- 1. Massenet, Jules (12 May 1842 - 13 Aug 1912)
- (Category)
- Detailed biography: Wikipedia Extensive biography with list of references and compositions (in French) Scores and Vocal Scores on Indiana University Bloomington Libraries: Werther: ...
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- 2. Dvořák, Antonín (8 Sep 1841 - 1 May 1904)
- (Category)
- Detailed biography: Wikipedia antonin-dvorak.cz Online database of Dvořák's published compositions with opus and Burghauser numbers, dates of composition, publication ...
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- 3. Eric Sams | The Songs of Johannes Brahms
- (Books in English)
- ... and musicology. Songs were among Brahms's first and last works, and much of his music is associated with words, whether overt texts or covert allusions. Essential to the composer's method of song-writing ...
- Created on 21 January 2014
- 4. Eric Sams | The Songs of Hugo Wolf
- (Books in English)
- Title | The Songs of Hugo Wolf Author | Eric Sams Publisher | Faber & Faber Details: 2008 | pp. 414 | ISBN 978-0571242191 | paperback | With a foreword by ...
- Created on 21 January 2014
- 5. Susan Youens | Schubert's Poets and the Making of Lieder
- (Books in English)
- ... began with words, with the composer's discovery of a poet and a poetic work, but the scholarly study of lieder has tended to bypass those origins. Schubert's choice of poets has traditionally come under ...
- Created on 21 January 2014
- 6. Susan Youens | Heinrich Heine and the Lied
- (Books in English)
- ... any other poet, Heinrich Heine has provided composers for almost two hundred years with texts for music: more than eight thousand compositions to date. Nineteenth-century composers were drawn in particular ...
- Created on 21 January 2014
- 7. Susan Youens | Schubert's Late Lieder: Beyond the Song-Cycles
- (Books in English)
- ... Schubert's Late Lieder is a study of selected songs for voice and piano composed by Schubert between 1822 and his death on 19 November 1828. Circa late 1822, Schubert was diagnosed with ...
- Created on 21 January 2014
- 8. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau | Reverberations
- (Books in English)
- ... of the singer's early life, and a series of recollections of people (conductors, composers, pianists, other singers) with whom the singer worked during his long career. The revelations of self come mainly ...
- Created on 21 January 2014
- 9. Hans Hotter | Memoirs
- (Books in English)
- ... with Hotter during the final years of his life. The result is not merely an English translation of Hotter's memoirs (originally published as "Der Mai War Mir Gewogen" in Germany in 1996), but a significantly ...
- Created on 21 January 2014
- 10. Maurice Brown | Schubert
- (Books in English)
- Title | The New Grove Schubert (New Grove Composer Biography ) Author | Maurice J.E. Brown with Eric Sams Publisher | Macmillan Details: 1982 | pp. 196 | ISBN 978-0333341957 | paperback ...
- Created on 21 January 2014
- 11. The Cambridge Companion to the Lied
- (Books in English)
- ... conclusion with Richard Strauss's 1948 Vier letzte Lieder, this rich repertoire has moved beyond the home and keyboard accompaniment to the symphony hall. This is a 2004 introductory chronicle of this ...
- Created on 21 January 2014
- 12. John C. Tibbetts | Schumann: A Chorus of Voices
- (Books in English)
- Title | Schumann: A Chorus of Voices Author | John C. Tibbetts Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation Details: 2010 | pp. 500 | ISBN 978-1574671858 | hardcover | With Schumann - A Chorus of ...
- Created on 21 January 2014
- 13. Michael Kennedy | Richard Strauss
- (Books in English)
- ... a figure whom the author considers to be the greatest composer of the twentieth century. Kennedy deals fully with Strauss's life as leading composer and national figure in the Third Reich, during which ...
- Created on 21 January 2014
- 14. Pierre Bernac | Francis Poulenc
- (Books in English)
- ... Pierre Bernac formed a duo with the composer Francis Poulenc that became a legend throughout the world. Unprecedented in the history of music, it was the first duo in which the singer and pianist were ...
- Created on 21 January 2014
- 15. Gerald Moore | The Unashamed Accompanist
- (Books in English)
- ... a fascinating book filled with good sense, clear thinking, imagination and technical secrets (how Mr. Moore manages Erlkonig, for example, or how he discreetly revises Brahm's markings). - New Statesman ...
- Created on 21 January 2014
- 16. Kravitt E. F. | The Lied
- (Books in English)
- ... the era, Kravitt contends that nearly all lied composers worked in a conservative political and artistic environment and experimented mainly within the inherited 19th-century tradition. He describes pre-World ...
- Created on 21 January 2014
- 17. German Lieder in the Nineteenth Century
- (Books in English)
- ... a detailed introduction to the German lied. Beginning with its origin in the literary and musical culture of Germany in the nineteenth-century, the book covers individual composers, ...
- Created on 21 January 2014
- 18. Nineteenth Century German Lieder
- (Books in English)
- ... with changes in culture and society, led to the transformation of song into a major musical genre. This study of the great lieder of 19th-century composers Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, ...
- Created on 21 January 2014
- 19. La Schubertiade 2013-14 In ricordo di Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau ricomincia!
