Meet Jean-Baptiste Lully – The Man and His Music
https://youtu.be/5qPib10P9qs?si=Rf4rm4BhSXUYkIsk It might surprise you to learn that Jean‑Baptiste Lully (1632–1687), one of the towering figures in French music, was born in Italy. Lully was the brilliant, sharp‑witted architect of French Baroque music and the...
Meet Ernst von Dohnányi – The Man and His Music,
https://youtu.be/b35Ds6xz1Z0?si=Rpvf6y2NErIgE5BI Ernst von Dohnányi (1877–1960) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and conductor whose career bridged the late‑Romantic tradition and the modern era, earning him recognition as one of the most distinguished central...
Meet Giulio Romano Caccini – The Man and His Music
https://youtu.be/I3twEbPOiww?si=F3mQVI9UvWe-b_i4 Giulio Caccini (1551–1618) stands as one of the pivotal architects of early Baroque music, a composer, singer, and teacher whose innovations helped transform Western musical expression at the dawn of the seventeenth...
American Soprano Rainelle Krause, Age 37, Dies after a Brief Hospitalization
American Soprano Rainelle Krause, Age 37, Dies after a Brief Hospitalization https://youtu.be/jvtGRfI9Eok?si=NTGhrVebdKvmqnJV Some of us saw soprano Rainelle Krause perform at the Metropolitan Opera. Others us saw her when she a student performing in competitions in...
Meet Ruggero Leoncavallo – The Man and His Music
https://youtu.be/vFPqUgOPXoQ?si=ffKodJhevrdWauon Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857–1919) was an Italian composer and librettist best known for Pagliacci, one of the defining masterpieces of the verismo movement in opera. Born in Naples and educated at the city’s...
Meet Pablo Martín Melitón de Sarasate y Navascués – The Man and His Music
I was born in Pamplona in 1844, and from the moment a violin was placed in my hands as a child, the instrument became my constant companion, my passport, and my voice.
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