my stories
edit
The Paulinerkirche,
the university church of Leipzig
where Luther preached, Bach performed
and Mendelssohn premiered Paulus,
was dynamited in 1968
in communist East Germany.
watch Bach
18 June 2011
(from User:Gerda Arendt/Stories)
This is the 2026 archive of my daily stories which began in January 2023, with an overview at User:Gerda Arendt/Story list. This archive has daily entries up to the day of this year while those following, from 2025, may be overwritten by new ones. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:42, 6 January 2026 (UTC)
January
edit
1 January 2026
edit- see 1 January 2024: Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht, BWV 134a, 2025: Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, BWV 41
happy new year
J. S. Bach led
the first performance of
Herr Gott, dich loben wir, BWV 16,
his church cantata for New Year's Day
to a libretto by Georg Christian Lehms
on 1 January 1726.
listen
1 January 2026
2 January 2026
editGary Graffman,
who entered the Curtis Institute of Music
in Philadelphia at age seven
and became its president,
gave the UK premiere of Korngold's
Piano Concerto for the left hand.
listen
2 January 2026
3 January 2026
edit- see 3 January 2024 and 2025: Johann-Werner Prein
Sister Stan,
born Treasa Kennedy,
was a social activist
known as the founder of
Focus Ireland for the homelass
and the Immigrant Council of Ireland.
watch her
4 January 2026
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Armand Avril
travelled in 1960
for a year in Africa, where
he was inspired to assemble
"bottle caps, clothespins, glue,
nails and empty tin cans".
watch
4 January 2026
5 January 2025
edit
Thomas Mann's widow,
Katia, called
Gert Westphal
"des Dichters oberster Mund"
(the poet's principal voice)
after his recitation
of her husband's works.
watch
5 January 2019
6 January 2026
edit- see 6 January 2024: Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen, BWV 65, 2025: Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, BWV 123
Three composers,
flutist Jens Josef,
cellist Graham Waterhouse
and pianist
Rudi Spring,
each set a Christmas carol
for their trio concert at the Gasteig.
listen at Gasteig
to Kaleidoskop
3 December 2010
7 January 2026
edit
Concentricities,
a 2019 clarinet–cello–piano trio
by Graham Waterhouse,
musically depicts a theme
of circular, spiraling, or oscillating
concentric phenomena in nature
and human structures.
watch
7 January 2023
8 January 2026
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Zdeněk Mácal,
a promising Czech conductor,
left his home country in 1968
and was chief conductor of orchestras in
Germany, Australia and the United States,
returning to Prague to lead
the Czech Philharmonic from 2003.
watch
8 January 2026
9 January 2026
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Otto Schenk
directed a traditionalist version of
Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
at the Metropolitan Opera in 1986
that remained in the repertoire
until 2009,
and Die Fledermaus by J. Strauss
at the Vienna State Opera
that is still played.
watch Walküre and Adele
9 January 2026
10 January 2026
edit
Andrew Carter,
a singer at York Minster,
founded the Chapter House Choir there
and conducted them for 17 years
writing arrangements and compositions
such as Benedicite.
listen
10 January 2026
11 January 2025
edit- see 11 January 2024 and 2025: Bright Angel (Waterhouse)
Helmut Lachenmann composed
... zwei Gefühle ...,
subtitled as a Music with Leonardo,
for narration and ensemble in 1992,
and used it in his opera
Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern.
listen
11 January 2026
12 January 2026
edit- see 12 January 2023: Volodymyr Kozhukhar, Galina Pisarenko, 2024: Kihwan Sim, 2025: Christian Keymann
Rolf Riehm,
whose Sirenen was premiered
at the Oper Frankfurt in 2014,
became professor of music theory
at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt in 1974
and joined the
Sogenanntes Linksradikales Blasorchester wind ensemble as oboist in 1976.
listen to him, 2014
11 January 2026
13 January 2026
edit- see 13 January 2023 and 2024: Guido Dessauer, 2025: Ayla Erduran
Jonathan Powell,
a pianist and composer who studied
music from Russia and Eastern Europe around 1900, played the premiere of
Sorabji's eight-hour Sequentia cyclica
and recorded it
to critical acclaim in 2020.
watch the premiere of his violin sonata
13 January 2026
14 January 2026
edit
Caterina Valente,
who performed 1,500 songs
in 13 languages
as one of few world stars
from a German-speaking country,
knew that she wanted to become a singer
when she heard Billie Holiday
at age five.
watch with Count Basie
14 January 2026
15 January 2026
edit
Director
Frank Stähle
revived the choir and orchestra
of Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium
and conducted them in Mozart's Requiem
for the centenary of the Lutherkirche
in Wiesbaden.
15 January 2016
16 January 2026
edit
Brian Ferneyhough
composed his opera Shadowtime,
about the philosopher
Walter Benjamin,
on a 1999 commission for the
Munich Biennale,
and it was premiered
at the Prinzregententheater in 2004.
listen with score
17 January 2026
edit
John Wallace,
principal of the
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland,
coming from a brass band tradition,
played trumpet solo
alongside Kiri Te Kanawa
at the 1981 Royal wedding.
watch
17 January 2026
18 January 2026
editIn a chorale of Bach's cantata
Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen,
BWV 13,
two recorders
and an oboe da caccia
play with the alto,
whereas the strings play an
"optimistic, wordless answer"
to its prayer.
watch
20 January 2012
19 January 2026
editIsaiah Jackson,
the first American Black conductor
in many positions including
the London Royal Ballet,
held concerts with local gospel choirs
in several cities
beginning with the Louisville Orchestra.
watch1973 interview
19 January 2026
20 January 2026
editDavid Tudor,
who played the first performance
in the U.S. of
the Piano Sonata No. 2
by Pierre Boulez in 1950,
became the pianist
for whom John Cage composed,
and composer and later
music director of the
Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
watch
20 January 2026
21 January 2026
edit
Carmen Moreno
was a vocalist
with a Polish jazz group in 1951,
and performed with her granddaughter
Anna Serafińska in 2010.
watch 1957 · watch 2010
21 January 2026
22 January 2026
edit
Both Jochen Klepper
and Hildegard Schaeder
sought solace amidst
the horror of the Nazi regime
in Paul Gerhardt's
17th-century New Year's song
"Nun lasst uns gehn und treten".
watch
22 January 2021
23 January 2026
edit
In
Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid,
BWV 3,
Bach's chorale cantata based
on Moller's hymn in 18 stanzas,
the first cantus firmus is sung
by the bass
supported by a trombone.
watch
23 January 2016
24 January 2026
edit
Ewa Podleś
was a Polish coloratura contralto,
performing Rossini's
Rosina and Isabella,
and Handel's
Rinaldo and Giulio Cesare
on leading stages of the world.
watch Isabella
24 January 2024
25 January 2026
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On the Third Sunday after Epiphany 1726,
J. S. Bach led
the first performance of
Alles nur nach Gottes Willen, BWV 72,
to a 1715 text by Salomon Franck,
concluding his third Christmas season
in Leipzig.
watch
26 January 2025
editBefore the age of thirty,
Anna Nekhames
performed the dual role
of Venus and Chief of the Gepopo
in Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre,
one of opera's most demanding
coloratura soprano roles.
watch
(Zerbinetta in recital)
26 January 2024
27 January 2026
edit- see 27 January 2023: Elena Manistina, Clytus Gottwald, 2024: Vespro della Beata Vergine, 2025: St. Martin, Idstein
On 27 January 1726, J. S. Bach
led the first performance of
Alles nur nach Gottes Willen, BWV 72,
concluding his third
Christmas season in Leipzig on the
Third Sunday after Epiphany.
watch
27 January 2026
28 January 2026
editJerome Kohl,
a music theorist of the
University of Washington,
was recognized internationally
as an authority on the composer
Karlheinz Stockhausen,
publishing a book on his
Zeitmaße in 2017.
listen
28 January 2021
29 January 2029
editGertrude Pitzinger,
who toured Europe and the United States,
where she became known as
"the German Lieder singer",
recorded the alto part
of Mozart's Requiem,
conducted by Ferenc Fricsay.
29 January 2016
30 January 2026
edit- see 30 January 2023: Kreuzschule, 2024 and 2025: Werner Bardenhewer
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Francis Buchholz,
bass guitarist of the rock band
Scorpions from 1973 to 1992,
played iconic riffs for hits such as
"Rock You Like a Hurricane"
and "Wind of Change".
watch
30 January 2026
31 January 2026
editsee 31 January 2023: Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn, BWV 92, 2025: Franz Schubert
In Bach's chorale cantata
Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn,
BWV 92,
for Septuagesima, he created
five different settings
for five stanzas of
the hymn by Paul Gerhardt.
watch
31 January 2013
February
edit
1 February 2025
editIn Bach's chorale cantata
Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn,
BWV 92,
for Septuagesima, he created
five different settings
for five stanzas of
the hymn by Paul Gerhardt.
watch
31 January 2013
2 February 2026
edit- see 2 February 2023: Melitta Muszely, Ich habe genug, BWV 82, 2024: Franz Kamphaus, 2025: Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 125
When Friedrich Spitta revised
"Im Frieden dein, o Herre mein",
a 1530 German Lutheran communion hymn based
on the biblical Nunc dimittis, he
completely changed the meaning.
watch
2 February 2019
3 February 2026
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The baritone
Jubilant Sykes,
active in spirituals, gospel and funk,
recorded the role of the
Celebrant in Leonard Bernstein's
Grammy-nominated Mass.
watch
Gloria · motherless child
3 February 2026
4 February 2025
edit- see 4 February 2023 and 2024: Michael Herrmann, 2025: Horst Janson
Michael Herrmann
is founder-director
of the Rheingau Musik Festival,
which holds about
150 events every season
in vineyards and historical buildings.
watch concert
25 August 2011
5 February 2026
edit
Jazz pianist
Richie Beirach
made early recordings for ECM
including Lookout Farm,
duos with sax player David Liebman
such as Omerta,
and trios such as ELM.
listen
5 February 2026
6 February 2026
edit
The
Musiktheater im Revier
in Gelsenkirchen
staged a new musical
for the 100th anniversary
of the soccer club
FC Schalke 04 in 2004.
watch
6 February 2011
7 February 2026
edit- see 7 February 2023: Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe, BWV 22, 2024: Stephen Gould (tenor), 2025: İlhan Usmanbaş
Mezzo-soprano
Claudia Eder
sang the roles of the Muse and Nicklausse
in Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann
on a recording alongside
Plácido Domingo as Hoffmann.
listen to lied
15 April 2010
8 February 2026
editThe son of Hans Dessauer,
a coloured paper manufacturer
in Aschaffenburg,
left Germany in 1929,
changed his name to John H. Dessauer
and wrote the book
My Years with Xerox,
The Billions Nobody Wanted.
watch Xerox
8 February 2012
9 February 2026
edit
Philipp Harnoncourt
initiated the restoration of
a Gothic chapel
with a triangle floorplan,
originally dedicated to the Trinity
and reopened on Trinity Sunday 2020,
the day after he was buried.
watch him lecture about it
29 May 2021
10 February 2026
edit
The
Dreikönigskirche in Dresden,
a Baroque church completed in 1739,
was bombed in 1945,
not restored until 1984,
and served as the seat
of the state parliament from 1990.
