Thomas (Tom) Linley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Linley_the_younger) the younger (May 7, 1756 – August 5, 1778) was the eldest son of the composer Thomas Linley the elder and his wife Mary Johnson. He was one of the most precocious composers and performers that have been known in England, and became known as the "English Mozart"
https://www.youtube.com/v/AOqHO1jaW2E
Thanks for sharing these video and info.
Maybe a general thread on anniversaries in music would be a good idea.
I think we don't have a thread like "Today in Music," "This day" or something like that.
:)
Good God, am I relieved! I thought you posted from the afterlife!... OMG, brrrrr....
Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bix_Beiderbecke), jazz cornetist, died at 29 on August 6th.
With Louis Armstrong and Muggsy Spanier, Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s. His turns on "Singin' the Blues" and "I'm Coming, Virginia" (both 1927), in particular, demonstrated an unusual purity of tone and a gift for improvisation. With these two recordings, especially, he helped to invent the jazz ballad style and hinted at what, in the 1950s, would become cool jazz. "In a Mist" (1927), one of a handful of his piano compositions and one of only two he recorded, mixed classical (Impressionist) influences with jazz syncopation.
https://www.youtube.com/v/oW7YYt0F-K4
https://www.youtube.com/v/J2_Ai8dgBko
Quote from: sanantonio on August 06, 2015, 04:09:15 AM
Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bix_Beiderbecke), jazz cornetist, died at 29 on August 6th.
With Louis Armstrong and Muggsy Spanier, Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s. His turns on "Singin' the Blues" and "I'm Coming, Virginia" (both 1927), in particular, demonstrated an unusual purity of tone and a gift for improvisation. With these two recordings, especially, he helped to invent the jazz ballad style and hinted at what, in the 1950s, would become cool jazz. "In a Mist" (1927), one of a handful of his piano compositions and one of only two he recorded, mixed classical (Impressionist) influences with jazz syncopation.
https://www.youtube.com/v/oW7YYt0F-K4
https://www.youtube.com/v/J2_Ai8dgBko
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One of my favorite composers, Peter Sculthorpe, died a year ago today.
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Quote from: Mirror Image on August 08, 2015, 06:49:45 AM
One of my favorite composers, Peter Sculthorpe, died a year ago today.
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I don't know his music. What pieces would you suggest for someone who's heard nothing?
Quote from: sanantonio on August 08, 2015, 05:54:35 PM
I don't know his music. What pieces would you suggest for someone who's heard nothing?
Earth Cry.
There's a great Naxos disc.
Quote from: sanantonio on August 08, 2015, 05:54:35 PM
I don't know his music. What pieces would you suggest for someone who's heard nothing?
Well, let's see...
Piano Concerto,
Earth Cry,
Memento Mori,
Cello Dreaming,
Sun Music I-IV,
Mangrove, and
Kakadu.
Thanks, guys - will check out his music.
TD
Shostakovich (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/08/09/dmitri-shostakovich-25-september-1906-9-august-1975/) died on August 9th, 1975.
https://www.youtube.com/v/4gGZJWjbgBI
Josquin des Prez (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/08/27/josquin-des-prez-passed-away-in-the-year-1521-the-27th-of-%3Cbr%20/%3Eaugust/) : Passed away in the year 1521, the 27th of August
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In an era when music was generally performed a few times before being replaced by something newer, Josquin des Prez was a rarity: a composer who was remembered and honored long after his death. Throughout the sixteenth century, his works were cited in theoretical treatises and extensively quoted in the music of other composers. In 1538, seventeen years after Josquin died, Martin Luther extolled him as "the master of the notes, which must do as he wishes, while other composers must follow what the notes dictate." Even in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Josquin's music was not entirely forgotten, while the nineteenth century saw him acclaimed (alongside Palestrina) as one of the two greatest composers of the Renaissance.
https://www.youtube.com/v/nfVnqU8hyxU
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Morton Feldman (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/09/03/morton-feldman-january-12-1926-september-3-1987/) : 1987
Morton Feldman was a big, brusque Jewish guy from Woodside, Queens—the son of a manufacturer of children's coats. He worked in the family business until he was forty-four years old, and he later became a professor of music at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He died in 1987, at the age of sixty-one. To almost everyone's surprise but his own, he turned out to be one of the major composers of the twentieth century, a sovereign artist who opened up vast, quiet, agonizingly beautiful worlds of sound.
Quote from: sanantonio on September 03, 2015, 04:36:58 AM
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Morton Feldman (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/09/03/morton-feldman-january-12-1926-september-3-1987/) : 1987
Morton Feldman was a big, brusque Jewish guy from Woodside, Queens—the son of a manufacturer of children's coats. He worked in the family business until he was forty-four years old, and he later became a professor of music at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He died in 1987, at the age of sixty-one. To almost everyone's surprise but his own, he turned out to be one of the major composers of the twentieth century, a sovereign artist who opened up vast, quiet, agonizingly beautiful worlds of sound.
I feel that our world needs more musicians like Feldman, who understand just how much the world needs healing by music.
