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Carl Maria von Weber
by Georg Predota June 5th, 2026 Tags:
Beyond the Operatic Legend Carl Maria von Weber’s (1786-1826) life and career are inexorably connected to his opera Der Freischütz (The Marksman). When it was first produced in Berlin in June 1821, the musical world was stunned, as he had
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The Sound Around: Rautavaara’s Cantus Articus
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Musical Tributes: Mozartiana, Schumanniana, Schubertiana and Bachiana
Hiroyuki Fujikake
“Aqua Rhythms”
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
“Father of the Italian language”
Albinoni and Bach
“What I Have Achieved by Industry Anyone Else Can Also Achieve”
The Transfigured Night
Richard Dehmel, Arnold Schoenberg and Oskar Fried
Enchanted by Dante Alighieri
Symphonic Transformations
From Weber to Hindemith to Lawrence
Dante Alighieri
“Francesca da Rimini”
The Nostalgia and Pain of Memory: Janáček’s On an Overgrown Path
When Webern was Romantic: Im Sommerwind
The Voice of Nature: Enescu’s Tone Poems
Daily Confrontations: Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death
Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)
The Organ in the Living Room
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Peanuts Gallery
A Work Symbolic of the World: Alexander Tchaikovsky’s Quarantine Symphony
The Losses of Another War: Bax’ In Memoriam
Condemned by a Kiss: Stravinsky’s Le baiser de la fée
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