1957 – Arturo Toscanini (Italian conductor)
That wasn't too clever of me, was it? Twelve albums by the greatest Italian conductor of the 20th century, and I somehow managed to not include a single Italian composer.
Showing posts with label Franz Schubert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Franz Schubert. Show all posts
01-03: Fleetwood Mac : Mystery to Me 1973 - Esquivel : Other Worlds, Other Sounds 1958 - Schubert : Grand Duo / Gold & Fizdale - Galuppi : Concerti a quattro / Quartetto Aglàia 2007
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1628 – Francesco Maria Guaitoli (Italian composer)
1761 – Willem de Fesch (Dutch violone player & composer)
1785 – Baldassare Galuppi (Italian composer & harpsichordist, active also in England & Russia)
1829 – Robert Archibald Smith (Scottish composer & music editor)
1836 – Friedrich Witt (German cellist & composer, author of the 'Jena Symphony' once attributed to Beethoven)
1850 – Giuseppina Grassini (Italian contralto or mezzo-soprano, lover in turn of Napoleon, Pierre Rode & the Duke of Wellington)
1853 – Theodor Uhlig (German violist, composer & music critic, friend & advocate of Richard Wagner)
1858 – Mlle. Rachel [Elisabeth Rachel Félix] (French actress & singer)
1868 – Moritz Hauptmann (German music theorist, teacher & composer, influenced theory of harmonic dualism)
1873 – John Lodge Ellerton (English composer)
1900 – Edwin George Monk (English organist & composer)
1907 – Josef Foerster (Czech organist & composer, father of Josef Bohuslav Foerster)
1914 – Raoul Pugno (French composer, teacher, organist & pianist, known for his interpretations of Mozart)
1942 – Julius Conus [Ю́лий Коню́с] (Russian violinist & composer)
1945 – Fyodor Akimenko [Федір Якименко] (Ukrainian composer, pianist & musicologist)
1951 – Fred Barlow (English-born French composer)
1956 – Alexander Gretchaninov [Алекса́ндр Гречани́нов] (Russian composer)
1965 – Mario Basiola (Italian baritone)
1967 – Mary Garden (Scottish-born American lyric soprano & actress, active also in France)
1990 – Arthur Gold (American duo-pianist and cooking show co-host, Gold and Fizdale)
1992 – Lewis M. Friedman (American pianist, songwriter & club owner)
1994 – Josef Witt (Austrian tenor & vocal coach)
1995 – Al Duncan (American blues session drummer, Chess & Vee-Jay labels)
1997 – Cor Kee (Dutch organist & composer)
2002 – [Juan García] Esquivel (Mexican pop & easy listening bandleader, pianist & composer)
2007 – János Fürst (Hungarian conductor & violinist, active also in France, the British Isles & Scandinavia)
2010 – Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt (Chilean composer)
2012 – Bob Weston (English guitarist, singer, songwriter, banjoist & harmonica player, Fleetwood Mac 1972-74)
11-30a: Furtwängler : Beethoven 9 1954 | Bruckner 9 1944 | Schubert 9 1951 - Modern Jazz Quartet Fontessa 1956 - Gibbons | Tomkins | Weelkes : Deller Consort 1970s
1580 – Richard Farrant (English composer, choirmaster, playwright & theatrical producer)
1626 – Thomas Weelkes (English composer & organist)
1703 – Nicolas de Grigny (French organist & composer)
1764 – Dieudonné Raick (Flemish organist & composer)
1777 – Jean-Marie Leclair le cadet (French composer)
1798 – Friedrich Fleischmann (German composer)
1813 – Friedrich August Baumbach (German composer, conductor, author, singer, pianist, mandolinist & freemason)
1824 – Johann Georg Christoph Schetky (German cellist & composer)
1904 – Aldine Silliman Kieffer (American music teacher, publisher & proponent of shape-note notation)
1931 – John Hyatt Brewer (American organist & composer)
1931 – Marc Delmas (French composer)
1940 – Fritz Volbach (German organist, pianist, conductor, composer & musicologist)
1948 – Franco Vittadini (Italian composer & conductor)
1954 – Wilhelm Furtwängler (German conductor & composer)
1955 – Josip Štolcer-Slavenski (Croatian composer, musicologist, music theorist & teacher)
1957 – Beniamino Gigli (Italian operatic tenor)
1964 – Don Redman (American jazz multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, arranger & composer)
1972 – Hans Erich Apostel (German-born Austrian composer, pianist & teacher)
1993 – David Houston (American country singer & songwriter)
1994 – Connie Kay (American jazz drummer, Modern Jazz Quartet)
1995 – Stretch [Randy Walker] (American rapper, actor & producer)
1996 – Tiny Tim [Herbert Khaury] (American singer, ukelelist & guitarist)
2000 – Scott Smith (Canadian rock bass guitarist, Loverboy)
2008 – Munetaka Higuchi [樋口 宗孝] (Japanese metal drummer & producer, Loudness)
2010 – Peter Hofmann (Czech-born German heldentenor & pop singer)
Speaks for itself.
