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Die Schweizer Familie
''Die Schweizer Familie'' (''The Swiss Family'') is an opera by the Austrian composer Joseph Weigl. It takes the form of a ''Singspiel'' in three acts. The libretto, by Ignaz Franz Castelli, is based on the vaudeville ''Pauvre Jacques'' (1807) by Charles-Augustin de Basson-Pierre, known as Sewrin, and René de Chazet. The opera was first performed at the Theater am Kärntnertor, conducted by the composer, in Vienna on 14 March 1809 and was a great success in German-speaking countries in the early 19th century. Roles Synopsis The Bolls, the Swiss family of the title, have been banished to an unspecified region in the Alps. Their daughter, Emmeline, pines for the love of Jakob, to whom she is secretly engaged. The local count, whose life was saved by Richard Boll, also shows concern for Emmeline's sufferings and with his help Emmeline and Jakob are reunited. Recording *''Die Schweizer Familie'' Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra Dreieck, conducted by Uri Rom (Guild, 2006) Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiener Hoftheater-Almanach
Wiener (from German: "wikt:Viennese, Viennese") may refer to: Food * A Polish sausage (kielbasa) or "wenar" * A Vienna sausage of German origin, named after the capital of Austria * A hot dog, a cooked sausage, traditionally grilled or steamed and served in a sliced bun People * Wiener (surname) Places *Wiener Neudorf, a town in the eastern part of the Mödling district, Austria *Wiener Neustadt, a town south of Vienna, in the state of Lower Austria, Austria *Wiener Stadthalle, an indoor arena, in Vienna, Austria *Wiener Staatsoper, the Vienna State Opera Other uses *The Wiener AC, also known as Wiener AC or WAC, an Austrian sports club in Vienna * Wiener process, a mathematical model related to Brownian motion * Wiener equation, named after Norbert Wiener, assumes the current velocity of a fluid particle fluctuates randomly * Wiener filter, a noise filter used in signal processing * Wiener (crater), a crater on the far side of the Moon *''Wiener Bonbons'', a waltz by Johan St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenor
A tenor is a type of classical music, classical male singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. The tenor's vocal range extends up to C5. The low extreme for tenors is widely defined to be B2, though some roles include an A2 (two As below middle C). At the highest extreme, some tenors can sing up to the second F above middle C (F5). The tenor voice type is generally divided into the ''leggero'' tenor, lyric tenor, spinto tenor, dramatic tenor, heldentenor, and tenor buffo or . History The name "tenor" derives from the Latin word ''wikt:teneo#Latin, tenere'', which means "to hold". As Fallows, Jander, Forbes, Steane, Harris and Waldman note in the "Tenor" article at ''Grove Music Online'': In polyphony between about 1250 and 1500, the [tenor was the] structurally fundamental (or 'holding') voice, vocal or instrumental; by the 15th century it came to signify the male voice that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Ruf
Wolfgang Ruf (born 29 August 1941) is a German musicologist and emeritus professor. Life Born in Radolfzell, Ruf studied musicology and history at the University of Freiburg, and obtained his doctorate in 1974. Until 1985 he was a research assistant of Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht at the Institute of Musicology in Freiburg. In 1984 he was habilitated and in 1985 received a professorship for musicology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. From 1994 to 2006, Ruf worked at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg as well as at the Handel House in Halle. Ruf is editor and co-publisher of numerous publications. He is married to , professor of musicology. Awards * 2011: Handel Prize of the city of Halle (Saale). Publications * ''Die Rezeption von Mozarts Le nozze di Figaro bei den Zeitgenossen'' in ''Archiv für Musikwissenschaft'', Beihefte zum Archiv für Musikwissenschaft; vol. 16. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1977. Zugl.: Freiburg (Breisgau), Univ., Philos. Fak., Diss., 1974 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festschrift
