberg Variations

28 August 2023
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Rehearsing Dvořák's Eighth Symphony, conductor Rafael Kubelík said: "Gentlemen, in Bohemia the trumpets never call to battle – they always call to the dance!".

8 September 2013

heard 2013

29 August 2023
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When Berit Lindholm (18 October 1934 – 12 August 2023), a dramatic soprano of the Royal Swedish Opera, appeared as Chrysothemis at the Royal Opera House, a reviewer described her as "tall, and remarkably slim for so epic a voice".

Berit Lindholm performed as Wagner's Isolde at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow in a pioneering tour of the Vienna State Opera in 1971.

30 August 2023
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Beethoven's Third Cello Sonata, first performed in 1809, has been described as the first sonata for piano and cello to treat the instruments as equal partners.

16 December 2020 (quirky in the all-Beethoven set)

in concert today

31 August 2023
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Of thrice-married composer Alma Mahler (31 August 1879 – 11 December 1964) Tom Lehrer crooned, "Alma, tell us! All modern women are jealous Which of your magical wands got you Gustav and Walter and Franz".

10 July 2018

1 September 2023
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Le Vin herbé, a 1942 composition by Frank Martin of the Tristan and Iseult story for twelve vocalists, seven strings and piano, was staged at the 1948 Salzburg Festival.

1 September 2023

Vespro della Beata Vergine

2 September 2023
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The concert venues of the Rheingau Musik Festival have included Eberbach Abbey from the beginning, where the final concert of 2023 is Bruckner's Seventh Symphony played by the Gewandhausorchester conducted by Herbert Blomstedt (born 1927).

17 February 2010

3 September 2023
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Giuseppe Verdi's secular cantata Inno delle nazioni, his first collaboration with Arrigo Boito, contains three national anthems.

3 September 2013

Jesu, meine Freude

4 September 2023
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4 September 2013

5 September 2023
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5 September 2023

6 September 2023
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Nerotalanlagen, a park along a creek in Wiesbaden, was built in the late 19th century to enhance the town's spa quality?

26 September 2020

Ich steh vor dir mit leeren Händen, Herr

7 September 2023
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7 September 2023

8 September 2023
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Concerts of the Spannungen festival of chamber music, founded by pianist Lars Vogt (8 September 1970 – 5 September 2022) in 1998, are played in a power plant.

21 September 2022

9 September 2023
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10 September 2023
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16 May 2012

11 September 2023
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11 September 2023

Traum durch die Dämmerung

12 September 2023
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12 September 2023

Myrthen

13 September 2023
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The pianist Clara Schumann, (13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) who toured Europe for decades, taught 68 students at Dr. Hoch's, including those from Britain and the U.S..

19 December 2019

Myrthen

14 September 2023
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Margherita Rinaldi (12 January 1935 – 7 September 2023) made her debut as Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor in 1958, prompting a career at La Scala in Milan where she appeared as Giulietta in Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi alongside Luciano Pavarotti.

14 September 2023

15 September 2023
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Soprano Jessye Norman (15 September 1945 – 30 September 2019), whose voice was described as a "grand mansion of sound", performed at U.S. presidential inaugurations and sang La Marseillaise at the French Revolution's bicentennial.

29 March 2020

16 September 2023
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Wolfgang J. Fuchs (16 September 1945 – 20 January 2020), an early German comics scholar who co-wrote a 1971 standard work on the topic, translated Garfield and Mom's Cancer.

7 February 2020

17 September 2023
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17 September 2020

18 September 2023
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Grischa Huber (18 September 1944 – 6 April 2021) played Grischa in Under the Pavement Lies the Strand, regarded as "a cult film in the feminist movement".

6 May 2021

19 September 2023
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After the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shared the Nobel Peace Prize, contributing author Raymond Arritt (September 19, 1957 – November 14, 2018) said, "It's kind of neat: I have, like, .002 percent of a Nobel prize now".

12 January 2019

20 September 2023
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Georg Christoph Biller (r.) (20 September 1955 – 27 January 2022) was the Thomaskantor, the conductor of the Thomanerchor in Leipzig, the 16th successor of Johann Sebastian Bach in this position.

18 April 2010

Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227

21 September 2023
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"Freuet euch der schönen Erde", an 1827 hymn about the beauty of nature, became successful with a melody composed by Frieda Fronmüller 100 years later.

