{"id":3757,"date":"2016-03-20T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=3757"},"modified":"2016-04-03T02:58:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T16:58:41","slug":"anecdotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3757","title":{"rendered":"Anecdotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"QUICK LINKS\"><\/a><strong>QUICK LINKS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#COMPOSERS\">Composers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#INSTRUMENTS\">Instruments<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#INTERESTING%20FACTS\">Interesting facts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#PERFORMERS\">Performers and performances<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#PERSONALITIES\">Personalities of the musicians<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3761\" target=\"_Blank\">QUOTES<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a name=\"COMPOSERS\"><\/a><strong>COMPOSERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"pt-cv-wrapper\"><div class=\"pt-cv-view pt-cv-grid pt-cv-colsys\" id=\"pt-cv-view-5d0ce6c045\"><div data-id=\"pt-cv-page-1\" class=\"pt-cv-page\" data-cvc=\"1\"><div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4342\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A Beethoven fan<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">In an interview with Beethoven scholar K. E. L. Nohl, Schubert's friend, Moritz von Schwind revealed that Schubert sold his ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5600\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A Cantata for Dogs<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Between 1911 and 1914, Nicolas Medtner stayed at Khlebnikovo, a house on the Osipov estate in the village of Trakhaneyevo ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4908\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A carriage of flowers for Tchaikovsky<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Tchaikovsky's favourite flower was lilies of the valley.\u00a0 The local musical society at Tiflis was extremely enthusiastic to have the ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5646\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A dog with musical taste<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">\"Anton Bruckner had a chubby, fat pug dog named Mops,\" Fritz Kreisler, a former pupil of Bruckner's once recalled. \"He ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=12469\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A duet under the bed<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">It was in the eventful year, then, of 1813\u2014the year of \"Il Figlio per Azzardo\", with its obbligato accompaniment for ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5464\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A little help with a fugue<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Rachmaninoff had a little help with a fugue exam at the Moscow Conservatory in 1891: By mistake the examinations of ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3808\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A new overture &#8211; fast<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Beethoven's revised version of Fidelio was due to be premiered on the 23rd May 1814.\u00a0Beethoven had planned to write a ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3905\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A note about Chopin<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">The following appeared in the Musical Times in 1913:An amusing story, for the truth of which we can vouch, comes ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=12335\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A party piece<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Irish pianist and composer George Alexander Osburn (1806-93) was a professor at the Royal Academy of Music and a director ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4302\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A play for dogs<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">\"Satie said, 'I want to make a play for dogs, and I [already] have the staging planned. The curtain rises ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5497\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A subtle way of changing the tempo<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Brahms was rehearsing his F minor piano quintet. But when they reached the Andante, the strings played too fast to ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4481\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Bach&#8217;s wedding<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Johann Sebastian Bach married Anna Magdelena, 3rd December 1721. They married at home, by command of the Prince of Saxe-Weissenfels ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4346\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Beethoven and the spider<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Xaver Schydner von Wartensee, in the early days of meeting Beethoven, was curious about a tale he had heard about ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3919\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Beethoven distracted<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">A student of Beethoven's, Ferdinand Ries, went on a walk with his teacher in the country:Beethoven muttered and howled the ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4344\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Beethoven&#8217;s handwriting<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee (1786-1868) was a composer who wanted lessons with Beethoven.\u00a0 Beethoven would only look at his ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4931\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Beethoven&#8217;s shutters<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Beethoven moved often, and his landlords were not always keen to have him back. While he was working on the ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6584\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Bernstein as a counterpoint student at Harvard<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">The composer Harold Shapero, who lived a few doors away from Bernstein in Newton and was a year behind him ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5333\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Borge on Borodin<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">&quot;My favorite Russian composer is Borodin, mainly because he had the shortest name. Except for Cui, who was just showing ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6932\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Borodin transposing<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Excerpts from Borodin's Prince Igor were to be performed by the Free College of Music. Rimsky Korsakov recalled: At this ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4938\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Brahm&#8217;s first meeting with Schumann<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">He [Brahms] sat down and began the sonata which had so impressed Joachim [a violinist].\u00a0 As he played, a swift ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6093\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Brahm&#8217;s introduction in Vienna<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">in 1862, Brahms called to see Julius Epstein, a professor at the Vienna Conservatory. \"Joachim tells me \u2013 ha! \u2013 ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4382\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Brahms&#8217; birthday<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">After Robert Schumann was admitted to a mental assuming in 1854, Johannes Brahms stayed with Robert's wife, Clara Schumann to ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5547\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Brahms&#8217; reaction to Wagner&#8217;s Music<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Brahms attended a Wagner concert in Vienna: All through the concert Johannes sat in stony silence. At the close, when ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4501\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Bruckner the count<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Anton Bruckner developed a condition call numeromania that compelled him to count everything - cathedral gables, stars, leaves on the ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4885\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Cure for the common chord<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">He [John Holmes] entered my room around midnight and said, \"'Eureka!' shouted Arnold Schoenberg. 'I've found the cure for the ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5470\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Dreaming of Figaro<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">By 1790, Haydn has become dissatisfied with life at Eszterhaza. On 9th February he wrote: Well! I sit in my ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3974\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Elgar&#8217;s distractions<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">In a radio interview in 1937, Edward Elgar's violinist friend William H. Reed described Elgar's \"distractions\" while composing the violin ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4193\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Elgar&#8217;s football team<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Elgar loved his football, particularly the Wolverhampton team.