In academia, a ''Festschrift'' (; plural, ''Festschriften'' ) is a book honoring a respected person, especially an academic, and presented during their lifetime. It generally takes the form of an edited volume, containing contributions from the honoree's colleagues, former pupils, and friends. ''Festschriften'' are often titled something like ''Essays in Honour of...'' or ''Essays Presented to... .'' Terminology The term, borrowed from German, and literally meaning 'celebration writing' (cognate with ''feast-script''), might be translated as "celebration publication" or "celebratory (piece of) writing". An alternative Latin term is (literally: 'book of friends'). A comparable book presented posthumously is sometimes called a (, 'memorial publication'), but this term is much rarer in English. A ''Festschrift'' compiled and published by electronic means on the internet is called a (pronounced either or ), a term coined by the editors of the late Boris Marshak's , ''Eran ud Aner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Hirschmann
Wolfgang Hirschmann (born 1960) is a German musicologist. Born in Fürth, from 1979 to 1985 Hirschmann studied musicology, history of German literature and theatre at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg where he received his doctorate in 1985 with the thesis ''Studien zum Konzertschaffen von Georg Philipp Telemann''. He then worked as research assistant in Erlangen and received a scholarship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft until he was habilitated in Erlangen in 1999. The title of his habilitation thesis was ''Auctoritas und Imitatio. Studien zur Rezeption von Guidos Micrologus in der Musiktheorie des Hoch- und Spätmittelalters''. Initially as a private lecturer, from 2002 as Academic senate, he taught in Erlangen, where he received a professorship at the Musicological Institute in 2005. In March 2007 he was appointed to the Chair of Historical Musicology at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg in succession to Wolfgang Ruf. Since 2009 he has been pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denkmäler Der Tonkunst In Österreich
''Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich'' (Monuments of Fine Austrian Music) (1894–) is a historical edition of music from Austria covering the Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical periods. The most recent volume in the edition was published in 2017. Volumes (''Bände'') 1 to 83 of DTÖ were published in annual issues (''Jahrgänge'') I to XXXV from 1894 to 1938. Parallels may be drawn between the historical edition entitled ''Denkmäler deutscher Tonkunst (DdT)'' (two series, 1892–1931, and 1900–1931), and DTÖ. The second series of ''DdT'' was separately titled ''Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Bayern (DTB)''. A new revised edition of ''DdT'' was published between 1957 and 1961. A new revised edition of ''DTB'' was started in 1962. Table of contents The publishers' names are abbreviated for space-saving: ''AK'', Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt; ''AR'', Artaria & Co., Vienna; ''Ö'', Österreichischer Bundesverlag; and, ''U'', Universal-Edition. Alphabetical list of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Dechant
Hermann Dechant (born 29 November 1939) is an Austrian, conductor, flautist, musicologist, composer and music publisher. Career Dechant was born in Wien-Meidling as the son of the architect and sculptor Oskar Dechant. After his Matura, he studied flute. (with Aurèle Nicolet at the Berlin University of the Arts) and conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and musicology with Erich Schenk, theatre studies with Heinz Kindermann, philosophy and history at the University of Vienna. He continued his university studies from 1968-1973 and studied with Wolfgang Osthoff (University of Würzburg) and musicology with Hermann Beck at the University of Regensburg and received his doctorate there in 1975. From 1962 to 1966, he studied orchestral conducting with Hanns Reinartz in Würzburg. In 1968, he passed the state examination for composition with Günter Bialas. From 1960 to 1973, he was engaged by Joseph Keilberth and Eugen Jochum as solo flutist with the Bam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen
Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen (born 21 August 1952) has been holding the chair for musicology at the University of Zurich since 1999. Career Born in Westerland on Sylt, Hinrichsen studied Germanistic and History at the Free University of Berlin. The completion of the Staatsexamen (1980) was followed by a teaching phase at Gymnasium. Subsequently, he studied musicology at the FU Berlin, which he completed with a PhD in 1992. From 1989 to 1994 he was a research assistant at the Musicological Institute of the F.U Berlin. In 1998, he gained his habilitation with a dissertation about '' Musikalische Interpretation als kulturelle Praxis. Hans von Bülow und die ästhetische Konstruktion der deutschen Musik''. Since 1999 Hinrichsen has been professor of musicology at the University of Zurich. In 2008 he was elected member of the Academia Europaea. Hinrichsen is co-editor of the Archiv für Musikwissenschaft and ''Schubert: Perspektiven'' at Franz Steiner Verlag. In addition, he was pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axel Beer
