Influential People: Anton Rubinstein

September 30, 2015October 1, 2015 Fugue for Thought

I started including this information in tomorrow’s music post, but it got a little long, so I decided I’d make it a separate thing ahead of the discussion of the first work in our Russian symphony series.

Rubinstein on the podium as portrayed by Ilya Repin.

In great contrast with the piece we’ll be discussing next week, Rubinstein was quite a Continue reading

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Influential People: Franz Liszt

September 21, 2015October 1, 2015 Fugue for Thought

Franz Liszt: where does one begin? Handsome chap, too Most people know him as the frighteningly virtuosic virtuoso pianist born in 1811, the year after Chopin and Schumann, he himself being one of the most influential performers/composers of the 19th … Continue reading Influential People: Franz Liszt

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Influential People: Franz Josef Haydn

May 29, 2015January 1, 2016 Fugue for Thought

The picture that everyone knows of the composer who looks like George Washington He excelled in every musical genre… He is familiarly known as the ‘father of the symphony’ and could with greater justice be thus regarded for the … Continue reading Influential People: Franz Josef Haydn

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Influential People: Anton Rubinstein

Influential People: Franz Liszt

Influential People: Franz Josef Haydn