"Which composer's dying words were supposedly, ""I shall hear in heaven""?"
"of death. Beethoven's last recorded words were ""Pity, pity—too late!"", as the dying composer was told of a gift of twelve bottles of wine from his publisher. One common belief was that his last words were (""Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over""), the typical conclusion to performances of Italian ""Commedia dell'arte""; this was specifically denied by Hüttenbrenner in 1860. Some sources have listed his last words as, ""I shall hear in heaven,"" apropos his deafness. On one account, moments before his death, Beethoven was lying upon bed, pale and suffering, when a man entered. It was fellow composer Johann"
"Edgar Bainton Edgar Leslie Bainton (14 February 18808 December 1956) was a British-born, latterly Australian-resident composer. He is remembered today mainly for his liturgical anthem ""And I saw a new heaven"", a popular work in the repertoire of Anglican church music, but during recent years Bainton's other musical works, neglected for decades, have been increasingly often heard on CD. Bainton was born in Hackney, London, the son of George Bainton, a Congregational minister, and his wife, Mary, née Cave. Bainton later moved with his family to Coventry and he showed early signs of musical ability playing the piano; he was"
"Edgar Bainton Edgar Leslie Bainton (14 February 18808 December 1956) was a British-born, latterly Australian-resident composer. He is remembered today mainly for his liturgical anthem ""And I saw a new heaven"", a popular work in the repertoire of Anglican church music, but during recent years Bainton's other musical works, neglected for decades, have been increasingly often heard on CD. Bainton was born in Hackney, London, the son of George Bainton, a Congregational minister, and his wife, Mary, née Cave. Bainton later moved with his family to Coventry and he showed early signs of musical ability playing the piano; he was"
"each other, cross over, and melt into one another, till finally they die away in a state of holiness.” Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne , S.95, is the first of thirteen symphonic poems by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt. It is an orchestral work inspired by Victor Hugo's poem of the same name, published as No. 5 of his collection ""Les Feuilles d'automne"" (1831). The French title means ""What one hears on the mountain"". The work is sometimes referred to by its German title ""Bergsymphonie"" (""Mountain Symphony""). The piece, like many of Liszt's works, was revised a number of times"
"the city's symphony concerts. Bülow, not known for his kindness, was impressed by Mahler. His support was not diminished by his failure to like or understand ""Totenfeier"" when Mahler played it for him on the piano. Bülow told Mahler that ""Totenfeier"" made ""Tristan und Isolde"" sound to him like a Haydn symphony. As Bülow's health worsened, Mahler substituted for him. Bülow's death in 1894 greatly affected Mahler. At the funeral, Mahler heard a setting of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock's ""Die Auferstehung"" (The Resurrection), where the dictum calls out ""Rise again, yes, you shall rise again / My dust"". ""It struck me"
"it. An anecdote from Mozart's time suggests that the composer himself was very impressed with his sister-in-law's performance. The story comes from an 1840 letter from composer Ignaz von Seyfried, and relates an event from the last night of Mozart's life—December 4, 1791, five weeks into the opera's initial (very successful) run. According to Seyfried, the dying Mozart whispered the following to his wife Constanze: Quiet, quiet! Hofer is just taking her top F; – now my sister-in-law is singing her second aria, 'Der Hölle Rache'; how strongly she strikes and holds the B-flat: 'Hört! hört! hört! der Mutter Schwur!'"""
"Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include ""Der Rosenkavalier"", ""Elektra"", ""Die Frau ohne Schatten"" and ""Salome""; his Lieder, especially his ""Four Last Songs""; his tone poems, including ""Don Juan"", ""Death and Transfiguration"", ""Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks"", ""Also sprach Zarathustra"", ""Ein Heldenleben"", ""Symphonia Domestica"", and ""An Alpine Symphony""; and other instrumental works such as ""Metamorphosen"" and his Oboe Concerto. Strauss was also a prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, enjoying quasi-celebrity status"
"Geist -und Weltlich Lieder. Johann Sebastiani Johann Sebastiani (30 September 1622 – 1683) was a German baroque composer. Sebastiani was born in Weimar. He became Kantor at Königsberg cathedral in 1661, and court ""Kapellmeister"" from 1663 to 1679. He died in Königsberg. His works include sacred and occasional pieces and songs; the most famous is his ""St Matthew Passion"" (before 1663, performed again 1672). He is the first composer who introduce chorale into oratorio passion. Within the St Matthew Passion, Sebastiani includes eight different chorale melodies and introduces thirteen chorale verses. This work is a development from the style of"
"Maritain) and became a Benedictine monk. He would go on to study organ with Maurice Duruflé, as well as Gregorian chant. Jacob also published two books, ""L'art et la grâce"" (1939) and ""Souvenirs a deux voix"" (1969). In the English-speaking world, his hymn tune ""Living God"" in 77.77 meter with 77.77 refrain, used for ""I Received the Living God"" (""J'ai reçu le Dieu vivant""), is well known. Maxime Jacob Maxime Jacob, or Dom Clément Jacob, (13 January 1906 in Bordeaux – 26 February 1977 in Abbaye En-Calcat, Dourgne, Tarn) was a French composer and organist. Jacob studied at the Paris"
"Charles Wilfred Orr Charles Wilfred Leslie Orr, generally known as C. W. Orr (31 July 1893 – 24 February 1976), was an English composer. Born in Cheltenham, shortly after the death from tuberculosis of his father (who was a captain in the Indian Army), he learnt the piano and studied music theory as a child. He was attracted to the singing of Elena Gerhardt, whom he heard sing in London and developed an interest in lieder, especially those of Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann. After reading Ernest Newman's book on the composer Hugo Wolf he determined to become a"
"Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne , S.95, is the first of thirteen symphonic poems by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt. It is an orchestral work inspired by Victor Hugo's poem of the same name, published as No. 5 of his collection ""Les Feuilles d'automne"" (1831). The French title means ""What one hears on the mountain"". The work is sometimes referred to by its German title ""Bergsymphonie"" (""Mountain Symphony""). The piece, like many of Liszt's works, was revised a number of times before reaching the final version known today. It was originally composed in the years 1848–9 and subsequently revised in"
"2017 after a long and perilous disease. She was 76 years old. Ivana Loudová Ivana Loudová (8 March 1941 – 25 July 2017) was a Czech composer. Loudová was born at Chlumec nad Cidlinou. She studied at the Prague Conservatory and the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts under Miloslav Kabeláč and Emil Hlobil. She later studied in Paris at the Centre Bourdan under Olivier Messiaen and Andre Jolivet. She has written orchestral and chamber music, as well as music for the voice and film/stage. She obtained an honourable mention in Mannheim for the composition ""Rhapsody in Black"", and won"
"Funérailles Funérailles is the 7th and one of the most famous pieces in ""Harmonies poétiques et religieuses"" (""Poetic and Religious Harmonies""), a collection of piano pieces by Franz Liszt. It was an elegy written in October 1849 in response to the crushing of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 by the Habsburgs. ""Funérailles"" has been recorded by pianists such as György Cziffra, Claudio Arrau, Vladimir Horowitz, Arthur Rubinstein, John Ogdon, Martha Argerich, Evgeny Kissin, Sviatoslav Richter, Arnaldo Cohen, Jonathan Paul Cambry, Arcadi Volodos, Sergio Fiorentino and Krystian Zimerman. The piece is composed of four distinct sections, with three main themes repeating"
"who was a singer at the same court. They are now conserved by the Paris Conservatory. A previously unknown notebook by Giroust titled ""Regles de composition"" was recovered in 2015. The manuscript is of educational nature, and explains the basics of composing music. It dates back to 1778. It is currently conserved by KU Leuven. François Giroust François Giroust (10 April 1737 – 28 April 1799) was a French composer. He was born in Paris, where he was the last ""maître"" of the Chapelle royale before the French Revolution. He died, aged 62, at Versailles. After having studied at the"
"ye then shall know, <br> Shall feel your sins forgiven; <br> Anticipate your heaven below, <br> And own that love is heaven. In the U.S., the hymn is commonly sung to Lowell Mason’s 1839 arrangement of the hymn tune Azmon, written by Carl G. Glaser in 1828. Mason's arrangement was written as a setting for this hymn. In Great Britain the tune Lydia by Thomas Phillips or Richmond by Thomas Haweis are commonly used, though in larger congregations Thomas Jarman's tune ""Lyngham"" is favoured. ""Hymns Ancient and Modern"" has A. J. Eyre's ""Selby"" and J. H. Coombes's ""Oxford New"". In"