Axel Beer (born 17 February 1956) is a German musicologist. He has been teaching at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz since 1995. Born in Fulda, Beer studied musicology, Latin philology and auxiliary sciences of history at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (class 1987). Publications * ''Die Annahme des "stile nuovo" in der katholischen Kirchenmusik Süddeutschlands'', Tutzing, Schneider, 1989, 378 pages * '' Heinrich Joseph Wassermann (1791-1838). Lebensweg und Schaffen. Ein Blick in das Musikleben des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts'', Hamburg-Eisenach, Wagner, 1991, 256 pages * (edited with Laurenz Lütteken) ''Festschrift Klaus Hortschansky zum 60. Geburtstag'', Tutzing, Schneider 1995 * ''Musik zwischen Komponist, Verlag und Publikum. Die Rahmenbedingungen des Musikschaffens in Deutschland im ersten Drittel des 19. Jahrhunderts'', Tutzing, Schneider, 2000, 561 pages * '' Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel's Briefwechsel mit seinen Verlegern'', Mainz, Schott, 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignaz Moscheles
Isaac Ignaz Moscheles (; 23 May 179410 March 1870) was a Bohemian piano virtuoso and composer. He was based initially in London and later at Leipzig, where he joined his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendelssohn as professor of piano at the Conservatory. Life Early life and career Moscheles was born 1794 in Prague, Bohemia, the son of Klara Popper (Lieben) and Joachim Moises Moscheles. He was from an affluent German-speaking Jewish merchant family. His first name was originally Isaac. His father played the guitar and was keen for one of his children to become a musician. Initially his hopes fixed on Ignaz's sister, but when she demurred, her piano lessons were transferred to her brother. Ignaz developed an early passion for the (then revolutionary) piano music of Beethoven, which the Mozartean Bedřich Diviš Weber, his teacher at the Prague Conservatory, attempted to curb, urging him to focus on Bach, Mozart and Muzio Clementi. After his father's early death, Moscheles se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alps
The Alps () ; german: Alpen ; it, Alpi ; rm, Alps ; sl, Alpe . are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe, stretching approximately across seven Alpine countries (from west to east): France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, and Slovenia. The Alpine arch generally extends from Nice on the western Mediterranean to Trieste on the Adriatic and Vienna at the beginning of the Pannonian Basin. The mountains were formed over tens of millions of years as the African and Eurasian tectonic plates collided. Extreme shortening caused by the event resulted in marine sedimentary rocks rising by thrusting and folding into high mountain peaks such as Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn. Mont Blanc spans the French–Italian border, and at is the highest mountain in the Alps. The Alpine region area contains 128 peaks higher than . The altitude and size of the range affect the climate in Europe; in the mountains, precipitation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Demmer (tenor)
Friedrich Demmer (1785 – 15 April 1838) was an Austrian operatic tenor, actor and director and possibly the first Florestan in Beethoven's ''Fidelio''. Life Born in Berlin, Demmer was a son of Carl Demmer, who was active at the Theater an der Wien from 1804. Already in 1807/08 a "son of Mr. Demmer" - most likely Friedrich Demmer - belonged to the ensemble of the Theater an der Wien. In 1821 he is listed in the Viennese list of artists by Franz Heinrich Böckh. In December 1824 the actor Carl Friedrich Müller published a ''Musikalisches Angebinde zum neuen Jahre'', "dedicated to his esteemed friend Mr. Friedrich Demmer, director of the "Theater an der Wien", which also contains a work by Ludwig van Beethoven: the waltz in E-flat major WoO 84, written on 21 November 1824. Demmer was active at the theater in later years as a director. From September 1829 to 1834 he worked as a singer and then until his death as chief director of the Theater am Kärntnertor. On 15 April 1838 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