\u00a0 His friend Dorebella recalled the first match he attended at Wolverhampton:It all ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5425\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Examination findings<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Some curious answers for the Society of Arts published in the Musical Times (English Journal), July 1888: The Examiner's report ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3958\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Frank Churchill in production meetings<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">After joining the Disney studios in 1930, Frank Churchill composed music for animated shorts and feature films. His output includes ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4644\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Gershwin and Ravel<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Ravel, touring America in 1928, was approached by George Gershwin for composition lessons. &#x000A0;Ravel refused, stating \"you would only lose ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4664\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Growing up in a bell tower<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Czech composer Bohuslav Martin\u016f was born and spent most of his childhood in a church tower in Poli\u010dka, on the ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4544\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Handel on Purcell<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">An account by R. L. Stevens (1775): When Handel was blind, and attending a performance of the Oratorio Jephtha, Mr ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4542\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Handel&#8217;s speedy method<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Morrell gave Handel the words of Cleopatra's air \u201cConvey me to some peaceful shore\u201d in Alexander Balus, he cried out ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4290\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Haydn&#8217;s audition<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Karl Georg Reutter II was appointed choirmaster at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna in 1738.\u00a0 The following year he went ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4286\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >How to win over an orchestra<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Haydn was in London in 1791 when he performed in a concert led by Johann Salomon (a violinist\/composer). \u00a0 Salomon ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4438\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Hoyt Curtain&#8217;s compositional process<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Hoyt Curtin (1922-2000) was the primary composer for the Hanna Barbara studios. Popular theme songs he composed include The Flintstones, ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4670\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Improvising a fugue<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">On 1 May 1747, Bach met Friedrich II, King of Prussia, in the Potsdam city palace (where chamber music was ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5467\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >It must be resolved<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Bach, a master of harmony and counterpoint, would not settle for imperfect sounds, no matter where he was. Johann Reichardt ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5195\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Just a few variations<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Tchaikovsky was an enthusiastic student at the St. Petersberg Conservatoire. Anton Rubinstein asked Tchaikvosky to write a series of contrapuntal ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4933\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Liszt meets Beethoven<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">I was about eleven years old when my respected teacher Czerny took me to see Beethoven.\u00a0 Already a long time ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4560\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Mozart the philosopher<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">On February 19 1786 Mozart attended a masked ball disguised as an Indian philosopher. He distributed pamplets with riddles. One ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3874\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Mozart&#8217;s daily schedule<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">\"...at 6 o'clock in the morning I'm already done with my hair; at 7 I'm fully dressed; - then I ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4248\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Music with no boundaries<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange \"abnormal\" events can lead to ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3750\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >One way to get a doctorate<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Robert Schumann aspired to be awarded a doctorate degree. On January 31 1840, Robert Schumann asked a friend to appeal ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3823\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Origins of the name Beethoven<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">The Beethoven family tree can be traced back to the mid 13th century.\u00a0The name appears in chronicles of Flemish cities, ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4516\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Oysters and champaign before a concert<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">\"Sibelius and his wife Aino were in Gothenburg for a concert, the composer disappeared shortly before he was due to ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4503\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Prokofiev is evicted<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Sergey Prokofiev was once evicted from his apartment for playing the same chord 218 times.\u00a0 A tally was kept by ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4505\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Prokofiev is evicted<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Sergey Prokofiev was once evicted from his apartment for playing the same chord 218 times.\u00a0 A tally was kept by ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4508\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Prokofiev is evicted<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Sergey Prokofiev was once evicted from his apartment for playing the same chord 218 times.&#x000A0; A tally was kept by ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4394\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Richter on Bach<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">\"It does no harm to listen to Bach from time to time, even if only from a hygienic standpoint.\" - ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4725\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Rossini and food<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">\"After doing nothing, I know no more delightful occupation of eating, eat properly, I mean. The appetite is for the ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4727\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Rossini&#8217;s salad recipe<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">\"Take the oil from Provence, English mustard, vinegar from France, a little \u2018lemon, pepper, salt, beat and mix together; then ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6194\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Satie on La Mer<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">At the 1905 premiere of La Mer, one of whose movements is called \"From Dawn to Midday on the Sea\", ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=12301\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Satie&#8217;s day<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Satie wrote that \"An artist must organise his life.\" In 1913, he set said out a schedule in which he ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4530\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Schubert&#8217;s progress<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Schubert's report card in in the Music of the Court Chapel Choir-Boys in the I. &amp; R. Seminary, 1st term, ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4442\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Schumann as a student<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Schumann studied with Dorn, the conductor at the civic theatre. Dorn recalled:Having completed exercises in figured-bass realization, chorale harmonization, and ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4396\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Schumann chasing a girl<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Schumann once attended a masquerade during the carnival of 1830, in company with his friend Rosen, for the purpose of ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4729\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Sibelius&#8217; punch recipe<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">\"Punch recipe (for Satu's christening party) 1 l water + sugar + jam + brandy or spirit. Add 2 bottles ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4371\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Sondheim&#8217;s pass times<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Sondheim is a lover of games, and collects antique ones (many were destroyed in a fire that swept through the ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5978\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Stravinsky and Charlie Parker<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">There is a story that Igor Stravinsky went to the New York jazz club Birdland one evening in 1951. Whispers ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4350\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Tchaikovsky at Cambridge<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">In 1893, Tchaikovsky was awarded an honorary doctorate at Cambridge University. Charles Villiers Stanford was involved organising the occasion. He ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5374\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >To fool, or be fooled, by a name<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">One of Tchaikovsky's favorite anecdotes resulted from his nearly losing the sketches for the Little Russian on the way back ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4265\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Water music<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">A common theme in the music of French composers at pre world war I was water.