User:Gerda Arendt/Stories 2023

This is the 2023 archive of my daily stories, with an overview at User:Gerda Arendt/Story list. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:33, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

... and a selection here --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:02, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

7 January 2023


Concentricities, a 2019 clarinet–cello–piano trio by Graham Waterhouse, musically depicts a theme of circular, spiraling, or oscillating concentric phenomena in nature and human structures

7 January 2023

look and see

Compositions by Graham Waterhouse range from the beginning of his String Sextet, Op. 1, in 1979 to the Fantasia Ucraina for two violins in 2022.

Prayer for Ukraine

12 January 2023


Volodymyr Kozhukhar, the chief conductor of the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv, led Lysenko's opera Taras Bulba and Shchedrin's ballet Carmen Suite.

Galina Pisarenko, a soprano of Moscow's Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre for almost 30 years, taught at the Moscow Conservatory until her death at age 88.

12 January 2023

13 January 2023


Guido Dessauer, 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

20 January 2023


In Mother and Child, composed in 2002 by John Tavener for the vocal ensemble Tenebrae, organ and temple gong enter for the climax.

1 January 2023

21 January 2023


Elisabeth Waterhouse founded the National Chamber Music Course summer school in 1974 and has managed it since.

21 January 2023

Graham Waterhouse began his String Sextet op. 1 in 1979, and completed it 34 years later.

23 January 2023


The Messe in A by Christopher Tambling, originally set for high voices, proved so popular that a four-part version was commissioned.

23 January 2023

Johannes Schröder composed an oratorio honouring Katharina Kaspar, who became a new saint in 2018.

1 November 2021

27 January 2023
 Mezzo-soprano Elena Manistina stepped in on short notice for the premiere of Tchaikovsky's The Enchantress at Oper Frankfurt.

27 January 2023

Clytus Gottwald arranged compositions for an a cappella group of up to 16 voices, re-creating them "in a magical choral world".

19 July 2012

28 January 2023


Clytus Gottwald arranged compositions for an a cappella group of up to 16 voices, re-creating them "in a magical choral world".

19 July 2012

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.

28 January 2013

29 January 2023
 Clytus Gottwald arranged compositions for an a cappella group of up to 16 voices, re-creating them "in a magical choral world".

19 July 2012

Gertrude Pitzinger, who toured Europe and the United States singing Lieder, recorded the alto part of Mozart's Requiem, conducted by Ferenc Fricsay.

29 January 2016

30 January 2023


In 1866 a Neogothic style school building was erected for the Kreuzschule in Dresden, which has educated members of the choir of the Kreuzkirche since 1300.

30 January 2013

Clytus Gottwald arranged compositions for an a cappella group of up to 16 voices, re-creating them "in a magical choral world".

19 July 2012

31 January 2023


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.

31 January 2013

Mezzo-soprano Elena Manistina stepped in on short notice for the premiere of Tchaikovsky's The Enchantress at Oper Frankfurt.

27 January 2023

1 February 2023


Nikolaus Herman based the melody of his Christmas carol "Lobt Gott, ihr Christen alle gleich" on the Gregorian hymn "Puer natus est nobis".

1 February 2019

Mezzo-soprano Elena Manistina stepped in on short notice for the premiere of Tchaikovsky's The Enchantress at Oper Frankfurt.

27 January 2023

2 February 2023


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

30 March 2019

Bach's solo cantata Ich habe genug, BWV 82, based on the Canticle of Simeon, has been recorded more than 100 times.

2 February 2013

3 February 2023


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

30 March 2019

Composer and music director August Röckel, who was active in the May Uprising in Dresden along with his friend Richard Wagner, was arrested and was the last prisoner released.

3 February 2013

4 February 2023


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

25 August 2011

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

30 March 2019

5 February 2023


Hans Krieger, an award-winning German essayist, influential in papers such as Die Zeit, wrote the text for a Christmas cantata by Graham Waterhouse that premieres today.

