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Christoph Hammer
Christoph Hammer (born 12 June 1966) is a German conductor, forte piano player, musicologist and specialist of historically informed performance. Life Youth Born in Ensdorf, Hammer passed the Abitur at the in 1985. He then studied Germanistic and musicology at the University of Munich and the University of California in Los Angeles as a scholarship holder of the and the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. Forte piano player Since 1989 he has concentrated on the playing of historical keyboard instruments, especially the Hammerklavier. As a soloist, song accompanist and chamber musician, he has gained an international reputation. He regularly works with ensembles such as the Concerto Köln, L'Orfeo Barockorchester, the Nederlands Kammerorchest, the Prague Chamber Orchestra. The same applies to work with vocal and instrumental soloists such as Emma Kirkby, Rufus Müller, Martin Bruns, Jan Kobow, Axel Köhler, Dominik Wörner, Anton Steck, Reinhold Johannes Buhl, Guido ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forte Piano
A fortepiano , sometimes referred to as a pianoforte, is an early piano. In principle, the word "fortepiano" can designate any piano dating from the invention of the instrument by Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1698 up to the early 19th century. Most typically, however, it is used to refer to the mid-18th to early-19th century instruments for which composers of the Classical era, especially Haydn, Mozart, and the younger Beethoven wrote their piano music. Starting in Beethoven's time, the fortepiano began a period of steady evolution, culminating in the late 19th century with the modern grand. The earlier fortepiano became obsolete and was absent from the musical scene for many decades. In the 20th century the fortepiano was revived, following the rise of interest in historically informed performance. Fortepianos are built for this purpose in specialist workshops. Construction The fortepiano has leather-covered hammers and thin, harpsichord-like strings. It has a much light ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oehms Classics
Oehms Classics is a German classical music label founded in 2003 by Dieter Oehms (born in Manderscheid, Bernkastel-Wittlich in 1941), a former manager for 35 years with DGG/Polygram PolyGram N.V. was a multinational entertainment company and major music record label formerly based in the Netherlands. It was founded in 1962 as the Grammophon-Philips Group by Dutch corporation Philips and German corporation Siemens, to be ... and Arte Nova/ BMG.The gramophone: Volume 80, Issues 963-966; Volume 80, Issues 963-966 2003 "Dieter Oehms, former managing director of Arte Nova Classics, has founded his own label, Oehms Classics. Oehms stepped down as managing director of budget-price label Arte Nova last year after it was fully integrated into parent company BMG Classics, which bought his shares. He has now attracted some former Arte Nova artists - including pianist Alfredo Perl, baritone Roman Trekel and conductor Stanislaw Skrowaczewski - into the studio for his own eponymous labe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding
The Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding (English: Bavarian Theatre Academy August Everding) at the Prinzregententheater in Munich, was founded by August Everding in 1993. Since September 2014, the Academy has been directed by Hans-Jürgen Drescher. The academy offers theatrical students nine different programs and through the cooperation of three professionally equipped theaters (Prinzregententheater, Akademietheater (Munich), Akademietheater, and Akademiestudio), it is the largest training center for stage professions in Germany. Education In this theater for teaching and learning combinations of both theoretical and practical methods make up the courses for acting, directing, singing/musical theater, musicals, drama, stage presence and costume design, makeup and theater, film and television criticism. The students complete their studies, depending on the various courses, with a Bachelor or Diploma. Cooperation partners are the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Münc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredegunda (opera)
Fredegund or Fredegunda ( Latin: ''Fredegundis''; French: ''Frédégonde''; died 8 December 597) was the Queen consort of Chilperic I, the Merovingian Frankish king of Soissons. Fredegund served as regent during the minority of her son Chlothar II from 584 until 597. Fredegund has traditionally been given a very bad reputation, foremost by the accounts of Gregory of Tours, who depicts her as ruthlessly murderous and sadistically cruel, and she is known for the many cruel stories about her, particularly for her long feud with queen Brunhilda of Austrasia, Fredegund's sister-in-law. Queen Fredegund was born into a low-ranking family but gained power through her association with King Chilperic. Originally a servant of Chilperic's first wife Audovera, Fredegund won Chilperic's affection and persuaded him to put Audovera in a convent and divorce her. Chilperic put Fredegund aside and married Galswintha, the daughter of Visigothic King Athanagild, after his half-brother and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reinhard Keiser
Reinhard Keiser (9 January 1674 – 12 September 1739) was a German opera composer based in Hamburg. He wrote over a hundred operas. Johann Adolf Scheibe (writing in 1745) considered him an equal to Johann Kuhnau, George Frideric Handel and Georg Philipp Telemann, but his work was largely forgotten for many decades. Biography Keiser was born in Teuchern (in present-day Saxony-Anhalt), son of the organist and teacher Gottfried Keiser (born about 1650), and educated by other organists in the town and then from age eleven at the Thomasschule in Leipzig, where his teachers included Johann Schelle and Johann Kuhnau, direct predecessors of Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1694, he became court-composer to the duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, though he had probably come to the court already as early as 1692 to study its renowned operas, which had been going on since 1691, when the city had built a 1,200-seat opera house. Keiser put on his first opera ''Procris und Cephalus'' there and, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Handel Festival Karlsruhe