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- ... in the Schubertiade Archives if you want to revisit the 2011-13 events and whet your appetite for future concerts. We'll see you in Turin in November with other wonderful Lieder by Schubert! ...
- Created on 28 October 2013
- 20. Trio Debussy
- (Instrumentalists)
- ... prominence from bygone days, in their hearts, minds and hands”. They learnt the “art of trio” with the Trio di Trieste and the Altenberg Trio Wien, and graduated with honours. Since ...
- Created on 10 July 2012
- 21. Carlos Kalmar
- (Conductors)
- ... to Austrian parents. He studied conducting with Karl Österreicher at the College for Music in Vienna, and won First Prize at the Hans Swarowsky Conducting Competition in Vienna in June 1984. From ...
- Created on 10 July 2012
- 22. Stefan Anton Reck
- (Conductors)
- ... In 1987 and 1990 Reck received a scholarship from the Tanglewood Music Festival to study with Seiji Ozawa and Leonard Bernstein.From 1990 to 1994 Reck was music director of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, ...
- Created on 04 July 2012
- 23. Claudia Benvenuti
- (Pianists)
- ... at Velletri, Osimo and Livorno and undertook advanced studies with Pietro Rigacci and Alessandro Specchi. She then attended a course of German Lied at the Hugo Wolf Scuola Superiore in Acquasparta directed ...
- Created on 29 June 2012
- 24. Josée Fabre
- (Pianists)
- ... in Salzburg with Carl Seeman, and at the Royaumont Foundation in France under Dalton Baldwin and Hans Hotter. Her brief career then became dedicated to chamber music, accompanying many illustrious ...
- Created on 29 June 2012
- 25. Marilyn Schmiege
- (Singers)
- ... sung in Strasbourg, Stuttgart, Dresden, at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich and in a gala with Placido Domingo in the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, she added the rôles of Sieglinde, Brangäne, ...
- Created on 29 June 2012
- 26. Donald Sulzen
- (Pianists)
- ... music with Martin Katz, Geoffrey Parsons and John Wustman. Donald Sulzen accompanied in master-classes of Astrid Varnay, Eleonor Steber, Magda Olivero, George Shirley and Hermann Prey, and – himself ...
- Created on 29 June 2012
- 27. Mathias Stier
- (Singers)
- Born in St. Gallen, Switzerland, tenor Matthias Stier attended master classes at the Summer Academy of the Salzburg Mozarteum with Elio Battaglia between 2000 and 2007. 2006 he was awarded ...
- Created on 29 June 2012
- 28. Valentina Valente
- (Singers)
- ... pupil of Prof. Elio Battaglia in Turin and at the Academy “Hugo Wolf” in Acquasparta (Italy). Arts graduate with a BA in Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (German/Arabic) at the University ...
- Created on 29 June 2012
- 29. Erik Battaglia
- (Pianists)
- ... has been the Italian accompanist of the great tenor Nicolai Gedda, performing with him Lieder and Melodies from the Russian and French repertoire. He has given recitals in the most prestigious European ...
- Created on 29 June 2012
- 30. Lorna Windsor
- (Singers)
- The soprano Lorna Windsor began her musical studies with the piano and the viola; then singing and the piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Ellis Keeler and Johanna ...
- Created on 29 June 2012
- 31. Thomas Laske
- (Singers)
- ... engineering and graduated in 1996. During this time he commenced singing studies with Brigitte Dürrler and Lied Interpretation with Ria Goetze in Dusseldorf and completed his concert examinations ...
- Created on 28 June 2012
- 32. Jochen Kupfer
- (Singers)
- The baritone Jochen Kupfer was born in Grimma, Germany, and has been studying voice regularly since the age of ten. He began his conservatory studies in 1990 with Prof. Helga Forner ...
- Created on 28 June 2012
- 33. Nicolai Gedda
- (Singers)
- ... client overheard him speaking about his desire to sing professionally, and offered to pay for his tuition to study with Karl Martin Oehmann - a well known Wagnerian tenor of the late 1920's. He studied ...
- Created on 28 June 2012
- 34. Lucio Gallo
- (Singers)
- Born in Taranto, the baritone Lucio Gallo graduated at the "Giuseppe Verdi" Conservatory of Turin with Elio Battaglia. He is a regular guest of the world's leading opera ...
- Created on 28 June 2012
- 35. Nuccia Focile
- (Singers)
- ... of concert and operatic appearances with the famed tenor. This included the famous concert Pavarotti gave in his hometown of Modena, Italy, which was recorded on CD and video and broadcast live in Italy. ...
- Created on 28 June 2012
- 36. Massimo Crispi
- (Singers)
- ... keeping that so particular deep colour of his voice. Massimo Crispi studied at the Conservatorio G.B. Martini di Bologna (M° Leone Magiera) and staged with Claudia Carbi, Nigel Rogers, Wolfgang Fromme, ...
- Created on 28 June 2012
- 37. Nicolas Christou
- (Singers)
- The bass-baritone Nicolas Christou studied singing in Brussels with Master Frédéric Anspach. He has the enormous chance to encounter and receive advices and encouragements ...
- Created on 28 June 2012