\u00a0 Debussy wrote En bateau ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5380\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >What Cage couldn&#8217;t stand<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">\"John Cage once said he couldn't abide the Dominant Seventh, and the saxophone.\" Ned Rorem (2000) Lies: A Diary 1986-1999 ...<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<a href=\"#QUICK LINKS\">Quick links<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a name=\"INTERESTING FACTS\"><\/a><strong>INTERESTING FACTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"pt-cv-wrapper\"><div class=\"pt-cv-view pt-cv-grid pt-cv-colsys\" id=\"pt-cv-view-9cc253da87\"><div data-id=\"pt-cv-page-1\" class=\"pt-cv-page\" data-cvc=\"1\"><div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6776\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >An experiment in the colours of keys<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">The relativity of all these key-colour associations was illustrated during a debate on the whole subject organised in London in ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4672\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Bacharach&#8217;s teachers<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Burt Bacharach was a student of Darius Milhaud, Bohusalv Martinu, and Henry Cowell. Bacharach's hits included Magic Moments, Walk on ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4448\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Beethoven in code<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">The first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony are the morse code for the letter V ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4207\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Beethoven&#8217;s letter<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">A letter written by composer Ludwig van Beethoven has emerged in Germany after being left in a will. In the ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4662\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Brian Wilson to complete Gershwin songs<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">In a surprise union of two quintessentially American composers from different eras, one the 1960s mastermind of \"Good Vibrations,\" the ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5060\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Early music discovered on carving<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">A craftsman replicating large medallions has discovered medieval\u00a0Scottish notation of instrumental music. \u00a0The notation is sequences of 0s, Is and ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4180\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Musical taste in England in 1925<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">A general perspective of musical taste in Britain in the 1920s can be seen in the letters to radio broadcasters ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5177\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Teddy Bear&#8217;s Picnic<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">American composer John Bratton wrote the music for \"Teddy Bear's Picnic\" in 1907. It was first published by M. Witmark ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4352\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >The development of concert life in London<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">The public concert, as an institution, dates from England from the Restoration period [from the 1660s]; previously music, unless ecclesiastical ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3947\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >The first soundtrack: Snow White<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">The first soundtrack to be commercially released was Disney's 1938 film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The songs were ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3993\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >The origin of the interval<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Plays in the Jacobean period (16th century England) were divided into acts to enable the theatre company to manage the ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4361\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Theme from The Office<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">The theme to the comedy series The Office is based on the 1967 song \"Handbags and Gladrags\" (written by Mike ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4404\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Tin Pan Alley<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Tin Pan Alley refers to the concentration of music publishers in New York City, West 28th Street between Fifth and ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5443\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >You can&#8217;t own the tuning<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">This account of a bizarre law suite on May 6 at Bow St. against the Associated Board of Musical Examinations ...<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<a href=\"#QUICK LINKS\">Quick links<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a name=\"INSTRUMENTS\"><\/a><strong>INSTRUMENTS<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-wrapper\"><div class=\"pt-cv-view pt-cv-grid pt-cv-colsys\" id=\"pt-cv-view-da0d9a5656\"><div data-id=\"pt-cv-page-1\" class=\"pt-cv-page\" data-cvc=\"1\"><div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6144\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >&#8216;Real&#8217; instruments in popular music<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">\u201cWe\u2019re seeing a big evolution of production, of recording techniques, and of the actual sounds. Everything\u2019s getting sampled and synthesized ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4688\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A $1.2 million piano<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">\"Spotlights dance down on 216 jewels of lead crystal, set in dazzling diamond patterns into the piano's black lid, sides, ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4188\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A musical use for trash<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Favio Ch\u00e1vez, a technician at a Paraguayan landfill site, formed the the Cateura Orchestra of Recycled Instruments: an orchestra comprising ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5367\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A mystery instrument created<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Mozart's&#x000A0;Magic Flute uses a glass harmonica or keyed glockenspiel to represent a set of magic bells. \"Mozart&#8217;s original score for ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=147\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A replacement conductor<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">The following appeared in the Musical Times, August 1890: We read that \"a Saxon engineer has invented an automatic machine, ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5477\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >After music from a bridge, why not a tower?<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">To mark the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson&#39;s voyage up the Hudson river in New York, composer Joseph Bertolozzi sampled ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4474\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Bach&#8217;s preferred instrument<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Johann Sebastian Bach's preferred to play the viola when conducting an orchestra. Source: Siblin, Eric (2009) The Cello Suites.