Rombergpark

22 September 2023
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Elisabeth Rethberg (22 September 1894 – 6 June 1976) a soprano whose career began in Saxony, became Aida at La Scala in Milan, conducted by Toscanini.

23 September 2023
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With the growth of the Werl pilgrimage to a statue of Mary, a large Romanesque Revival basilica was built adjacent to the former Baroque church (pictured).

24 May 2020

24 September 2023
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For the morning song "Die güldne Sonne voll Freud und Wonne", the poet found a new metre, and the composer a new melody, to reflect the many meanings of "rising".

16 July 2021

25 September 2023
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Stephen Gould, an American heldentenor, performed around 100 times at the Bayreuth Festival, especially as Tannhäuser, Siegfried, and Tristan, all three even in one year in 2022.

25 September 2023

26 September 2023
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A loop from the anthem O clap your hands, a setting of verses from Psalm 47 by Ralph Vaughan Williams for choir, brass, organ and percussion, was used by the Beatles for "Revolution 9".

26 September 2018

27 September 2023
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Kloster Gnadenthal (buildings pictured) was a Cistercian nunnery from 1235, a Protestant women's Stift from 1564, and became an ecumenical community in 1969.

27 September 2018

28 September 2023
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28 September 2023

29 September 2023
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25 June 2013

30 September 2023
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The Kreuzkapelle above Bad Camberg, a pilgrimage chapel dedicated to the Holy Cross, has a floor plan of a Greek cross.

24 August 2020

Der am Kreuz ist meine Liebe

1 October 2023
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"Wir pflügen und wir streuen" ('We plow and sow'), with words by Matthias Claudius, began as a song of a fictional harvest festival, and is now a Protestant hymn for Erntedankfest.

9 January 2020

2 October 2023
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Dona nobis pacem is a cantata by Ralph Vaughan Williams, first performed on 2 October 1936, a plea for peace with texts taken from the Mass, poems by Walt Whitman, a political speech, and sections of the Bible.

3 October 2023
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Haydn's oratorio The Creation is structured in three parts, the first two about the creation as narrated in Genesis, and the third about Adam and Eve in Paradise.

3 October 2011

4 October 2023
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Swiss composer Hermann Suter's symphonic oratorio Le Laudi (The Praises) is a setting of St. Francis of Assisi's Italian Canticle of the Sun for choir, soloists, voci di ragazzi, organ and orchestra.

24 October 2012

5 October 2023
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5 October 2018

6 October 2023
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6 October 2023

7 October 2023
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7 October 2023

8 October 2023
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Tabea Zimmermann (born 8 October 1966) prepared her own version of Bartók's Viola Concerto from the composer's sketches, and played it at the Casals Forum, with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony conducted by Christoph Eschenbach.

9 October 2023
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Alain Altinoglu (born 9 October 1975) conducted the opening concert of the 2023 Rheingau Musik Festival at Eberbach Abbey, featuring Poulenc's Stabat Mater with the MDR Rundfunkchor and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony.

10 October 2023
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The baritone Björn Bürger (born 10 October 1985), who won the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Berlin in 2012, performed the title role in Arnulf Herrmann's Der Mieter in its 2017 world premiere at the Oper Frankfurt.

11 October 2023
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11 October 2023

12 October 2023
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Reiner Goldberg, a heldentenor who performed Wagner-roles worldwide, was a member of the Berlin State Opera from 1972, appeared as Aron in the iconic production of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron of the Dresden State Opera in 1975, and sang Parsifal in the 1982 Syberberg film "with a youthful radiance that is precisely that of the chaste madman".

12 October 2023

13 October 2023
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13 October 2023

Kommt ein Vogel geflogen

14 October 2023
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14 October 2023

Suscepit Israel

15 October 2023
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15 October 2023

Ubi caritas et amor

16 October 2023
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"Glauben können wie du" (Believing like you), a hymn by Helmut Schlegel, is addressed to Mary, and relates to her exemplary faith, hope and love.

3 November 2017

17 October 2023
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Tenor Thomas Mohr, who sang the roles of Loge, Siegmund, and Siegfried in Der Ring in Minden, and Florestan in Fidelio in Hamm, hosts concerts in his cowshed?

17 October 2019

18 October 2023
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Walls and the ceiling of the Unionskirche (Union Church) in Idstein are covered with 38 oil paintings from the Dutch Golden Age school of Rubens.