Warren Zevon (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/09/07/warren-william-zevon-january-24-1947-september-7-2003/)
https://www.youtube.com/v/BwdaZfLatmM
Warren Zevon, who died a fourteen years ago today at the far-too-premature age of 56, was a singer, a songwriter and one of the great under-appreciated talents in modern America. But he could also be, as his friends, family and lovers will quickly tell you, a pain in the ass. He was at times intimidating, self-destructive, aloof. "He had tons of charisma, but when he didn't want people coming up to him, he had charisma in reverse," his ex-wife Crystal Zevon remembers.
On this day in 1733 François Couperin, nicknamed Le Grand, died. He's probably the most popular member of an important Parisian dynasty of musicians and organists at St Gervais in the Marais.
Antoine Busnois : Worthy of the immortal gods, died #OnThisDay 1492 (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/11/06/antoine-busnois-worthy-of-the-immortal-gods-died-onthisday-1492/)
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On this day in 1492, Antoine Busnois died. He was a Netherlandish composer and poet of the early Renaissance Burgundian School. While also noted as a composer of motets and other sacred music, he was one of the most renowned 15th-century composers of secular chansons. He was the leading figure of the late Burgundian school after the death of Guillaume Dufay.
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There have been some rumors that the great Robert Craft, Stravinsky's assistant for his last years in California, died a few days ago. Does anybody know?
Quote from: (poco) Sforzando on November 13, 2015, 08:02:15 AM
There have been some rumors that the great Robert Craft, Stravinsky's assistant for his last years in California, died a few days ago. Does anybody know?
Wow, I've seen this too (on Wikipedia), that he died on November 10th. :(
I was wondering about him just the other day--maybe the same day he died. A great loss, but a rich and full life. I still remember him leading an exciting performance of some Stravinsky pieces at the Colorado Music Festival in the 1980s or '90s. 8)
Quote from: ChamberNut on November 13, 2015, 09:20:44 AM
Wow, I've seen this too (on Wikipedia), that he died on November 10th. :(
It would be good (well, not good exactly) to see it on some actual source as well, though.
Quote from: North Star on November 13, 2015, 09:29:31 AM
It would be good (well, not good exactly) to see it on some actual source as well, though.
Yes, it certainly would be. I hope it isn't indeed true.
At 92, he has had good innings, though.
Quote from: North Star on November 13, 2015, 09:29:31 AM
It would be good (well, not good exactly) to see it on some actual source as well, though.
I was unable to verify Craft's death by a Google search. "...greatly exaggerated"? :) (But Google seem to insist I wanted to search for businessman Robert
Kraft. ::) )
I had a similar thought . . . if the only source is Wikipedia, I reserve judgment.
A newspaper in Florida has confirmed. I imagine we'll be seeing obituaries in more prominent sources soon.
A great musical mind, outstanding writer (even though the extent of his contributions to the Stravinsky conversation books will probably remain unknown), and an amazing conductor. Some of his Schoenberg and Berg, though unfortunately only on LP, are among the most exciting versions of these works I know. The Bach-Webern Ricercare is unsurpassed in my experience. He never got much rehearsal time for his recordings, and so they're often scrappy, but for a sheer blazing white-heat rendition, try his Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet with the CSO just for one.
A superb conductor of Stravinsky and 2nd VS indeed. That Brahms-Schönberg is great fun. Other favourites include his Stravinsky Greek Ballets disc and Les noces.
His Varese recordings from 1960 are second to none. 8)
Quote from: North Star on November 13, 2015, 09:58:56 AM
A superb conductor of Stravinsky and 2nd VS indeed. That Brahms-Schönberg is great fun. Other favourites include his Stravinsky Greek Ballets disc and Les noces.
I'm thinking mainly of the work he did for Columbia in the 1960s, such as his Pierrot Lunaire, Erwartung, and Der Wein, which unfortunately have never made it to commercial CD.
Robert Lawson Craft passed away on Tuesday, November 10th, 2015. He is survived by his wife, Alva Craft and his son, Alexander Craft. He was a renowned author, esteemed orchestra conductor, protege of Igor Stravinsky and a resident of Gulf Stream, Florida.
Published in Sun-Sentinel from Nov. 13 to Nov. 14, 2015 (http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sunsentinel/obituary.aspx?n=Robert-Lawson-Craft&pid=176477251)
Johann Staden and the Nuremberg School (https://musicakaleidoscope.wordpress.com/2015/11/15/johann-staden-and-the-nuremberg-school/)
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Johann Staden (baptized 2 July 1581 – 15 November 1634) He was a distinguished and versatile composer, and one of the outstanding German musicians of his day. In his later years he was the leading musician in Nuremberg and established the so-called Nuremberg school of the 17th century.
The world premiere recording of 15 motets of Johann Staden was recently released in April, 2015. The Windsbach Boys Choir was founded in 1946 by Hans Thamm and since 1978 under the direction of Karl-Friedrich Beringer, the choir is one of the most renowned boys choirs of the world, and along with the early music specialists Capella de la Torre and Concerto Palatino this recording has been praised for the "cleanliness and lightness, balance and softness" of it's sound.
Quote from: jochanaan on November 13, 2015, 04:51:09 PM
His Varese recordings from 1960 are second to none. 8)
Seconded