4 December 2011

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

30 March 2019

6 February 2023
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Nicolas Joel, general manager of the Paris Opera from 2009 to 2014, directed Wagner's Ring in 1979 after having assisted Patrice Chéreau for the cycle's centenary.

16 August 2019

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

30 March 2019

7 February 2023
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Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe ('Jesus gathered the Twelve to Himself', is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, written for the last Sunday before Lent. He composed it as an audition piece for the position of director of church music in Leipzig, and he first performed it there in a church service at the Thomaskirche on 7 February 1723. The work begins with a scene from the Gospel in which Jesus predicts his suffering in Jerusalem, and is not understood by his disciples. Bach showed, setting the prescribed text of an unknown poet, that he mastered the composition of a dramatic scene, an expressive aria with obbligato oboe, a recitative with strings, an exuberant dance, and a chorale in the style of Johann Kuhnau, his predecessor in Leipzig. According to the Bach scholar Richard D. P. Jones, several elements of the work such as a "frame of biblical text and chorale around the operatic forms of aria and recitative" became standards for Bach's Leipzig cantatas and even his Passions.

7 February 2023

8 February 2023
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6 January 2023

9 February 2023
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9 February 2014

10 February 2023
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15 April 2022

11 February 2023
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Dennis Russell Davies conducted the premiere of the Fifth Symphony Now and in the hour of death by Heinz Winbeck, which reflects Bruckner's Ninth Symphony

11 September 2011

12 February 2023
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Arvo Pärt began his choral composition Da pacem Domine (Give peace, Lord) two days after the 2004 Madrid train bombings.

17 November 2014

Max Reger composed 20 Responsories in English for use in the American Lutheran church, although he did not speak English.

29 October 2018

13 February 2023
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Helene Wildbrunn, a celebrated Wagnerian soprano at the Vienna State Opera and La Scala, began her career in 1907 as a contralto at the Stadttheater Dortmund.

1 August 2012

Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 - 13 February 1883)

14 February 2023
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Alte Liebe (Old Love) is a novel about a couple married for 40 years, told by a couple married longer but separated, with chapters written alternately by wife and husband.

28 February 2020

Authors reading on YouTube

15 February 2023
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After George Alexander Albrecht collapsed when conducting Beethoven's Ninth Symphony during a New Year's concert, he returned to composing and began hospice work.

16 January 2022

16 February 2023
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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 2023
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Concert venues of the Rheingau Musik Festival include Eberbach Abbey, Schloss Johannisberg and Lorch.

17 Feb 2010

28 June 2023 Bach: Mass in B minor

18 February 2023
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Robert Hammerstiel

(18 February 1933 - 23 November 2020) wrapped Vienna's Ringturm tower in a painting showing stations of human life in simplified and brightly coloured figures.

21 December 2020

19 February 2023
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"Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud", written by Paul Gerhardt after the Thirty Years War, was translated as "Go Forth, My Heart, and Seek Delight".

19 February 2015

20 February 2023
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17 January 2019

21 February 2023
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21 February 2020

22 February 2023
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Olivier Latry (born 22 February 1962), organist at Notre-Dame de Paris, played a concert at St. Martin in Lorch am Rhein in 2019.

23 August 2019

For his ordination, Georg Weissel wrote the text of the hymn "Such, wer da will, ein ander Ziel" to his friend's melody for a wedding song.

17 March 2016

23 February 2023
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Nele Hertling (born 23 February 1934), working for the Academy of Arts, Berlin, brought innovative culture to the city including the Tanz im August festival.

25 July 2021

Tanz im August, an annual international festival of contemporary dance in Berlin, was founded by Nele Hertling in 1988.

9 September 2021

24 February 2023
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The 1885 spiritual anthem Prayer for Ukraine was performed by Ukrainian Chorus Dumka of New York on Saturday Night Live.

24 February 2023 · 23 March 2022

25 February 2023
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25 February 2011

Prayer for Ukraine

26 February 2023
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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.

