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The Epic Beauty of Wagner’s Overture to Tannhauser (opens the original)
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In the winter of 1883, the composer Richard Wagner was living in a Renaissance palazzo on Venice’s Grand Canal. A series of angina attacks had left him gravely ill, and he had three weeks left to live.By then, his boldest dreams had come true. He had watched his monumental four-opera cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), unfold in its entirety in the revolutionary theater he had built at Bayreuth. Only the summer before, Parsifal had premiered on that same stage. Yet on Janu
56 Minutes of Classical Music that Surrounds You With Autumn-ness (opens the original)
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The harvest is in and the wine is already flowing in a village somewhere in Vivaldi’s Italy, where dancers are “working off” a season’s worth of labor until more than a few of them collapse into sleep before the night ends. Antonio Vivaldi set that scene to music in 1725, in one of four glorious violin concertos he published with a sonnet attached to each so no listener could mistake what the notes represented. The concerto is called Autumn, and 3 centuries later, it is still the “King of Autumn
From a Beautiful Sunrise to a Troll Nightmare: Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 (opens the original)
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In January 1874, a letter arrived at Edvard Grieg's door from Henrik Ibsen, Norway's most celebrated playwright, asking him to write music for a play that was five hours long and had already been in print for seven years. Grieg surprisingly said yes, then spent the next year being frustrated and calling the project unmanageable. One of the scenes he eventually had to score is set on the coast of Morocco where Peer Gynt, Ibsen's reckless antihero, wakes up robbed and alone, far from anything he k
A Guide to the 6 Periods of Classical Music (opens the original)
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You may not know the difference between Baroque and Classical music by name, but there is a good chance you already recognize it by ear.A Bach concerto, a Mozart symphony, a Chopin nocturne, and a Stravinsky ballet belong to the same enormous tradition we call “classical music,” yet they sound remarkably different from one another. Those differences are not accidental. Each piece reflects the musical language, instruments, ideas, tastes, and culture of the period in which it was written.<p class
Rossini’s William Tell Overture is So Much More Than Just a Rousing Galop (opens the original)
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It’s the most famous piece of horse-related music ever written, and yet there is not a single horse in the opera!For nearly a century, the galop that ends Rossini’s William Tell Overture has been the sound of a masked cowboy in the American West, yet Rossini wrote it as the final panel of a 12-minute musical painting of the Swiss Alps.Before that galop comes a serene sunrise scored for five solo cellos, a storm that rattles the whole orchestra, and the lonely call of a cowherd on the English hor
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