(An excerpt from the Choral Journal article, “Comparisons between the Requiems of Florian Leopold Gassmann and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart” by Mark J. Suderman ) Much has been written about the music Mozart mayor may not have actually written in his Requiem. However, little has been written about the origins of Mozart’s material- the […]
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CJ Replay: Brahms Schicksalslied
(An excerpt from the Choral Journal article, “Dialectical Thought in Nineteenth Century Music as Exhibited in Brahms’s Setting of Holderlin’s Schicksalslied” by Alan Luhring) The Schicksalslied, Op. 54 (1871), by Johannes Brahms is a setting of Friederich Holderlin’s poem of the same name. It is one of three secular poems Brahms set for […]