11 June 2019

The 1885 spiritual anthem Prayer for Ukraine was performed by Ukrainian Chorus Dumka of New York on Saturday Night Live.

27 February 2023
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Max Reger's Piano Concerto was premiered by Frieda Hodapp in 1910, but has rarely been performed since, due to its difficulty.

27 February 2023

The choral music of Artemy Vedel, who is regarded as one of the Golden Three composers of 18th-century Ukrainian classical music, was censored but performed from handwritten copies.

9 September 2022

28 February 2023
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born 1924 · 28 February 2021

Elisabeth Waterhouse founded the National Chamber Music Course summer school in 1974 and has managed it since.

born 1933 · 21 January 2023

1 March 2023
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In 2005 composer Krzysztof Penderecki added a Ciaccona for strings to his Polish Requiem, begun in 1980.

1 March 2010

Prayer for Ukraine

2 March 2023
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In 1524, Elisabeth Cruciger's hymn "Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn" was the only song by a female author published in the Lutheran hymnal Erfurt Enchiridion.

The title page of the Erfurt Enchiridion, a Lutheran hymnal from 1524 with 26 songs, recommends using the handbook "for continuous practice and contemplation".

2 + 1 March 2013

Verleih uns Frieden

3 March 2023
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The Opernhaus Dortmund was opened in 1966 with Der Rosenkavalier, performed in Dortmund first in 1911.

28 August 2010

Liselotte Hammes, a soprano with the Cologne Opera, appeared as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier at the Glyndebourne Festival alongside Teresa Żylis-Gara in the title role and Montserrat Caballé as the Marschallin.

3 May 2019

4 March 2023
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The poet, cartoonist, and satirist F. W. Bernstein (4 March 1938 – 20 December 2018) was appointed professor of caricature and comics in Berlin in 1984, the only such chair in the world at the time.

25 January 2019

Hinx Minx

5 March 2023
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5 March 2016

Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden, BWV 1083

6 March 2023
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Siegfried Vogel (born 6 March 1937), a bass at the Berlin State Opera from 1965, appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow

10 April 2019

Prayer for Ukraine

7 March 2023
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Willigis Jäger (7 March 1924 – 20 March 2020), a German Benedictine friar, studied Zen for six years with Yamada Koun in Japan and introduced it to his order.

11 April 2020

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.

8 April 2022

8 March 2023
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8 March 2016

Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29

9 March 2023
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Azio Corghi (9 March 1937 – 17 November 2022) composed his second and third operas with author José Saramago, – the second for La Scala in Milan, and the third for a 1993 premiere at the Theater Münster

17 December 2022

When the Theater Münster opened in 1956, it was regarded as the first new theatre in Germany after World War II.

28 July 2017

10 March 2023
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10 March 2016

11 March 2023
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11 March 2017

Tristis est anima mea

12 March 2023
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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 2023
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4 December 2011

14 March 2023
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Rossini scored the last of his "sins of old age", the Petite messe solennelle, for twelve singers, two pianos, and harmonium.

27 June 2016

The German musicologist Ludwig Finscher (14 March 1930 – 30 June 2020) was the editor of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, an encyclopedia in 28 volumes, placing music in cultural, social, and historical context.

24 July 2020

15 March 2023
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Lorenzo Viotti (born 15 March 1990) conducted Massenet's Werther in three productions in opera houses of three countries in 2017, silently singing with the soloists.

18 Jan 2019

16 March 2023
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Volodymyr Kozhukhar (16 March 1941 – 3 December 2022), the chief conductor of the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv, led Lysenko's opera Taras Bulba and Shchedrin's ballet Carmen Suite.

12 January 2023

Prayer for Ukraine

17 March 2023
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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".

