User:Gerda Arendt/2013

Did you know ...

• ... that A Boy was Born (pictured), the first major vocal composition by Benjamin Britten, received its premiere in 1934 as a BBC broadcast?
• ... that the first Christmas cantata Bach composed in Leipzig was in 1724 the chorale cantata Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 91, based on Martin Luther's hymn Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ?
• ... that at age 79, composer Heinrich Schütz published only the recitatives of his Christmas Story and offered the other music for sale on request?
• ... that Die Singphoniker recorded Schubert's complete part songs and Singphonic Christmas, European Christmas carols?
• ... that Patrice Chéreau, the stage director of the Jahrhundertring in Bayreuth, directed the film Intimacy, which "sparked a debate about unsimulated sex on screen"?
• ... that the song "Ermutigung" by Wolf Biermann, encouraging people not to become hardened in hard times, was written for Peter Huchel, then under house arrest?
• ... that Johann Sebastian Bach reworked music from more than three decades earlier for the central piece Crucifixus in the symmetrical structure of his Mass in B minor?
• ... that Benjamin Britten's Te Deum in C, first performed at St Michael's, Cornhill, was among his earliest published works?
• ... that Franz Schubert's sixth and final mass was not performed until October 1829, almost a full year after his death? (pictured)
• ... that Karlheinz Oswald created sculptures of Cardinal Volk, Pierre de Coubertin, and Hildegard of Bingen?
• ... that Chieftain's Salute, composed by Graham Waterhouse is scored for Great Highland Bagpipe and string orchestra?

• ... that it took more than half a century to complete the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, the second edition of the collected works of Johann Sebastian Bach?

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