by Jeannette Fang | Oct 3, 2016 | about the music, Composers, GNPQ Blog, Jeannette, music history
Okay, so the thing I find super cool about the pictures that inspired Mussorgsky’s composition is that they were mostly related to other works of art. Viktor Hartmann was an architect and designer in addition to being a painter, and many of his works in the...
by Jeannette Fang | Sep 26, 2016 | about the music, Composers, GNPQ Blog, Jeannette, music history
Pictures at an Exhibition is probably Mussorgsky’s most popular work, though he never had the satisfaction of knowing that. Plagued by severe depression, the composer basically drank himself to an early death at age 42, leaving many works unrevised for...
by Jeannette Fang | Sep 18, 2016 | about the music, Composers, GNPQ Blog, Jeannette, music history
Before I start waxing poetic on Schubert’s great E-flat piano trio, I wanted to give you a quote from Stanley Kubrick, who had used this piece in scenes of Barry Lyndon to express what dialogue could not convey. “Barry and Lady Lyndon sit at the gaming...
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