11-19: Badfinger Vancouver 1974 - Schubert Symphonies : 5 Wand 2001 | 6 Suitner 1986 | 8 Beecham 1937 | 9 Stock 1940 - Shirley Bergeron : French Rocking Boogie 1957-1969
1785 – Bernard de Bury (French court composer & harpsichordist)
1804 – Pietro Guglielmi (Italian opera composer)
1825 – Jan Václav Voříšek (Czech composer, pianist & organist)
1828 – Franz Peter Schubert (Austrian composer & pianist)
1854 – Alberich Zwyssig (Swiss Cistercian monk, choirmaster & composer, Swiss National Anthem)
1928 – Achille Simonetti (Italian violinist & composer, active in England & Ireland)
1929 – Arthur H. Mann (English organist, choirmaster, composer & editor of Church of England Hymnal)
1931 – Frederic Cliffe (English composer)
1974 – George Brunies (American jazz trombonist)
1983 – Tom Evans (English bass guitarist, singer & songwriter, Badfinger)
1995 – Shirley Bergeron (American Cajun singer & steel guitarist)
1995 – Bruce Trent (British pop singer, songwriter & actor)
2004 – George Canseco (Filipino songwriter)
2004 – Terry Melcher (American record producer; son of Doris Day)
Schubert! Lionheart of the Lied, King of Kammermusik, Schubert! None of those for you today, however... I hope you'll be satisfied with a healthy swath of his symphonies, which, while not quite Beethovenian in stature, contain their own unique glories. Speaking of Beethoven, Schubert was quite in awe of him, such that - even though they both resided for years at the same time in Vienna - the shy, generation-younger composer only rarely approached the older master. Beethoven apparently held quite a high opinion of Schubert's music, however.
Imagine, if you will, that Schubert had not died so very young... that he had lived to as old an age as Beethoven did, into his 50s, instead of expiring from syphilis at the age of 31, with his death coming just the very year after Beethoven's. Imagine a Schubert who passed away, say, in 1852 instead of 1828. We would certainly not think of Schubert as a Classical-period composer in that case, or even as a composer who was transitional between the Classical and Romantic periods. I believe we would think of him as a bona fide Romantic composer. We'd tend to mention him less often in the same breath as Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, and group him more often along with Schumann, Chopin, and Mendelssohn.
And now, just think of the music composed by the middle-aged Schubert. The titanic symphonies and masses, the increasingly weird and sublime song cycles and chamber works. Maybe some operas and oratorios! It's one of the great "what ifs" of music history, and of course it's a totally pointless hypothetical. For Franz Schubert, short-lived as he was, is already among the ten or so greatest composers who ever lived. And that's enough!
10-12: Blue Cheer Japan 1999 - Sex Pistols Indecent Exposure 6 CDs - Franco & TP OK Jazz : 1972/1973/1974 - B-52's Dortmund 1983 - Rameau Zoroastre : Kuijken 1983 - Hollywood SQ : Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht | Schubert Quintet
1692 – Giovanni Battista Vitali (Italian composer, violone player & church music director)
1794 – James Lyon (American composer & sacred tunebook compiler)
1797 – Pierre de Jélyotte (French operatic haute-contre, harpsichordist, guitarist, violinist & composer, created roles in several Rameau operas)
1817 – Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel (German composer, pianist & priest)
1865 – William Vincent Wallace (Irish composer, violinist, pianist & adventurer, active in Australia & the Americas)
1924 – Monroe Althouse (American military band composer, violinist, cornetist & trombonist)
1956 – Don Lorenzo Perosi (Italian monsignor, composer, organist, pianist & teacher)
1966 – Arthur Lourié [Артур Лурье] (Russian composer & painter, active in France & the U.S., friend of Stravinsky)
1971 – Gene Vincent (American rock singer & guitarist)
1974 – Joseph Frederick Wagner (American composer, conductor, teacher & author)
1978 – Nancy Spungen (American rock groupie, girlfriend of Sid Vicious)
1982 – Chris Reumer (Dutch operatic tenor)
1985 – Ricky Wilson (American New Wave guitarist, bass guitarist, keyboardist, singer & songwriter, The B-52's)
1989 – Franco [François Luambo Makiadi] (Congolese rumba singer, songwriter & guitarist)
1995 – Eleanor Aller (American cellist, Hollywood String Quartet, mother of Leonard Slatkin)
1996 – Vernon Elliott (English bassoonist, conductor & composer)
1997 – John Denver (American folk, country & pop singer, songwriter, guitarist, activist & humanitarian)
2002 – Ray Conniff (American pop, rock & jazz bandleader, arranger, composer, trombonist & singer)
2009 – Dickie Peterson (American bass guitarist, singer, guitarist & songwriter, Blue Cheer)
More insanity, another big opera, it never ends. We had bel canto opera two days ago, Teutonic music drama yesterday, and today it's Baroque opéra tragique, courtesy of Monsieur Rameau. Pierre de Jélyotte (that's him - yes, him - just to the left of Franz X. Sterkel; with his high tenor voice, many of Jélyotte's roles were female) sang in the premiéres of several Rameau operas, including Hippolyte et Aricie, Les Indes galantes, Dardanus, and Zoroastre. He created the title roles in many of them, including Zoroastre, who was... A MAN! Thus Sang Zarathustra.