10 February 2021
11 February 20265
edit- see 11 February 2023: Heinz Winbeck, 2024: Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe, BWV 22, 2025: Heinz Winbeck
Dennis Russell Davies
conducted the premiere of the
Fifth Symphony
"Now and in the hour of death"
by Heinz Winbeck
which reflects Bruckner's Ninth Symphony.
listen
11 February 2021
12 February 2026
edit- see 12 February 2023: Da pacem Domine (Pärt), Responsories (Reger), 2024: Seiji Ozawa, 2025: Hans-Peter Lehmann
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Tamás Vásáry,
who played
an early Mozart piano concerto
at age eight,
played and conducted
Chopin's concertos
with the Northern Sinfonia.
listen to waltzes
12 February 2026
13 February 2026
edit
Astor Piazzolla's
Oblivion,
1972 film music
made famous as a Milva song,
has been called
"exquisitely melancholic".
listen to them
13 February 2026
14 February 2026
edit
The 1510
Gerechtigkeitsspirale,
carved on a pew of
St. Valentin in Kiedrich
declares:
"Justice suffered in great need.
Truth is slain dead.
Faith has lost the battle".
watch the Kiedricher Chorbuben
23 April 2015
15 February 2026
edit- see 15 February 2023: George Alexander Albrecht, 2024: O Täler weit, o Höhen, 2025: Saxophone Sonata (Creston)
Bach composed his cantata
Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe,
BWV 22,
for the last Sunday before Lent
as an audition piece
for the post of Thomaskantor in Leipzig,
displaying a
"sheer range of forms
and musical expression".
watch
7 February 2023
16 February 2026
edit
Hans-Dieter Bader
performed the title role
of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's opera Sly,
recorded live at the Staatsoper Hannover,
"as written", while Plácido Domingo
had to cut and change it.
watch 2011 recital
3 May 2016
17 February 2026
edit- see 17 February 2023 and 2024: Rheingau Musik Festival, 2025: Maria Tipo
Friedrich Cerha,
known for completing
Alban Berg's opera Lulu,
simultaneously composed his first opera,
Baal, based on Brecht's play.
watch scene
17 February 2026
18 February 2026
edit- see 18 February 2023: Robert Hammerstiel, 2024: William Waterhouse, Cecil AronowitzTerence Weil, 2025: Sigrid Metz-Göckel
Helmuth Rilling
was the first conductor
to record Bach's complete church cantatas
and won a Grammy Award
for Penderecki's Credo,
commissioned and performed
by the Oregon Bach Festival.
watch
Jesu, meine Freude
18 February 2026
19 February 2026
edit- see 19 February 2023: Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud, 2024: Johanna von Koczian, 2025: Gabriele Münter
Hungarian pianists
Márta Kurtág and György Kurtág
performed together for 60 years,
often from his collection
entitled Játékok (Games)
and Bach transcriptions.
watch
19 February 2026
20 February 2025
edit
Percy Grainger,
a composer born in Australia
trained from age 13 as a pianist
at Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium,
also a collector of English folk tunes,
made one video for the BBC,
of his "Handel in The Strand".
21 February 2026
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Margot Fonteyn,
prima ballerina assoluta
of the Royal Ballet,
danced with Robert Helpmann
for decades, including
The Sleeping Beauty,
and considered retirement
when Rudolf Nureyev defected
from the Kirov Ballet.
watch Swan Lake
21 February 2026
22 February 2026
edit- see 22 February 2023: St. Martin, Lorch, 2024: Such, wer da will, ein ander Ziel, 2024: Olivier Latry
Astrid Schirmer
appeared in roles by Richard Wagner,
both Venus and Elisabeth in Tannhäuser,
and in the Bayreuth Jahrhundertring
as both Ortlinde and Sieglinde.
watch as Isolde
22 February 2016
23 February 2026
edit- see 23 February 2023: Nele Hertling, 2024: Max Beckschäfer, , 2025: Entfliehet, verschwindet, entweichet, ihr Sorgen, BWV 249a
Lambert Hamel,
who played Martin Luther and Helmut Kohl
in television films,
worked for decades at Munich's
Residenztheater and Kammerspiele
cast as Shakespeare's
Bottom and Titus Andronicus,
Miller's Willy Lohman
and Thomas Bernhard's Theatre maker.
24 February 2026
edit- see 24 February 2023: Artemy Vedel, Prayer for Ukraine, 2024: Gabriele Schnaut, 2025: Vladimír Válek
Gabriele Schnaut
recorded alto parts in Bach cantatas
in the 1970s, and appeared
as Waltraute and Second Norne
in the Jahrhundertring film in 1980,
as Isolde in 1985,
and in 2014 as Widow Begbick in Weill's Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny.
watch as Walküre
24 February 2026
25 February 2026
edit- see 25 February 2023: Selva morale e spirituale, 2024: Zeige uns, Herr, deine Allmacht und Güte, 2025: Ilkka Kuusisto
José van Dam,
created the title role of
Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise
at the Paris Opera in 1983,
conducted by Seiji Ozawa.
watch
25 February 2026
26 February 2025
edit- see 26 February 2023 to 2025: same
The art of
Ruth-Margret Pütz
a leading coloratura soprano
of the 1960s,
was published in a 2018 Recital,
including excerpts as
Konstanze and Zerbinetta.
listen
11 June 2019
27 February 2026
edit
Russian Jewish painter
Marc Chagall
created the windows of the church of
St. Stephan in Mainz
as a sign of
Jewish-German reconciliation.
look
5 December 2006
28 February 2026
edit
Elisabeth Waterhouse
founded the
National Chamber Music Course
summer school in 1974
and has managed it since.
listen as she did
12 January 2023
29 February 2025
edit
Gioachino Rossini
(born 29 February 1792)
scored the last of his "sins of old age",
the Petite messe solennelle,
for twelve singers,
two pianos, and harmonium.
listen
March
edit
1 March 2026
editThe text of the hymn
"Herr, nimm auch uns zum Tabor mit"
was written in 2001
because few German hymns dealt
with the transfiguration of Jesus,
an annual reading during Lent.
watch
14 April 2022
2 March 2026
edit- see 2 March 2023: Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn, Erfurt Enchiridion, 2024: Wilhelm Schüchter, Kurt Honolka (Smetana), 2025: Herr Jesu Christ, wahr' Mensch und Gott, BWV 127
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In 1524, Elisabeth Cruciger's hymn
"Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn"
was the only song
by a female author
published in the Lutheran hymnal
Erfurt Enchiridion.
watch Bach setting
2 March 2013
3 March 2026
editRoman Kofman,
founder and later artistic director
of the Kyiv Chamber Orchestra,
was GMD of the
Beethoven Orchester Bonn,
programming all 15 symphonies
by Shostakovich.
watch
3 March 2026
4 March 2026
edit
Melusine,
the second opera by
Aribert Reimann,
premiered at the
Schlosstheater Schwetzingen
in 1971 and was revived
in 2016 by students in Berlin
for the composer's 80th birthday.
watch trailer
4 March 2026
5 March 2025
edit- see 5 March 2023: Elisabeth Schärtel, 2024: Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone, 2025: Ferenc Rados
The contralto
Elisabeth Schärtel,
known for many Wagner roles
at the Bayreuth Festival,
portrayed Verdi's Meg Page alongside
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Falstaff.
5 March 2016
6 March 2025
edit- see 6 March 2023: Siegfried Vogel, 2024 and 2025: Jo Vincent
Jo Vincent
appeared in
Willem Mengelberg's 1939 recording
of Bach's St Matthew Passion and,
with Kathleen Ferrier and Peter Pears,
in the world premiere of
Britten's Spring Symphony.
listen to Reger
10 April 2020
7 March 2026
edit
Miroslava Pešíková
performed 47 roles as ballerina
at the National Theatre
in Prague for 28 years,
including Juliet and Lady Macbeth.
8 March 2025
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Ruth Wagner,
the minister of culture in Hesse
from 1999 to 2003,
was nicknamed
Mother Courage of Hesse.
watch
8 March 2026
9 March 2025
edit
Bach's congratulatory cantata
Preise dein Glücke,
gesegnetes Sachsen, BWV 215,
was first performed for August III
with a torch-light procession
of 600 students.
watch
9 March 2013
10 March 2026
edit- see 10 March 2023: Delores Ziegler, 2024: Im Frieden dein, o Herre mein, 2025: Great Dismal Swamp maroons
The architect and preservationist
Käthe Menzel-Jordan,
led after World War II
restoration projects for historic buildings
in Erfurt and Thuringia,
such as Augustinerkloster
10 March 2026
11 March 2026
edit
The first performance of Verdi's
Rigoletto
took place at La Fenice in Venice
on 11 March 1851.
watch quartet there
11 March 2026
12 March 2025
edit- see 12 March 2023 and 2024: Odile Pierre, 12 March 2025: Edesio Alejandro
Gustav Gunsenheimer,
the composer of
Die Versuchung Jesu,
a Gospel motet on
the temptation of Christ,
has the devil speak, not sing,
at times in canon.
watch other Gospel motet
10 March 2016
13 March 2026
edit
Frank Beermann
conducted the first recording
of Bruno Maderna's Requiem,
the German premiere of
Péter Eötvös's opera
Love and Other Demons
at the Chemnitz Opera,
and Wagner's Parsifal in Minden.
watch interview
11 July 2017
14 March 2025
editBernhard Waldenfels,
professor of philosophy at the
Ruhr University Bochum
from 1976 to 1999,
discussed "black holes of everyday life"
in a book subtitled
Challenges of Phenomenology.
watch Academy Talk
14 March 2026
15 March 2026
edit
Gustav Gunsenheimer,
the church musician at
St. Lukas in Schweinfurt
from 1969 to 2015,
composed
Die Versuchung Jesu.
watch a motet
15 March 2026
16 March 2025
edit
Sofia Gubaidulina's
Johannes-Ostern
was premiered in Hamburg,
together with her
Johannes-Passion,
by soloists, choirs and orchestras from
the Mariinsky Theatre and the NDR.
listen to Passion with score
16 March 2026
17 March 2026
edit- see 17 March 2023 and 2024: The Deer's Cry, 2025: Ana María Iriarte
Hermann Kulke,
Indologist at Kiel University
from 1988–2003 and
a visiting professor in India and Singapore,
researched pre-colonial regional cultures
including around the
Jagannath Temple in Odisha.
watch interview
17 March 2026
18 March 2026
edit- see 18 Mar 2023 to 2025: Der geteilte Himmel
Composer
Hjálmar H. Ragnarsson
made contributions to
Icelandic cultural life
through his presidency of the
Federation of Icelandic Artists,
and as Rector of the
Iceland University of the Arts.
watch motet
18 March 2026
19 March 2025
edit
Kaija Saariaho's
Quatre instants,
four art songs for soprano Karita Mattila,
have been described as
"a quasi-operatic monologue"
in "erotic, extreme territory".