17 March 2019

Da pacem Domine

18 March 2023
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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

Da pacem Domine

19 March 2023
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The Requiem of Max Reger (19 March 1873 – 11 May 1916) is a musical setting not of the Latin Requiem, but of a poem "Requiem" written by the dramatist Friedrich Hebbel

19 July 2010

Dein Wort, Herr, bleibet ewig

20 March 2023
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7 January 2022

Prayer for Ukraine

21 March 2023
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Johann Sebastian Bach ([O.S.] 21 March 1685 – 28 July 1750) wrote around 200 cantatas in German but only one, Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191, in Latin.

Conductor Helmuth Rilling, Gächinger Kantorei and Bach-Collegium Stuttgart finished the first complete recording of Bach's cantatas and oratorios on the composer's 300th birthday, 21 March 1985.

21 March 2010

dona nobis pacem

22 March 2023
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The soprano Margit Bokor created the role of Zdenka in Arabella by Richard Strauss at the Semperoper in Dresden in 1933, and performed the role in the UK premiere at the Royal Opera House.

22 March 2019

dona nobis pacem

23 March 2023
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10 July 2017

24 March 2023
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Soprano 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.

23 March 2010

dona nobis pacem

25 March 2023
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Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1, Bach's chorale cantata for the feast of the Annunciation, was first performed on Palm Sunday.

20 March 2016

dona nobis pacem

26 March 2023
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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.

23 March 2019

dona nobis pacem

27 March 2023
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The Klassische Philharmonie Bonn, a symphony orchestra founded and conducted by Heribert Beissel (27 March 1933 – 11 June 2021), has a tradition of playing a series of concerts at more than ten major halls in Germany.

23 March 2019

dona nobis pacem

28 March 2023
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dona nobis pacem

29 March 2023
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29 March 2017

Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden

30 March 2023
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Composer Jan Müller-Wieland (born 30 April 1966) called his first stage work, premiered at the Munich Biennale in 1992, a "Cabaret Farce for singers, pianists and percussionists".

13 April 2011

Prayer for Ukraine

31 March 2023
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The Munich Biennale is an opera festival created in 1988 by Hans Werner Henze, focused on opera premieres of young composers.

31 March 2011

Composer Jan Müller-Wieland (born 30 April 1966) called his first stage work, premiered at the Munich Biennale in 1992, a "Cabaret Farce for singers, pianists and percussionists".

13 April 2011

1 April 2023
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28 March 2016

2 April 2023
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The Alchymic Quartet is a string quartet by Graham Waterhouse, to be performed alongside chemical experiments of Andrew Szydlo, his former teacher at Highgate School.

2 April 2023

Compositions by Graham Waterhouse

3 April 2023
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Renate Behle (born 3 April 1945) made her operatic debut in 1968 and appeared as Sara in the premiere of Giorgio Battistelli's Lot at the Staatsoper Hannover in 2017.

1 December 2018

Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud

4 April 2023
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Hans-Karl von Kupsch, who was instrumental in the unification of the East and West German booksellers' associations, ran a gallery of contemporary art together with his wife.

8 April 2022

Karlheinz Oswald created sculptures of Cardinal Volk, Pierre de Coubertin and Hildegard of Bingen.

18 April 2013

5 April 2023
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Marjon Lambriks (born 5 April 1949), who studied voice in the Netherlands with Paula Lindberg (both pictured) and made a career in Vienna, recorded La traviata alongside Pavarotti.

9 December 2020

6 April 2023
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In a motet for Maundy Thursday, Tristis est anima mea, Jesus says in Gethsemane "Sad is my soul even unto death".

2 April 2015

Da pacem Domine

7 April 2023
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7 April 2023

Bach's St Matthew Passion is structured in 67 movements, according to the NBA, and tells the Passion based on the Gospel of Matthew, Picander's contemporary poetry, and chorales.

6 April 2012

8 April 2023
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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 PartI of Bach's St Matthew Passion.

3 April 2015

Stabat Mater

9 April 2023
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Happy Easter!

A 2009 recording of Louis Vierne's Messe solennelle for choir and two organs at Saint-Sulpice, where it was first performed in 1901, was called "musical and spiritual time-travel".

