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Post by salentin on Jun 16, 2019 2:39:02 GMT
Josef Mohr 1792-1848 and Franz Xaver Gruber 1787-1863,the authors of "Stille Nacht,Heilige Nacht". see post of Nov.29th,2018; stamp issued Nov.27th,1987
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Post by salentin on Jun 18, 2019 2:02:22 GMT
Richard Strauss 1864-1949 (no relation to the Strauß-dynasty of Austria) was born in Munic into a wealthy,musical family. His father,a professional hornist,fostered his Richard´s musical talent from early childhood. So his official opus no.1,was composed at the age of 12.
He wrote an enormous number of compositions,being productive till his death.
15 operas,more than 200 Lieder and much,much more.
His most famous (popular) theme is the beginning of his "symphonic poem" "Also sprach Zarathustra" (1896), one of the best known classical compositions worldwide.
He was a "Wagnerianer" and performed many works of Wagner as a conductor.
He was one of the great conductors of the 20th century.
Much more to say about him.He was co-inventor of of a co-operative for musicians, who strengthened the copy-right laws and social welfare of musicians.
During the Nazi-rule he was in high positions,but his relation to the Nazi-state was ambigious. Hitler admired him,but Goebbels did not trust him.
stamp issued June 1st,1989
scene from Strauss´opera "Der Rosenkavalier"
stamp issued May 23rd,1969
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Post by salentin on Jun 25, 2019 3:01:29 GMT
Born as Salomon Levi in Hohenems/Vorarlberg,Salomon Sulzer (since 1813),became cantor of Hohenems with the age of 13. This was possible,because Emperor Franz I decreed a dispensation under the condition,that Sulzer would take a musical education, lasting at least for three years.
In 1838 Sulzer published a collection of lithurgical songs,the "Schir Zion".
Till then the singing in synagogues was in the orthodox style. While Sulzers compositions were orientated at the contemporary classical music.
"Schir Zion" was gradually introduced in most reformed synagogues of Western Europe.
stamp issued Jan.17th,1990
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Post by salentin on Jun 29, 2019 2:34:46 GMT
The 200th anniversary of Mozart´s death.
From a souvenir sheet,issued March 22nd,1991
Mozart´s opera "Die Zauberflöte" (The Magic Flute),issued May 23rd,1969,
from a sheetlet of 8 stamps.(Papageno)
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Post by nbstamper on Mar 17, 2020 1:33:41 GMT
Salentin
Great thread you've created and keep it up; however, you should spend more time with Gustav Mahler to get to understand him better. His symphonies now rival Beethoven's in terms of number of performances world-wide; although Beethoven may pass him in this anniversary year.
I've heard Mahler's symphonies performed in many places - Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Portland, Halifax, Boston, Tanglewood, Amsterdam, Salzburg and Leipzig to name several. And I've heard live performances by some wonderful Mahler conductors: Chailly, Harding, Haitink, Jansons, Mehta, Andrew Davis, Gergiev, Maazel and many others. Like Beethoven, Mahler was a transitional composer who bridged the Romantic era in music to the Modern era. To really understand his contribution to music, you have to read his life story as most of his works contain autobiographical elements. Mahler's music has been one of the great joys of a lifetime spent listening to classical music. You should give him another chance.
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Post by nbstamper on Mar 25, 2020 2:33:55 GMT
 Ralph Vaughan-Williams (1872-1958), arguably the finest composer in British musical history. He is best known for his famous Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis (1910) and The Lark Ascending (1914), an orchestral rhapsody for violin and orchestra. But he wrote nine fine symphonies and many other well-known orchestral and choral works. His Fifth Symphony (1943) should rank, after Mahler's symphonies, as one of the finest, if not the finest and most beautiful symphonies of the twentieth century. His music deserves to be played much more widely. Our local orchestra has performed several of his works, including all three of those mentioned above. |
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Post by angore on Mar 25, 2020 15:35:43 GMT
I listen to a classical station a lot and never heard Ralph Vaughan-Williams but they unfortunately limit modern composers after Aaron Copeland as far as I can tell except when doing movie themes, etc.
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Post by nbstamper on Mar 26, 2020 19:50:09 GMT
Angore
Have a listen to a remarkable YouTube performance of the Tallis Fantasia by Andrew Davis conducting the BBC Symphony. It was taped in Gloucester Cathedral where the work was premiered in 1910. It is one of the great masterpieces of the twentieth century and this is a superior performance. There's also a good one by the Toronto Symphony but the Davis version is unbeatable.