\u00a0 Crows ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4470\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Beethoven&#8217;s piano<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Franz Liszt owned Beethoven's Broadwood piano ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6077\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">One of the most magical passages in Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker is the Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy. The featured instrument, ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6484\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Hough and Schnabel on piano rolls<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">I want to believe in piano rolls. The idea that we can insert an object into a present-day piano and ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4510\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >How piano wires have changed throughout history<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">While piano wire has changed over the centuries from iron to steel of varying qualities, researchers were surprised to find ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4101\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Instrumental stereotypes<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Insider jokes are not just for White House Correspondents' Assn. Dinners or ESPN kibitzers or Academy Awards emcees. They also ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6724\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Liszt on the piano<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">In its span of seven octaves [the piano] embraces the range of an orchestra; the ten fingers of a single ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4042\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Mozart&#8217;s piano returns to his home<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">\"The piano that Mozart used for the last 10 years of his life and which he used to compose much ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4491\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Shaw on the cello<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">In the nineteenth century, the cello was regarded as an important solo instrument.\u00a0 George Bernard Shaw wrote in 1890 \"I ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5455\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Some curious devices<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">In the late nineteenth-century, some quite curious mechanical inventions were created to deal with the body with relation to pianists ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4113\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >That&#8217;s a wrap<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Electronic music composer Jeff Bryant never imagined that learning to knit would be part of his graduate coursework at California ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=99\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >The art of whistling<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">In mid-nineteenth century England, whistling was a common source of entertainment and as part of the general reception to a ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4079\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >The Brainy Baboon<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">\"There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4522\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >The human voice<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">O, how wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul! The intellect of man sits ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6020\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >The Jank\u00f3 Keyboard<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">The Hungarian mathematician, Paul von Jank\u00f3 developed an alternate layout to the traditional piano keyboard. In July 1888, upon seeing ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=101\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >The piano as furniture<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">In the ninteenth century, the piano was not only regarded as a musical instrument but as a part of the ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5499\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >The tone of the piano at the turn of the nineteenth century<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">In 1796, the piano maker Johann Andreas Streicher sent Beethoven one of his pianos as a gift. Beethoven&#39;s reply sheds ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4476\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Violoncello piccolo<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">A violoncello piccolo is a violin-sized instrument tuned like a cello.\u00a0 It is held horizontally, slung from a from a ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=103\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Warmed pianos<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">There was soon to be no excuse for not practising in the chill of the winter. This excerpt is from ...<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"#QUICK LINKS\">Quick links<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a name=\"PERFORMERS\"><\/a><strong>PERFORMERS AND PERFORMANCES<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-wrapper\"><div class=\"pt-cv-view pt-cv-grid pt-cv-colsys\" id=\"pt-cv-view-a33c6ff58a\"><div data-id=\"pt-cv-page-1\" class=\"pt-cv-page\" data-cvc=\"1\"><div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6493\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >&#8220;Didn&#8217;t you like it?&#8221;<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Leonard Bernstein and Mildred Spiegel attended the Boston Symphony Orchestra season in 1933. They sat, she remembers, in the second ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5411\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A bewitched recording<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Early phonograph recordings were a little rough. In 1889, pianist Hans von B&uuml;low was asked to play into a phonograph ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3999\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A concise rehearsal<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Hans Knappertsbusch (1888-1965) was a German conductor. However, he had a dislike of rehearsals. Karajan recalled:One time he was going ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=89\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A little ahead &#8230; or a little behind<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Samuel Sebastian Wesley received great reviews for his conding at Gloucester's annual Three Choir Festivals in 1865. An critic in ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4306\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A matter of tempo<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Bruno Walter, Friedrich Buxbaum, and Arnold Ros\u00e9 were to perform Erich Korngold's Piano Trio in D in 1910. Korngold was ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=131\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A monkey on his shoulder<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Cellist Walter Joachim spend some time in Calcutta, India. He recalled: \"I bought a monkey with which to amuse myself ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4918\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A simple request<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Humorists Ilf and Petrov described a concert by Rachmaninoff In New York (November 1935):The night we went to hear him ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=12342\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A typical recital in England in 1897<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">John E. Borland described in a paper of June 1897: It was customary to commence with a Bach prelude and ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4817\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A very specific error indeed<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">The following is an account of the conductor Hans von B\u00fclow:The newspaper critics B\u00fclow continued to despise because of their ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6013\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A young Josef Hoffmann<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">The Polish pianist, Josef Hoffmann may have been a child prodigy. Upon hearing him play, Anton Rubinstein, who typically disliked ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3834\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Advice to opera performers<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">In the early 18th century, the standard of Italian opera performances had become somewhat questionable. In 1720, The satirical writer ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6026\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Arthur Rubinstein&#8217;s youthful practice habits<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Interviewer: So many children hate to take music lessons. Can you understand this? Rubinstein: Oh, yes, I was one of ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5363\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >As good as Paderewsky<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">\"At the end of a dinner he was attending by a lady in Liege, Ysa&#255;e was asked to listen to ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4232\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Autumn Leaves<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Pianist Roger Williams on his hit recording of Autumn Leaves (which was recorded three days after signing his contract with ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4794\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Baroque they are not<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Between 1910 and 1938 the Austrian violin virtuoso Fritz Kreisler produced some arrangements of works by Boccherini, Martini, Couperin, Vivaldi ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4920\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Beethoven and the candlesitcks<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Beethoven once gave a performance of a new piano concerto in which he forgot he was the soloist and began ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3800\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Beethoven conducting<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">On 5 April 1803 Beethoven conducted an concert of his own works: the First and Second Symphonies; The Third Piano ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4400\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Beethoven&#8217;s contest<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">In 1800, an improvisation contest occured between Beethoven and the pianist Daniel Steibelt.It was agreed that Prince Lobkowitz would sponsor ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4304\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Beethoven&#8217;s duet<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Beethoven was premiering his piano duet, March (op. 45) with duet partner Ferdinand Ries.