Brazilian Music for Parisians Villa-Lobos as a Young Man Heitor Villa-Lobos was born March 5, 1887 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and died there on November 17, 1959. In addition to being Brazil’s most famous composer (writing over 2000 works), he was also active as an educator and conductor. […]
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1926 News Highlights In our original 2016 series of seven Roaring 20s composers, this was the year that Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez wrote his Suite in F Major, Op. 37. We have a new, separate article on this work and the composer. In addition to Fernandez’s quintet, we have 1926
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1927 news Highlights Composers writing woodwind quintets in 1927 include Kurt Beythien, Giorgio Nataletti, Knudåge Riisager, and Charles Stainer. Kurt Beythien Quintett in F Major, Op. 7 (1925-1927) Although this work was printed privately in 1930, its first commercial printing was not until 2015 by Robert Ostermeyer Musikedition, in
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Oscar Lorenzo Fernândez and his Suite in F Major 1920s Brazil When one thinks about the Roaring 20s, one usually thinks about New York or Chicago, or Paris or Berlin, but another city where art was flourishing was Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Part of that Brazilian renaissance started
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Title image is of American Composers (L to R): Virgil Thomson, Walter Piston, Herbert Elwell and Aaron Copland at Nadia Boulanger’s Paris home in 1925. 1925 News Highlights In 1926, we have woodwind quintets written by Hermann Ambrosius, Max Butting, Jaroslav Kvapil, Kurt von Schwake, and Henri Tomasi. Hermann
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French composer Joseph-Guy Ropartz rounds out our study of 1924 woodwind quintets, after a list of news headlines for 1924.
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The music, life and times of Theodor Blumer, writer of many works for woodwind quintet in the Romantic style.
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A look at the history, composition and impact of Arnold Schoenberg’s only woodwind quintet. For musicians and listeners.
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