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Palestrina that Silla has gone to Florence. He asks to join the celebrations in the street. Palestrina looks at his wife’s portrait and asks God for peace. Personalities | Hans Pfitzner | Modern Era | Opera ...

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(Hanz Fits’-ner) 1869–1949 German composer An opponent of all forms of modernism, Pfitzner composed his own music in a late-Romantic but highly individual style. His opera Palestrina (1917) – his confession of faith and his masterpiece – is about the cumulative wisdom of tradition, but also its renewal. His German nationalism was more idealistic than political, but his ...

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1864–1949, German Russian-born, yet once a popular German composer, Pfitzner has shrunk into the recesses of memory, not least because his esteemed position was promoted by a Third Reich that, like him, believed German culture was threatened by international Jewry. His works Von deutscher Seele (‘Of the German Soul’, 1921) and Das dunkle Reich (‘The ...

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Recording: Carmina Burana, soloists, Vienna Boys’ Choir, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Vienna PO (cond) André Previn (Deutsche Grammophon) Introduction | Modern Era | Classical Personalities | Hans Pfitzner | Modern Era | Classical ...

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(Jo-van’-e Per-loo-e’-je da Pa-les-tre’-na) 1525/6–94 Italian composer Palestrina is named after a small town near Rome, where he is thought to have been born. He was educated in Rome; in 1537 he was a choirboy at the basilica of S Maria Maggiore, one of the city’s principal churches and an important musical establishment. By 1544 he was back in Palestrina ...

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with glissandi and vibrato. This makes for an interesting aural-visual experience, and one that has attracted a considerable following worldwide. Introduction | Modern Era | Opera Personalities | Hans Pfitzner | Modern Era | Opera ...

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mixture of decadence and modernist ambition, seemed to match the hot-house aestheticism and stubborn individuality of Wagner’s art. No one from Richard Strauss and Mahler, or Schoenberg and Pfitzner in Germany, to D’Indy and Debussy in France or Arrigo Boito and Puccini in Italy, would have seriously denied the influence of Wagner at this time. It was ...