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It seems history has made sure composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) was an orphan: his village was destroyed for mining in 1957, his mother was killed by the Nazis in 1941 and his father killed in the war in Hungary in 1945.
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Schönberg - A survivor from Warsaw, Variations, etc
Discogs Austrian composer and enfant terrible of music theory Arnold Schönberg fled his country in 1933, because of the racist laws implemented by the Nazi regime.
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John Cage is probably best known for his iconoclastic 4′33″, a piece of music where the pianist is silent for that length of time.
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@GVB_actueel Is dit een misplaatste marketing blurb? Waarom meldt het GVB niet dat de metro tussen CS en Wibautstraat heen en weer pendelt vanwege een wisselstoring?
Lily was here
Discogs Lily was here was the international title of a movie, called in Dutch De kassière. This record is the soundtrack of that movie. Lily was here tells about a girl working as a cashier at a local supermarket.
#CandyDulfer
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Pearl
https://t.co/0OKcIGnYBU It must have been around this time that I was invited to help some friends out with a sand sculpture event.
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Go
Discogs After the fifth studio album Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós decided to take a vacation for a while. That gave frontman Jónsi the chance to create his own solowork.
#Jónsi
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Schubert - Winterreise
Discogs Hermann Prey is not considered bon ton in classical music circles. He’s too much effect, too little substance, for many. I don’t think I have many other recordings of him, so I cannot be the judge of that.
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Fauré - Mélodies
Discogs Le spleen de Paris is a collection of romantic poems by the French poet Charles Baudelaire published in 1869. The title refers to the meaning of melancholy. That is connected to the original Greek meaning of the word.
#Ameling
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Dvořák - Sinfonische variationen
Discogs Dvořák’s Symphonic variations on the theme ‘I am a fiddler’ op 78 is the result of a challenge by a friend. The theme is supposed to be impossible to create variations on.
https://t.co/6OXlhL5J56
Rachmaninov - The "Elegiac" piano trios
Discogs Question. When you were young, did you have this challenge for yourself: what would you take from the house if it were on fire? I had that of course, and I think many people thought about that.
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William Tell and other favorite overtures
Discogs Although I should like this kind of pieces, in this case I don’t really. Maybe when I bought it I did. Now it sounds to me more like a collection of best moments.
https://t.co/E0xN50a6rQ
Beethoven - Die fünf Klavierkonzerte / Chorfantasie C-moll Op. 80
Discogs Grandpa Otto Klemperer with a in 1967 still very young Daniel Barenboim. They already recorded the sonatas for EMI, so they might just as well do the concertos as well.
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Debussy - Das Klavierwerk vol 1
Discogs A huge collection of solo piano works from Claude Debussy, performed by American-French pianist Noël Lee.
https://t.co/z6yhXub2ka
Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra
Discogs A piece I would like to see live, but haven’t so far. It is most famous for its beginning: a monumental chord progression that slowly reveals itself in all its glory.
https://t.co/8VcefZTJJx