Previous posts for January 20th are here: David Tudor (2020), Walter Piston (2021), Yvonne Loriod (2022), Johann Hermann Schein (2023), Ernest Chausson (2024), and Josef Hoffman (2025)
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Johann Hermann Schein (20 January 1586 – 19 November 1630) was a German composer and was Thomaskantor in Leipzig from 1615 to 1630.
Two Coins in the Fountain
Throughout his life he published alternating collections of sacred and secular music, in accordance with an intention he stated early on — in the preface to the Banchetto musicale — to publish alternately music for use in worship and social gatherings. -- Wikipedia
Johann Heinrich Schein,
When publishing his pieces,
Would alternate divine
And secular releases.
He meant to hedge his bets
And avoid a narrow perch
By alternating sets
'Twixt mammon and the church.
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David Tudor (20 January 1926 – 13 August 1996) was an early advocate many experimental composers including Boulez, Stockhausen, and especially John Cage.
House of Tudor
David Tudor loved to play
The oddest pieces of his day,
Delighting in each cryptic page
Left indeterminate by Cage,
Or in the strict but frantic antics
Of Darmstadt's serial semantics.
I wonder, did he ever long
To play a prelude or a song
That didn't try so very hard
To be so bloody avant garde.
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