Mediatheque Stories tagged #MusicHistory
Franz Schubert and Love
About the Romantic composer and his works, whose melodic beauty fascinates us to this day. #MusicHistory #MusicFestival2023
Bach: The Ways of a Dynasty
The Bach family stepped into the limelight a long time before Johann Sebastian was born. #EarlyMusic #MusicHistory
The mandolin – an all-rounder among instruments
Everything you need to know about the versatile plucked instrument and why it has rightly been chosen as the 2023 instrument of the year. #Explained #MusicHistory #MusicFestival2023
Alfred Schnittke – A Portrait
A report by a contemporary witness on one of the leading composers of the 20th century #MusicHistory #MusicFestival2023 #ContemporaryMusic #Portrait
Christmas carols and their origin
The stories behind the most popular Christmas hits. #MusicHistory #Christmas
Lisa Streich: What she wants to hear
The swedish composer has shimmering, crystalline sounds in mind for the Elbphilharmonie. Thanks to a composition prize, she now has the chance to realise her ideas. #MusicHistory #ContemporaryMusic #Portrait #Visions
Not So New at All Any More
Contemporary classical music: a short history of the sound of the 20th century #Explained #MusicHistory #ContemporaryMusic
Mysticism for everyone
Sufism involves more than just taking refuge in a trance. Rather, it connects the Creator with Creation – among other things, with the help of music. #MusicHistory #Sufi #World
Schubert’s Sonatas
Stepping out of Beethoven’s shadow: Franz Schubert’s piano sonatas. #MusicHistory
Anton Bruckner: The Unfathomable
Few composers have left posterity with such an inconsistent picture as the Austrian composer. #MusicHistory #Portrait
: Elbphilharmonie Explains: Countertenor
Countertenors can sing beautifully in a high register. What is their secret? Alex Potter explains his high male voice. #Explained #MusicHistory
Orpheus: the singer of the millenium
He was the most famous singer in the Greek myths, his story inspired artists in every era and genre – and Orpheus was even involved in the birth of opera. #MusicHistory
Black to the Future: Afrofuturism
More than science fiction: About the aesthetic tradition of Afrofuturism and its school of thought. #Afrofuturism #Jazz #MusicHistory #World
René Jacobs: The Wolf’s Glen whisperer
Period performance guru René Jacobs has gently blown the cobwebs off the Romantic opera »Der Freischütz«, returning it to an ideal state that never existed in that form. #MusicHistory #MusicFestival2022
Music inspired by nature
»There's nothing more musical than a sunset« – The 2022 Hamburg International Music Festival takes an extensive stroll through nature. #MusicHistory #MusicFestival2022
Seven shades of Sibelius with Klaus Mäkelä
»Then the music flows automatically« – the Finnish star conductor talks about his Sibelius cycle and what he loves so much about this music. #Interview #MusicHistory #MusicFestival2022
A yearning for great heights
Up in the mountains, it is always about more than mere nature. An excursion with Mahler, Strauss and Krenek’s »Reisebuch aus den österreichischen Alpen«. #MusicHistory #MusicFestival2022
John Zorn and the downtown scene
Radical, eccentric, experimental: the fascinating artists’ scene of downtown New York. #Jazz #JohnZorn #MusicHistory #ContemporaryMusic
Hudba! The Unique Style of Czech Music
How Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák and Leoš Janáček developed a unique national style – and conquered the world with it. #MusicHistory
Beethoven 9: Musical world cultural heritage
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony conjures up the equality of all men as no other work does. #Beethoven #MusicHistory