Well, I could tell you a lot more about a lot of these folks, but you've got a lot of homework to do already down there ↓↓↓. I guess before I sign off I should apologize for flipping that photo of Eleanor Aller backwards. It became sort of unavoidable for the sake of the continuity of the collage. You string players probably already noticed it, because one holds the bow with the right hand, not the left!
10-10a: Brahms | Schubert | Mendelssohn : Istomin / Stern / Rose - Beethoven Symphony 6 Pastoral / Paray 1934 - Catherine Collard : Haydn Piano Sonatas | Franck Violin Sonata
1676 – Sebastian Knüpfer (German composer, cantor & music director, Leipzig)
1727 – Alphonse d' Eve (Flemish composer & choirmaster)
1745 – Jacobus Nozeman (Dutch composer & organist)
1789 – Pierre-Louis Couperin (French organist, Église Saint-Gervais, Paris, great-grandnephew of Louis, 1st cousin twice removed of François)
1806 – Prince Louis Ferdinand (Prussian monarch, soldier, pianist & composer)
1836 – Jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn (French composer, violist & teacher)
1843 – Karl Theodor Toeschi (German court composer & violinist, Mannheim)
1856 – Michał Wielhorski (Polish composer)
1867 – Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński (Polish pianist & composer)
1889 – Adolf von Henselt (German composer & pianist)
1964 – Eddie Cantor (American singer, comedian, dancer, actor, songwriter & humanitarian)
1964 – Russ Case (American studio trumpeter & pop, jazz & soundtrack composer, arranger & conductor)
1964 – Heinrich Neuhaus (Soviet pianist & teacher of German ancestry, teacher of Sviatoslav Richter & Emil Gilels)
1964 – František Pícha (Czech composer)
1965 – Georgy Mikhaylovich Rimsky-Korsakov [Георгий Михайлович Римский-Корсаков] (Russian composer, nephew of Nikolai)
1967 – Ervin Major (Hungarian musicologist & composer)
1976 – Silvana Armenulić (Yugoslavian folk & sevdalinka singer & actress)
1976 – Connee Boswell (American pop & jazz singer, the Boswell Sisters)
1978 – Ralph Marterie (Italian-born American jazz trumpeter & bandleader)
1979 – Paul Paray (French conductor, organist & composer)
1993 – Catherine Collard (French pianist)
1994 – Nikolai Karetnikov [Николáй Карéтников] (Soviet underground composer & pianist)
2002 – Teresa Graves (American actress & pop singer, Laugh-In, Vampira, Get Christie Love!)
2003 – Eugene Istomin (American pianist)
Okay, this edition is turning out to be a real ball-buster. I employed the progressive aspect there because I'm not even done yet! The edition will be in TWO parts, thanks to the passing on October 10 of last year of a very famous opera singer. And thus we will be having another opera a little later! Haven't had one in a while. As you might imagine, operas eat up a lot in terms of the labels, because of the names of all the damned singers. There will be some other offerings for Part Deux as well, so if you're not fond of opera there may be some other items that will be of interest to you.
As far as this post goes, even it is not quite be finished, because I'm planning on doing something special for Eddie Cantor and Connee Boswell, but it will take some more time for me to complete that task. When I do, they'll be added to the post for "10-10b," even though Connee & Eddie's images appear in this post's collage. Does that make sense? I know it probably doesn't, but just humor me. I'm a crazy person, remember.
Sorry I can't say any more right now. I'll try to add a little more to this write-up later. I know, you've heard that one before...
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