3 April 2015

Surrexit a mortuis

10 April 2023
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Happy Easter!

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

25 April 2011

Christ ist erstanden

11 April 2023
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11 April 2010

Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen, BWV 66

12 April 2023
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8 August 2019

13 April 2023
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13 April 2022

14 April 2023
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28 March 2022

15 April 2023
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The melody of the Christian hymn "Ik sta voor U in leegte en gemis" (I stand before You in emptiness and loss) is sometimes printed without bar lines, reflecting the singer's insecurity and questions.

text by Huub Oosterhuis (1 November 1933 – 9 April 2023)

7 September 2019

16 April 2023
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Erich Korngold's opera Die tote Stadt had simultaneous premieres in Cologne and Hamburg in 1920, one with Johanna Geisler as Marietta and her husband Otto Klemperer conducting.

16 April 2023

Ik sta voor U in leegte en gemis in memory of Huub Oosterhuis

17 April 2023
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The Lichtental Church, consecrated in 1730 to the Fourteen Holy Helpers, is known as the Schubertkirche, because Schubert was baptised and conducted his sacred music there.

17 April 2013

Herr, unser Herr, wie bist du zugegen in memory of Huub Oosterhuis

18 April 2023
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6 April 2021

"Herr, unser Herr, wie bist du zugegen" is a German hymn translating a Dutch · "Lied van Gods aanwezigheid" (song of God's presence)" written in 1965 by Huub Oosterhuis.

19 April 2023
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Composer Graham Waterhouse was the cellist in a performance of his string trio Zeichenstaub at his former school, playing the U.K. premiere with two members of the Münchner Philharmoniker.

19 April 2013

20 April 2023
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John Eliot Gardiner (born 20 April 1943) performed Bach's cantatas for Reformation Day in the Schloßkirche, Wittenberg, as part of the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, including Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild, BWV 79.

31 October 2012

Dona nobis pacem

21 April 2023
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8 September 2011

(A.B. 21 April 1936 – 18 June 2020)

22 April 2023
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For a rare performance of the St Matthew Passion by 18th-century composer Homilius in 2023, conductor Clemens Bosselmann had to track down handwritten sheet music.

22 April 2023

Hans Uwe Hielscher played the 1500th weekly organ recital during market time at the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden in a series he initiated some 30 years earlier.

27 March 2012

Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen

23 April 2023
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Erhard Egidi (23 April 1929 – 8 September 2014) conducted at the Neustädter Kirche both the first performance after more than 300 years of a funeral music by the church's first organist and Bach's Mass in B minor.

25 May 2013

Tenor Martin Petzold (25 June 1955 – 19 April 2023) a former member of the boys' choir Thomanerchor, was a singer of Bach's Evangelist parts with the group.

13 September 2012

Hebe deine Augen auf

24 April 2023
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Matti Lehtinen (24 April 1922 – 16 August 2022), a baritone of the Finnish National Opera and professor of singing at the Sibelius Academy, was the voice of God at age 93.

7 September 2022

Prayer for Ukraine

25 April 2023
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The concert choir Schiersteiner Kantorei, founded 50 years ago in Wiesbaden-Schierstein, performed Bach's St Matthew Passion in the Marktkirche.

25 April 2012

Tenor Martin Petzold (25 June 1955 – 19 April 2023) a former member of the boys' choir Thomanerchor, sang Bach's Evangelist parts with the group.

13 September 2012

Wenn ich einmal soll scheiden

26 April 2023
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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.

16 March 2015

Seele, vergiß sie nicht

27 April 2023
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Adalbert Kraus (born 27 April 1937) performed the tenor part in Bach's Easter Oratorio, Kommt, eilet und laufet (Come, hasten and run).

16 April 2010

Poèmes pour Mi is a song cycle by Olivier Messiaen (10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992), who set his own poems for a grand soprano dramatique and orchestra, and dedicated it to his wife.