watch interviews
19 March 2026
20 March 2026
edit
Canti del Sole
for tenor and orchestra by
Bernard Rands,
professor at Harvard from 1988 to 2005,
received the
1984 Pulitzer Prize for Music.
listen
18 March 2026
21 March 2025
edit- see 21 March 2023: Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191, Gächinger Kantorei, 2024: Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, 2025: L'enfant et les sortilèges
Jesu, meine Freude|BWV 227
(Jesus, my joy),
a motet by Bach,
has a complex symmetrical structure
in which six hymn stanzas
alternate with five Bible verses.
watch
15 April 2021
22 March 2026
edit"Nun ruhen alle Wälder"
(Now all the woods are sleeping),
a song regarded as foolish
by Frederick the Great,
became acceptable
to the Gotteslob in 2013.
watch the different melodies
18 March 2026
23 March 2026
editMaria Friesenhausen
sang soprano solo
with the NDR Chor in the 1950s
and trained students of the
University of Dortmund
for an opera performance in 2001.
listen to Bach duet
10 July 2017
24 March 2026
edit
Annette Dasch
appeared as Elettra in Mozart's Idomeneo
at the reopening of the Cuvilliés Theatre,
where that opera had been
premiered in 1781.
watch as Elsa
23 March 2010
25 March 2026
edit
Bach's chorale cantata
Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1
was first performed
on the Feast of the Annunciation
on 25 March 1725,
which coincided that year
with Palm Sunday.
watch
25 March 2025
26 March 2026
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Architect
Jörg Streli
and his two colleagues designed
the Sankt-Margarethen-Kapelle
in Tyrol, which rises
like a tower on a circular floor.
watch lecture
26 March 2025
27 March 2026
edit- see 27 March 2023: Klassische Philharmonie Bonn, 2024: ... sofferte onde serene ..., 2025: Erminia Frezzolini
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The historic characters in
Françoise de Rimini,
the last opera by Ambroise Thomas,
include not only Francesca da Rimini,
but also Dante and Virgil.
listen
27 March 2017
28 March 2026
edit- see 28 March 2023: Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden, BWV 1083, 2024: Tristis est anima mea, 2025: Willem Mengelberg
Soprano
Rotraud Hansmann
performed six roles
in three Monteverdi operas
conducted by
Nikolaus Harnoncourt,
including La Musica and Euridice
in L'Orfeo.
listen to La Musica
28 March 2016
29 March 2026
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Bach wrote the chorale
"O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig"
(O Lamb of God, innocent)
in red
between the music for the two choirs in
the beginning of his St Matthew Passion.
watch
14 April 2017
30 March 2026
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Composer Jan Müller-Wieland
called his first stage work, premiered
at the Munich Biennale in 1992, a
"Cabaret Farce for singers,
pianists and percussionists".
watch
about a 2025 monodrama
13 April 2011
31 March 2025
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The oratorio
Die Schöpfung)
(The Creation)
by Joseph Haydn
is structured in three parts,
the first two about the
creation as narrated in Genesis,
the third about
Adam and Eve in Paradise.
watch
3 October 2011
April
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1 April 2026
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Alexander Kluge
was instrumental for
New German Cinema
with films such as
Artists under the Big Top: Perplexed
and wrote
Public Sphere and Experience
with Oskar Negt.
watch interview
1 April 2026
2 April 2026
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Alchymic Quartet
is a string quartet
by Graham Waterhouse,
to be performed
alongside chemical experiments
of Andrew Szydlo,
his former teacher
at Highgate School.
watch music
2 April 2023
3 April 2026
edit
In the
structure of Bach's St John Passion,
the centre of symmetry is
"Durch dein Gefängnis ...",
expressing:
"By your prison ... came our freedom".
watch
Es ist vollbracht.
18 April 2014
4 April 2026
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Soprano
Ingrid Schmithüsen
performed a repertoire of
more than 4000 art songs
in a recital series
she founded in Cologne.
watch
4 April 2026
5 April 2026
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The music of Bach's
Easter Oratorio
was composed in 1725 for two works:
the congratulatory Shepherd Cantata
and a church cantata for Easter,
both musical dramas
involving male and female characters,
with texts by Picander.
watch
5 April 2026
6 April 2026
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The opening chorus
of Bach's cantata for
the Second Day of Easter,
Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen, BWV 66,
has been termed
"one of the longest
and most exhilarating
of Bach's early works".
watch
25 April 2011
7 April 2026
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When Bach derived
his third cantata for Easter of 1724,
Ein Herz, das seinen Jesum
lebend weiß, BWV 134,
from his secular cantata
for New Year's Day,
he just wrote new text under old text.
watch final chorus
26 April 2011
8 April 2025
editDuos for Doris
was Keith Rowe and John Tilbury's
first exclusive collaboration
despite having worked with each other
for around forty years.
8 April 2026
9 April 2026
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Tenor
Andreas Karasiak
recorded Bach's St Matthew Passion,
scored for double chorus,
with two boys choirs,
Knabenchor Hannover and Thomanerchor.
watch as Ulisse
9 April 2010
10 April 2026
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The composer
Álvaro Cassuto
founded three orchestras in Portugal
and recorded the complete symphonies
of Joly Braga Santos.
listen to Paráfrase
10 April 2026
11 April 2026
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The text for Bach's early cantata
Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit,
BWV 106
(Actus tragicus),
using Bible verses and three hymns,
is similar to the sermon held
at the funeral of
a former mayor of Mühlhausen.
watch
11 April 2016
12 April 2026
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When
Michael Weiße
published 157 songs in German
for the Bohemian Brethren, such as
"Christus, der uns selig macht",
it was the most extensive hymnal
of his time, and
the first organized by topic.
listen
12 April 2014
13 April 2026
edit- see 13 April 2023 and 2024: Messiah (Handel), 2025: Mirella Freni
The story of Indian mathematician
Srinivasa Ramanujan, the topic of
Sandeep Bhagwati's
opera for the 1998 Munich Biennale,
was considered fit for a film.
watch portrait with him narrating
13 April 2011
14 April 2026
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Eleonore Schönborn,
who had to
leave Czechoslovakia in 1945
with two young children,
received an Austrian award in 2013
for cultural and social improvement.
watch film
28 March 2022
15 April 2026
editSoprano
Dorothee Mields
sang solo and tutti in
five cantatas composed for Pentecost
by the prolific
Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel,
a contemporary of Bach.
listen
23 May 2010
16 April 2026
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Christian Schwarz-Schilling,
a member of the Bundestag
from 1976 to 2002, was
Minister of Post and Telecommunications
from 1982 to 1992 and served as
High Representative
for Bosnia and Herzegovina
from 2006 to 2007.
watch talk about peace mediation
16 April 2026
17 April 2026
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Bill Ramsey,
famous for schlager such as
"Ohne Krimi geht die Mimi nie ins Bett",
was the narrator in the audio musical
Der kleine Tag.
watch "Ohne Krimi"
listen to the other
17 April 2026
18 April 2026
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Aga Mikolaj,
a soprano who studied
with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf,
appeared as Mozart's Donna Elvira
from San Francisco to Tokyo,
and sang the Four Last Songs with
"a degree of abandon and rapture".
listen to "Come scoglio"
18 April 2021
19 April 2025
editBach created an "operatic scene"
in his cantata
Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ, BWV 67,
with Jesus serenely repeating
"Peace be with you"
against the raging of the enemies.
watch
19 April 2012
20 April 2026
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John Eliot Gardiner,
conductor of the
Bach Cantata Pilgrimage,
noted the "immensity, vigour,
flexibility and imagination
of the opening chorus" of Bach's
Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot,
BWV 39.
watch
2 June 2013
21 April 2026
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The art photographers
Anna and Bernhard Blume
created Kitchen Frenzy
and Pure Reason.
watch Paris teaser
8 September 2011
22 April 2026
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Osvaldas Balakauskas
interrupted serving as head of
the composition department at the
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
for three years to be ambassador
to France, Spain, and Portugal.
listen
to Symphony No. 4
22 April 2026
23 April 2026
edit
Erhard Egidi
conducted at the Neustädter Kirche both
the first performance
after more than 300 years of a
funeral music by the church's first organist
and Bach's Mass in B minor.
watch
Dona nobis pacem
25 May 2013
24 April 2026
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Max Bruch conducted
the premiere of his
First Violin Concerto,
which became his most famous work.
watch
24 April 2026
25 April 2026
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Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden
founded in 1965 the Tölzer Knabenchor,
which participated in
Nikolaus Harnoncourt's
pioneering recordings of
Johann Sebastian Bach's choral music.
watch
St John Passion
25 April 2026
26 April 2026
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Oleg Maisenberg,
a pianist from the Russian tradition
interpreted music from the 19th century,
such as Franz Schubert's,
with sensitive attention to nuances,
often with violinist Gidon Kremer.
watch
25 April 2026
27 April 2026
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Ludwig van Beethoven
composed his
Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor,
better known as
"Für Elise" ,
one of his most popular compositions,
on 27 April 1710.
watch
27 April 2026
28 April 2026
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In
"Herr, stärke mich,
dein Leiden zu bedenken",
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
reflected the theological
and emotional impact
of the Passion of Jesus,
using a
familiar Passion hymn tune.
watch
28 April 2021
29 April 2026
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Michael Tilson Thomas,
music director of the
San Francisco Symphony
from 1985 to 2020 conducting
all symphonies by Gustav Mahler
and first recordings of works by
Copland, Ives and Steve Reich,
hosted the Keeping Score TV series.
watch
29 April 2026
30 April 2026
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Ruth Slenczynska,
a child prodigy at the piano
pushed by her abusive father and
at age 9 Sergei Rachmaninoff's last pupil,
ran away at age 15
and recorded an album
of music by Chopin and others
at age 97.
look and listen
30 April 2026
May
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1 May 2026
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Jean-Bernard Pommier,
at age 17 the youngest finalist
at the Tchaikovsky Competition,
performed
Beethoven's complete Piano Concertos
with Daniel Barenboim and the
Sonate Pour Deux Pianistes
with its composer, Claude Bolling.
watch
1 May 2026
2 May 2025
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The architects
Franz Josef Hamm
and Hildegard Schirmacher
performed pioneering work in historic
preservation of half-timbered structures
of the old town of Limburg.
3 May 2026
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Hans Stadlmair
conductor of the
Münchener Kammerorchester
for almost four decades,
in 1971 premiered
Wilhelm Killmayer's Fin al punto,
of which the composer said,
"The calm already contains the catastrophe".
7 April 2011
4 May 2026
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Bach's cantata
Ich bin ein guter Hirt,
BWV 85,
begins with the bass as Jesus,
the Good Shepherd, in
"a mood of tranquil seriousness".
watch
22 April 2012
5 May 2026
edit- see 5 May 2023: Wie als een God wil leven, Solang es Menschen gibt auf Erden, 2024: Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104, 2025: [[Charles Beare]
Mimi Coertse,
a soprano from South Africa,
was a member of the
Vienna State Opera
for ten years
with signature roles including
Mozart's Konstanze.
listen
5 May 2026
6 May 2026
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"Segne, Vater, diese Gaben",
a round for saying grace
of unknown authorship,
has appeared in German collections for
kindergarten, schools
and events for young people.
listen
30 May 2022
7 May 2026
editThe contralto
Maria Radner,
who died in the Germanwings plane crash,
performed Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder
at his villa, Wahnfried.
watch "Morgen!"