George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (; baptised , ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos. Handel received his training in Halle and worked as a composer in Hamburg and Italy before settling in London in 1712, where he spent the bulk of his career and became a naturalised British subject in 1727. He was strongly influenced both by the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition and by composers of the Italian Baroque. In turn, Handel's music forms one of the peaks of the "high baroque" style, bringing Italian opera to its highest development, creating the genres of English oratorio and organ concerto, and introducing a new style into English church music. He is consistently recognized as one of the greatest composers of his age. Handel started three commercial opera companies to supply the English nobility with Italian opera. In 1737, he had a physical brea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lotario
''Lotario'' ("Lothair", HWV 26) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was adapted from Antonio Salvi's ''Adelaide''.The opera was first given at the King's Theatre in London on 2 December 1729. The story of the opera is a fictionalisation of some events in the life of Holy Roman Empress Adelaide of Italy. Performance history Paolo Rolli commented in a letter at the time to Giuseppe Riva that "everyone thinks (''Lotario'') a very bad opera". There were 10 performances, but it was not repeated. Handel reused pieces in later operas. As with all Baroque opera seria, ''Lotario'' went unperformed for many years, but with the revival of interest in Baroque music and historically informed musical performance since the 1960s, ''Lotario'', like all Handel operas, receives performances at festivals and opera houses today. Among other performances, ''Lotario'' was staged at the London Handel Festival in 1999, by the Handel Festival, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landestheater Linz
The Linz State Theatre (german: Landestheater Linz) is a theatre in Linz, Austria. References External links * Theatres in Linz Buildings and structures in Linz Tourist attractions in Linz Clemens Holzmeister buildings and structures {{Austria-theat-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Orfeo
''L'Orfeo'' ( SV 318) (), sometimes called ''La favola d'Orfeo'' , is a late Renaissance/early Baroque ''favola in musica'', or opera, by Claudio Monteverdi, with a libretto by Alessandro Striggio. It is based on the Greek legend of Orpheus, and tells the story of his descent to Hades and his fruitless attempt to bring his dead bride Eurydice back to the living world. It was written in 1607 for a court performance during the annual Carnival at Mantua. While Jacopo Peri's '' Dafne'' is generally recognised as the first work in the opera genre, and the earliest surviving opera is Peri's ''Euridice'', ''L'Orfeo'' is the earliest that is still regularly performed. By the early 17th century the traditional intermedio—a musical sequence between the acts of a straight play—was evolving into the form of a complete musical drama or "opera". Monteverdi's ''L'Orfeo'' moved this process out of its experimental era and provided the first fully developed example of the new genre. Afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stadttheater Passau
Stadttheater Passau is a theatre in Passau, Bavaria, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe .... Theatres in Bavaria {{Bavaria-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dardanus (Rameau)
''Dardanus'' is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau with a French-language libretto by Charles-Antoine Leclerc de La Bruère. It takes the form of a '' tragédie en musique'' in a prologue and five acts. ''Dardanus'' premiered at the Paris Opéra on 19 November 1739 to mixed success, mainly because of the dramatic weakness of the libretto. This caused Rameau and La Bruère to rework the opera, completely rewriting the last three acts, for a revival in 1744. Only when ''Dardanus'' was again performed in 1760 did it win acclaim as one of Rameau's greatest works. The original story is loosely based on that of Dardanus, the son of Zeus and Electra, and ancestor of the Trojans. However, in the opera, Dardanus is at war with King Teucer, who has promised to marry his daughter Iphise to King Anténor. Dardanus and Iphise meet through the intervention of the magician Isménor and fall in love. Dardanus attacks a monster ravaging Teucer's kingdom, saving the life of Anténor who is attem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Esaias Von Seidel
Johann Esaias von Seidel (28 April 1758 – 20 November 1827) was a printer, publisher and publicist in the 19th century who promoted the reforms of Maximilian von Montgelas. He also promoted ecumenism, the concept of unity among different Christian denominations. Life and career Origin and childhood Seidel was born in Ortenburg, Bavaria, on 28 April 1758. He was the fourth of eight children of the Protestant pastor Georg Stephan Alexander Seidel and his wife Anna Margarete (''née'' Faust). As early as 1766, Seidel moved from Ortenburg to Sulzbach to join his uncle, Georg Abraham Lorenz Lichtenthaler (1711-1780), at his printshop. He was the fourth generation to run the oldest of four publishing houses there (founded in 1664). Seidel as a printer and publisher In 1821, he was raised to hereditary nobility. He died on 20 November 1827. Contemporaries (such as the publisher Friedrich Christoph Perthes in 1823) praised Seidel's extraordinary business acumen, which was alway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