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Post by bobstew617 on May 21, 2020 21:26:25 GMT
When I saw this sheet (Beethoven), I knew I had to get it, even though I collect Berlin and not Germany as a whole. The other composers shown below Beethoven are all on there for either a birth or death anniversary. Louis (Ludwig) Spohr is definitely the odd man in the group. Ludwig Spohr was a contemporary of Beethoven, but chose to follow the Classical model set by Haydn and Mozart. Believe it or not, Spohr's music was at least as popular in their time as Beethoven's. It wasn't until after Beethoven's death and the Romantic period where his legacy really took off.  |
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Post by bobstew617 on May 21, 2020 21:34:48 GMT
I listen to a classical station a lot and never heard Ralph Vaughan-Williams but they unfortunately limit modern composers after Aaron Copeland as far as I can tell except when doing movie themes, etc. angore, I learned quite a bit about Ralph (pronounced Rafe) Vaughan Williams from one of "The Great Courses" taught by Robert Greenberg. I definitely am interested in listening to more of his music as well as fellow Brit composer, Edward Elgar. |
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Post by nbstamper on Jun 15, 2020 23:44:56 GMT
 Jules Massenet (1842-1912) composed over 30 operas, the two most famous being Werther and Manon. |
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Post by cursus on Jun 16, 2020 7:19:21 GMT
Pau Casals (el Vendrell, Catalonia, 1876 - San Juan De Puerto Rico, USA, 1973). Catalan music and patriot. He was an excellent cello player and also composed the UN anthem. Played at the White House for President JFK. Exiled from our country in 1939, he remained there until his death.
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Post by salentin on Jun 23, 2020 18:00:56 GMT
nbstamper, you are quite right: Mahler is a great composer.
But for me music and wine touch me in similar ways.I am no connoisseur,but a wine-drinker. I simply like some music better than other or not much at all.I never will become a "Wagnerian".Or the 20th century composers
are not for me. The older I get,the more simple becomes my taste for music.Sure Beethoven and to some degree Bruckner of the 19th century. But I really love Haydn´s symphonies and the Barock - composers.So there is nothing I know of J.S.Bach,that I do not like.And to me Purcell is the most eminent british composer.I think there is no dogma about music or wine.There is so much good to choose from, that there is something for everyone.
Franz von Suppé 1819-1895 was born as Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo von Suppé in Split/Dalmatia,then Hungary,today Croatia. He grew up in Zadar and moved,after the death of his father,to Vienna,the birthplace of his mother,when 16 years old. There he studied music.
He was a proliferate composer.Three operas,26 operettas and the music for more than 200 stage plays,as well as songs,masses and symphonic pieces.
Today his operetta "Boccaccio" (1879) is the only,what is performed quite often in Germany.
The overture of his operetta "Leichte Kavallerie" (1866) is very popular and his best know piece of music.
stamp isssued Sept.15th,1995
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Post by cursus on Jun 24, 2020 7:45:43 GMT
Isaac Albéniz i Pascual (Camprodon, Catalonia 1860 – Cambo-les-Bains, France 1909) was a Catalan pianist, composer, and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the Post-Romantic era who also had a significant influence on his contemporaries and younger composers. He is best known for his piano works based on Iberian folk music idioms.
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Post by nbstamper on Jun 24, 2020 21:52:54 GMT
Salentin
I agree with you about Bach and Haydn. Haydn is really under-rated; I prefer his music to Mozart's. At one time or another, have listened to all 106 of his symphonies. One of my earliest experiences with his music was his second Cello Concerto and Symphonies 88 and 102, all three mini-masterpieces. But there is so much more of his great music to enjoy. About Bach, what can you say? A genius of the first order. I visited his grave in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig a few years ago and there were still flowers strewn on the marker as there were on Mahler's grave in Grinzing.
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Post by nbstamper on Jul 15, 2020 12:21:15 GMT
 Albert Roussel, French composer of four symphonies, many works for the stage and many vocal and chamber works. One of a set of six semi-postal stamps issued in 1969 as part of France's Red Cross Fund celebrity series. |
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Post by cursus on Jul 18, 2020 4:35:04 GMT
Germany, 2020. 250 years of L.V. Beethoven's birth:
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Post by nbstamper on Jul 24, 2020 21:51:22 GMT
Our local Symphony was planning to celebrate Beethoven's anniversary last May with a concert featuring the Violin Concerto (Martin Beaver as soloist) and the Sixth Symphony. Thanks to Covid-19, deferred indefinitely. However, the Orchestra is looking at starting up in October. Covid seems to be under control in New Brunswick and the theatres in Moncton, Saint John and Fredericton have re-opening plans. The Orchestra is thinking of a chamber orchestra on stage (20 musicians) and social distancing in the halls with audience size limited to 250 people. Chamber recitals definitely in the plan as well and they have already started in Saint John and selling out (limited attendance). Maybe some Beethoven coming soon in our little Province.