11 April 2015
8 May 2026
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György Kurtág
dedicated his second opera,
Die Stechardin,
to his wife Márta and
attended its premiere
a day after turning 100.
watch
them play Sonatina
8 May 2026
9 May 2026
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St. Stephen's Cathedral organist
Peter Planyavsky
has composed parodies
under the names
of P. P. Bach, J. P. Haydn,
and W. A. Plagiavsky Mozart.
watch him as organist
in his Magnificat
28 February 2013
10 May 2026
edit- see 10 May 2023: Bernd Redmann, Jörg Duda, Bassoon Quintet (Waterhouse), 2024 and 2024: Magdalena Hinterdobler
In the Bach cantata
Bisher habt ihr nichts gebeten
in meinem Namen, BWV 87,
the bass as the vox Christi
sings the opening and
"In der Welt habt ihr Angst"
("In the world you have fear").
watch
15 May 2012
11 May 2026
edit
The late-Gothic church
St. Lamberti
in Hildesheim was rebuilt
after destruction in World War II,
but a southern annex
was kept in ruins as a memorial.
watch my song of defiance
11 May 2013
12 May 2026
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Boris Carmeli,
a basso profondo born in Poland
who made an opera career in Italy,
appeared in the world premieres of
Penderecki's Seventh Symphony
and Stockhausen's Sirius.
watch interview 12 May 2021
13 May 2026
edit
Günter Jena,
director of church music at
St. Michaelis in Hamburg
from 1973 to 1997,
provided music for John Neumeier's
St. Matthew Passion ballet
and conducted the NDR Chor
in a recording of the complete
a cappella works by Brahms.
listen to Waldesnacht
13 May 2026
14 May 2026
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J. S. Bach composed the cantata
Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen, BWV 43,
in Leipzig for the
Feast of the Ascension of 1726.
watch
14 May 2026
15 May 2026
edit
Giselher Klebe's opera
Das Märchen von der schönen Lilie,
on a libretto by his wife based on
Goethe's fairy tale,
was premiered at the
Schlosstheater Schwetzingen
on 15 May 1969.
15 May 2019
16 May 2025
edit
Architect
Walter Neuhäusser
was involved in the Alsterschwimmhalle
and designed other shell structures
including the Schupbach cemetery hall.
16 May 2023
17 May 2026
edit
The German architect
Johannes Krahn
designed Frankfurt's Bienenkorbhaus
(Beehive House)
and St. Martin in Idstein.
watch
20 November 2010
18 May 2026
edit
After attending the premiere,
a critic wrote that Max Reger's
Gesang der Verklärten
"may well reach the outermost limit
of musical expression altogether".
listen
18 May 2016
19 May 2026
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Andreas Reize
assumed the post of the
18th Thomaskantor after Bach
as the first Swiss
and the first Catholic
since the Reformation.
watch
12 November 2021
20 May 2026
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Felicity Lott,
among the leading sopranos to portray
Strauss characters such as
the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier
and the Countess in Capriccio,
loved French mélodies, German lieder,
and the English art song repertoire.
listen to Freundliche Vision
20 May 2026
21 May 2025
edit
The opera
Doktor Faust,
unfinished when composer
Ferruccio Busoni died,
was premiered in Dresden
on 21 May 1925.
watch
21 May 2025
22 May 2026
edit- see 22 May 2023: Maria Mies, 2024: Liviu Holender, 2025: Luigi Alva
Salve Regina,
composed by Arvo Pärt
to venerate the Golden Madonna
of the Essen Cathedral,
"builds very gradually
to a late, majestic climax".
watch
23 May 2015
23 May 2026
editThe 1653 hymn
"Jesu, meine Freude"
(Jesus, my joy)
by Johann Franck and Johann Crüger
mentions singing in defiance
of the "old dragon", death, and fear.
watch Bach's setting
23 May 2014
24 May 2026
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Arnold Schönberg arranged
Bach's chorale partita
on Luther's hymn for Pentecost
"Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist",
a paraphrase of
Veni Creator Spiritus.
listen
24 May 2015
25 May 2026
edit- see 25 May 2023: Services in B-flat major, 2024: Willi Brokmeier, 2024: Bisher habt ihr nichts gebeten in meinem Namen, BWV 87
Walls and the ceiling of the
Unionskirche
in Idstein
are covered with 38 oil paintings from
the Dutch Golden Age school of Rubens.
watch service
20 June 2011
26 May 2026
edit- see 26 May 2023: Es ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding, BWV 176, 2024: St. Trinitatis, Wolfenbüttel, 2025: Yuri Vladimirov
Alexander Held
often portrayed historic figures
including Walther Hewel, Robert Mohr
in Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage,
and Siegfried Buback in films,
and gave two head commissioners
in popular television series
distinctly different character.
watch death news
26 May 2026
27 May 2026
edit
"Ständchen"
(Serenade)
by Richard Strauss begins
with an appeal to creep out quietly
and ends with a climax of expecting
a rose to glow
from the rapture of the night.
listen
27 May 2016
28 May 2026
edit- see 28 May 2023: Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! BWV 172, 2024: Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29, Vespro della Beata Vergine, 2025: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Gunter Hampel,
a jazz vibraphonist, clarinettist,
saxophonist and composer,
was instrumental in creating
improvising jazz in Europe
after World War II
and later founded
the Galaxie Dream Band
for international collaboration.
listen
28 May 2026
29 May 2026
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In the Opernhaus Wuppertal production
of Stravinsky's
The Rite of Spring,
choreographed by Pina Bausch,
the dancers performed on a stage
covered with soil.
watch a bit
30 July 2013
30 May 2026
editDenis Bédard
composed his Organ Concerto
in five movements
on a commission by a joint convention
in Quebec in July 2000.
watch III Caprice
31 May 2026
edit- see 31 May 2023: Eva Randová, 2024: Rolf-Ernst Breuer, 2025: Störmthal
Dan Forrest's
Jubilate Deo,
composed for the
Indianapolis Children's Choir
is a setting of Psalm 100 in
Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese,
Zulu, Spanish and English.
watch
June
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1 June 2026
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Ludwigsburg Palace,
the "Versailles of Swabia", was
home to four of Württemberg's rulers.
1 June 2024
listen to 2022 festival
2 June 2026
edit
In 1968, the German artist
Bazon Brock
created a sign in the style of a
high voltage warning saying
"der Tod muß abgeschafft werden ..."
("death must be abolished ...").
watch
13 February 2012
3 June 2026
editTheatre critic Günther Rühle's books
cover the history of theatre in Germany,
its events and its people,
from 1887 to 1966.
26 December 2021
4 June 2026
edit- see 4 June 2023: Erasmus Schöfer, 2024: Hugues Gall, 2025: Per Nørgård
"Deinem Heiland, deinem Lehrer",
a paraphrase of the Lauda Sion
by Franz Xaver Riedel,
is sung during Corpus Christi processions
with a melody sometimes
attributed to Michael Haydn.
listen to Klaus Mertens
5 June 2026
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The pianist
Arnold Whittall
was a musicologist
at King's College London
who focused on music
of the 20th and 21st centuries
and on musical style and structure
in the works of Richard Wagner.
listen to Kagel
5 June 2026
6 Jun 2026
edit- see 6 June 2023: Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, BWV 76, 2024: Alexander Lang, 2024: Louis Andriessen
Theatre of the World,
the fifth opera by
Louis Andriessen
and subtitled
Grotesque Stagework,
premiered in Los Angeles
in 2016.
watch The Making
6 June 2025
7 June 2026
edit
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
of the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage,
noted the
"immensity, vigour, flexibility and
imagination of the opening chorus"
of
Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot,
BWV 39.
watch
2 June 2013
8 June 2026
edit- see 8 June 2023: St. Stephan, Baden, 2024: Komm, Heiliger Geist, Herre Gott, 2025: Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist
Kühkopf-Knoblochsaue
is a large Naturschutzgebiet
in Hesse, Germany,
protecting the ecology of the floodplains
where the Rhine formerly meandered.
watch from above
8 June 2021
9 June 2026
edit- see 9 June 2023: Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Die Schöpfung, 2024: Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein, 2025: Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt, BWV 68
Haydn's oratorio The Creation
is structured in three parts,
the first two about the
creation as narrated in Genesis,
the third about
Adam and Eve in Paradise.
watch birds
3 October 2011
10 June 2026
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Jürgen Kesting,
an influential music critic,
wrote four volumes about great singers
and a monograph about Maria Callas
that became standard works,
translated into several languages.
listen to broadcasts birds
10 June 2026
11 June 2026
edit- see 11 June 2023: Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227, Mass in B minor structure, 2024: O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, 2025: David Cordier
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The poem
"Das Wandern ist des Müllers Lust"
was first set to music by Schubert,
and became a popular German Volkslied
with the melody by Carl Friedrich Zöllner.
listen to Thomas Quasthoff
watch Tölzer Knabenchor
5 September 2020
12 June 2026
edit- see 12 June 2023: Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud, 2024: Nun jauchzt dem Herren, alle Welt, 2025: Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29
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"Nun jauchzt dem Herren, alle Welt",
a 1646 paraphrase of Psalm 100
by David Denicke
to a joyful older melody, appears
in Protestant and Catholic hymnals.
watch in a service
29 June 2018
13 June 2026
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Kurt Equiluz
was the Evangelist
in the first recording
of Bach's St John Passion
on period instruments
with the Concentus Musicus Wien.
watch in 1985
10 April 2010
14 June 2026
edit- see 14 June 2023: Hedwig Fassbender, 2024 and 2025: Andreas Schager
Bach has a trumpet tell God's glory
in his cantata
Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes,
BWV 76,
first performed in the Thomaskirche,
but oboe d'amore and viola da gamba
express "brotherly devotion".
watch
7 July 2011
15 June 2026
edit
The oboist and composer
Rolf Riehm
taught music theory in Frankfurt
from 1974 to 2000
and wrote an opera, Sirenen,
for a 2014 premiere at the Oper Frankfurt.
watch trailer
20 July 2019
16 June 2026
edit- see 16 June 2023: Pascal Rophé (Henri Dutilleux), 2024: Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BWV 135, 2025: Günther Uecker
In 2016
Pascal Rophé
conducted works by
Henri Dutilleux
to celebrate
the composer's centenary,
including
Tout un monde lointain...
and Le temps l'horloge.
listen
16 June 2017
17 June 2026
edit
Ute Walther
portrayed the Rosenkavalier
in the 1985 opening performance
of the restored Semperoper,
and then went to the Deutsche Oper Berlin "in the West"
for a career of two decades.
watch in Dresden
17 June 2026
18 June 2026
editThe Paulinerkirche,
the university church of Leipzig
where Luther preached, Bach performed
and Mendelssohn premiered Paulus,
was dynamited in 1968
in communist East Germany.
watch Bach
18 June 2011
19 June 2025
edit- see 19 June 2023: Jörg Widmann, 2024: Éric Tappy
Alfred Brendel
made three recordings of
Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas
and was the first pianist
to record Beethoven's
complete works for solo piano.
watch Op. 111
19 June 2025
20 June 2025
edit
The main work of sculptor
Fritz Koenig
The Sphere,
on the plaza beneath the
two World Trade towers,
was recovered largely intact
after the September 11 attacks.
