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Sibelius’s fifth symphony is one of the most popular large scale masterpieces of the twentieth century. It is the magnificent and elegant result of a complex compositional process ranging from 1912 to 1919 while the spring of a simple musical idea developed into a vast river of sounds. Its first version was commissioned by the […]
October 7, 2012
Pierrot Lunaire was written in the freely atonal period of Schoenberg’s career. It was commissioned by the actress-singer Albertine Zehme, who intended to perform a German translation of the poem collection Pierrot lunaire: rondels bergamasques authored by the Belgian symbolist poet Albert Giraud. Schoenberg quickly became enthusiastic about the idea and developed it into a […]
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October 23, 2012
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