\u00a0 When a young count spoke loudly ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4380\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Brahms&#8217; ladies choir<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Brahms formed a Ladies Choir of about fifty singers: \"Fix oder Nix\" was the motto he coined for them - ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5769\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Claudio Arrau in Newcastle<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">While the Century Theatre in Broadmeadow (Australia) primarily operated as a cinema, it was also hosted concerts, including by the ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4534\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Climbing Mount Fuji with a cello in hand<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">\"In 2007 Italian cellist Mario Brunello climbed to the summit of Mount Fuji and played selections from Bach's cello suites, ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4611\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Concentrate on the performance<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Daniel Saidenberg ws the first cellist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski.\u00a0 He recalled:Stoki's ability to exert disciplines ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5369\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Conditions stipulated for the Imperial Court Chapel<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">The Imperial Chapel Choir was founded in Vienna in 1498 and performed exclusively for the court. &#x000A0;Composers that worked with ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=145\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Conducting gloves<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">The practice of wearing white gloves whilst conducting was common in the nineteenth century.\u00a0The Musical times reported in July 1884 ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3909\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Debussy&#8217;s reception in England<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">In 1908-9, Claude Debussy made two appearances conducting his own works in England.\u00a0 The Musical Times reported on the occasions ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4796\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Don&#8217;t wish me luck<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">\"From here on out, I declare that no one ever wish me again to 'break a leg'\". Joyce DiDonato, American ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3843\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Dress regulations for Handel&#8217;s Messiah<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">In the eighteenth century, hooped skirts were a popular choice of ladies dress attire as they enabled a dramatic entrance, ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5044\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >George Gershwin at the piano<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">The theatre director Rouben Mamoulian describes Gershwin's playing: George at the piano was George happy ... like a sorcerer celebrating ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5048\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Gershwin conducting<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Isaac Goldberg described Gershwin's\u00a0enthusiasm when conducting: He conducted not just with his baton, but with his cigar, his shoulders, his ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5056\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Gershwin&#8217;s playing (and sense of humour)<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">The composer Burton Lane describes George Gershwin's playing: You could feel the electricity going through the room when he played ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5451\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Gramophone: no substitute for live performance<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">British conductor Thomas Beecham was not too impressed with early recording technology (the gramophone): It was put to him that ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4807\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Here&#8217;s a pencil &#8230; and an eraser<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">'The following is an account of the conductor Hans von B\u00fclow:Young composers whom B\u00fclow decided to feature in the concerts ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6484\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Hough and Schnabel on piano rolls<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">I want to believe in piano rolls. The idea that we can insert an object into a present-day piano and ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4499\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >How not to get an audience<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Satie's ballet Rel\u00e2che (1924) had trouble pulling a crowd: the title translates as \"this performances is cancelled\". Source: Lawrence, Christopher ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5489\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >How to get an audience<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Johannes Brahms and the violinist Eduard Remenyi had been concertizing to great success in Cello and L&uuml;neberg. By this time ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=12421\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Imogen Cooper on a lesson with Alfred Brendel<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">He was a wonderful teacher. He is extremely articulate and very demanding. He made no concessions to my age. In ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3866\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >In the event of a lack of singers<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">In a letter to his friend Abb\u00e9 Joseph Bullinger, Mozart jokes about the musical environment in Salsburg. One of his ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5643\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >It&#8217;s the page turner&#8217;s fault<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Several years ago, Mr. Kalichstein hired a young music student who kept reaching across the score to turn pages from ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4745\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Just as we checked the tuning &#8230;<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">In 1853, Brahms went on a tour of German cities with the Hungarian violinist Eduard Rem\u00e9nyi.\u00a0 In the town of ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6731\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Karajan and direction<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Seiji Ozawa recalls Karajan's overarching concept of music: I really shouldn't start comparing Karajan and Bernstein. I'm thinking of the ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5058\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Loyalty to a lead<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">John Sublett (stage name, John Bubbles) was a tap dancer unable to read music. \u00a0He was chosen by Gershwin to ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=7007\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Mahler&#8217;s bowing instructions<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Rachmaninoff played his Third Concerto in January 1909 in New York, conducted by Gustav Mahler. Rachmaninoff recalled the rehearsal: Suddenly, ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4483\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Maiky&#8217;s recording of Bach&#8217;s cello suites<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">\"The Latvian cellist Mischa Maisky recorded the Bach's cello suites \"at a small guest house he converted into a studio ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3870\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Mozart improvising<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">In 1777, Mozart was having lunch with his uncle at the Holy Cross Convent in Ausburg. Mozart played a sinfoni ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3825\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Mozart&#8217;s magic ring<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">When Mozart was in Naples, he so impressed his audience that they suspected \"musical sorcery\".