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167 years ago, Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto was performed for the first time in Leipzig.
The Concerto is is his last large orchestral work. It forms an important part of the violin repertoire and is one of the most popular and most frequently performed violin concertos of all time. A typical performance lasts just under half an hour. Mendelssohn originally proposed the idea of the violin concerto to Ferdinand David, a close friend and then concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Although… (more)
Listen to the composer’s Violin Concerto in E minor performed by Janine Jansen:
Watch the complete series “Philosophy - A Guide to Happiness” here:
Episodes:
1. Socrates on Self-Confidence.
2. Epicurus on Happiness.
3. Seneca on Anger.
4. Montaigne on Self-Esteem.
5. Schopenhauer on Love.
6. Nietzsche on Hardship.
154 years ago Queen Victoria’s daughter, Princess Victoria, used for her wedding Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March”. It became popular then.
Felix Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” in C major, written in 1842, is one of the best known of the pieces from his suite of incidental music (Op. 61) to Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It is one of the most frequently used wedding marches, generally being played on a church pipe organ… (more)
Listen to the masterpiece conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner (the march begins @33:51):
This is a video presentation of an interactive version of Don Quixote that The National Library of Spain published to facilitate an innovative approach to the original texts of the masterpiece. The project includes various features that facilitate a credible experience of the first copies of the works of Cervantes. Also, it has been filled with attractive multimedia content such as maps, period music, pictures, etc.. (Note: the site is only available in spanish. You can download here an english version of the novel).
In this project you can enjoy 43 editions of Don Quixote, 33 different covers and 165 illustrations and maps. Here a video-presentation of this laudable.
Watch the complete movie “Julius Caesar” here:
Twenty year-old Julius Caesar flees Rome for his life during the reign of Sulla but through skill and ambition rises four decades later to become Rome’s supreme dictator.
Max Bruch would be 174 years old today.
He was a german romantic composer and conductor who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a staple of the violin repertoire… (more)
Listen to his powerful Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor Op. 26, performed by Janine Jansen:
Rodolphe Kreutzer passed away 181 years ago.
He is best known for being the dedicatee of Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major, Op. 47 (1803), one of the greatest masterpieces for violin and piano.
Kreutzer Sonata is well known for its demanding violin part, unusual length (a typical performance lasts slightly less than 40 minutes), and emotional scope — while the first movement is predominantly furious, the second is meditative and the third joyous and exuberant… (more)
Listen to Kreutzer Sonata performed by Anne-Sophie Mutter and Labert Orkis:
Enjoy the extraordinary documentary “The Art of Piano - Great Pianists of the 20th Century” here:
