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Karl Milloecker - His Music and Life
Austrian Karl Millöcker was born on April 29, 1842 in Vienna and died in Baden near Vienna on December 31, 1899.
Instead of taking over is father's goldsmith workshop, the discontented Millöcker decided to start a career as flautist.
Already at the age of 16 he became a member of the well known Vienna State Opera Orchestra. One of his patrons has been the great Franz von Suppe (1819-1895 - "Poet and Peasant").
In 1878, Millöcker walked off with "The Enchanted Castle". "Countess Dubarry" (actually from 1879) received worldwide appreciation after a new arrangement by Theo Mackeben in 1931.
Millöcker's masterpiece "The Begging Student" (1882) is known up to these days. Melody abundance and "clean composition master craftsman's intelligence" remained as equal and evenly matched to Johann Strauss.
The following operettas showed a slacken composition readiness and became sadden flops.
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Emmerich Kalman - His Music and Life
Born on October 24, 1882 in Siofok/Hungary, Emmerich Kalman passed away in Paris/France on October 30, 1953.
Kalman wanted to become a pianist, but unfortunately a hand's muscle paralysis let htis dream never become true.
Kalman decided to study law - and later music. He became a music reviewer and critic and wrote for several publications.
In 1907, Kalman received the trophy of Budapest for outstanding serious classical compositions. In 1908, his operetta "Autumn Manuever" (Herstmanoever) had its glorious premiere. Several operetta highlights followed: "The Csardas Princess" (1905), "The Dutch Little Woman" (1920), "Countess Marissa" (1924) and "The Circus Princess" (1926).
Kalman's Hungarian operettas remained as his greatest success. Hungarian ideology and identify glittered, shined and have been reflected in his compositions. The rhythmical melodies gave "terrible fresh blood" to the at that time tiring European operetta scene.
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Guiseppe Verdi - His Music and his Life
The Italien Guiseppe Verdi was born near Busseto, Roncole, Parma on October 10,1813 and was one of the few composers whose genius was recognized while he as still alive. His reputation as the greatest of all Italian opera composers is beyond dispute.
It was the same year that the Great German Richard Wagner was born - a remarkable parallel to the year 1685 when Bach and Händel have been born.
Verdi started to work as clerk for the trader Antonio Barezzi. Barezzi, a great music lover, made it possible for Verdi to get a grant and scholarship.
Verdi studied also under a Milan Scala's music conductor and was lucky to get theatre practice. In 1835, Verdi became an organ musician. he later became a music conductor in his native town Bussett.
His first opera "Oberto" (1839) received a favorably appreciation. In 1840, Verdi composed his second "opera comique" ("Un Giorno de Rigno") - for him an objectionable work: during the composition period Verdi's wife and two children passed away.
Verdi didn't like to compose operas anymore, but when he read another songbook, his phantasm has been fulfilled with the composition of "Nabucco" (1842): "Fly my thought on golden wings!" Verdi received the name of honor "Maestro della rivoluzione italiana".
More operas followed: "I Lombardi" (1843), "Emani" (1844), Macbeth" (1847, after a drama by Shakespeare), and "Luisa Miller" (1849).
The operas "Rigoletto" (1851), "Il Travatore" (1853) and "La Traviata" (also 1853) remained as a grip musical three-constellation. "La Donna e Mobile" became Verdi's most popular opera song.
"Aida" (1871), "Othello" (1887) and "Falstaff" (1893) followed. Verdi belonged to one of the most blessed opera composers, while other music works of him never reached the same immense popularity.
Verdi passed away in Milan on January 27, 1901.
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Nikolai Rimski-Korssakoff - His Music and Life
His leisure time at sea, Rimski-Korssakoff made use of composing his first symphony; by the way: this work has been played for the first time under the conductor Mily Balakirew in 1865.
1871, Rimski-Korssakoff became Professor for Instrumentation and Compositions at the St. Petersburg College of Music. His strict self-training and contra dot studies brought him into an extraordinary position among all other Russian composers. Almost all Russian composers belonging to the younger generation passed through his musical instructions.
His operas went for Russian legends and fairy tales: "Sadko" (1898, very known "The Song of the Indian Merchant"), "The Night in May" (1880); por"Tsar Sultan" (1900, very known "The Flight of the Bumble Bee").
Brilliant orchestral works have been "Scheherazade". "Cappricio Espagnol" or "Russian Easter".
His biography has been published in German language already in 1928.
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