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Read More →Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky first saw the light in Votinsk, an iron-and-steel centre in the basin of the river Kama which winds its way through the Ural foothills to join the Volga some fifty miles south of Kazan. His father Ilya Petrovitch Tchaikovsky…
Read More →The BBC Proms returns in 2023 with an exciting lineup, featuring a diverse range of composers and musicians. Over the course of eight weeks, there will be 72 events held across various locations in the UK, including the Royal Albert Hall in London, D…
Read More →As the world prepares for the coronation of King Charles III, the historic and majestic composition of George Frideric Handel's 'Zadok the Priest' is likely to be heard once again. This masterpiece of baroque music has been performed at every British…
Read More →Frederic Chopin was born at the village of Zelazowa Wola, near Warsaw; whether the date was 1809 (as some authorities maintain) or 1810 (officially accepted) matters little. What does matter is that his father, although bred in Lorraine (which had cl…
Read More →Gioacchino Rossini was born on 29th February 1792. One doubts whether his parents deliberately planned that their first and only child should be a leap-year baby and therefore able to celebrate his birthday only once in every four years - or, indeed,…
Read More →When I was a small boy the master who had to correct my fortnightly ‘essays’ used to insist that they should stress only the best features of the subject under discussion, skirt round any defects and avoid deleterious comparisons. But I think I w…
Read More →During the second half of the sixteenth century and the whole of the seventeenth and eighteenth, the musical life of Thuringia (an area of central Germany roughly bordered by the rivers Werra, Unstrut and Saale) was dominated by the Bach family. No f…
Read More →JOSEPH HAYDN was born on 31st March, 1732 at the village of Rohrau, thirty miles east of Vienna on the verge of that low-lying region round the Neusiedlersee (Ferto Tava) which has always been a bone of political contention between Austria and Hungar…
Read More →Observant tourists with a bent for sociology may have noticed that in many continental countries the village pub is often combined with a retail shop of some sort: in Italy one finds perhaps an osteria/alimentari, in central Europe more likely a Gast…
Read More →Almost alone among famous composers Felix Mendelssohn underwent no struggle to achieve fame or fortune. Born in 1809 in the outskirts of Hamburg and brought up in Berlin, he was the son of Abraham Mendelssohn, a wealthy banker who was better placed t…
Read More →In the 1750s when Joseph Haydn, expelled from school, was still a struggling Viennese street-busker, there lived a hundred and fifty miles away to the west at Salzburg (on the third floor of the house now numbered 9 Getreidegasse) a worthy musician n…
Read More →Chronologically speaking CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS (1835-1921) was a ‘bridge figure’: he began to compose music during the lifetime of Luigi Cherubini - who was only five years younger than Mozart - and was still hard at it after the death of Claude D…
Read More →GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685 - 1759), his own final choice of spelling, was born at Halle on 23rd February 1685; his father was a doctor (a ‘barber-surgeon’) and his mother, Dorothea nee Taust, the daughter of a Protestant priest. One i…
Read More →During the late seventeenth century and the early eighteenth Italy was not only the land of opera but also the land of the violin, an instrument whose potentialities were developed to a hitherto undreamt-of degree by such exponents as Corelli (whose …
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Read More →Listening to Mozart can give your brainpower a boost, according to a study conducted by Sapienza University of Rome. In a series of controlled group experiments, listeners of the classical composer's music showed an increase in the construct…
Read More →Starting this Christmas Eve, we have a wonderfully festive schedule of classical music to get you into the spirit of Christmas. On both 24th and 25th December sonatica classical radio online will be bringing you an extravaganza of festive so…
Read More →It is with great pleasure that we announce the sonatica™ classical radio online blog and its debut performance post. With the musicians in their places and the auditorium's lights now dimmed, the conductor has taken the podium and is read…
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