"François Giroust François Giroust (10 April 1737 – 28 April 1799) was a French composer. He was born in Paris, where he was the last ""maître"" of the Chapelle royale before the French Revolution. He died, aged 62, at Versailles. After having studied at the Notre-Dame de Paris with Louis Homet (1691-1767) until 1748 and afterwards with Antoine Goulet, Giroust got appointed as ""maître de musique"" (Kapellmeister) at the cathedral of Orléans, where he stayed until 1769. He was very much appreciated by his employers. He also became the leader of the music academy of Orléans (1757-1765), which became a"
"The Seven Last Words of Christ (Haydn) The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross (German: ) is an orchestral work by Joseph Haydn, commissioned in 1786 for the Good Friday service at Oratorio de la Santa Cueva (Holy Cave Oratory) in Cádiz, Spain. Published in 1787 and performed then in Paris, Berlin and Vienna, the composer adapted it in 1787 for string quartet and in 1796 as an oratorio (with both solo and choral vocal forces), and he approved a version for solo piano. The seven main meditative sections—labelled ""sonatas"" and all slow—are framed by a slow"
"words, his eyes grew fixed, his mouth fell open, and he passed away. Other quotes claimed to be Beethoven's last words are ""There, do you hear the bell? Don't you hear it ringing? The curtain must drop. Yes! My curtain is falling."" and ""I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes."" Another account states that Beethoven received last rites of the Roman Catholic Church, and said to the priest, ""I thank you, Reverend Sir. You have brought me comfort."" Shortly thereafter, he apparently lost consciousness. Beethoven biographer Alexander Wheelock Thayer, in his"
"have been edited in Willi Apel, ""French Secular Music of the Fourteenth Century"" and Gordon Greene, ""Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century,"" volumes 18 and 19, and his Gloria by Stäblein-Harder and Cattin/Facchin. According to the anonymous, early-fifteenth century treatise, ""Règles de la seconde rhétorique"", the poet Jehan de Suzay (named along with Tapissier and others) was still alive at the time of writing. He is generally supposed to be this composer. Johannes Susay Jo[hannes] Susay or Jehan Suzay (sometimes written Suzoy or Susoy) (""fl."" c. 1380; d. after 1411) was a French composer of the Middle Ages. He is"
"Franz Behr Franz Behr (22 July 1837 – 15 February 1898) was a prolific, but minor, and now almost forgotten, German composer of songs and salon pieces for piano. Behr was popular at one time, and many of his works were published (his opus numbers reached at least 582, with ""Royal Gavotte""). His works include names such as ""The Camp of the Gypsies"" (""Im Zigeunerlager"", Op. 424 No. 3), ""Will o' the wisp"" (Op. 309 No. 2), ""Valse des Elfes"" (Op. 497), ""Perciotta, serenande catalane"", and ""Evening Chimes in the Mountains"". He also wrote under the names G. Bachmann (""Marche"
"Lupus Hellinck Lupus Hellinck (also Wulfaert) (1493 or 1494 – ) was a Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was a prominent composer of masses, as well as German chorales and motets. Although he was a Roman Catholic all of his life, his music shows evidence of sympathy for the Protestant Reformation, and three of his motets—including a famous setting of ""In te domine speravi""—were probably inspired by the prison writings of the martyred reformer Girolamo Savonarola. Hellinck was probably born in Axel. Little else is known about him until he appears as a choirboy in Bruges at St. Donatian"
"questions about the events in America, I said that such a plan appeared to be Lucifer's greatest work of art. Of course I used the designation ""work of art"" to mean the work of destruction personified in Lucifer. In the context of my other comments this was unequivocal. Amongst the numerous honours and distinctions that were bestowed upon Stockhausen are: Listening Obituaries Interviews Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important (; ; ; ) but also controversial composers of the 20th"
"was regarded as one of the finest composers in Europe around the middle of the 16th century.<ref name=""Stevenson/Planchart, Grove"">Stevenson/Planchart, Grove</ref> On 4 September 1553 he asked to be considered for the position of ""maestro de capilla"" at the Cathedral of Toledo, where he had previously worked, but died shortly after in Marchena; the actual date is not known, but was before October 7. Almost all of his music is sacred, and all of it is vocal, though instruments may have been used in an accompanying role in performance. He wrote many masses, some of spectacular difficulty, most likely written for"
"works: Walter Kent Walter Kent (born Walter Maurice Kaufman, November 29, 1911 – March 2, 1994) was an American composer and conductor Some notable compositions are: ""I'll Be Home for Christmas"", ""I’m Gonna Live Till I Die"" and ""(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover"". Walter Kent was born to a Jewish family on November 29, 1911 in New York City. He graduated from Townsend Harris Hall High School. Kent received a scholarship to attend the Juilliard School of Music in New York where he chose to pursue advanced study of the violin. Kent was also involved in"
