Previous postings for March 28th may be found here: Paul Whiteman (2019), Lady Gaga (2020), Alf Clausen (2021), Lady Gaga (2022), and Joey Roukens (2023)
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Joseph Weigl (28 March 1766 – 3 February 1846) was an Austrian composer and conductor.
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Weigl studied music under Johan Georg Albrechtsberger, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Antonio Salieri. --- Wikipedia
When Albrechtsberger, Mozart, and Salieri
Are listed on your resume as teachers,
You’ll go through life with quite a load to carry,
Regardless of your own intrinsic features.
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Myfanwy Piper (28 March 1911 – 18 January 1997) was a British art critic and librettist.
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In 1953 she was asked by Benjamin Britten to write the libretto for The Turn of the Screw, followed by Owen Wingrave (1971) and Death in Venice (1973). - National Portrait Gallery (www.npg.org.uk)
In music there are dingy ghettos
Reserved for writers of librettos.
Their names are on the title page,
But do not use this fact to gauge
The scope of credit given to them,
Beyond the cash remittance due them,
Consider Piper, for example,
Though proofs of her success are ample,
It would have been absurd of her
To think that folks had heard of her.
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