The pieces range from (largely untexted) Magnificats, motets, and anthems to French, Italian, and English secular music and more than 60 instrumental works.
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The Eighteenth-Century Fortepiano Grand and Its Patrons from Scarlatti to Beethoven. Eva Badura-Skoda. Indiana University Press, 2017. 492 pages. By Peter Sykes BOOK REVIEW — What’s in a name? Before our current era of branding, new inventions were called many different things by their inventors and spectators. In The Eighteenth-Century Fortepiano Grand and Its
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Berkeley and Boston’s every-other-year festivals have long been on the schedules of musicians and music lovers alike, and this year’s Berkeley Festival had the same schedule of morn-til-night music, all within a few square blocks.
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None of the artistic directors at these three festivals was ready to proclaim a new wave of Bach enthusiasm sweeping the region. In the Charlotte area, however, there is definitely something different in the air.
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New manuscripts of viola da gamba music by Carl Friedrich Abel (1723–87) have been found in Poland, in the Library of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, in a collection originating from the Maltzan family palace in Milicz (Poland).
