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(Kärl Lö’-ve) 1796–1869 German composer and singer Loewe studied first with his father and later with Daniel Türk at Halle. He was a gifted singer and performer and was appointed professor and Kantor at the Gymnasium and seminary in Stettin, where he spent the rest of his life. He was a devout Catholic, and his religion was an inspiration for ...

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• Turn of the Century

1878–1933, Czech Born in Prague as Ema Kittl, Destinn studied with Marie Loewe-Destinn, whose name she adopted out of gratitude. She made her debut at the Hofoper in Berlin with the role of Santuzza from Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana. Her most famous performances are those of Minnie in the premiere of Puccini’s La fanciulla del West at the Metropolitan ...

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a piano piece – and the work’s melting poetry makes it a great favourite for pianists, both in concert and on record. Introduction | Early Romantic | Classical Personalities | Carl Loewe | Early Romantic | Classical ...

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producer in Stephen Sondheim’s musical Merrily We Roll Along about a Broadway writing team Leading Exponents Jerome Kern Rodgers & Hammerstein Irving Berlin George Gershwin Kander & Ebb Lerner & Loewe Frank Loesser Boublil & Schönberg Stephen Sondheim Andrew Lloyd Webber Musicals Style Musicals rely on simple but emotionally evocative melodies to create character and tell the story through song. Introduction ...

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as well as lyric, dramatic and visual ideas, all become closely integrated. Imitating Schubert Schubert’s contemporaries and successors rarely matched his cohesion of text and music. The singer-composer Loewe was known in Vienna as ‘the north German Schubert’, but music was usually subordinate to the words in his Lieder. He did, however, use the music to achieve ...

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Throughout the twentieth century, opera constantly re-evaluated and redefined itself. Two world wars created a crisis of national identities that was reflected in a series of artistic challenges within the world of music – tradition over pluralism, experimentation over formalization – as composers sought to free themselves from Austro-Germanic influences. Bolder Attitudes Janáček is a case in point. Quitting ...