Popular Posts
-
by Hermione Lai It’s not really common knowledge, but Georges Bizet was an absolutely brilliant pianist. He entered the class of Antoin...
-
by M aureen Buja With its full title, La mer, trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre (The sea, three symphonic sketches for orchest...
-
By Georg Predota “Blind Tom,” as he was generally known, was born into slavery in Columbus, Georgia in 1848. He was sold with his family du...
-
by Emily E. Hogstad June 7th, 2025 The great composers left behind more than just great music: they also left behind advice for their fe...
-
774,844 views May 29, 2024 #pierobarone #ignazioboschetto #tuttiperuno Social • Instagram: @ignazioboschetto.italy • Tiktok: @ignazi...
-
24,755 views Mar 23, 2017 Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat major, K. 456 Rachmaninov Hall Of Moscow Conservatory Moscow Youth Cham...
-
Join the cast of Les Misérables' 25th anniversary concert as we take a look at the first & last songs from the live musical with our...
-
by Bruce Robinson Be forewarned: Three is an excellent score Recently, I heard a superb premiere of music by an 87-year-old composer. I wo...
-
63,350,847 views Oct 25, 2009 #IlDivo #Adagio #Colosseum Adagio “Adagio” is a vocal arrangement of an original piece for strings and ...
Showing posts with label Franzoesische Klassik. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Franzoesische Klassik. Show all posts
Sunday, August 23, 2015
Saturday, July 6, 2013
Francois Adrien Boildieu - His Music and His Life
Born on December 16, 1775 in Rouen, the Frenchman Francois Adrien Boildieu was a son of an Archdiocesan secretary. At the age of 18, he started composing cheerful and amusing lyrical dramas and operas.
In Paris, the piano constructor Sebastian Erard (1752-1831) became Boildieu's mentor. Etienne Nicolas Mehul (1763-1817) and Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842) were Boildieu's very closed friends.
He composed 38 operas, which remained as pearls of the so-called Opera Comique. I like to mention just only a few such as "Der Kalif von Bagdad" from 1800 (a kalif was an Arabian governor and Mohammed's follower), "Johann von Paris" (1812), and, especially "La Dame Blanche" (The White Lady, 1825) - just aired in my show last Sunday.
Boildieu's piano compositions amuse through wonderful but superficial gleam.
The great composer passed away in Paris on October 8, 1834.
Sunday, March 24, 2013
George Bizet - His Music and Life
Born on October 25, 1838, in Paris, the French George Bizet passed away -also in Paris- on June 3, 1875.
As a music professor's son, Bizet started to study at the Parisienne College of Music at the age of 9!!! During the ten academic years Bizet passed many examinations with distinctions. One of his teacher was Jacques Halevy a.k.a. Elias Levy (1799-1862), his then future father-in-law.
At the age of 17 (1855), Bizet composed his first symphony in c-major. The premiere took place only in 1935 through Felix von Weingaertner (1863-1942) in Basel, Switzerland. Bizet considered this composition as immature 'schoolboy-work".
In 1857, his operetta "Le Docteur Miracle" (The Wonder Doctor0 won the first prize. In Italy, Bizet composed the comic opera "Don Procopio" with its premiere only 1906 in Monte Carlo.
The following operas remained as very unsuccessful, even they content many wonderful classic compositions: "Le Pecheurs de Perles" (1863), "Ivan le Terrible" (1865) or "Djamileh" (1877).
The two "L'Arlesienne Suites" (1872 and 1876) remained as world record classical compositions till today and are being aired on European radio stations many times.
The opera "Carmen" is one of the most performed operas worldwide up to now and remained as Bizet's great success.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)