Previous posts for January 29th are here: Daniel François Esprit Auber (2020), Adam Lambert (2021), John Raitt; Frederick Delius (2022), and Luigi Nono (2023)
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Georg Christoph Wagenseil (29 January 1715 – 1 March 1777) was an Austrian composer and early symphonist.
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His early works are Baroque, while his later pieces are in the Classical style. He composed a number of operas, choral works, symphonies, concertos, chamber music, and keyboard pieces. – Wikipedia
Have patience with this blog awhile
As I consider Wagenseil,
Who found a way to reconcile
The late Baroque and Classic style.
And now before I leave you, I’ll
Make note that he was versatile, —
His works add up to quite a pile.
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Havergal Brian (29 January 1876 – 28 November 1972) was a prominent 20th-century English composer, best known for his many symphonies.
Sizing It Up
19:00 Sun 17 Jul 2011 Royal Albert Hall
This season's sequence of Choral Sundays kicks off with arguably the grandest statement in British music, Havergal Brian's 'The Gothic', a gargantuan work that earned an entry in the Guinness Book of Records under 'Longest Symphony'. Over a thousand performers gathered for a rare performance of Brian’s gargantuan work, ‘The Gothic’. – BBC announcement
Havergal Brian’s Symphony One
Is famous, but is rarely done,
And this should come as no surprise
Because of its enormous size.
An orchestra will find it troubling
To see quadrupling, tripling, doubling;
And no one with a budget hires
So many soloists and choirs,
And that’s the problem set before
An orchestra who does this score
Where more is more is more is more.
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