listen to him
20 June 2025
21 June 2025
editKlaus König,
who portrayed Wagner's Tannhäuser
at major opera houses,
performed the tenor solo
in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony,
conducted by Leonard Bernstein
after the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
listen
15 June 2025
22 June 2025
edit
Camille Saint-Saëns
commented after the premiere
of Charles Gounod's
St. Cecilia Mass
that "at first one was dazzled,
then charmed, then conquered".
watch RMF opening
13 January 2025
23 June 2025
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Nigel Osborne,
a British composer
who taught as Reid Professor of Music
and at the Musikhochschule Hannover,
has done extensive charity work
supporting war traumatised children
using music therapy techniques.
watch
24 June 2025
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In the third chorale cantata,
Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam,
BWV 7,
first performed
on St. John's Day 1724,
based on Luther's hymn
about the baptism of Jesus,
Bach gave the cantus firmus
to the tenor.
watch
24 June 2025
25 June 2025
editMaryvonne Le Dizès
commissioned a trio
for saxophone, trombone and violin
during her time as a violinist with the
Ensemble intercontemporain.
listen to duo
3 October 2024
26 June 2025
edit- see 26 June 2023: Alte Liebe, 2024: Jodie Devos
The baritone
Benjamin Appl,
the last private student
of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau,
was named Gramophone's
Young Artist of 2016.
watch
22 March 2021
27 June 2025
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In
"Mein Gott, wie schön ist deine Welt",
a 1936 hymn by Georg Thurmair,
every stanza
declares three times,
"how beautiful is Your world".
listen
8 October 2018
28 June 2025
editGertrud Leutenegger
wrote novels such as
Panischer Frühling
(Panic Spring and Pan's Spring),
described as
"a finely woven, quiet art
with a tone all of its own,
a searching, groping literature".
watch
28 June 2025
29 June 2025
edit
In Palestrina's
Missa brevis,
published in 1570,
the Gloria balances
chordal and imitative textures,
and the Sanctus quotes
the same Gregorian chant melody
as the Missa Papae Marcelli.
listen with score
30 June 2025
edit
Arnaldo Pomodoro
created Sphere Within Sphere
bronze sculptures
with smooth exterior and broken interiors,
displayed in public spaces such as
the United Nations Headquarters
and the Vatican Museums.
look
30 June 2025
July
edit
1 July 2025
edit
Rudi Stephan
was already composing the opera
Die ersten Menschen
when the 1908 drama
about the first humans
by Otto Borngräber,
on which it is based,
was banned in Bavaria.
watch trailer
4 February 2022
2 July 2025
edit
Tamar Halperin
recorded music by Eric Satie,
playing piano, harpsichord,
Hammond organ,
and Wurlitzer piano.
watch
4 December 2016
3 July 2025
edit
The opera
Das Schloß
by Aribert Reimann,
on his own libretto
after Kafka's novel,
premiered in 1992
at Deutsche Oper Berlin.
listen
18 September 2017
4 July 2025
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Libuše Domanínská,
a soprano
of Prague's National Theatre,
performed in all operas by
Leoš Janáček
and a recording she made
as his Jenůfa
made his works better known
beyond their home country.
listen to Mass
25 February 2021
5 July 2025
edit
Diana Tishchenko,
a violinist from Ukraine,
played Myroslav Skoryk's
Melody
on a tour of the
Kyiv Symphony Orchestra
to Poland and Germany
in April 2022.
watch
5 July 2022
6 July 2025
edit- see 6 July 2023 and 2024: Edition Güntersberg
In 2016,
Leonore von Zadow-Reichling
and Günter von Zadow from
Edition Güntersberg
published
12 Fantasias for Viola da Gamba
by Telemann
that had been lost.
more
18 July 2016
7 July 2025
edit
Stuart Burrows,
called "King of Mozart"
for his focus on Mozart tenor roles
at the Royal Opera House for 22 years
and the Metropolitan Opera,
featured in the BBC's
Stuart Burrows Sings.
watch
8 July 2025
editGilda Cruz-Romo,
a soprano from Mexico,
portrayed Verdi's Aida
at the Metropolitan Opera,
for her debuts at both
the Royal Opera House in London
and at La Scala in Milan,
and at the Verona Arena.
listen
8 July 2025
9 July 2025
editMatthew Wild
directed Wagner's Tannhäuser
at the Oper Frankfurt in 2024
as a story of a man
who had left Nazi Germany for California,
won a Pulitzer Prize in literature,
suffered a crisis and disappeared,
returned and was celebrated
until he openly kissed a male student.
watch trailer
4 July 2025
10 July 2025
edit- see 10 July 2023 and 2024: Bio's Bahnhof
In Bio's Bahnhof,
a live music talk show series
presented by
Alfred Biolek
in a former train depot,
Kate Bush made
her first television appearance.
watch
30 August 2021
11 July 2025
edit
Nicolai Gedda,
who created the role of Anatol
in Barber's Vanessa
at the Metropolitan Opera in 1958,
sang the Flower Song from Carmen
"as written – pianissimo,
rallentando and diminuendo".
listen
11 July 2025
12 July 2025
edit
The
Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra,
founded in 1925,
gave a solidarity concert with Ukraine
soon after the Russian invasion.
watch it
12 July 2025
13 July 2025
editHelena Tattermuschová,
a lyric coloratura soprano at the
Prague National Theatre
for 35 years,
was known for portraying the
The Cunning Little Vixen,
on stage and in film.
listen
13 July 2023
14 July 2025
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Soprano
Jessye Norman,
whose voice was described as
a "grand mansion of sound",
performed at U. S. presidential inaugurations and sang
La Marseillaise
at the French Revolution's bicentennial.
watch interview that day
6 March 2020
15 July 2025
editDamiano Michieletto,
known for directing Rossini's operas,
staged Schreker's Der ferne Klang
at the Oper Frankfurt,
where the world premiere
had been performed in 1912.
watch trailer
15 July 2019
16 July 2025
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17 July 2025
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Ihor Poklad,
who composed songs that
became classics in Ukraine and abroad,
such as "The Magic Violin"
to lyrics by Yuriy Rybchynskyi,
was honoured as Hero of Ukraine.
listen
17 July 2025
18 July 2025
edit- see 18 July 2023: Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz, BWV 136, 2023: Hevenu shalom aleichem
J. S. Bach led
the first performance of his cantata
Erforsche mich, Gott,
und erfahre mein Herz,
BWV 136, in Leipzig.
watch
18 July 2025
19 July 2025
edit- see 19 July 2023: Martin Janus, see 2024: Ruth Hesse
Countertenor
Patrick Van Goethem
took part in the project
Dieterich Buxtehude – Opera Omnia
to record the complete works
of Dieterich Buxtehude.
listen to Membra Jesu Nostri
19 July 2010
20 July 2025
edit
Oleksandr Rodin's opera
Kateryna,
to his libretto based on a poem
by Taras Shevchenko,
was premiered by the
Odesa Opera and Ballet Theatre
in 2022 despite barricades,
bombings, and an air-raid alarm.
watch trailer
20 July 2025
21 July 2025
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Raymond Guiot,
principal flute at the Opéra de Paris
and teacher at the
Conservatoire de Paris,
played and recorded jazz and pop.
listen to Bach Street
21 July 2025
22 July 2025
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Claus Peymann,
who directed Handke's
Publikumsbeschimpfung
at the TAT in 1966, brought
Bernhard's Heldenplatz and
Elfriede Jelinek's Ein Sportstück
to the Burgtheater.
watch
22 July 2025
23 July 2025
edit
Gary Karr,
a pioneer of the double bass
as a virtuoso solo instrument
for which new compositions were written,
founded in 1976 the
International Society of Bassists.
watch in 1962
23 July 2025
24 July 2025
edit
Singers Anne Sofie von Otter and
Christian Gerhaher
recorded music written in
the concentration camp of Terezín
by Ilse Weber, Hans Krása,
Pavel Haas and Viktor Ullmann.
listen to Das Lied von der Erde
19 March 2010
25 July 2025
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Roger Norrington
caused a sensation
when he recorded
Beethoven's symphonies
with his London Classical Players,
on period instruments,
without vibrato,
and fast according to
Beethoven's metronome markings.
listen
25 July 2025
26 July 2025
editBéatrice Uria-Monzon,
who portrayed Carmen
first in Paris and then the world,
said: "La Habanera makes no sense
if you sing it in a sexy way,
on the contrary,
it finds its full power
when approached from a
meditative and more dreamy angle."
watch
26 July 2025
27 July 2025
edit
Lothar Zenetti's poem
"Segne dieses Kind"
became a song
of blessing for a child,
often sung at baptisma.
listen
27 July 2016
28 July 2025
edit
Johann Sebastian Bach
used music of thanks from
Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29,
for his final
Dona nobis pacem
(Grant us peace).
watch
29 March 2015
29 July 2025
editDavid Rendall,
a tenor performing regularly
at the Royal Opera House
and the Metropolitan Opera
began in the choir
of the Glyndebourne Festival, moving to Ferrando in Mozart's Così fan tutte
first on tour, then on the festival stage.
listen
29 July 2025
30 July 2025
editKateryna Kasper
appeared at the Los Angeles Opera
as Belinda in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas,
staged by Barrie Kosky,
and at the Oper Frankfurt
as Antonida in Glinka's Iwan Sussanin,
staged by Harry Kupfer.
listen
30 July 2018
31 July 2025
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A French team,
with Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Boulez,
created the
Jahrhundertring
of Wagner's Ring cycle
at the centenary 1976 Bayreuth Festival,
causing "a near-riot".
watch
6 November 2013
August
edit
1 August 2025
edit
Handel's
Gloria,
a setting of the Gloria
for soprano and strings,
was attributed to the composer
in 2001.
watch
1 August 2011
2 August 2025
edit
Andris Nelsons
conducted Bartok's Viola Concerto
and Mahler's Fifth Symphony
in the final concert with his
Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie,
and Jonathon Heyward
dedicated their concert
to solidarity with Ukraine
in March 2022.
watch
2 August 2010
3 August 2025
edit
"Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier",
a prayer for illumination
because the human mind is
"shrouded in darkness",
became popular in English as
"Blessed Jesus, at your word".
watch
29 May 2020
4 August 2025
edit- see 4 August 2023: Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen, 2024: Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101
Herbert Brandl,
who painted in bright colours
abstract landscapes inspired by nature,
represented Austria
at the 2007 Venice Biennale.
watch
4 August 2025
5 August 2025
editAt the Odesa Opera,
Vladyslav Gorai
portrayed
the Duke in Verdi's Rigoletto
and the Lyre player
in the 2022 premiere of
Rodin's Kateryna.
watch
5 August 2025
6 August 2025
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After the Ukrainian soprano
Olga Bezsmertna
won the Neue Stimmen
competition in 2011,
she was engaged at the
Vienna State Opera.
watch Dove sono
29 March 2022
7 August 2025
edit
Bach reworked music
from more than three decades earlier
for the central
Crucifixus
in the symmetrical structure of his
Mass in B minor.
