(Ro-bâr’-to Gâr’-härd) 1896–1970 Catalan composer Like Falla, Gerhard was a pupil of the great apostle of Spanish national music, Pedrell, but Gerhard also studied with Schoenberg. Much of his music reflects this duality, which was sharpened by his exile from Spain after the Civil War (1936–39), when he lived in England. His opera The Duenna (1947), his ...
From the 1950s, several composers began to discover the compositional possibilities in the technology of radio stations and specialized studios. Important centres were: Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, New York, founded in 1951 by Vladimir Ussachevsky and Otto Luening; Studio für Elektronische Musik, Cologne, established by Herbert Eimert in 1951; Studio di Fonologia, Milan, established ...
may marry Eva. Recommended Recording: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Rafael Kubelík, conductor; Calig CAL50971/4; Soloists: Gundula Janowitz (Eva), Brigitte Fassbaender, Sándor Kónya (Walther), Gerhard Unger (David), Thomas Hemsley (Beckmesser), Thomas Stewart (Hans Sachs), Keith Engen (Kothner), Franz Crass (Pogner) Personalities | Richard Wagner | High Romantic | Opera ...
At its height she falls dead. Recommended Recording: Elektra, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Georg Solti, conductor; Decca 417 345-2; Soloists: Birgit Nilsson (Elektra), Marie Collier (Chrysothemis), Regina Resnik (Klytämnestra), Gerhard Stolze (Aegisth), Tom Krause (Orest) Personalities | Richard Strauss | Turn of the Century | Opera ...
by a pupil). Recommended Recording: The Three-Cornered Hat, Love the Magician, soloists, Montreal SO (cond) Charles Dutoit (Decca) Introduction | Modern Era | Classical Personalities | Roberto Gerhard | Modern Era | Classical ...
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