\u00a0They ordered him to play without ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4489\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Musicians in Dresden in 1720s<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">''There was rivalry among the musicians in Dresden in the 1720s.\u00a0 Daniel Heartz describes some incidents:Silvius Weiss, the famous lutenist, ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=150\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Not just a one hit wonder &#8230; but there was an audience favorite<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-sharp minor proved very popular with the public.\u00a0At times, it was programmed \"by request\" (1), and if ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5985\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Paderewski, the dandy<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Overheard in a New York street car:\u2014 Average Young Man (to neighbour): \"Everything they say about Paderewski is true. He's ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3802\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Page turning for Beethoven<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Ignaz Xaver Seyfried was asked to turn pages for Beethoven in a performance of Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto (5 April ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=121\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Paper and matches for maintenance<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">When Spanish cellist Pablo Casals was in his seventies, he retired from the concert stage and lived in Prades, Southern ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4751\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >People must hear me<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">\"I cannot tell you how much I love to play for people. Would you believe it - sometimes when I ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4825\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Pierrot Lunairre<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">A performance of Sch\u00f6nberg's Pierrot Lunaire was given by Artur Schnabel (piano), Boris Kroyt (violin), Gregor Piatigorsky (cello), Paul Bose ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3901\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Practising at every opportunity<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">The conductor Stokowski was co-conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.\u00a0 He was rehearsing his own orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4554\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Rehearsal conditions must be suitable<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Strengthened by his initial triumph and by daily evidences of the ever-mounting appreciation and support of the Philadelphia's new claim ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4364\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Sondheim on audiences<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">\"I do think audiences become more sophisticated. You try something out on them and they say, \u201cUgh\u201d. You try it ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3857\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Stokowski and singers<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Leopold Stokowski was staging a concert version of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov. Natalie Bodanya, one of the finest singers at Curtis ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3883\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Stokowski on contemporary music<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Leopold Stokowski was a champion of contemporary music. He conducted music without judgement, believing judgement to be the public's job ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4823\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Stokowski playing Bach on the organ<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Stewart Warkov, assistant manager of the Symphony of The Air in 1961 described Stokowski playing Bach on the organ:Stokowski played ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4575\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Stokowski&#8217;s orders<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">A letter from the conductor Leopold Stokowski to Sylvan Levin gives an insight into his sense of humour: Caro Maestro ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4666\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Streisland&#8217;s instinct<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">[Barbara Streisand's] early voice training amounted to one lesson with a voice teacher. At that session Ms. Streisand sang \"A ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5711\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >The art of playing the triangle<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">George Plimpton, a writer and sportsman, asked if he could play in the New York Philharmonic for a month to ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5365\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >The ghost of Paganini<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">The Belgian violinist Eug&#232;ne Yas&#255;e frightened Busoni by playing the Bach Chaconne and Paganini Caprices on a kit violin in ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5518\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >The London Proms in the 1930s<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">A recollection of the London Proms in 1936: The behavior of the Promenaders was more genteel in those days \u2026 ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5438\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >The price of an encore<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">At a concert in London in December 1911, Rachmaninoff was received to great acclaim: perhaps a little too much from ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4607\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >The silent bass clarinet<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">During a rehearsal of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony: Stokowski had inserted a gratuitous part for bass clarinet. \"It so happens,\" wrote ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4332\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >The state of opera: 1720s<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">In 1720 in Italy, opera was largely dictated by the egos of the singers, rather than considering the text, or ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5515\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >This music is too hard<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">In 1862 Brahms went to Vienna: Although he been in Vienna only a few weeks, Brahms was already making a ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4835\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >To be a good player<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Bach was once complemented on his organ playing: \"There is nothing remarkable about it.\u00a0 All one has to do is ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4711\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Two hands or one<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">American pianist Seymour Lipkin, a student of Rudolf Serkin recalled a performance of Beethoven's Hammerklavier SonataBack in the 1970s I ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5920\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Vladimir Horowitz on encores<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">''You see,'' he said, ''I have a very substantial program, and after a substantial program, you can't play a substantial ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3868\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >What a difference an audience makes<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Mozart was in Paris in 1778. He visited the duchess of Chabot, Elisabeth-Louise de la Rochefoucauld, wife of Louis-Antoine-Auguste de ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4804\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Where to curse the orchestra<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">The following is an account of the conductor Hans von B\u00fclow:B\u00fclow's close relationship with his Berlin audience was not achieved ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4792\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Who needs four strings anyway?<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">In his work Le Streghe (The Witches), the virtuoso violinist Paganini would use scissors to reduce the number of strings ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3855\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Word of mouth encore<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Leopold Stokowski gave the Philadelphia premiere of Ravel's Bolero as an \"encore\" at a Friday afternoon concert.The newspaper critics had ...