20 June 2011

19 October 2023
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19 October 2023

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In 2023, a sculpture garden in Praunheim displayed abstract works by Hans Steinbrenner from different periods of his life, and corresponding works by his friends and students.

20 October 2023

Schau an der schönen Gärten Zier

21 October 2023
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"" ("Call it causelessly merry") was one of about 40 poems by Mascha Kaléko set to music on a 2011 album.

26 December 2018

"Ich freu mich, daß am Himmel Wolken ziehen"

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The opening chorus of Bach's cantata Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV 180, has been regarded as "perfectly tailored to the idea of the soul dressing itself up in all its wedding finery".

10 November 2011

Gott sei gelobet und gebenedeiet

23 October 2023
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23 October 2013

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Carmen Petra Basacopol a musicologist who taught at the National University of Music Bucharest between 1962 and 2003, and at the Rabat Conservatoire, composed operas for children and chamber music for flute and harp.

24 October 2013

25 October 2023
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Elsa Reger (25 October 1870 – 3 May 1951), who had first rejected Max Reger's courting, titled her autobiography Mein Leben mit und für Max Reger (My life with and for Max Reger).

21 July 2016

Der Mensch lebt und bestehet

26 October 2023
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Pianist Miku Nishimoto-Neubert, a prize winner of the Leipzig Bach Competition, has been described as "moving between capricious high spirits and a meditative inwardness"

26 October 2013

Alkan: Cello Sonata

27 October 2023
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27 October 2011

28 October 2023
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Isabelle Cals, who turned to singing after a degree in Chinese, appeared as Wagner's Kundry in a production of Parsifal at the Stadttheater Minden

28 October 2023

In Der Ring in Minden, the orchestra played at the back of the stage, and the singers all turned towards it to listen to the music at the end.

29 October 2023
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Percy Grainger, who left Australia at the age of 13 to attend Hoch's Conservatorium, played a prominent role in the revival of interest in British folk music in the course of a long and innovative career.

Vespro della Beata Vergine

30 October 2023
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29 October 2023

31 October 2023
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John Eliot Gardiner performed Bach's cantatas for Reformation Day in the Schloßkirche, Wittenberg, including Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild, BWV 79.

31 October 2012

Erhalt uns in der Wahrheit

1 November 2023
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Herr, unser Herr, wie bist du zugegen, a "song of God's presence" written in 1965 in Dutch by Huub Oosterhuis (1 November 1933 – 9 April 2023), became part of the first common German Catholic hymnal, and was retained in the second by popular demand.

6 April 2021

2 November 2023
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2 November 2023

3 November 2023
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Zdeněk Mácal, a promising Czech conductor, left his home country in 1968 and was chief conductor of orchestras in Germany, Australia and the United States, returning to Prague to lead the Czech Philharmonic from 2003.

3 November 2023

4 November 2023
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Jesu, meine Freude (Jesus, my joy), a motet by Bach, has a complex symmetrical structure in which six hymn stanzas alternate with five Bible verses.

15 April 2021

The hymn "Jesu, meine Freude" by Johann Franck and Johann Crüger mentions singing in defiance of the "old dragon", death, and fear.

23 May 2014

6 November 2023
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On 6 November 2016 Peter Reulein conducted the premiere of his oratorio Laudato si', described as a Franciscan Magnificat, with more than 250 performers at the Limburg Cathedral.

29 January 2017

Jesu, meine Freude

7 November 2023
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Bach composed four dialogues for his cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60, first performed 7 November 1723, three between Fear and Hope, and one between Fear and the Voice of Christ.

14 November 2010

Eric Sams remarked "what bride ever had a finer wedding gift?" of the song collection Myrthen (Myrtles), which Robert Schumann dedicated to Clara.

7 November 2023

8 November 2023
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22 February 2016

9 November 2023
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In the fairy-tale opera Der Schuhu und die fliegende Prinzessin by Udo Zimmermann, two orchestras play on stage, representing two empires in conflict.

9 November 2018

Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst

10 November 2023
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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, by Martin Luther (10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546), relate to faith, love and hope.

13 November 2011

11 November 2023
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11 November - St. Martin's Day

Two conductors shared performances of Verdi's Messa da Requiem in St. Martin, Idstein.

21 November 2010

Mozart: Lacrymosa

12 November 2023
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12 November 2023

13 November 2023
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"Mir nach, spricht Christus, unser Held" (Follow me, says Christ, our hero) is a Christian hymn in German with a text by Angelus Silesius that uses sayings of Jesus in direct speech.

