13 Days When Music Changed Forever - Program 05: April 7, 1805: Premiere of Beethoven's 'Eroica'
The first public performance of the Beethoven‘s “Eroica”, the symphony that changed our idea of what music could express. Instead of classical form and rarified beauty, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 lays out the full range of human feelings, from joy and love to hopelessness and pathos.
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13 Days When Music Changed Forever - Program 04: August 8, 1803: Beethoven and the Piano
The date when Parisian piano maker Sébastien Érard gave one of his sturdy new creations to Beethoven, and the composer was able to set aside his forte piano and write more expressive and emotional music, beginning with the “Waldstein” Sonata. New instruments and new technologies have unalterably changed music many times, but the pace of change quickened in the 20th century, with the record player, the computer and the Internet.
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13 Days When Music Changed Forever - Program 03: October 29, 1787: The Premiere of Don Giovanni
With this work, Mozart attains his maturity and writes a masterpiece that dominates opera forever afterwards, echoing in Wagner and beyond.
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13 Days When Music Changed Forever - Program 02: <br>April 22, 1723 - J.S. Bach Appointed Kantor of Leipzig
An exploration of the Baroque and the never-ending legacy of Bach, through Mendelssohn, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Steve Reich, and The Doors’ “Light My Fire”.
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13 Days When Music Changed Forever - Program 01: February 24, 1607 - The Premiere of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo
A program about the dawn of opera, but also about secular music becoming through-composed high art (something that had been the exclusive purview of church music). Up for discussion include precursors to L’Orfeo in Ancient Greece and Rome, as well as Jacopo Perri’s Euridice, written a generation before Monteverdi.
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