Viktor Ullmann: A Voice Silenced Viktor Ullmann. The name might not immediately spring to mind when listing the pantheon of classical composers. Yet, Ullmann was in the 1930s a bright star of classical music, before his life was b…

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Viktor Ullmann was born on January 1, 1898. A pupil of Schoenberg, he forged his own path, blending elements of atonality with more traditional tonal harmonies. Persecuted by the Nazis as a Jew, he was killed in Auschwitz in 1944.
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Portrait of Sessions by Harold Weston (c. 1920s)

#ComposerBirthday American composer Roger Sessions was born #OTD in 1896.
Starting as a neoclassicist, Sessions later evolved towards modernism. His friendship with Schoenberg led him to twelve-tone serialism. Yet he adopted a free approach to serialism to shape his own personnal musical voice.

#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Violinist Antonio Maria Montanari (1676 - 1737) experimented with enharmonic micro-intervals. His works have yet to be studied in depth.

#ComposerBirthday #JeremyDuck #HipsterBrahms #Violin #Violinist #Montanari #Microtones #Microtone #Baroque #BaroqueMusic

#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Carl Frühling was born in what is now Lviv, Ukraine. Many of his works are lost. Cellist Steven Isserlis discovered and championed Frühling’s music. He died in Vienna in poverty.

#HipsterBrahms #JeremyDuck #ComposerBirthday #Ukraine #Frühling #Piano #Cello #Vienna #Poverty

Charles Koechlin Charles Louis Eugène Koechlin was born on November 27, 1867, in Paris, France, into a well-to-do family with roots in the Alsace region. His father, a textiles manufacturer, and his mother, a pianist,...

"Koechlin’s musical style is eclectic, drawing on influences from Impressionism, Symbolism, and Orientalism. His works often feature lush harmonies, intricate counterpoint, and imaginative orchestration." #ComposerBirthday #Koechlin
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Black and white photograph of Charles Koechlin.

🎂 #ComposerBirthday Let's celebrate French composer Charles Koechlin (1867-1950), who was born #OTD in 1867. From intimate chamber works to symphonic poems, his 200+ compositions blend lyrical beauty with modernist innovation.
🎼 What are your favorite works by Koechlin?

Spotlight on classical composer Rosalind Ellicott (1857-1924) If you’re a classical music enthusiast and haven’t yet encountered the name Rosalind Ellicott, you’re in for a delightful surprise. Ellicott, an English composer born in 1857, is a figu…

🎂 #ComposerBirthday British composer Rosalind Ellicott was born on this day in 1857. Ellicott’s music can be described as lush, emotive, and intricately crafted. Her compositions are marked by a lyrical and expressive quality.
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Black and white photo of Shostakovitch sitting in front of a piano.

🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday Dmitri Shostakovich was born #OTD in 1906. His music is a powerful statement of resilience and resistance against oppression and a testimony of the sufferings of ordinary people under Soviet tyranny.
💬 What is your favorite work by Shostakovich?

Arvo Pärt is Ninety Today is not a day in which one considers celebrations, but we are pleased to send Arvo Pärt greetings and congratulations on his ninetieth birthday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DtJs2t84AE&list=...

Arvo Pärt is Ninety
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#ArvoPärt #composerbirthday #sequenza21 #fileundermusic

❤️ The conductor who made me love Bruckner is Herbert Blomstedt, when he conducted Bruckner's third symphony in Paris a few years ago. #ComposerBirthday #Bruckner
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The shadow of death Article on the recording of Anton Bruckner’s 9th symphony by Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony.

🎼 Here is a recording of Bruckner's 9th symphony, by Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra, that I highly recommend. #ComposerBirthday #Bruckner
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Black and white photo of Anton Bruckner.

🎂🎶 #ComposerBirthday Anton Bruckner was born #OTD 200 years ago. Best-known for his symphonies, his style is characterized by grandeur, complexity, & intricate harmonic language, influenced by Palestrina, Bach, the 1st Viennese School & Wagner.
💬 What are your favorite works by Bruckner?

Black and white photo of Alma Mahler

🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday Alma Schindler Mahler was born #OTD in Vienna in 1879. She has been one of the most vilified figures of classical music. Her career was cut short by the sexism of her time and her marriage to Gustav Mahler. Highly talented, she left 17 beautiful lieder.

Photo of Leonard Bernstein conducting during a concert.

🎂🎼 #ComposerBirthday Leonard Bernstein was born on 25 August 1918. He was a genius conductor, educator and composer and communicator who shared his passion for music to music lovers around the world.
💬 What are you favorite works or recordings by Bernstein?