20 December 2018

28 April 2023
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Giuseppe Verdi combined in Quattro pezzi sacri four sacred vocal compositions, including an Ave Maria on an enigmatic scale for solo voices and a Te Deum.

10 October 2013

dona eis requiem

29 April 2023
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Hana Blažíková is a soprano with the Bach Collegium Japan, conducted by Masaaki Suzuki (born 29 April 1954), for the project to record the complete Bach cantatas.

8 March 2016

Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4

30 April 2023
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Bach was only in his twenties when he composed the cantata Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4, for Easter, using in seven movements the words and tune of Martin Luther's Easter chorale.

24 April 2011

Te Deum (Reulein)

1 May 2023
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Francis Poulenc composed Litanies à la Vierge Noire, a French litany to the Black Virgin at Rocamadour, after a pilgrimage to the shrine.

During the last decade, Lance Ryan (born 1 May 1971) appeared as Siegfried at three Bayreuth Festivals.

3 March 2017

2 May 2023
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Manfred Weiss, who taught composition at the Musikhochschule Dresden from 1959 to 1997, composed a cantata after the Book of Revelation premiered by the Dresdner Kreuzchor conducted by Roderich Kreile.

2 May 2023

3 May 2023
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7 April 2011

4 May 2023
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13 May 2010

5 May 2023
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The 1965 song "Wie als een God wil leven", written by Huub Oosterhuis, was listed in 2013 as a hymn in German successful with young people.

5 May 2023

The rhythm of "Solang es Menschen gibt auf Erden", to a Dutch hymn translated into German, has been compared to a tango.

21 September 2020

6 May 2023
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The 2018 Te Deum for choir by Peter Reulein uses the same instruments including a bandoneon as Palmeri's Misatango, and is inspired by tango, habanera and huapango.

6 May 2023

7 May 2023
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The 2018 Te Deum for choir by Peter Reulein uses the same instruments including a bandoneon as Palmeri's Misatango, and is inspired by tango, habanera and huapango.

6 May 2023

Jesus Christus, Sohn des Lebens

8 May 2023
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Max Reger dedicated Der Einsiedler to conductor Philipp Wolfrum and his choir, but they performed the premiere only after the composer's death, together with his Requiem.

8 May 2016

9 May 2023
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The prolific composer and Westminster Cathedral conductor Colin Mawby (9 May 1936 – 24 November 2019) said, "I cannot write choral music unless I work with choirs ... I have to write for particular people".

10 December 2011 He wrote the Bonifatiusmess for the 150th anniversary of Chor von St. Bonifatius in Wiesbaden in 2012, then conducted by Gabriel Dessauer.

10 May 2023
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20 April 2011

11 May 2023
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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

Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227

12 May 2023
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9 June 2021

13 May 2023
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11 July 2016

14 May 2023
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Bach began his cantata, Wahrlich, wahrlich, ich sage euch, BWV 86, (first performed on 14 May 1724), with a quotation from the Farewell discourse, sung by the bass as the vox Christi.

29 May 2011

Glauben können wie du

15 May 2023
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12 April 2022

Le Laudi

16 May 2023
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Faustas Latėnas (16 May 1956 – 3 November 2020), vice-minister of Lithuania's Ministry of Culture, composed incidental music, film scores, and a string quartet subtitled "In loving memory".

16 November 2020

17 May 2023
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Günter Wewel (29 November 19349 May 2023), for around 30 years operatic bass at the Opernhaus Dortmund, presented the television series Kein schöner Land, portraying regions in Europe filmed at the locations.

17 May 2023

19 May 2023
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4 October 2010

20 May 2023
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20 May 2013

Le Laudi

21 May 2023
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The art of Irma Blank, of "drawing languages without words" and including sounds, was recognised in the 1970s but fell into obscurity until a rediscovery in the 2010s.

