1/ 🎶 Let’s explore Neoclassicism in Music – a fascinating 20th-century movement blending the past with modernity, featuring legendary composers like Ravel, Stravinsky, and Falla. 🧵 #Neoclassicism #ClassicalMusic

1/ Neo-classicism in Music 🎻 Between WWI and WWII, composers turned away from romanticism's emotion-heavy style. Instead, they embraced lean, structured music influenced by Baroque & Classical eras. Why? To heal from the trauma of war. 🧵

🎭🎼 THREAD: Wagner’s Musikdrama & the Total Work of Art 🎼🎭 Today being the anniversary of his death, let's explore his work. Richard Wagner revolutionized opera by blending music, drama, and visuals into a seamless experience. His concept of Gesamtkunstwerk ("Total Work of

Composition of the Day: Schoenberg – Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 On March 18, 1902, Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) received its premiere in Vienna. Scored originally for string sextet, this dramatic tone poem draws on a poem by Richard Dehmel about a

Composition of the Day: March 19 - Gounod’s Faust On March 19, 1859, Charles Gounod’s Faust premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris. Adapted from Goethe’s Faust, Part One, the opera, with a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, depicts the tormented scholar Faust, who

Composition of the Day: March 20 - Tcherepnin’s Symphony No. 2 On this day in 1952, Alexander Tcherepnin’s Symphony No. 2, Op. 77, premiered in Chicago with Rafael Kubelík conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Written after WWII, the symphony reflects Tcherepnin’s

Composition of the Day: March 21 Premiered on this day in 1825: Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 13 in B♭ major, Op. 130. One of the composer’s final completed works, it embodies the daring, complexity, and emotional depth of his late style. The six-movement structure breaks

Composition of the Day: March 22 - Sinding’s Symphony No. 2 Christian Sinding’s Symphony No. 2 in D major was premiered on March 22, 1904 in Berlin, where the Norwegian composer had established strong artistic ties. Richly orchestrated and emotionally expansive, the work

Today we remember, on his day of birth, the great composer Angelo Badalamenti (b. March 22, 1937), whose unmistakable sound defined a generation of film and television. His long collaboration with David Lynch yielded some of the most haunting and beautiful scores in cinema:

Composition of the Day: March 23 - Delius' Requiem On March 23, 1916, Frederick Delius' Requiem had its world premiere in London, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham. Written for chorus, orchestra, and soprano soloist, this work stands as one of Delius's most significant choral

Composition of the Day: March 24 - Glass' Akhnaten On March 24, 1984, Philip Glass' opera Akhnaten had its world premiere at the State Theatre in Stuttgart, Germany. This opera is the second in his "portrait trilogy," which also includes Einstein on the Beach and Satyagraha.

Composition of the Day: March 25 On this day in 1946, Igor Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto received its concert premiere at Carnegie Hall, performed by Woody Herman’s First Herd with the composer conducting. Written in 1945, the piece was Stravinsky's homage to American jazz.

Composition of the Day: March 26 On March 26, 1958, Witold Lutosławski’s Musique funèbre (Funeral Music) premiered in Warsaw under the baton of Jan Krenz. Composed in memory of Béla Bartók, this profound and tightly structured work for string orchestra marked a turning point in

Composition of the Day: March 27 On this day in 1852, Robert Schumann’s Manfred Overture received its premiere in Leipzig. Inspired by Byron’s dramatic poem Manfred, Schumann poured immense emotional and psychological depth into this work, which he called one of his most

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Composition of the Day: March 28 On this day in 1801, Beethoven’s ballet The Creatures of Prometheus (Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus) premiered at Vienna’s Burgtheater. This two-act ballet, commissioned by choreographer Salvatore Viganò, was Beethoven’s only full-length ballet

Composition of the Day: March 29 On March 29, 1941, Benjamin Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20, was premiered by the New York Philharmonic under John Barbirolli. Written in memory of Britten’s parents, this deeply personal orchestral work is structured in three continuous

Composition of the Day: March 30 On March 30, 1966, Krzysztof Penderecki’s St. Luke Passion (Passio et mors Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Lucam) premiered in Münster Cathedral, Germany. Commissioned for the 700th anniversary of the cathedral, this monumental work is a

Friday! vendredi! viernes! Freitag! sexta-feira! пятница! 星期五! perjantai! Παρασκευή! piątek! fredag! 金曜日!

Friday! vendredi! viernes! Freitag! sexta-feira! пятница! 星期五! perjantai! Παρασκευή! piątek! fredag! 金曜日!