November 5 - Bryan Adams; Ryan Adams; Thomas Sanders Dupuis (The Musical Birthday Series, 5th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for November 5th are here: Hans Sachs (2019), Art Garfunkel (2020), Myron Floren (2021), and Roy Rogers (2022)

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Ryan Adams (b. 5 November 1974) is an American rock and country singer-songwriter. 

Bryan Guy Adams (b. 5 November 1959) is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and photographer.

Adams, Not Family

By a happenstance hard to enhance,

Which I wouldn't have known in advance,

It’s the birthday of Bryan,

And also of Ryan,

Two Adamses caught in one glance!

 

 

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Thomas Sanders Dupuis (5 November 1733 – 17 July 1796) was a British composer and organist of French extraction. He succeeded William Boyce at the Chapel Royal, and was regarded as one of the best organists of his day. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Succession

Thomas Sanders Dupuis

Had the talent and luck to be

Chosen for the Chapel Royal,

As organist, august and loyal,

Having been the legal choice

On the death of William Boyce.

Elegiac Envoi

At death, with honors there to grab, he

Found his tomb within the Abbey.

And since he reached these heights, it’s rotten

That his name has been forgotten.

 

 

 

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November 4 - Carl Tausig (The Musical Birthday Series, 5th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for November 4th are here: Carl Tausig (2019), Gena Branscombe (2020), Arnold Cooke; Sean Combs (2021), and Carl Tausig (2022)

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Carl Tausig (4 November 1841 – 17 July 1871) was a great pianist and a minor composer, now mostly remembered for virtuoso arrangements and transcriptions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unrecorded Now

Tausig was considered by some critics to be the most distinguished (pianistically) of Liszt's pupils and to carry pure virtuosity to heights only suggested by Liszt. Anton Rubenstein called him "the infallible." – Wikipedia

What we wouldn’t give to hear

Tausig play; he had no peer.

“Infallible” they sometimes called him,

And critics of the time installed him

In a high Parnassian shrine,

And when he died at twenty-nine

All his fellow pianists grieved, —

But secretly they were relieved.

 

 

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November 3 - Vincenzo Bellini (The Musical Birthday Series, 5th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for November 3rd are here: Vladimir Ussachevsky; Vincenzo Bellini (2019), Samuel Scheidt (2020), Jake Shimabukuro (2021), and Vincenzo Bellini (2022)

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Vincenzo Bellini (3 November 1801 – 23 September 1835) was an important Italian opera composer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Triumvirat

Consider Vincenzo Bellini

In Italy’s opera scene; he

Wasn’t as sweaty

As G. Donizetti,

And wasn’t as fun as Rossini.

 

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November 2 - Otto Reubke (The Musical Birthday Series, 5th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for November 2nd are here: Patrice Chéreau; Friedrich Kalkbrenner (2019), k. d. lang; Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (2020), Friedrich Kalkbrenner (2021), and Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (2022)

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Otto Reubke (2 November 1842 — 8 May 1913) was a German pianist, organist, composer, and university professor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brotherly Love

Julius Reubke’s brother Otto prepared the Sonata on the 94th Psalm for its first publication in August 1871. – adapted from Wikipedia, s.v. “Julius Reubke”

When Julius Reubke died too young,

    He left behind a pile of work.

His younger brother searched among

   The elder’s papers, didn't shirk,

Until he found the precious ink

   Where his brother had composed

His great sonata, and I think

   He knew what Destiny imposed.

 

 

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November 1 - Roger Quilter. Emma Albani (The Musical Birthday Series, 5th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for November 1st are here: Roger Quilter; Guido Adler (2019), Victoria de los Angeles (2020), Roger Quilter (2021), and Roger Quilter (2022)

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Roger Quilter (1 November 1877 – 21 September 1953) was a British composer, important for his art songs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quilter Filter

 

According to Valerie Langfield, his style "was indisputably English" despite his German training, and once matured around 1905, did not develop further. -- Wikipedia 

He discovered his musical truth

In the style that he found in his youth;

Though he lived to old age,

There was never a page

That was ugly, ill-bred, or uncouth.

 

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Emma Albani (1 November 1847 – 3 April 1930) was a Canadian-British operatic soprano who the first Canadian singer to become an international star.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Embracing Technology

Emma Albani, a Canadian singer,

Deserved all the fame that her singing could bring her.

While touring in Europe, she sang for Victoria,

Which doubtless filled both with artistic euphoria.

You can hear how she sounded, preserved on recording,

But listening on YouTube is less than rewarding.

Her voice, when recorded, was tired and frayed,

And recording equipment on which they were made

Wasn’t kind to a voice that had taken a battering,

And the resulting recordings are not very flattering.

 

 

 

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