Tag: germany
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Ruth Schonthal at 100
This week will be celebrating the life and achievements of composer Ruth Schönthal, in honor or her centennial birthday! While there are many important recordings of chamber and solo works by Schönthal, We have been unable to find any readily sharable recording of her music for large ensemble. Please help us out if you can…
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All Hail The Tenth Muse! Part 2
By Dr. April Lynn James. Part 1 is published here My bestselling book,* The Tenth Muse: How Maria Antonia Advanced the Pastoral Opera, is a major revision of the dissertation I completed in 2002. Why did I not publish it then? I had other things to do with my life at the time. I had just…
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The “Female Beethoven” rediscovered in north Germany!
“The Norwegians have their Grieg, The Finns their Sibelius, the Poles have their Chopin. And WE have Emilie Mayer – we just didn’t know it until now!” So proclaimed the northern German Nordkurrier in May 2012, when the Neubrandenburger Philharmonie celebrated the 200th anniversary of Emilie Mayer’s birth. Despite being very prolific and celebrated in her…