13 November 2023

Hevenu shalom aleichem

14 November 2023
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In 2016, Edition Güntersberg published Twelve Fantasias for Viola da Gamba solo by Georg Philipp Telemann that had been lost.

22 July 2017

Leonore von Zadow-Reichling and Günter von Zadow (r.) received the first biennial Abel Prize of Köthen for their efforts to retrieve and publish compositions by Carl Friedrich Abel.

15 November 2023
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Kurdish civil engineer and politician Hevrin Khalaf (15 November 1984 – 12 October 2019) , who worked for tolerance among Christians, Arabs, and Kurds, was killed in the 2019 Turkish offensive into Syria.

19 November 2019

da pacem Domine

16 November 2023
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The 1964 church for the new parish Zu den heiligen Engeln (To the Holy Angels) in Hannover was designed by Josef Bieling to symbolize the tent of God among men.

18 December 2018

Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist

Nun danket all und bringet Ehr

17 November 2023
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17 November 2023

listen and look, Poppea

18 November 2023
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Andris Nelsons (born 18 November 1978) conducted Bartok's Viola Concerto and Mahler's Fifth Symphony in the final concert with his Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie.

2 August 2010

19 November 2023
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10 August 2010

Bach: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1

20 November 2023
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Claude Kahn (9 November 1935 – 17 November 2023), who won the Franz Liszt Competition at age 15, founded and directed a piano competition in his name in 1970, and the conservatoire of Antibes in 1971.

20 November 2023

listen to Chopin

21 November 2023
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Two conductors shared performances of Verdi's Messa da Requiem in St. Martin, Idstein.

21 November 2010

Palmeri: Misatango Reulein: Te Deum

look and listen to us

22 November 2023
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22 November 2023

listen to Britten and Pears

23 November 2023
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Thanksgiving

Lea Ackermann, a German nun of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa, fought against forced prostitution and sex tourism in East Africa.

23 November 2023

Nun danket all und bringet Ehr

24 November 2023
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24 November 2023



Claire de lune

25 November 2023
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Burgenland Croat sculptor Thomas Resetarits (25 November 1939 – 18 May 2022) created Stations of the Cross.

22 June 2022

da pacem Domine

26 November 2023
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15 January 2016

da pacem Domine

28 November 2023
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Jerome Kohl (November 27, 1946 – August 4, 2020), a music theorist of the University of Washington, was recognized internationally as an authority on the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, publishing a book on his Zeitmaße in 2017.

28 January 2021

In Freundschaft

29 November 2023
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29 November 2023

30 November 2023
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Contralto Sonia Prina (born 30 November 1975) performed the title role of Antonio Vivaldi's 1727 opera Orlando furioso at the Oper Frankfurt, staged as a rocker.

13 September 2010

L'enfant et les sortilèges

1 December 2023
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Un'aura amorosa

2 December 2023
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Bernard Ładysz, a bass-baritone who performed in world premieres of Krzysztof Penderecki's music in Hamburg and in Salzburg, was the only Polish singer to appear with Maria Callas (2 December 1923 – 16 September 1977).

21 August 2020

Andréa Guiot appeared internationally in French soprano roles such as Mireille, Marguerite, Manon, and Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen, which she recorded alongside Maria Callas in the title role.

8 March 2021

3 December 2023
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3 December 2017

4 December 2023
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Gabriel Dessauer (born 4 December 1955) conducted the premiere of Reger's Hebbel Requiem in the organ version of Max Beckschäfer with a project choir at the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden.

25 November 2010

The prolific composer and Westminster Cathedral conductor Colin Mawby said, "I cannot write choral music unless I work with choirs ... I have to write for particular people".

9 December 2011

5 December 2023
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12 October 2017

6 December 2023
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Wilhelm II, German Emperor, called the Kurhaus in Wiesbaden "the most beautiful spa in the world" at the opening ceremony.

8 April 2012

Saint Nicolas

7 December 2023
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Ignace Michiels (born 7 December 1963) of the St. Salvator's Cathedral in Bruges has been the organist for the German-Flemish Reger-Chor in works such as Reger's Requiem.

29 August 2010

Reger: Der 100. Psalm

8 December 2023
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Max Reger composed "in new simplicity" Unser lieben Frauen Traum, a motet suitable for Advent, about a dream of Mary of a tree growing in her.

