It's all about the classical music composers and their works from the last 400 years and much more about music. Hier erfahren Sie alles über die klassischen Komponisten und ihre Meisterwerke der letzten vierhundert Jahre und vieles mehr über Klassische Musik.
Joseph Rheinberger, in full Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger, (born March 17, 1839, Vaduz, Liechtenstein—died Nov. 25, 1901, Munich, Ger.), German composer and teacher whose organ sonatas are among the finest 19th-century works for that instrument.
Rheinberger studied organ at Vaduz and became organist at the parish church when he was only seven years old. He later studied at Feldkirch and Munich and in 1867 became professor of organ and composition at the Munich Conservatory. Among his pupils were Engelbert Humperdinck, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Wilhelm Furtwängler, and the American composers George W. Chadwick and Horatio Parker. Besides 20 organ sonatas, he wrote four operas and much church and chamber music. He received a title of nobility in 1894.
Being Rheinberger’s only valid essay in the genre, the Piano Concerto in A-flat major op. 94 of 1876, merits special attention. It was splendidly received by contemporary musicians and critics and granted the shy and introverted Rheinberger a successful and amazingly smooth entrée into the world of the concert hall. Shortly after its creation the work was performed and wildly acclaimed in Munich, Leipzig), Cologne, and many other musical centers of Germany.
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The relationship between music and memory is powerful. Music evokes powerful emotions that then bring back memories. When we listen to a piece of music from years ago, we seem to travel back to that moment. We can feel everything as if we were there.
Our long-term memory can be divided into two distinct types, namely implicit memory and explicit memory. Explicit memory is a deliberate, conscious remembering of the past. Explicit memory involves things like textbook learning or experiential memories, things that must be consciously brought into awareness.
Implicit memories are our unconscious and automatic memories. For example, playing a musical instrument, or recalling the words to a song when someone sings the first few words. A large part of memory takes place in the unconscious mind.
Explicit memory fades in the absence of recall, while implicit memory is more enduring and may last a lifetime even in the absence of further practice. The explicit memory systems become damaged by conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.
I remember my parent's irritation in their faces, such as a broken mirror! Once upon a time, we have been getting crazy while listening to our idols' sounds. In my case, sometime during the 1960s and 1970s.
I felt "satisfaction" while listening to the Rolling Stones or dancing to the Beatles. I had hectic dreams together with Pink Floyd or couldn't hold myself with "Da-da-da_ and its then "German New Wave which swapped to the world later on - yes, even up to the Philippines.
Today, we are the parents of the younger generation again. Is there diplomatic space for any discussions? What's the music up nowadays?
Rap or house? Or something like this? Noise, din, row, racket, fuss, or damage to my (?) musical paintwork?
I remember harmonic accords with flutes and my accordion. Later myself at the piano ... .
Two generations, even three meanwhile. Let's strike the right one - no matter which generation we belong to.
Shahram Heshmat, Ph.D., an associate professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Springfield with a Ph.D. in Managerial Economics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, describes it as follows: " In sum, music can help to unlock non-musical memories and promote communication in older adults with Alzheimer's disease. Recalling a memory is not always easy. It doesn’t simply come when you want to retrieve it. However, music helps to recall all the memories that you’ve connected with a song. Listening to a piece of music that was played a lot during a significant life event, such as a wedding or funeral, can trigger a deeply nostalgic emotional experience".
Priscilla Presley (left) and daughter Lisa Marie (Instagram)
Rest in peace.
Singer Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of music icon Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley, died following a cardiac arrest on Jan. 12. She was 54.
Hours before her demise, Priscilla took to Instagram to ask for prayers for her daughter after she eas rushed to the hospital on Thursday. Her post read:
“My beloved daughter Lisa Marie was rushed to the hospital. She is now receiving the best care. Please keep her and our family in your prayers. We feel the prayers from around the world, and ask for privacy during this time. – Priscilla Presley”
Lisa Marie Presley (Facebook)
Fans prayed for Lisa Marie, the only child and daughter of Elvis and Priscilla.
Lisa Marie had four children. She was married and divorced four times, including pop star Michael Jackson and Nicholas Cage.