watch
23 May 2013
8 August 2025
edit
In her thrillers,
Doris Gercke
created a woman detective,
a lover of literature and vodka
named Bella Bock,
who inspired
a popular television series.
watch
8 August 2025
9 August 2025
edit
Many of Lena Cronqvist's
paintings and sculptures
feature family,
including herself with her child.
look
9 August 2025
10 August 2025
editFritz Lobinger,
Bishop of Aliwal, South Africa,
from 1987 to 2004,
advocated the ordination of teams
of married men as priests
to serve remote communities.
watch
10 August 2025
11 August 2025
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Antonio Oteiza,
a Capuchin brother,
was first a missionary in Latin America,
and then focused
on creating religious art
which he felt had more impact
than sermons.
look
11 August 2025
12 August 2025
editHarry Kupfer,
the stage director at the
Komische Oper Berlin
for decades, presented Wagner's
Der fliegende Holländer
at the 1978 Bayreuth Festival
as a psychological drama.
watch
3 October 2018
13 August 2025
editWolfgang Meyer,
who recorded
Mozart's Clarinet Concerto
on a historical basset clarinet,
played his last concert
with jazz saxophonist Peter Lehel.
watch
13 May 2019
14 August 2025
edit- see 14 August 2023 and 2024: David Erler
Salvador Chuliá Hernández,
director of the
Conservatorio Municipal
"José Iturbi" de Valencia
from 1992 to 2014, composed
Díptico sinfónico,
and his son conducted its band.
watch
14 August 2025
15 August 2025
edit- see 15 August 2023 and 2024: Inkpot Madonna
After an absence of four years,
the Inkpot Madonna,
holding a naked Baby Jesus
with quill in hand,
returned to the
Hildesheim Cathedral
on 15 August 2014.
watch Monteverdi Vespers
15 August 2014
16 August 2025
editThe vocal quartet of
Monika Frimmer,
Christa Bonhoff, Dantes Diwiak,
and Peter Kooy recorded the
Augsburg Table Confectionery
by Valentin Rathgeber and
Johann Caspar Seyfert.
listen to Telemann aria
12 November 2010
17 August 2025
edit
Sheila Jordan,
who pioneered
a bebop and scat jazz style
with only an upright bass,
was described as "one of
the most consistently creative
of all jazz singers".
watch
17 August 2025
18 August 2025
editSoprano
Rosa Lamoreaux,
who recorded Bach's Mass in B minor
with The Bach Choir of Bethlehem,
won a 2009
Washington Area Music Award.
watch Laudamus te
18 August 2015
19 August 2025
edit
The trumpet
plays the chorale melody
in Bach's cantata
Lobe den Herren,
den mächtigen König der Ehren,
BWV 137,
in C major within an aria in A minor
in "a battle for harmonic supremacy".
watch
19 August 2025
20 August 2025
editAino Pervik
wrote in Tallinn
more than 60 children's books,
translated into many languages,
touching topics such as
preservation of ecological balance,
clashes of different cultures,
finding of identity,
war and freedom.
watch books
20 August 2025
21 August 2025
editWhen the Canadian baritone
Iain MacNeal
appeared as Odysseus
in Dallapiccola's Ulisse
at the Oper Frankfurt,
a reviewer noted that he
portrayed the "character's self-exegeses".
watch trailer
21 August 2022
22 August 2025
edit
Chieftain's Salute,
composed by
Graham Waterhouse,
is scored for
Great Highland Bagpipe
and string orchestra.
listen
22 August 2009
23 August 2025
editThe
Neustädter Kirche
was built in Hannover's
Calenberger Neustadt
in the 17th century
as one of the earliest aisleless churches
in Lower Saxony.
look
23 August 2012
24 August 2025
edit- see 24 August 2023, 2024: Roland Bader
Oksana Lyniv
founded the
Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
in 2016 and conducted them
in thirty concerts
across ten music festivals
in 2022.
watch Bachfest Leipzig 2022
30 April 2024
25 August 2025
edit
Joachim Grubich,
an international concert organist
from Warsaw who headed
the department of organ and harpsichord
at the Academy of Music in Warsaw.
participated in the reconstruction
of the organ in St. Anne's Church
and the building of a new organ
in the Philharmonic Hall.
watch recital
25 August 2025
26 August 2025
editSoon after starting her career
at the Metropolitan Opera,
Gwendolyn Killebrew
appeared as a valkyrie
in Wagner's Die Walküre
in a live broadcast
alongside Birgit Nilsson in the title role.
watch as Waltraute
31 March 2014
27 August 2025
edit
Julia Hagen,
using a cello made
by Francesco Ruggeri in 1684,
played the Brahms Double Concerto
with Renaud Capuçon
and the Bamberg Symphony
conducted by Jakub Hrůša.
watch (Arte)
27 August 2025
28 August 2025
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The experimental physicist
Herwig Schopper
was chairman of the
German DESY research centre,
director general of CERN
for European research from 1981 to 1988,
and a founder of SESAME,
an international laboratory
in the Middle East.
watch
28 August 2025
29 August 2025
edit
Wolfgang Kuhlmann,
who taught philosophy
at the Goethe University,
the University of Erfurt, and the
RWTH Aachen University,
representated discourse ethics.
watch
29 August 2025
30 August 2025
edit
Georg Neumark,
who wrote text and melody for
"Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten",
called it
a song of consolation.
listen to Bach
31 August 2025
edit- see 31 August 2023 and 2024: Alma Mahler
Itzhak Perlman,
who has played violin seated,
recorded with Andre Previn,
Placido Domingo and
Oscar Peterson,
and performed at the
2009 inauguration of Barack Obama.
watch Beethoven
31 August 2025
September
edit
1 September 2025
edit- see 1 September 2023: Le Vin herbé, Vespro della Beata Vergine, 2024: Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78
Claudio Monteverdi's
Vespro della Beata Vergine
was first printed in Venice,
dedicated to Pope Paul V
on 1 September 1610.
watch
1 September 2025
2 September 2025
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Rodion Shchedrin
composed ballets including
Carmen Suite
for his wife,
Maya Plisetskaya,
ballerina at the Bolshoi Theatre.
watch
2 September 2025
3 September 2025
edit
While in exile in Paris,
the Greek composer
Mikis Theodorakis
worked with the Chilean ambassador
and poet Pablo Neruda
on Canto General.
watch (from Chile 1993)
3 September 2025
4 September 2025
editTenor
Lutz-Michael Harder
portrayed Hans Scholl
in Udo Zimmermann's Weiße Rose
at the Hamburg State Opera.
listen to Bach
5 September 2023
edit
Lourdes Ambriz,
a soprano and later
artistic director of the
Ópera de Bellas Artes de México,
dubbed Belle in the Spanish version
of Disney's Beauty and the Beast.
listen
5 September 2025
6 September 2025
edit- see 6 September 2023: Nerotalanlagen, Ich steh vor dir mit leeren Händen, Herr, 2024: Messe solennelle (Vierne)
Zhanna Kolodub,
who taught at the Kyiv Conservatory
from 1952, wrote a
Concertino for oboe and strings or piano, reviewed:
"The composer never looses sight of
how to communicate with her audience".
listen
5 September 2025
7 September 2025
editAntonio Oteiza
was a missionary in Latin America
but from 1961 focused on
creating religious art, which
he felt had more impact than sermons.
watch at work
7 September 2025
8 September 2025
editKlaus Thunemann,
the youngest member when he joined
the NDR Symphony Orchestra,
taught generations at the
Musikhochschule Hannover,
in Berlin and Madrid..
watch masterclass
5 September 2025
9 September 2025
edit
Erminia Frezzolini
created the title role
in Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco
at La Scala
opposite her husband,
Antonio Poggi,
as Charles VII of France.
9 September 2010
10 September 2025
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Ruth Weiss,
a journalist and writer
fighting racism in all forms,
having emigrated from Nazi Germany
to South Africa to find apartheid,
wrote historical fiction books
for young adults.
watch documentary
10 September 2025
11 September 2025
edit
Arvo Pärt
composed the motet
The Deer's Cry
on a commission
from Louth, Ireland,
setting the conclusion of
Saint Patrick's Breastplate,
"Christ with me".
watch VOCES8
11 September 2025
12 September 2025
edit
The 1966 production of Handke's
Offending the Audience,
directed by
Claus Peymann
at the
Theater am Turm,
has been described as
"the beginning of modern theatre".
watch final scene
12 September 2025
13 September 2025
edit
Christoph von Dohnányi
brought as artistic director and conductor
innovative opera stagings
to the Oper Frankfurt
and led the Cleveland Orchestra
to high class.
watch Ligeti
10 September 2025
14 September 2025
edit
Joseph Haydn's
Stabat Mater,
his first great sacred composition,
written for the Esterházy court,
was widely distributed
after a Vienna performance
on Good Friday 1768.
listen with score
15 September 2025
edit20th-century composers including
Kagel, Ligeti, and Xenakis
wrote music for cellist
Siegfried Palm.
listen to Penderecki
15 September 2009
16 September 2025
edit
Klaus Uwe Ludwig,
for decades the church musician
at the Lutherkirche in Wiesbaden,
played on its two organs
the complete organ works
by Bach and Reger.
watch
5 May 2016
17 September 2025
edit
Hans Otto Jung
was a jazz musician during World War II,
ran a winery from the Boosenburg,
and was co-founder
of the Rheingau Musik Festival.
watch
29 December 2017
18 September 2025
editWhen Ruth Hesse
appeared at the Royal Opera House
as the Nurse in Die Frau ohne Schatten,
a critic described her performance as
"tirelessly ingenious
and vocally in splendid command".
listen
19 July 2024
19 September 2025
edit- see 19 September 2023 and 2024: Raymond Arritt
When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
shared the Nobel Peace Prize,
contributing author
Raymond Arritt
said, "It's kind of neat: I have, like,
.002 percent of a Nobel prize now".