21 May 2023

Sie werden euch in den Bann tun, BWV 183

22 May 2023
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22 May 2023

23 May 2023
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23 May 2013

24 May 2023
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29 April 2018

Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist

25 May 2023
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Jubilate and Te Deum from the Morning, Evening and Communion Service in B-flat by Charles Villiers Stanford were first performed in Cambridge on 25 May 1879.

25 May 2018

26 May 2023
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The text for Bach's last cantata in his second year in Leipzig, Es ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding, BWV 176, reflects the meeting of Jesus and Nicodemus.

26 May 2013

27 May 2023
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The Easter composition Surrexit a mortuis (He rose from the dead) was scored for choir and two organs by Charles-Marie Widor, the organist at Saint-Sulpice in Paris?

27 May 2023

Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist

28 May 2023
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Johann Sebastian Bach marked to repeat the opening chorus of the cantata for Pentecost, Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! BWV 172, after the final chorale.

6 April 2010

Bach: Magnificat anima mea dominum

29 May 2023
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20 May 2013

30 May 2023
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30 May 2023

31 May 2023
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31 May 2017

1 June 2023
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Javier Álvarez (8 May 1956 – 23 May 2023) composed his first electroacoustic music, Temazcal, in 1984 while studying in London, using a pair of maracas against a complex electroacoustic backdrop.

1 June 2023

2 June 2023
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The Kölner Domchor from the Cologne Cathedral sang Palmeri's Misa a Buenos Aires at a 2013 festival in Rome dedicated to Pope Francis, with the composer at the piano.

2 June 2023

we sang it like this

3 June 2023
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11 April 2021

4 June 2023
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Erasmus Schöfer (4 June 1931 – 7 June 2022) chronicled the resistance in Germany, from the protests of 1968 to German reunification, in a tetralogy of novels.

24 July 2022

O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad, BWV 165

5 June 2023
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In Strauss' Elektra, Aile Asszonyi was said to be convincing as a woman close to madness.

5 June 2023

look and listen

6 Jun 2023
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Bach has a trumpet tell God's glory in cantata Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, BWV 76, first performed in the Thomaskirche on 6 June 1723, but oboe d'amore and viola da gamba express "brotherly devotion".

7 July 2011

Psalm 19

7 June 2023
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7 June 2023

8 June 2023
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Mozart composed his motet Ave verum corpus for the church choir of St. Stephan in Baden on 17 June 1791, for the Feast of Corpus Christi.

17 June 2017

Kommt her, ihr Kreaturen all

9 June 2023
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Haroun and the Sea of Stories, an opera by Charles Wuorinen (9 June 1938 – 11 March 2020), is based on a children's novel by Salman Rushdie about free imagination in battle with thought control.

26 April 2020

Die Schöpfung

10 June 2023
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10 June 2018

11 June 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

dona nobis pacem

12 June 2023
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19 February 2015

If ye love me

13 June 2023
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10 April 2010

14 June 2023
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14 June 2018

15 June 2023
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20 July 2019

16 June 2023
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16 June 2017

17 June 2023
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6 February 2019

18 June 2023
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2 April 2013

Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, BWV 76

19 June 2023
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With compositions such as Con brio and Babylon, clarinetist Jörg Widmann (born 19 June 1973) was ranked the third-most-performed contemporary composer in 2018.

24 February 2021

20 June 2023
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In his Viola Sonata entitled Sonata ebraica (Hebrew Sonata), Graham Waterhouse quotes the Yiddish song "Oyfn Pripetshik".

20 June 2017

21 June 2023
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17 December 2013

22 June 2023
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23 June 2023
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5 February 2020

24 June 2023
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The concert venues of the Rheingau Musik Festival have included Eberbach Abbey, Schloss Johannisberg and St. Martin, Lorch, from the beginning.

7 February 2010

25 June 2023
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25 June 2013

26 June 2023
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Alte Liebe (Old Love) is a novel about a couple married for 40 years, told by a couple married longer but separated, with chapters written alternately by Elke Heidenreich and Bernd Schroeder (6 June 1944 – 18 June 2023).

