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4 days ago · Giovanni Paisiello (1740–1816): Nine string quartets. Henri-Joseph Rigel (1741–1799): Six string quartets. Anton Zimmermann (1741–1781): Silesian-born composer who wrote three string quartets. Václav Pichl (1741–1805): Wrote over thirty quartets; he was one of the founders of the Vienna Violin School.
4 days ago · Edward Elgar, c. 1900. Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO ( / ˈɛlɡɑːr / ⓘ; [1] 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the ...
4 days ago · Date accessed: 28 April, 2024. The Grand Tour was ‘a phenomenon which shaped the creative and intellectual sensibilities of some of the eighteenth century’s greatest artists, writers and thinkers’. So reads the opening paragraph of Adam Matthew Digital’s new website, The Grand Tour. It is a substantial claim to make, but a fair one.
2 days ago · The first songs of rural complaint I have found in the eighteenth century come from the Douce collection, and could have been printed anywhere between 1736 and 1766’ (p.70, n.12). Half a century is potentially reduced to just over a third of a century and this supposed gap may simply be an illusion caused by the chance survival of evidence.
1 day ago · Communism portal. Organized Labour portal. v. t. e. The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries. [1] [2] The Enlightenment featured a range of social ideas centered on the value of knowledge learned by way of ...
3 days ago · His extraordinary, arresting, communicative music is one of this century’s wonders. (The Times) Thomas Larcher stands out as one of the most imaginative voices in classical music today. Born in Innsbruck in 1963, Larcher grew up in Austrian Tyrol and studied composition and piano in Vienna. His music is inventive and captivating, as he ...
4 days ago · The Church in the Long Eighteenth Century. London, I. B. Tauris, 2011, ISBN: 9781845114404; 240pp.; Price: £24.50. David Hempton’s latest book is the best, most authoritative, and most imaginative overview of the history of the world-wide Christian Church in the period between the late 17th and early 19th centuries we have to date.
