Cecilia is known as an emergency helper and since the late Middle Ages also as the patron saint of church music. However, Cecilia only owes this patronage to a translation error in which it says “cantantibus organis”, which actually means “when the musical instruments sounded” (meaning the feast for her…
House Music Day – Musicians’ Day Weiterlesen »
100 years ago, on 16 December 1921, the French composer Chales-Camille Saint-Saens died in Algiers. At the time, he was considered a child prodigy, having written his first composition for piano at the age of four and causing a sensation at five by playing a Beethoven sonata. Today, Saint-Saens is
Saint-Saëns: child prodigy and cosmopolitan Weiterlesen »
The WDR honoured the composer on his memorial day with these words: Composer, conductor, pacifist, entertainer, pianist, pedagogue, author – Leonard Bernstein was many things, just not boring. He was a star, one of the most successful composers and musicians of the 20th century. But he died full of self-doubt:
10 October: 30th anniversary of the death of a genius. Weiterlesen »