28 February 2020

authors reading on YouTube

27 June 2023
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28 February 2021

28 June 2023
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Johann Sebastian Bach reworked music from more than three decades earlier for the central piece Crucifixus in the symmetrical structure of his Mass in B minor.

23 May 2013

29 June 2023
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International opera singer Soňa Červená won the Alfréd Radok Award for Best Actress when she was 83 years old.

29 Jun 2023

dona nobis pacem

30 June 2023
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The 1968 album Machine Gun by Peter Brötzmann (6 March 1941 – 22 June 2023), titled after his nickname, became "one of the landmark albums of 20th-century free jazz".

30 June 2023

dona nobis pacem

1 July 2023
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5 August 2013

The Company of Heaven

2 July 2023
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The Missa brevis in B-flat, a mass for mixed choir, trumpets, trombones, tubular bells and organ by Christopher Tambling, was premiered by 1,400 singers at St. Maria in Landau in 2014.

2 July 2023

Magnificat

3 July 2023
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listen

4 July 2023
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4 July 2023

5 July 2023
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Diana Tishchenko, a violinist from Ukraine, played Skoryk's Melody on a tour of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra to Germany in April 2022.

5 July 2022

Prayer for Ukraine

6 July 2023
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In 2016, Edition Güntersberg published 12 Fantasias for Viola da Gamba by Telemann that had been lost.

18 July 2016

7 July 2023
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Wolkentanz, a leading Hanoverian stallion at the Celle State Stud, sired 21 licensed stallions.

22 July 2016

Mass in C major (Beethoven)

8 July 2023
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The Twelve Fantasias for Viola da Gamba solo, published by the composer Georg Philipp Telemann in 1735, were believed lost but published again in 2016.

22 July 2017

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

9 July 2023
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The a cappella ensemble amarcord, five former members of the Thomanerchor, won the CARA award "Best classical album" again in 2010, for Rastlose Liebe (Restless Love).

9 July 2010

10 July 2023
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In Bio's Bahnhof, a German live music talk show presented by Alfred Biolek (10 July 1934 – 23 July 2021) in a former train depot, Kate Bush made her first television appearance.

30 August 2021

11 July 2023
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Frank Beermann 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 Beethoven's Fidelio in 2021.

11 July 2017

12 July 2023
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15 January 2016

Komm, o Tod, des Schlafes Bruder

13 July 2023
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14 July 2023
<div style="margin: auto; max-width:36em; box-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.5em rgba( 192, 192, 192, 0.75 ); border-radius: 1em; border: 1px solid #a7d7f9; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0.5em 1em 1em; color: black;" class="ui-helper-clearfix"> Graham Clark (10 November 1941 – 6 July 2023) appeared at the Bayreuth Festival in 16 seasons, in 1988 as Loge and Mime in the Ring cycle conducted by Daniel Barenboim.

15 July 2023
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Violeta Hemsy de Gainza (25 January 1929 – 7 July 2023), president of the Latin American Forum of Musical Education from its foundation in 1995, taught generations of students, and said: "Learning music is a human right".

16 July 2023
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16 July 2016

17 July 2023
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17 July 2013

18 July 2023
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Johann Sebastian Bach may have reused earlier music for his cantata 'Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz'', BWV 136''', for the eighth Sunday after Trinity on 18 July 1723.

25 July 2010

Psalm 139

19 July 2023
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19 July 2017

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When Heide Simonis (4 July 1943 – 12 July 2023), minister of finance in Schleswig-Holstein from 1988, became minister-president there, she was the first woman to serve as head of a state government in Germany.

20 July 2023

21 July 2023
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The walls of the Kronberg Academy's Casals Forum, opened in 2022, are curved and covered with wood in a manner reminiscent of a string instrument.

30 October 2022

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

24 October 2023
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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.

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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