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a musical trailblazer British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s life and music symbolize the triumph of talent over adversity. His unique blend of Western classical traditions with African and other ethnic folk m…

🎂 #ComposerBirthday British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was born #OTD in 1875. His unique blend of Western classical traditions with African and other ethnic folk musical traditions created a distinct musical voice that still resonates today.
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🎼 #ComposerBirthday Bohemian virtuoso violinist and composer Heinrich Biber was born #OTD in 1644. He is best known for his 15 Rosary Sonatas for violin and basso continuo, and the Battalia for string orchestra, with its imitation gunfire and drunken soldiers
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🎼 Alexander Mosolov: Concerto for piano and orchestra No.1 (1927)
🎹 Steffen Schleiermacher, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Johannes Kalitzke
#ComposerBirthday #Mosolov
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Black and white portrait of Mosolov. © Inna Barsova

🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday #OTD in 1900, Ukrainian composer Alexander Mosolov was born. Known for his futurist compositions and innovative style, Mosolov's music captured the spirit of his time with bold rhythms and mechanical sounds.
💬 What are your favorite works by Mosolov?

May 7th – Music Of The Day Thomas Pitts England, Europe, Music Coker, May, Ori and the Will of the Wisps

🎮 7 May – Happy birthday to Gareth Coker (b. 1984), composer of stunning game soundtracks like Ori and the Will of the Wisps. His emotional, orchestral music helps bring stories to life. 🌌🎼 #GarethCoker #VideoGameMusic #ComposerBirthday #OriAndTheWillOfTheWisps

🎶🎂 #ComposerBirthday Russian avant-garde composer and music theorist Sergei Protopopov was born on this day in 1893. Protopopov's compositions are marked by their avant-garde nature, dissonant harmonies, and intricate structures, which positioned him as a pioneer.
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Album cover : photo of Rachmaninov on the left and on the right title of the works : Piano concerts performed by Vladimir Ashkenazy and André Prévin

Album cover. Symphony n°2, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Kurt Sanderling.

Album cover. illustration : drawing of a Russian orthodox church at night with a process in front of it. Evgeni Svetlanov. USSR Symphony Orchestra. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8081212--rachmaninov-the-bells-spring-vocalise

Album cover. Dissonance. Photo collage of Asmik Grigorian and Lukas Genusias.

🎶 “Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”
🎂 Pianist and composer Sergey Rachmaninoff was born on this day in 1873. #composerbirthday
Here are some of my favorite recordings of his works.
💬 What are yours?

Visionary Traditionalist-Ferruccio Busoni - Steinway & Sons The time is ripe for a fuller appreciation of Ferruccio Busoni

🎶 "Music was born free; and to win freedom is its destiny."
Pianist, composer, writer and teacher Ferruccio Busoni was born on this day in 1866. #ComposerBirthday
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Portrait couleur de Pierre Boulez (1925-2016) ©Maxppp - EFE/Newscom

🎂 #ComposerBirthday Pierre Boulez was born 100 years ago #OTD. 🎼✨
Let's celebrate the legacy of this groundbreaking composer and conductor who left a lasting mark in contemporary music and conducting.
What’s your favorite Pierre Boulez recording? Share below! 🎶👇 #Boulez100

Daphnis and Chloes, Charles Munch, Boston Symphony

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, piano works

Sheherazade, Véronique Gens

Piano concertos, Zimerman, Boulez

🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday Maurice Ravel was born #OTD in 1875. A master orchestrator, he composed shimmering and deeply expressive music in a variety of genres, from instrumental music to operas.
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💿 Here are some of my favorite works & records
💬What are yours?

#ComposerBirthdayFacts: In 1908, Hubert Parry earned the distinction of being the only composer ever elected as a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron.

#JeremyDuck #DrDuck #HipsterBrahms #ComposerBirthday #Parry #HubertParry #RoyalYachtSquadron #Yacht #Yachts

Gipps, Ruth Prodigiously gifted and fearlessly determined, Ruth Gipps’s significant impact on British music is still to be fully appreciated, argues Leah Broad

🎂🎶 #ComposerBirthday Ruth Gipps was born on this day in 1921. A Romantic composer at heart, she adopted "a pastoral style, drawing on English folk tunes and historical English composers such as Byrd, and taking inspiration from the English countryside."
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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Arcangelo Corelli is credited as the earliest composer to fully apply tonality as the basis for his music.

#JeremyDuck #DrDuck #HipsterBrahms #ComposerBirthday #Corelli #ArcangeloCorelli #Baroque #BaroqueMusic #BaroqueEra #Tonality #Modality

#ComposerBirthdayFacts: At 2 years old, Jean #Langlais III became blind due to #glaucoma and attended the National Institute for Blind Children. He went on to study #organ, #composition, and #improvisation at the #ParisConservatoire.

#JeremyDuck #DrDuck #HipsterBrahms #ComposerBirthday #Blindness

#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Alexander Dargomyzhsky’s “Esmeralda” is based on Victor Hugo’s “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame,” and “Rusalka” features several similarities to Dvořák’s opera of the same name.

#JeremyDuck #DrDuck #HipsterBrahms #ComposerBirthday #Opera #Dargomyzhsky #Dvorak #Hunchback #Rusalka

#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Jørgen Bentzon’s Op. 1 is a set of variations on Chopin’s Mazurka in F Major Op. 68, No. 3. He also wrote an opera titled “Saturnalia.”

#JeremyDuck #DrDuck #HipsterBrahms #ComposerBirthday #Bentzon #JørgenBentzon #Chopin #Mazurka #Opera #Piano #Saturnalia