18 December 2015

Maria durch ein Dornwald ging

9 December 2023
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9 December 2023

Unser lieben Frauen Traum

10 December 2023
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In 1973 Luten Petrowsky (10 December 1933 – 10 July 2023) played the saxophone in a quartet that made the first record with jazz musicians from both East and West Germany.

27 July 2023

Machet die Tore weit

11 December 2023
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The lawyer Wolfgang Wieland, a co-founder of the Berlin Greens and their speaker in the city parliament, represented the joint plaintiff in the Mykonos restaurant assassinations.

11 December 2023

Wo bleibst du, Trost der ganzen Welt?

12 December 2023
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The Advent hymn "O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf" (O Saviour, tear open the heavens) was written against a backdrop of the Thirty Years' War, the plague, and witch trials.

23 December 2016

13 December 2023
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December 13, 2018

14 December 2023
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14 December 2018

Gianni Schicchi

15 December 2023
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Erna Berger sang the title role of Smetana's The Bartered Bride in a 1955 recording with Wilhelm Schüchter (15 December 1911 – 27 May 1974) and the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie.

10 August 2010

Der Rosenkavalier

16 December 2023
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Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, who commissioned Beethoven's Mass in C major for his wife's name day, found it "unbearably ridiculous and detestable".

7 July 2015

Es kommt ein Schiff, geladen

17 December 2023
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In 2018 Lydia Steier, born in Hartford, Connecticut, became the first woman to stage Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Salzburg Festival.

trailer Aida

Tochter Zion, freue dich

18 December 2023
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Martin Luther's hymn "Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin", a reflection of the canticle of Simeon, is the base of funeral music by Schütz, Buxtehude and Bach.

18 December 2014

19 December 2023
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19 December 2020

20 December 2023
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The German Advent song "Tochter Zion, freue dich" has words by Friedrich Heinrich Ranke set to music used for triumphant entrances in two of Handel's oratorios.

12 January 2020

21 December 2023
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25 March 2014

22 December 2023
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Der neue Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel wurde 2023 in Köthen vorgestellt, wo der Gambist vor 300 Jahren geboren wurde.

22 December 2023

The new Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel (AbelWV) was introduced in Köthen, where the viol virtuoso was born on 22 December 1723.

23 December 2023
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Gunther Emmerlich, bass singer and television presenter, appeared as Kuno in the performance of Weber's Der Freischütz to open the restored Semperoper.

23 December 2023

Wir sagen euch an den lieben Advent

24 December 2023
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On Christmas Eve in 1818, the Christmas carol "Stille Nacht" ("Silent Night") was first performed in the Nikolauskirche in Oberndorf, Austria.

24 December 2023

singen, singen

listen

25 December 2023
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Merry Christmas!

"Verbum caro factum est", a Christmas motet for six voices by Hans Leo Hassler in the Venetian polychoral style, has been arranged for brass ensembles.

25 December 2023

O du fröhliche...

26 December 2023
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Bach's cantata for the second day of Christmas, Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes ("For this the Son of God appeared"), BWV 40, is his first Christmas cantata composed for Leipzig.

26 December 2026

Joy to the World

27 December 2023
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Bach has a choir of trombones double the choir in his cantata Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget, BWV 64, for the Third Day of Christmas, dedicated to John the Evangelist and first performed on 27 December 1723.

27 December 2010

Verbum caro factum est

28 December 2023
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Diethard Hellmann (28 December 1928 – 14 October 1999), the director of church music at the Christuskirche in Mainz, reconstructed the music of the lost Bach cantata for the Third Sunday in Advent, Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, BWV 186a.

3 December 2010

29 December 2023
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Rebekka Habermas, a German historian at the University of Göttingen, who also taught in Paris, Montreal and New York, focused on people in the social and cultural conditions of 19th-century Germany.

29 December 2023

30 December 2023
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Heike Matthiesen recorded a 2016 album Guitar Ladies of compositions for guitar solo by women including Sidney Pratten (1821–1895), María Luisa Anido, Ida Presti, Sofia Gubaidulina, Sylvie Bodorová, Annette Kruisbrink, and Maria Linnemann who had dedicated her work to the player.

30 December 2023

31 December 2023
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Happy New Year 2024

A German theologian wrote "Vertraut den neuen Wegen" (Trust the new ways) to the melody of Lob Gott getrost mit Singen (Praise God confidently with singing) to be sung at a wedding in Eisenach shortly before the fall of the Wall. 7 April 2021