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Post by salentin on Oct 4, 2020 12:11:18 GMT
Nico Dostal 1895-1981 was a composer of more than 20 operettas.
He also composed many film musics and other popular pieces.
He woked as a conductor and musical director as well.
stamp issued Sept.15th,1995
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 17, 2020 14:49:39 GMT
Block from Togo issued on the 150 th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's death:  |
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Post by salentin on Oct 18, 2020 8:51:16 GMT
Anton von Webern 1883-1945 was a modern classical composer and conductor.
After having studied musicolgy,he became a pupil of Arnold Schönberg.
He wrote different types of compositions and "Lieder".
Several of his compositions were atonal or set in twelve-tone-music.
He died in 1945 by an "accident": he was shot by an US-soldier in front of his house in Mittersill.
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Post by salentin on Nov 23, 2020 13:17:17 GMT
The "Incomparable" again,issued Oct.20th,1995.
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 29, 2020 10:28:05 GMT
Recent issue from Monaco for the Beethoven anniversary:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Dec 28, 2020 14:36:34 GMT
Beethoven also gets a philatelic souvenir issue:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 6, 2021 10:37:03 GMT
From Rwanda, two stamps from a set issued in 1970 for the 200 th anniversary of Beethoven:  |
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Post by salentin on Apr 25, 2021 17:06:22 GMT
Johannes Brahms (1833-97),composer,conductor and pianist was born and raised in Hamburg. His father was an orchestra-musician.
In young years he composed mostly piano-music,using pseudonyms.
When twenty,he became acquainted with Robert and Clara Schumann in Düsseldorf. Schuman helped him to get his compositions published.
When Robert Schumann fell ill and was hospitalized in a mental institution,Brahms got very close to Clara, who was sixteen years senior to him and was an international star-performer on the piano.
He adored and loved her all his life.
After engagements in Detmold,Hamburg and other places,he finally moved to Vienna in 1872. Himself an acclaimed pianist,he was regarded as an eminent composer,who even during his lifetime was hailed as the
"legitimat successor of Beethoven".He was a classical composer of the Late Romantic periode. His works span over the whole range of classical music. Performing all over Europe,but centered in Germany,he became a kind of living musical legend.
In 1889 he recorded on a phonograph a part of his "Hungarian Dance No.1".This is the only authentic peace of music,
performed (conducted) by Brahms,what still exists today.
On April 3rd,1897 he died from cancer (not even a year after Clara Schumann´s dead) and was buried on the Vienna Central Cementary.
Stamp issued May 9th,1997.
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Post by hrdoktorx on Apr 30, 2021 21:37:13 GMT
A pair of issues from 1990 in Norway for the 150 th anniversary of the birth of composer Johan Svendsen:  |
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Post by nbstamper on Jun 25, 2021 13:01:55 GMT
 A postcard addressed to the French composer Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) from Saigon (I think) in 1901 when Milhaud was still a youngster. Milhaud was one of a group of French composers called "Les Six" who experimented with polytonality and other innovative techniques. He is probably best known for "La Creation du Monde" a ballet score incorporating jazz rhythms. Our local symphony performed three of his short Chamber Symphonies at a public (yes public) concert in April. The music was quite avant garde and not well received by the audiences, but it was interesting to hear these mini-works performed probably for the first time in New Brunswick. Letters from great composers command very high prices and I was wondering if anyone has acquired anything like that of interest. |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Aug 11, 2021 19:06:06 GMT
Also from the birthday packet, this Belgian issue honouring Arthur Meulemans. As you can see, the stamps are not all in great shape.  |
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Post by eggdog on Aug 12, 2021 2:05:10 GMT
Christoph Gluck.  He was born in Bohemia and ran away from home when he was 14 because otherwise he'd be doomed to be a forester like his father. I've heard him called a Bohemian/Austrian composer and a French/Italian composer, the latter because he allied himself with the new operatic styles of French composers like Rameau. He lived in Paris for years, but moved to Vienna out of spite after Parisian fans and critics alike raked his then-latest opera over the coals.) Gluck was also a virtuoso on the glass harmonica, a very strange instrument that has nothing to do with harmonicas. I won't even try to describe it here. Although he was considered radical in his time, writing operas that defied the current formulas and conventions, he was forgotten fairly quickly except by music historians and hardcore operaphiles. He really didn't have much to do with Germany, but he ended up on this conventional but very elegant 1987 stamp. From what I gather, he never used his middle name - which comes from St. Willibald, who evangelized in Germany in the 800s. But Christoph Willibald he is on the stamp. |
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