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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1923 – News Highlights Three Quintets You Probably Never Heard of For 1923 we have works by Hanns Eisler, Carl Hillmann and Ludwig Weber. Hanns [Johannes] Eisler (1898-1962) Divertimento, Op. 4 (1923) was published in Wien (Vienna) by Universal Edition in 1977. Although Arnold Schoenberg’s monumental Quintet of 1924
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Carl Nielsen & His Quintet Which Quintet Came First — Nielsen or Hindemith? Chronologically, it was a close call whether to start this in -depth composer series with Nielsen or Hindemith. Technically, Carl Nielsen’s Quintet was first performed privately on April 30, 1922. This predates the first performance of
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Towards a New Type of Woodwind Quintet Hindemith’s Early Life Paul Hindemith was born to a poor family in Hanau, near Frankfurt in 1895. His father was part of a family of music-lovers, but was frustrated at his lack of success: first in music and later as a painter.
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