<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"#QUICK LINKS\">Quick links<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a name=\"PERSONALITIES\"><\/a><strong>PERSONALITIES OF THE MUSICIANS<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-wrapper\"><div class=\"pt-cv-view pt-cv-grid pt-cv-colsys\" id=\"pt-cv-view-ca4768e932\"><div data-id=\"pt-cv-page-1\" class=\"pt-cv-page\" data-cvc=\"1\"><div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5648\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A courteous conductor<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Brucker was invited by Hans Richter to conduct one of his symphonies with the Vienna Society of Friends of Music ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6962\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A lesson with Beethoven<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">One fearful winter's day in Vienna, in 1794, the snow standing deep and still falling fast, the traffic almost entirely ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4617\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A little poem by Mozart<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Dearest Stroll! good old troll! you sit in your hole drunk as a Mole! - But you're touched in your ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5878\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A lock of Beethoven&#8217;s hair<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Once a devoted admirer, wife of a Vienna pianist, longed for a lock of the composer's outrageously unkempt hair, and ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4914\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A motorboat experience<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Rachmaninoff was a great lover of motorboating and used to go out every day.\u00a0 He always steered himself.\u00a0 Often he ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4912\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A mushroom anyone?<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">...everybody was possessed by the Russian passion for gathering mushrooms.\u00a0 Rivalries ran high, mushrooms were counted and compared, their beauty ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4985\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >A noisy neighbour<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">The Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev was evicted from his lodgings on several occasions on account of the noise which accompanied ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4356\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Accustomed to being ignored<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Josef von Spaun recalled the following incident involving Franz Schubert at a concert. Schubert had just accompanied Baron Sch\u00f6nstein, at ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5460\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Artificial by nature<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Burnett James describes how in the 1920s Ravel was preoccupied with decorating &quot;Le Belv&eacute;d&egrave;re&quot; [his house] and in laying out ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5199\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Beethoven and food<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">When he [Beethoven] came to Vienna, he knew nothing at all of the fine art of cooking. He cared little ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3818\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Beethoven as a boy<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">In his Beethoven: Biography of a Genius, Marek provides an insight into Beethoven as a boy:The boy was looking out ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4587\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Beethoven in 1821<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">In his book, A Tour in Germany, and some of the Southern Provinces of the Austrian Empire, in 1820, 1821, ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3816\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Beethoven&#8217;s prank<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Beethoven was a musician for the Electoral court and chapel in Bonn.\u00a0Franz Wegeler, a friend of of Beethoven's, recounted an ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4376\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Brahms at the tavern<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">When Brahms was young, he had to play in rowdy taverns to help support his family.Dance music was what the ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4334\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Brahms&#8217; harmonic exercise<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">It was during the summer of 1858 that Brahms met Agathe von Seibold.\u00a0 He had gone to visit Ise Grimm ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3885\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Brahms&#8217; post-concert adventure<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Brahms was invited to the family of one of his students, Fr\u00e4ulein von Meyensbug, in Detmol :The Meysenbug ladies proved ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4338\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Brahms&#8217; pranks<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Hannes was not always solemn - far from it!\u00a0 He could be as full of fun and wild pranks as ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4723\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Brahms&#8217; stingy side<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Musicologist Richard Leonard describes a stingy side to Brahms's personality:It is true that at times he was generous, giving away ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4829\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Bunking down in the Philharmonic<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, after running into some problems with his accommodation, was spending a cold November day in the Tiergarten, ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5513\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Comfort in the score of Saul<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">In 1862 Brahms left Hamburg for Vienna. Brahms was not at all sure that he would remain long in Vienna; ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5650\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Composing in the bath<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Gustav Mahler recalled: After an illness, Bruckner was ordered by his doctor to take a daily hip-bath. Loath to waste ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4292\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Debussy&#8217;s recreational activities<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Often at the end of the day Gaby [Debussy's lover] would discover that they had a little money left over ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5541\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Dividing the concert takings<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">In 1866 Brahms and the violinist Joachim gave a concert tour through Switzerland.\u00a0 One of their concerts was in Aarau ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4761\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >First class regardless<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">The composer Karol Szymanowski was born into a landowning class family.\u00a0 Even, later in life, when short for money, he ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5398\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >George and Ira Gershwin preview Porgy and Bess<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">The stage director of the first Porgy and Bess production recalls hearing the score in Gerswhin&#39;s New York apartment: They ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5052\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Gershwin&#8217;s romantic side<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Rodney Greenberg describes a side of George Gershwin's \"romantic side\": He wrote a little waltz-song, which he would sing and ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5046\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Gershwin: the life at the party<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Gershwin was often the life of a party, entertaining on the piano. \u00a0He said: \"The trouble is, when I don't ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4413\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Hammerstein&#8217;s card games<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Music theatre writer Oscar Hammerstein loved to play games.\u00a0 His nephew recalls:There\u2019s a family story about his game-playing. I can\u2019t ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5882\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Handel&#8217;s dinner for three<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Handel certainly liked to eat: A story is told of him that he once ordered up enough dinner for three ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5922\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Horowitz&#8217;s practice regime<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">The piano technician, Franz Mohr, observed: Horowitz was consistent in all that he did. His rehearsal was always on Saturday ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5927\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Horowitz&#8217;s stringent requirements<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">When Vladimir Horowitz performed in Japan: .... a kitchen had to be built in his suite because he insists that ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4589\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >I am Beethoven<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">An account of Beethoven being lost in his creative world: Thayer tells us of a conversation he had with a ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4940\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >It&#8217;s my apartment and I&#8217;ll play if I want to<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Prokofiev and his family moved into a small top floor-apartments in Paris.