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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

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

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.

31 July 2023

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

6 November 2013

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

22 August 2023

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Claude Debussy 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

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

4 September 2023

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In her 2021 composition with string orchestra,
This too shall pass
Raminta Šerkšnytė used
a vibraphone for the flow of time,
a violin for the transience of humans,
and a "heavenly" cello?

4 September 2013

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

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

29 September 2023

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The Company of Heaven,
about angels, composed by Benjamin Britten
for speakers, soloists, choir and orchestra,
and first aired by the BBC on Michaelmas,
29 September 1937,
contains "metrical spoken (shouted) male chorus".

25 June 2013

6 October 2023

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Claus Wisser
founded the services company Wisag,
and co-founded the Rheingau Musik Festival
which staged a concert of Orff's Carmina Burana for his 60th birthday

6 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.

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

20 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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"Sozusagen grundlos vergnügt"
("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"

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.

31 October 2023

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2 November 2023

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After signing the Camp David Accords in 1978,
Prime Minister Menachem Begin ended a speech
with a desire to sing the peace song
"Hevenu shalom aleichem"
with the people of Israel.

2 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

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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Soprano
Rachel Yakar,
who received international attention in 1977
as Poppea with Nikolaus Harnoncourt,
was also described as an "ideal" Mélisande
and "a Mozartian at heart and in style".

17 November 2023

listen and look, Poppea

21 November 2023

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22 November 2023

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Benjamin Britten
(22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976),
composed
Canticle I: My beloved is mine and I am his
for the tenor voice of
Peter Pears,
using poetry from
A Divine Rapture by Francis Quarles.

22 November 2023

listen to Britten and Pears

23 November 2023

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26 July 2023

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Director Frank Stähle revived
the choir and orchestra of Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium
and conducted them in
Mozart's Requiem
for the centenary of the Lutherkirche in Wiesbaden.

15 January 2016

da pacem Domine

27 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

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

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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The Advent song
"Macht hoch die Tür"
(Fling wide the door),
with text by Georg Weissel written for the inauguration of the church
where he would be ordained pastor a week later,
is number 1 in the German Protestant hymnal.

3 December 2017

 

4 December 2023

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Conductor Dessauer and composer Mawby (r.), 2012

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

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

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

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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Rabbi
Michael Robinson
(December 13, 1924 – July 20, 2006)
and 15 other Reform rabbis
were arrested and jailed after answering Martin Luther King's
call to stand with him for civil rights in St. Augustine, Florida.

December 13, 2018

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

Mit Ernst, o Menschenkinder

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

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.

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...

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