12 January 2019
20 September 2025
edit- see 20 September 2023 and 2024: Georg Christoph Biller
Georg Christoph Biller (r.)
was the Thomaskantor,
the conductor of the Thomanerchor in Leipzig, the 16th successor of
Johann Sebastian Bach
in this position.
watch
18 April 2010
21 September 2025
edit
"Freuet euch der schönen Erde",
an 1827 hymn
about the beauty of nature,
became successful with a melody
composed by Frieda Fronmüller
100 years later.
watch on Thanksgiving
9 August 2020
22 September 2025
edit- see 22 September 2023: Elisabeth Rethberg, 22 September 2024: Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost, BWV 114
Siegmund Nimsgern,
who recorded Bach cantatas
with Harnoncourt and Rilling,
portrayed Wotan
in Bayreuth,
conducted by Georg Solti.
watch Die Walküre
22 September 2025
23 September 2025
edit
When
Joana Mallwitz
moved from Staatstheater Nürnberg
to be conductor of the
Konzerthausorchester Berlin
in 2023, she was the first woman
to lead a Berlin orchestra.
watch
24 September 2025
edit
In the 1990 Latin
Magnificat
by John Rutter,
the text of the second movement
is a poem to Mary,
"Of a Rose, a lovely Rose".
watch him talk about it
24 September 2025
25 September 2025
edit
The Baroque orchestra
L'arpa festante
produced the first recording
of a Passion by Telemann
and played Bach's Mass in B minor
in the Cathedral of Trier.
listen
25 September 2013
26 September 2025
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As principal violinist
of her husband's
Concentus Musicus Wien,
Alice Harnoncourt
was a pioneer of
historically informed performance.
listen to Vivaldi
26 September 2025
27 September 2025
edit
The
Kreuzkapelle
above Bad Camberg,
a pilgrimage chapel
dedicated to the Holy Cross,
has a floor plan of a Greek cross.
see areal views,
listening to Vivaldi Gloria
24 August 2020
28 September 2025
edit
It has been said
that the opening chorus of Bach's cantata
Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan,
BWV 99,
"would still work perfectly well
if the vocal parts were entirely removed".
watch,
8 October 2011
29 September 2025
edit
Salvador Chuliá,
professor and later director of the
Conservatorio Municipal "José Iturbi"
in Valencia
from 1978 to 2014, composed
Tríptico elegíaco para un percusionista
for orchestra
in memory of his son.
watch, conducted by Vicente Chuliá
29 September 2025
30 September 2025
editRoland Pidoux,
principal cellist of the
Orchestre national de France
and professor at the
Conservatoire de Paris
from 1988 to 2012,
revived the Pasquier Trio.
listen to Rachmaninoff
29 September 2025
October
edit
1 October 2025
edit
Hungarian pianists
Márta Kurtág
and her husband György Kurtág
performed together for 60 years,
often from his collection
Játékok ('Games).
watch
3 November 2019
2 October 2025
editDieter Kaufmann,
who headed from 1970 the new
institute for electroacoustic music
at the Vienna Music Academy,
composed the
Sympohonie Acousmatique,
documenting its development
over 40 years.
watch him at a
concert for his 80th birthday
2 October 2025
3 October 2025
editShortly before the fall of the Wall,
Klaus-Peter Hertzsch wrote
"Vertraut den neuen Wegen"
(Trust the new ways)
to be sung at a wedding in Eisenach.
listen with video
7 April 2021
4 October 2025
editFranz Grundheber,
who portrayed Alban Berg's Wozzeck
in Vienna in 1986,
conducted by Claudio Abbado
and in Paris and Berlin in 1994,
directed by Patrice Chéreau,
appeared on stage the 2000th time
in Hamburg in 2012.
watch (Act I from Vienna)
4 October 2025
5 October 2025
editMartin Neary,
master of music
at Winchester Cathedral and then
at Westminster Abbey,
led music for the
funeral service for Princess Diana
and the concert "Purcell 300".
watch Purcell
5 October 2025
6 October 2025
editBéatrice Uria-Monzon,
in the title role
of Bizet's Carmen,
preferred a
"meditative" and "dreamy" performance
of the Habanera over a "sexy" one.
watch
6 October 2025
7 October 2025
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Margaret Medlyn,
born on 7 October 1955,
performed with the Wellington Opera
title roles such as Aida and Tosca,
and wrote her dissertation in 2016,
entitled Embodying Voice:
Singing Verdi, singing Wagner.
watch speech
8 October 2025
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Tabea Zimmermann
prepared her own version of
Bartók's Viola Concerto
from the composer's sketches,
and played it at the Casals Forum,
with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony
conducted by Christoph Eschenbach.
watch
9 October 2025
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Alain Altinoglu
conducted in the opening concert of the
2025 Rheingau Musik Festival
at Eberbach Abbey
Gounod's St. Cecilia Mass
with the MDR Rundfunkchor
and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony,
featuring an octobass.
watch
10 October 2025
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The baritone
Björn Bürger
who won the
Bundeswettbewerb Gesang,
performed the title role in
Arnulf Herrmann's Der Mieter
in its 2017 world premiere
at the Oper Frankfurt.
watch talk
11 October 2025
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Lotte Ledl,
who portrayed characters
at the Burgtheater, in films
including Forest Liesel
and Young Törless,
and in series such as Derrick,
was awarded the title
Kammerschauspielerin
at age 89.
watch
11 October 2025
12 October 2025
edit
Lourdes Ambriz,
singing voice of Belle
in the Spanish version of
Beauty and the Beast,
became the artistic director of the
Mexican national opera.
listen
12 October 2025
13 October 2025
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The melody of the children's song
"Kommt ein Vogel geflogen"
("Comes a Bird Flown")
was used by Siegfried Ochs
for variations in the styles
of different classical composers.
listen with score
10 November 2020
14 October 2025
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Theo Jörgensmann,
a jazz clarinetist from Bottrop,
founded the Clarinet Contrast
quartet of four clarinetists
and revived improvising and
solo recording for the clarinet.
watch him
(for children)
14 October 2025
15 October 2025
edit
In the 1978 anthem
For the beauty of the earth,
John Rutter gave
a 19th-century hymn text a new melody,
marking it to be sung
"Happily".
watch
(youth choirs)
26 November 2020
16 October 2025
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"Glauben können wie du"
(Believing like you),
a hymn by Helmut Schlegel,
is addressed to Mary,
and relates to her exemplary
faith, hope and love.
watch
3 November 2017
17 October 2025
edit
Bernhard Klee,
twice chief conductor of the
NDR Radiophilharmonie
and guest conductor of the
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
premiered works by
Gubaidulina and Henze
and offered young composers
residencies with his orchestra.
watch
17 October 2025
18 October 2025
edit
Johannes Brahms
conducted the premiere of his
Double Concerto,
composed for violinist Joseph Joachim
and cellist Robert Hausmann,
on 18 October 1887.
watch
18 October 2025
19 October 2025
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"Bewahre uns, Gott"
(Keep us, God)
is a hymn for protection and blessing
that Eugen Eckert derived
from a 1968 peace song
written and composed in Argentina.
watch
27 March 2022
20 October 2025
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Roberta Alexander,
who studied in Amsterdam,
portrayed
Mozart's Elettra and Elvira,
and Gershwin's Maria
with Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
listen
20 October 2025
21 October 2025
edit
"Sozusagen grundlos vergnügt"
("Call it causelessly merry")
is one of about 40 poems
by Mascha Kaléko
set to music on a 2011 album.
see it spoken
26 December 2018
22 October 2025
edit
Orlando di Lasso set
Psalm 134,
Ecce nunc benedicite Dominum,
one of the Songs of Ascents,
for seven voices a cappella,
using a wide range from low bass
to very high soprano.
listen
22 October 2019
23 October 2025
edit
Toshio Hosokawa
(born 23 October 1955)
composed several operas based
on Japanese Noh theatre, including
Vision of Lear after Shakespeare,
and the oratorio
Voiceless Voice in Hiroshima.
watch
23 October 2025
24 October 2025
edit
Luciano Berio
(born 24 October 1925)
composed Sequenza III
for his former wife,
Cathy Berberian,
and Sequenza XIV for cellist
Rohan de Saram.
listen to III with score
24 October 2025
25 October 2025
edit
Elsa Reger
who had first rejected
Max Reger's courting,
titled her autobiography
Mein Leben mit und für Max Reger
(My life with and for Max Reger).
listen to his music
25 October 2025
26 October 2025
edit
A German Magnificat,
or Song of Mary,
ends the last work by composer
Heinrich Schütz,
known as his swan song.
watch
30 January 2014
27 October 2025
edit
On 27 October 1726,
J. S. Bach led
the first performance of
Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56,
a solo cantata for bass and
one of few works he called a cantata.
watch
27 October 2025
28 October 2025
edit
In his opera
Tri sestry
composer Péter Eötvös wants
the three sisters from Chekhov's play
to be sung by countertenors.
watch trailer
28 October 2018
29 October 2025
editBenita Valente,
who portrayed Mozart's Pamina
and Verdi's Gilda
at the Metropolitan Opera,
performed with the Juilliard String Quartet
Schoenberg's String Quartet No. 2,
earning a 1978 Grammy Award,
and Ginastera's Third String Quartett,
written for her.
listen to Ginastera
29 October 2025
30 October 2025
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Rodolfo Halffter
who left for Mexico
after the Spanish Civil War,
was the first composer there
to use twelve-tone technique,
in Tres hojas de album.
listen
31 October 2025
edit
In
Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild
('God the Lord is sun and shield'),
BWV 79, his cantata
for Reformation Day 1725,
J. S. Bach achieved
a unity within the structure
by using two horns
not only in the opening
but also in the two chorales.
watch
31 October 2025
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1 November 2025
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The Ukrainian mixed chamber choir
OREYA
won a special prize
for the best interpretation
of a religious choral work at the 14th
International Chamber Choir Competition Marktoberdorf.
listen to Prayer for Ukraine
1 November 2016
2 November 2024
edit
Bishop
Franz Kamphaus
opposed Pope John Paul II,
"convinced that
our way of counselling women would
save the lives of many more children".
photos
2 February 2014
3 November 2025
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David Wilde,
a pianist who often played
at the Proms, composed
The Cellist of Sarajevo
for cello solo
dedicated to Vedran Smailovic
and recorded by Yo-Yo Ma.
listen
3 November 2025
4 November 2025
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Hans Jörg Stetter,
who taught from 1965 at the
Technical University of Vienna,
establishing the Institute of
Analysis and Scientific Computing,
and the first computing centre,
published in 2004
Numerical Polynomial Algebra.
4 November 2025
5 November 2025
edit
6 November 2025
edit- 6 November 2023 and 2024: : Peter Reulein
Eike Wilm Schulte,
who performed 119 roles,
celebrated 50 years on stage
as Beckmesser at
Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden
and as Kothner at the
Bavarian State Opera.
watch Hans Sachs in concert
6 November 2025
7 November 2025
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Guido Dessauer,
a German executive and art collector,
registered more than 30 patents
in paper technology
and started the career
of Horst Janssen as a lithographer.
watch us singing
23 January 2012
8 November 2025
editSister Stan,
born Treasa Kennedy,
was a social activist
known as the founder of
Focus Ireland for the homelass
and the Immigrant Council of Ireland.
watch her
8 November 2025
9 November 2025
edit"Wo Menschen sich vergessen"
was the first song in
the opening service of the
2021 Ecumenical Church Assembly
in Frankfurt,
held as an open-air livestream.
