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The Choir of St. James Cathedral might be devoting their subsequent live performance to the music of the late 18th century, spotlighting beloved items by Haydn and Mozart. Alongside the 2 giants of the Classical period, this system for the Could 11 live performance fills out with the music of their lesser identified contemporaries and pals William Herschel, Marianna Martines, and Samuel Wesley.
The Haydn Connection
Haydn gives the connection between the works within the live performance. There are a lot of written accounts documenting the friendship and admiration between Joseph Haydn and Amadeus Mozart. In the course of the 1780s, the pair have been identified to stage impromptu concert events all through Vienna.
18th Century Vienna
The world of music is a small one, then and now. Over the past a long time of the 1700s, Vienna was dwelling to a younger Haydn, who lived in a small house on the Michaelerplatz. The Martines household, the place daughter Marianna was studying to compose and sing, lived a couple of flooring under him. In reality, Haydn turned her piano instructor for a number of years. Italian singer and composer Nicolo Porpora, additionally a resident of the identical constructing, was her vocal instructor.
It was via Porpora that Haydn first received work as an accompanist after arriving in Vienna, alone, on the age of 17. Mozart would play four-handed piano sonatas with Marianna, and a few students consider he took inspiration from Marianna’s Mass in D main when he composed one among his personal early plenty.
Haydn within the UK
After a interval of success on the Esterhazy court docket and in continental Europe, Haydn discovered himself within the place of receiving a wage with out being required to put in writing any music after the demise of his most important patron. Violinist Johann Peter Salomen arrived with a big fee for six symphonies and 20 smaller compositions, all of which have been to premiere in London. For 2 years, from 1790 to 1792, Haydn lived and labored in London.
Haydn was interested by science, and went to go to the observatory in Slough, (simply outdoors London), run by Anglo-German astronomer — and composer — William Herschell. Herschell is credited with growing the telescope, and discovering the planet Uranus.
Haydn would later say that his Creation was influenced by what he noticed and skilled on the observatory. Herschell was an completed organist alongside along with his different abilities.
Samuel Wesley, an English composer and organist, was typically dubbed “the English Mozart”. Widespread in his day, he pioneered the organ recital within the UK; in the present day a lot of his work has fallen into obscurity, and is troublesome to seek out in print.
Together with the music, the theme of the live performance is one among friendship and connections.
The Live performance
The live performance takes place Could 11 within the acoustically superb St. James Cathedral in downtown Toronto.
The Program
- The Nelson Mass by Franz Joseph Haydn
- Dixit Dominus by Marianna Martines
- Laudate Dominum by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Organ Sonata by William Herschel
- Sinfonia Concertante by Samuel Wesley
- Te Deum by Franz Joseph Haydn
Soloists
- Soprano: Ineza Mugisha
- Mezzo-Soprano: Christina Stelmacovich
- Tenor: Charles Davidson
- Baritone: Jorell Williams
Thomas Bell will conduct, with organist Jeffery Nathan.
Extra particulars on the live performance, and tickets, [HERE].
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Anya Wassenberg is a Toronto Metropolis Editor at Ludwig Van. She is an skilled freelance author, blogger and writing teacher.
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