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Franz Ignaz Danzi
by Georg Predota April 13th, 2026 Tags:
Wind Quintets at 200 Two hundred years ago, on 13 April 1826, Franz Ignaz Danzi (1763-1826) died in Karlsruhe, aged 62. He had known Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in his youth, had mentored the young Carl Maria von Weber, and had
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“If music be the food of love, play on.”
Shakespeare and Music VI – Macbeth
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Animals in Music: Birds
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Sergei Rachmaninoff: The Bells, Op. 35
The Sorrowful Mother
“If music be the food of love, play on.”
Shakespeare and Music VII – Hamlet
Sound and Imagery: Victory at Sea
Sex and Music: The English Renaissance
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Muses and Musings
The Red Poppy
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Composers as Kids: Gustav Mahler
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Rachmaninoff and the All-Night Vigil
The Mermaid Singer and Her Song
“If music be the food of love, play on.”
Shakespeare and Music VIII – Othello
Ferruccio Busoni
“Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time”
Sex and Music: The Renaissance and Early Baroque
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