\u00a0 Prokofiev spent much time practicing a revised version ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4599\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Learn my name<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Stokowski's ability to inspire musicians was sometimes balanced by the ability to turn them off.\u00a0 Saidenberg altered me to a ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5913\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Matheson and Handel&#8217;s duel<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Two flamboyant young musickers leave the town of L\u00fcbeck as soon as can be. For they have learned that the ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4619\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Mozart&#8217;s Pranks<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Mozart's sense of mischief is evident in his behaviour at a performance of The Magic Flute.\u00a0 Thisis from a letter ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4978\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Not up to form, because &#8230;<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Harvey Sach's comments on pianist Author Rubinstein at age 13:...it is clear that Arthur's practising began to deteriorate when he ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4709\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Out of practice<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">\"All I have left is a long nose and a fourth finger out of practice.\" Chopin, in Scotland, unable to ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4944\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Puccini&#8217;s hangout<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Puccini was a very sociable man, quote often putting this before his composing.\u00a0 Even when he was working hard, he ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3889\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Puccini&#8217;s rain machine<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Puccini custom built a villa in the seaside resort of Viareggio. Here, Puccini had a \"rain machine that sprinkled water ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=12317\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Rachmaninoff as a young student<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">From 1882, nine-year-old Rachmaninoff moved to St Petersburg to study at the conservatoire. In the comfortable knowledge that, even if ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5042\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Rachmaninoff scares me<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Cyril Smith recounts Rachmaninoff's stage presence: Those who were fortunate enough to hear him play will almost certainly remember this ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4935\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Rachmaninoff the examiner<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">In 1900, Rachmaninoff worked at the Yekaterininsky Girls' Institute.\u00a0 One of his students recalled her experience of examination day:The lessens ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4676\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Rachmaninoff&#8217;s concert routine<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Reporters described Sergei Rachmaninoff on a concert tour (c. 1940):His punctuality is a legend. \u00a0If a reporter asks for two ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4648\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Ravel and food<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Ravel was touring America, in 1928, but was having some interesting experiences with food. One on occasion:The Mason &amp; Hamlin ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4784\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Ravel&#8217;s fashion sense<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Ravel was always particular about his sense of fashion.\u00a0 As L\u00e9on-Paul Fargue recalled:Even when he was wasted by illness, Ravel ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5197\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Sight singing with Handel<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">When Handel travelled through Chester, on his way to Ireland, this year, 1741 (to give the first performance of Messiah), ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4348\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Stanford on Tchaikovsky<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">\"Tchaikovsky reminded me, in more ways than one, of his countryman Tourg\u00e9niew, whom I once met at Madame Viardot's. He ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4597\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Stokowski&#8217;s rehearsal<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Raoul Berger (who eventually had a fall out with the conductor Stokowski and left The Philahrmonic Orchestra) described Stokowski's rehearsal ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4800\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Szymanowski&#8217;s dogs<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">The Polish composer Karol Szymanowski was brought up in&#x000A0; very musical environment: he had a dogs named \"Scherzo\" and \"Crotchet\" ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4910\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Tchaikovsky and mushroom collecting<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Like so many Russians, he was a madly keen collector of mushrooms and could indulge his passion freely at Klin; ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4906\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Tchaikovsky and the village children<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Tchaikovsky lived in a village Maidanovo.\u00a0 When Tchaikovsky would go for works, he would also be hailed by groups of ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4956\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Tchaikovsky as a teacher<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Tchaikovsky disliked teaching at the best of times, but he particularly didn't enjoy teaching female students, most of whom, in ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4119\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >The advantages of having a manager<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Vaughan Williams had asked Holst about his experience of having an agent. Holst, who was at Harvard University at the ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5987\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >The mannerisms of Pachmann<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">The Russian pianist, Vladimir von Pachmann was known for his funny mannerisms: Everyone knows that the Russian pianist has funny ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=3916\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >The personality of George Gershwin<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Isaac Goldberg, a friend of George Gershwin, described the composer's personality:HE was as simple, as unaffected, as modest, and as ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5637\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >There&#8217;s one way to get him to play<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">People often begged him to play a little air on the violin, but he refused great lords and his fellow ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4927\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Too much pedal<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Johannes Brahms could be incredibly rude, even to his friends. While playing a Beethoven sonata with a cellist friend one ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5628\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Waste not, want not<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">While attending school in L\u00fcneberg, J. S. Bach used to travel to Hamburg (50km away) to hear the organist of ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5054\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >What about me?<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Songwriter Johnny Green recalled Gershwin bragging about his achievements after a concert, eventually to stop and say: \"That's enough about ...<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-6 col-xs-12 pt-cv-content-item pt-cv-1-col\" ><div class='pt-cv-ifield'><h4 class=\"pt-cv-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5620\" class=\"_self\" target=\"_self\" >Widmann on Brahms<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"pt-cv-content\">Widmann, a Swiss poet, describes Brahms' performing at the piano: The broad leonine chest, the Herculean shoulders, the mighty head ...<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"#QUICK LINKS\">Quick links<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUICK LINKS Composers Instruments Interesting facts Performers and performances Personalities of the musicians See also: QUOTES COMPOSERS Quick links INTERESTING FACTS Quick links INSTRUMENTS Quick links PERFORMERS AND PERFORMANCES Quick links PERSONALITIES OF THE MUSICIANS Quick links<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdotes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3757"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4368,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3757\/revisions\/4368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}