Elvis Presley and daughter Lisa Marie in her younger years (Facebook)
It was TMZ, a popular entertainment website in the US, which initially reported about the death of the musician.
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“TMZ broke the story … Lisa was rushed to the hospital after her housekeeper found her unresponsive at her Calabasas home. Her ex-husband, Danny Keough, was there and performed CPR on her until paramedics arrived and took over — they administered at least one dose of epinephrine during resuscitation efforts,” TMZ reported.
Elvis and Priscilla with baby Lisa Marie (Facebook)
Lisa Marie debuted in the music scene with her album “To Whom It May Concern” in 2003. It reached No. 5 in the Billboard Hot 100 album chart.
New research finds that almost half of the world’s top 20 contemporary composers in 2022 were women.
An annual classical music statistics report has found that in 2022, nine of the top 20 most performed living composers were women.
Some of the women composers named in the top 20 include Anna Clyne, Kaija Saariaho, Olga Neuwirth, Unsuk Chin, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Missy Mazzoli and Errollyn Wallen.
The report, carried out by online classical music magazine Bachtrack, is based on 27,124 listings for performances which took place in 2022.
On the report’s full list of 106 most performed living composers, of 24 the British composers featured on the list, 12 were women, and of the 27 Americans named, 10 were women.
Bachtrack’s 2022 statistics are starkly different from previous figures. In 2014, just one composer in the top 20 most performed living composers was a woman (Sofia Gubaidulina), while three John’s made the cut (John Williams, John Adams, John Rutter).
Just one year earlier in 2013, there wasn’t a single woman in the top 200 list.
Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina in a rare US appearance. Picture: Getty
Gubaidulina, now age 91, also appears in the top 20 list for 2022 (the highest woman listed, at number seven) a feat particularly impressive due to her struggle to have her music widely performed during the 20th century.
Living in Soviet Russia, Gubaidulina fell out of favour with the authorities as part of the group, the Khrennikov Seven. These seven composers were condemned by the Soviet Composers Union for writing scores that were in their words, “pointlessness… noisy mud instead of real musical innovation”.
In a 2013 interview with The Guardian however, Gubaidulina explained that being blacklisted and “so unperformed” gave her a sense of “artistic freedom, even if I couldn’t earn much money.
“I could write what I wanted without compromise.”
There’s good news for women in the field of conducting, too. Out of the world’s 100 busiest conductors, Bachtrack names 12 women; another stark difference to previous reports, as in 2013, just one conductor on the same list was a woman (Marin Alsop at No.70).
36-year-old Elim Chan is the highest ranking woman at no.29, and she is joined by Karina Canellakis, Nathalie Stutzmann, Mirga Gražinytė–Tyla, Marin Alsop, Dalia Stasevska, Xian Zhang, Gemma New, Simone Young, Joana Mallwitz, Kristiina Poska and Barbara Hannigan. Conductors are also getting younger. 26-year-old Klaus Mäkelä, chief conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, is one of the world’s top ten busiest maestros according to Bachtrack.
The Finnish musician comes in at number four on the list, and is the youngest of the conductors named.
Despite Mäkelä being the youngest, the average age of this list – which features names such as Sir Simon Rattle, Gustavo Dudamel, and Andris Nelsons – is still a pretty spry 46 years old.
In 2010, Bachtrack’s list of the world’s top ten busiest conductors was 61 years old.
The average age of the top ten busiest conductors is now 46 – it had been 61 in 2010. Picture: Bachtrack
Over the last decade, a host of talented young conductors have experienced meteoric rises to fame.
In 2022, one of the pinnacle moments in classical music was the announced appointment of 29-year-old Jonathon Heyward as the new Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra – a position previously held by trailblazing conductor, Marin Alsop. Taking over for the 2023/24 season, Heyward makes history as both the youngest, and as the first African-American music director for the orchestra.
“I think as a young conductor at the moment, everything that I’ve been doing is actually pretty much for the first time and it’s often with seasoned players and seasoned orchestras who have probably played the pieces hundreds of times,” Heyward told the Southbank Sinfonia in 2021.
“To work for ensembles also doing it for the first time, it’s nice because it feels like we’re exploring it together on a blank canvas, which is thrilling.”