"Walter Kent Walter Kent (born Walter Maurice Kaufman, November 29, 1911 – March 2, 1994) was an American composer and conductor Some notable compositions are: ""I'll Be Home for Christmas"", ""I’m Gonna Live Till I Die"" and ""(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover"". Walter Kent was born to a Jewish family on November 29, 1911 in New York City. He graduated from Townsend Harris Hall High School. Kent received a scholarship to attend the Juilliard School of Music in New York where he chose to pursue advanced study of the violin. Kent was also involved in private"
"The words for the final chorale are taken from the German , """", by Martin Luther. Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille, BWV 120 ' (God, You are praised in the stillness), BWV 120.1 (previously '), is a sacred cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for the occasion of , the inauguration of a new town council in a church service, probably before 1730, or, alternatively, in 1742. Parts of the cantata appeared in a wedding cantata () and a cantata commemorating the Augsburg Confession in 1730 (). Bach reworked the choral second movement for"
"John B. Matthias John B. Matthias (January 1, 1767 – May 27, 1848) is known as the writer of the words and music for the gospel song, “Palms of Victory” (also known as “Deliverance Will Come” or “I Saw a Way-worn Traveler”), for which he is generally given credit. He was typical of Methodist Episcopal circuit riders in early 19th Century United States. There are two major primary sources for information about his life. First, the minutes of the New York Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church from 1811 through 1848, especially his official obituary written by his son,"
"are still read and often quoted. Sacer's hymn for Ascension in seven stanzas, """" (God goes up to Heaven) was published in """" (Spiritual, lovely songs) in Gotha in 1714, sung to the melody """". Later versions appear under the title """", for example the """" (Protestant hymnal for church usage) of 1836, sometimes with six stanzas. Johann Sebastian Bach used the hymn's seventh stanza, """", to conclude his ""Ascension Oratorio"". Among Bach's hymn writers, Sacer was the only contemporary. Gottfried Wilhelm Sacer Gottfried Wilhelm Sacer (11 July 1635 – 8 September 1699) was a German jurist, poet, satirist and"
"He received numerous prizes and distinctions for his compositions, recordings, and for the scores produced by his publishing company. His notable compositions include the series of nineteen ""Klavierstücke"" (Piano Pieces), ""Kontra-Punkte"" for ten instruments, the electronic/musique-concrète ""Gesang der Jünglinge"", ""Gruppen"" for three orchestras, the percussion solo ""Zyklus"", ""Kontakte"", the cantata ""Momente"", the live-electronic ""Mikrophonie I"", ""Hymnen"", ""Stimmung"" for six vocalists, ""Aus den sieben Tagen"", ""Mantra"" for two pianos and electronics, ""Tierkreis"", ""Inori"" for soloists and orchestra, and the gigantic opera cycle ""Licht"". He died of sudden heart failure at the age of 79, on 5 December 2007 at his home"
"Reid N. Nibley Reid Neibaur Nibley (5 January 192325 February 2008) was an American pianist, composer and music educator. He wrote the words and music to the Latter-day Saint hymn ""I Know My Father Lives"". Nibley was born to Alexander Nibley and his wife Agnes Sloan. He was the younger brother of Hugh Nibley. He had another brother, Richard Nibley, who was also a music educator. Nibley's ancestry was Scottish, English, French and Jewish. Nibley was raised mainly in the Los Angeles area, where he was friends with Ray Bradbury, also a youth at the time. They would jointly write"
"Ode to Death Ode to Death, H. 144, Op. 38, is a musical composition for chorus and orchestra written by English composer Gustav Holst (1874–1934) in 1919. It is a setting of a passage from Walt Whitman's 1865 elegy ""When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"", which was written to mourn the death of American president Abraham Lincoln. After World War I, Gustav Holst turned to the last section of Whitman's elegy to mourn friends killed in the war in composing his ""Ode to Death"". Holst saw Whitman ""as a New World prophet of tolerance and internationalism as well as"
"Selective bibliography Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include ""Der Rosenkavalier"", ""Elektra"", ""Die Frau ohne Schatten"" and ""Salome""; his Lieder, especially his ""Four Last Songs""; his tone poems, including ""Don Juan"", ""Death and Transfiguration"", ""Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks"", ""Also sprach Zarathustra"", ""Ein Heldenleben"", ""Symphonia Domestica"", and ""An Alpine Symphony""; and other instrumental works such as ""Metamorphosen"" and his Oboe Concerto. Strauss was also a prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, enjoying"
"Jacob Senleches Jacob Senleches (fl. 1382/1383 – 1395) (also Jacob de Senlechos [i.e. Senleches] and Jacopinus Senlesses) was a Franco-Flemish composer and harpist of the late Middle Ages. He composed in a style commonly known as the ""ars subtilior"". It has been suggested that Jacob Senleches was born in Senleches (or Sanlesches) in Cambrai, today France. In 1382, Senleches seems to have been present at the court of Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Castile (d. September 1382), possibly in her service. In ""Fuions de ci,"" he laments Eleanor's death and resolves to seek his fortune either ""en Aragon, en France"