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🎂 Queer Birthday!

Colin McPhee (b. 1900) — composer and musicologist who helped introduce Balinese gamelan music to Western audiences. A pioneering and openly gay figure in classical music history.

#QueerHistory #QueerComposers 🎼🏳️‍🌈

Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892-1988):
Piano concerto no. 5 (printed as "Concerto II", 1920)
youtu.be/2U_jYR6jg6o
#ClassicalMusic #QueerComposers #QueerClassicalMusic

Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 – 59):
Concerto Grosso in A major, Op. 6 No. 11, HWV 329
youtu.be/1G2RKU7iJ-4
#ClassicalMusic #QueerComposers #QueerClassicalMusic

Arthur Benjamin (1893-1960):
Romantic Fantasy, for violin, viola and orchestra (1935)
youtu.be/f5-uc9KTAtE
#ClassicalMusic #QueerComposers #QueerClassicalMusic

4/n
For #MusicWomenWednesday
Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944):
Konzertstück in C-sharp minor for piano and orchestra Op. 40 (1888)
youtu.be/9dMZIfCxqZ0
#ClassicalMusic #QueerComposers

3/n
For #MusicWomenWednesday
Henriëtte Bosmans (1895 – 1952):
Piano Concertino (1928)
youtu.be/Ke3T74AaKeo
#ClassicalMusic #QueerComposers

2/n
For #MusicWomenWednesday
Adela Maddison (1862 – 1929):
Piano Quintet (1916): III. Tranquillamente, ma non troppo lento
youtu.be/co-kYNltNog
#ClassicalMusic #QueerComposers

31/n
Ben Weber (1916-1979):
Violin Concerto (1954)
youtu.be/npbdbfAriso
#ClassicalMusic #QueerComposers #QueerTuesday #ModernClassicalMusic

30/n
Henry Cowell (1897-1965):
Sinfonietta (1928)
youtu.be/242d1f0J6GY
#ClassicalMusic #QueerComposers #QueerTuesday #ModernClassicalMusic

29/n
Zygmunt Mycielski (1907-1987):
"Lamento di Tristano" (1937)
youtu.be/SlHeFw5kClo
#ClassicalMusic #QueerComposers #QueerTuesday #ModernClassicalMusic

28/n
Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897):
3 Intermezzi for piano, Op. 117 (1892)
youtu.be/w4nnjhHe15U
#ClassicalMusic #QueerComposers #QueerTuesday

27/n
Johann Rosenmüller (1619 – 1684):
Gloria
youtu.be/zsWM07jqGyo
#ClassicalMusic #QueerComposers #BaroqueMusic #QueerTuesday

26/n
Corey Dargel (born 1977):
Six Point Five Billion People (2008)
youtu.be/ocjkSt20WlY
#ClassicalMusic #QueerComposers #ModernClassicalMusic #QueerTuesday

25/n
Lee Hoiby (1926 – 2011):
Schubert Variations for Piano (1981)
youtu.be/X6K7IKG7oqs
#ClassicalMusic #QueerComposers #ModernClassicalMusic #QueerTuesday

24/n
Daniel Pinkham (1923-2006):
The Saint Luke Organ Book (2005)
youtu.be/GYqQh43WKVM
#ClassicalMusic #QueerComposers #ModernClassicalMusic #QueerTuesday

23/n
Andrew Norman (born 1979):
Switch, for solo percussion and orchestra (2014/15)
youtu.be/4OWzaRDxafE
#ClassicalMusic #QueerComposers #ModernClassicalMusic #MondayRandom10

22/n
Lord Berners (1883 – 1950):
Trois Morceaux for orchestra (1916)
youtu.be/nFDf5KZd-IA
#ClassicalMusic #QueerComposers #ModernClassicalMusic #MondayRandom10

21/n
John Cage (1912-1992):
Sixty-Eight, for orchestra (1992)
youtu.be/Bxk87NL4oyc
#ClassicalMusic #QueerComposers #ModernClassicalMusic #MondayRandom10

20/n
John Corigliano (born 1938):
Fantasia on an Ostinato for Piano (1985)
youtu.be/PYloIvgo48E
#ClassicalMusic #QueerComposers #ModernClassicalMusic #MondayRandom10

19/n
Erik Satie (1866-1925):
Pièces froides (1897)
youtu.be/yntpc5yQxWc
#ClassicalMusic #QueerComposers #MondayRandom10

18/n
Wolfgang Fortner (1907 – 1987):
»Variationen für großes Kammerorchester« (1978)
youtu.be/vxSCvQV5Bf4
#ClassicalMusic #ModernClassicalMusic #QueerComposers #MondayRandom10

17/n
Henry Cowell (1897-1965):
Sinfonia n.11 "Seven Rituals of Music" (1954)
youtu.be/7t8hba88puA
#ClassicalMusic #ModernClassicalMusic #QueerComposers #MondayRandom10

16/n
Philip Venables (born 1979):
Numbers 81-85, Numbers 96-100 (2021)
youtu.be/akAXxY-KCHU
#ClassicalMusic #ModernClassicalMusic #QueerComposers #MondayRandom10

15/n
Mohammed Fairouz (born 1985):
Tahrir (2011)
youtu.be/-OuJHIJXa0k
#ClassicalMusic #ModernClassicalMusic #QueerComposers #MondayRandom10

14/n
Michael Tilson Thomas (born 1944):
Urban Legend (2002)
youtu.be/2Ud8f9SXIyY
#ClassicalMusic #ModernClassicalMusic #QueerComposers #MondayRandom10

13/n
Jean Barraqué (1928–1973):
Concerto pour six formations instrumentales, vibraphone et clarinette (1962–1968)
youtu.be/83YDWKq5dow
#ClassicalMusic #ModernClassicalMusic #QueerComposers

12/n
Roger Sacheverell Coke (1912 – 1972):
Piano Concerto No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 38: I. Moderato maestoso (1940)
youtu.be/NbWNRmm_wKo
#ClassicalMusic #ModernClassicalMusic #QueerComposers

11/n
Henri Sauguet (1901-1989):
Piano Sonata in D major (1926)
youtu.be/xBzlACqf9O8
#ClassicalMusic #ModernClassicalMusic #QueerComposers

10/n
Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016):
9th Symphony (2012)
youtu.be/kCixWWDSHsU
#ClassicalMusic #ModernClassicalMusic #QueerComposers

9/n
Arcangelo Corelli (1653 – 1713):
Concerto grosso in D major, Op. 6 No. 1 (publ. 1714)
youtu.be/hggs45CYBsI
#ClassicalMusic #ModernClassicalMusic #QueerComposers