Monday, March 25, 2024

March 25 - Bela Bartók; Johann Adolf Hasse (The Musical Birthday Series, 6th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for March 25th may be found here:  Béla Bartók (2019), Anita Bryant; Elton John (2020), Aretha Franklin; Arturo Toscanini (2021), Arturo Toscanini (2022), and Haydn Wood (2023)

 

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Béla Bartók (25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist. 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Practical Ethnomusicology

 

Bartok's compositional command of folk elements is expressed in such an authentic and undiluted a manner because of the scales, sounds, and rhythms that were so much a part of his native Hungary that he automatically saw music in these terms.  -- Wikipedia


Bela Bartók’s rhythmic verve,

  And his scalar complication,

Come from efforts to preserve

  The folk songs of the Magyar nation.

 

 

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Johann Adolph Hasse (bapt. 25 March 1699 – 16 December 1783)was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music. 




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Married Life

 

They were described by the famous librettist Metastasio as "truly an exquisite couple". -- Wikipedia, s.v. "Faustina Bordoni" 

 

Musical success was fed

  By matrimony,

When Johann Adolf Hasse wed

  Faustina Bordoni.

 

 

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