6 June 2021
10 November 2025
editArmand Avril
created works
inspired by
African art, by the
assembled objects
of Louis Pons,
and by the art
of Gaston Chaissac,
that are held in the
permanent exhibition
of the
Museum of Fine Arts
of Lyon.
watch
10 November 2025
11 November 2025
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The Late Gothic appearance
of the church of
St. Martin in Oestrich
was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War
and restored only in 1894.
watch service with music
25 January 2024
12 November 2025
edit
The dissertation of
Barbara Stühlmeyer
about the chants
by Hildegard of Bingen
became a standard work.
listen
13 November 2025
edit
Anton Bruckner dedicated his
Symphony No. 9,
with a last movement incomplete
at the time of his death in 1896,
dem lieben Gott.
watch Blomstedt
14 November 2024
editLeonore von Zadow-Reichling
and Günter von Zadow (r.)
received the first biennial
Abel Prize of Köthen
for their efforts
to retrieve and publish
compositions by Carl Friedrich Abel.
listen
15 November 2025
edit
Daniel Barenboim
combined Wagner and Mendelssohn
in a 2025 Rheingau Musik Festival concert
with pianist Lang Lang and the
West–Eastern Divan Orchestra.
watch masterclass
16 November 2025
edit
Paul Gerhardt's
song of thanks and praise
"Nun danket all und bringet Ehr"
was first published
along with 17 of his other hymns
in 1647, during the Thirty Years' War.
watch
4 June 2018
17 November 2025
editWilli Gundlach,
who taught music pedagogy
at the Technical University of Dortmund,
edited works by Fanny Hensel
and founded and conducted the
Dortmund University Chamber Choir.
listen
17 November 2025
18 November 2025
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Stefka Evstatieva,
based at the Sofia National Opera,
portrayed Verdi's Desdemona
at the Royal Opera House,
Giordano's Maddalena
at La Scala,
Tchaikovsky's Lisa
at the Philadelphia Opera,
and Verdi's Elisabetta
at the Metropolitan Opera.
watch Lisa
18 November 2025
19 November 2025
editThomas Daniel Schlee,
general manager of the
Carinthischer Sommer festival
from 2004 to 2015,
retained their tradition
of new church operas,
such as his
ich, hiob.
watch teaser
19 November 2025
20 November 2025
editClytus Gottwald
has arranged compositions
for an a cappella group
of up to 16 voices,
re-creating them
"in a magical choral world".
watch Adagietto
20 November 2025
21 November 2025
edit
Donald McIntyre
from New Zealand,
a bass-baritone of the
Royal Opera House from 1967,
portrayed Wotan in the Bayreuth
Jahrhundertring from 1976.
watch
farewell with his music
21 November 2025
22 November 2025
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Benjamin Britten composed
Canticle I:
My beloved is mine and I am his
for the tenor voice of Peter Pears,
using poetry from
A Divine Rapture by Francis Quarles.
listen to Britten and Pears
22 November 2023
23 November 2025
edit
Elisabeth Leonskaja,
who won the
Enesco Piano Competitionn
in Bucharest in 1964,
was a friend of Sviatoslav Richter
and has lived in Vienna since 1978,
playing with a focus on the
late sonatas by Beethoven and Schubert.
watch
23 November 2025
24 November 2025
edit
Gertrude Degenhardt
illustrated her brother-in-law
Franz Josef Degenhardt's song albums
in the 1960s,
and created art books such as
Women in Music
and Vagabondage in Blue in the 1990s.
watch 2 and 1
at an exhibition in Ireland
24 November 2024
25 November 2025
edit
Klaus Schmidt
(born 25 November 1935),
priest and choir member
at St. Martin, Idstein, from 1975, wanted
"Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten"
to be sung for his Requiem.
watch
26 November 2025
edit
Jean-Claude Éloy
composed long ritual pieces
inspired by Asian philosophy and music,
realised with the
Studio for Electronic Music
of the WDR in Cologne
and the studio of the NHK in Tokyo.
listen to WDR docu
26 November 2025
27 November 2025
editThe Ensemble Modern
has collaborated with
Helmut Lachenmann
to celebrate his 90th birthday,
performing his Concertini,
which they premiered in 2005,
at major concert halls in Germany.
watch at work
27 November 2025
28 November 2025
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Matthias Schuke,
who took over
Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau
from his grandfather
and passed it to his sons,
built the organ of the Erfurt Cathedral
and restored the 1624 organ
of St. Stephan in Tangermünde.
watch Gigout Toccata in Erfurt
28 November 2025
29 November 2025
edit
The mezzo-soprano
Marga Schiml,
an academic voice teacher
in Karlsruhe,
appeared as a Rhinemaiden
and a valkyrie in the
Jahrhundertring.
listen to Bach
27 May 2015
30 November 2025
edit
Bach wrote in Weimar
the opening chorus of his cantata
for the First Sunday of Advent,
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland,
BWV 61,
as a French overture.
watch
28 November 2010
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1 December 2025
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When conductor
Hans Drewanz,
a personal assistant to Georg Solti
at the Oper Frankfurt, became
Generalmusikdirektor in Darmstadt,
he was the youngest GMD in Germany.
watch 90th birthday greeting
17 September 2021
2 December 2025
edit
Siegfried Strohbach
composed a program of
music for Advent
for the Knabenchor Hannover,
performed on
2 December 2011
at the Marktkirche in Hannover.
listen
2 December 2011
3 December 2025
edit
Notre-Dame-des-Victoires
in Paris features
a 1739 organ by Lesclop
and more than 37,000 devotional
ex-voto plaques.
listen
to a piece composed and played by
Guy Morançon
4 December 2024
edit
For the 150th anniversary of the
Chor von St. Bonifatius,
Gabriel Dessauer
(born 4 December 1955)
commissioned a new solemn mass from
Colin Mawby.
watch
postlude for Easter by Naji Hakim
4 December 2025
5 December 2025
edit
Guy Morançon,
composer and organist in Paris,
played the Cavaillé-Coll organ
of Saint-Ouen de Rouen
in 1970 for the first recording of
Mendelssohn's complete organ works.
listen to Sonata No. 1
6 December 2025
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Lorenz Weinrich,
dean of the
faculty of history at the
Free University of Berlin
and chair of the Association for
Christian-Jewish Cooperation,
led the Gregorian schola
of Mater Dolorosa
from 1952 to 2002.
watch a service by others
6 December 2025
7 December 2025
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The musicologist
Willi Gundlach,
who founded the chamber choir of the
Technical University of Dortmund,
trained volunteers to sing
a Bach cantata in one day
at St. Peter, Syburg, including
Part I of Bach's Christmas Oratorio.
25 December 2017
8 December 2025
edit
Frank Gehry
designed buildings of sculptural quality
using innovative materials,
such as the 1997
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
that changed the quarter.
watch:
facts and fun · story
8 December 2025
9 December 2025
edit
Colin Mawby
(left), a prolific composer and
Westminster Cathedral conductor, said,
"I cannot write choral music
unless I work with choirs ...
I have to write for particular people".
watch conducting · listen
9 December 2011
10 December 2025
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Luciano Berio composed
Sequenza III,
a virtuoso solo for a female voice,
part of Sequenza for solo instruments,
including diverse mouth sounds
and ecstatic singing
as a form of musical theatre,
for his former wife, Cathy Berberian.
listen to her
5 December 2025
11 December 2025
edit
Margaret Jane Wray
portrayed Sieglinde
in the Seattle Opera's Ring cycle
from 2000 to 2013, conveying
"both the torment of her character
as well as her exaltation".
listen< · interview
11 December 2025
12 December 2024
editPerplexities after Escher,
a composition by Graham Waterhouse
for heckelphone,
string quartet and double bass,
is based on five graphic artworks
by M. C. Escher.
watch premiere
12 December 2024
13 December 2024
edit
Bach interpolated music
from his secular cantata BWV 36c
with four stanzas from two Advent hymns in
Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36,
for the first Sunday in Advent, 2 December 1731.
14 December 2025
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On 14 December 1925,
Alban Berg's
Wozzeck,
described as the first atonal opera,
premiered at the Berlin State Opera.
watch
14 December 2025
15 December 2025
editWhen
Mariame Clément
directed Mozart's Così fan tutte
at the Oper Frankfurt,
she froze a wedding tableau
during the overture
and restarted it in the finale.
watch trailer
14 December 2025
16 December 2025
editJubilant Sykes,
a baritone who sang
opera, musical, gospel and pop,
performed the role of the Celebrant
in Bernstein's Mass
in a recording nominated
for a Grammy Award.
watch Gloria ·motherless child
16 December 2025
17 December 2024
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Hans (Nick) Roericht
designed the iconic
TC100 stacking tableware
for his thesis at the Ulm School of Design,
and headed a faculty of industrial design
at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin
from 1973 to 2002.
17 December 2025
18 December 2025
edit
Max Reger
composed "in new simplicity"
Unser lieben Frauen Traum,
a motet suitable for Advent,
about a dream of Mary
of a tree growing in her.
watch
18 December 2015
19 December 2025
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"Mit Ernst, o Menschenkinder",
a 1642 Advent hymn,
includes a call to penitence
that John the Baptist took
from the prophet Isaiah.
watch (2020)
19 December 2020
20 December 2025
editAnda-Louise Bogza
portrayed Puccini's Tosca first in 2005
at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux,
then in 2007 at the
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
and the Bavarian State Opera,
and further at the Oper Frankfurt,
the New Israeli Opera,
the Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg,
the Slovak National Theatre,
in Japan, the Romanian National Opera,
and at the Salzburg Festival.
listen
20 December 2025
21 December 2025
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Bach first performed his
cantata for Advent,
Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn! BWV 132,
on 22 December 1715
in the Schlosskirche Weimar.
listen
22 December 2010
22 December 2025
editBach first performed his
cantata for Advent,
Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn! BWV 132,
on 22 December 1715
in the Schlosskirche Weimar.
listen
22 December 2010
23 December 2025
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Hans van Manen,
choreographer of many ballets,
for both the Nederlands Dans Theater
and the Dutch National Ballet
and performed in the world,
received a music prize.
watch dancing and inspiring
24 December 2025
24 December 2025
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"Es hat sich halt eröffnet",
a traditional 18th-century Christmas carol
from Tyrol and Swabia,
imagines many angel boys and girls tumbling down and rolling over
from the gate of Heaven that opened.
watch
25 December 2025
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On 25 December 1725,
J. S. Bach led the first performance
of the Christmas cantata
Unser Mund sei voll Lachens, BWV 110,
making laughter audible in singing.
watch
25 December 2025
26 December 2025
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Gardiner considers Bach the
"best writer of dramatic declamation
... since Monteverdi"
for the dialogue
in his Christmas cantata
Selig ist der Mann, BWV 57,
first performed on 26 December 1725.
watch
26 December 2010
27 December 2025
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Süßer Trost, mein Jesus kömmt,
BWV 151,
part of Bach's cycle
of Christmas cantatas for the
1725/26 season mainly to texts
by Georg Christian Lehms,
opens in a
"mood of iridescent transparency".
watch
8 June 2013
28 December 2024
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For his ordination
at the Altrossgarten Church,
Georg Weissel
wrote the text of the hymn
"Such, wer da will, ein ander Ziel"
(Search, whoever wants,
for a different goal),
often sung for funerals,
to his friend's melody
for a wedding song.
watch
17 March 2016
29 December 2025
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Brigitte Kronauer,
a writer who won
the Georg Büchner Prize,
the Jean Paul Prize,
and the Thomas Mann Prize,
was described as both "a master of spite"
and having "great kindness".
watch interview
17 September 2019
30 December 2025
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Bach's church cantata for
30 December 1725
to a text by Erdmann Neumeister,
Gottlob! nun geht das Jahr zu Ende
(Praise God! Now the year
comes to an end), BWV 28,
features a chorale fantasia
on a stanza from a hymn of praise
as the second movement.
watch
31 December 2025
editJustus Zeyen,
a pianist who taught
in Hannover and in Vienna,
regularly performed with
Thomas Quasthoff, including
Vier ernste Gesänge by Brahms
in the finest version
a reviewer from The Guardian knew.
listen
31 December 2025