the set of the noteworthy arts documents
Salvatore Accardo gave his first professional recital at the age of 13, in a program that included Paganini’s Capricci. At the age of 15, Accardo won the Geneva Competition and in 1958 he became the first winner of the Paganini Competition in Genoa. His vast repertoire ranges from pre-bach to post-Berg; composers such as Sciarrino,…
At over forty years old, Michelangelo Antonioni made his feature film debut with Cronaca di un amore (1950), a movie that already included elements that would later come to characterize his style: psychological analysis, the topic of the bourgeoisie’s crisis. In I vinti (1952), interest in the inner life comes back with an overwhelming intensity….
Having written her debut novel “Bonjour Tristesse”, Françoise Sagan received her first fee for the book. At a time when she had no money, she promised herself, like a vow, the first prize for books “to paint the town red”. She dreamed of buying herself a small apartment, but she drove away these thoughts from…
György Sándor (September 21, 1912, Budapest – December 9, 2005, New York) – Hungarian and American pianist, teacher, student and friend of Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodály. Graduated from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. He began his concert career in 1930. In 1939 he made his debut at Carnegie Hall. Received American citizenship (1943),…
On this day 1906 Massimo Freccia, Italian-American conductor (New Orleans Symphony, 1944-52: Baltimore Symphony, 1952-59) was born in Valdibure, in the countryside of Pistoia, to a family of wealthy landowners. He studied music first in St. Petersburg as a guest of his maternal grandfather and, from 1923, at the Conservatory of Florence. Massimo Filippo Antongiulio Maria…
Great news from one of the great performers of Wagner operas. Dramatic tenor Gianluca Zampieri will return in 2023 as TANNHÄUSER in NDM Ostrava! As a winner of the Mattia Battistini Opera Contest Gianluca Zampieri started his international career performing in major opera houses in Italy (e.g. Bologna, Venezia, Genova, Roma, Palermo, Catania, Torino) and…
Arnold Schoenberg developed a new concept of music writing, dodecaphony, and became the creator of a new music language for the 20th century. On 13 September 1874, Arnold Schoenberg was born in the Vienna Ghetto. His mother was a piano teacher, but learnt the basics of music and learnt to play the violin on his…
We’re suggesting you excerpts from an interview (Thomas Huizenga, NPR Classical, 2 June 2014) and quotes from the books of the amazing master of silence and clarity Arvo Pärt, which could introduce us with the creative and value position of the composer. Time for us, is like the time of our own lives. It is…
Francis Poulenc’s Concerto pour deux pianos (Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra) in D minor, FP 61, was commissioned by and dedicated to the Princess Edmond de Polignac and composed over the period of three months in the summer of 1932. It is often described as the climax of Poulenc’s early period. The composer wrote…