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Rameau – L’Entretien des Muses – Played on Chromatic Kannel
Anna-Liisa Eller plays “L’Entretien des Muses” by Jean-Philippe Rameau….
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Purcell – Elegy Upon the Death of Queen Mary
…by Henry Purcell with lyrics by Henry Parker. It mourns the loss of Mary as a beloved figure and calls upon the gods and muses to weep alongside her passing….
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Purcell – O Dive Custos – Elegy on the Death of Queen Mary
…to behold Caesar’s household gods and sacred innermost sanctuary. Maria has fallen, a mournful loss for the muses. Weep for Mary! Weep, O poets! Weep, goddesses, for a dying queen….
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
…works, making him a master of orchestration. The Composer’s Muses: Fairytales, Folklore, and the Sea Rimsky-Korsakov’s work was characterized by his belief in creating a nationalistic style of classical music….
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Johann Strauss II
…singer Jetty Treffz in 1862, then to actress Angelika Dittrich, and finally to Adèle Strauss. Each marriage significantly influenced his life and work, with his wives serving as muses and…
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The Arts and the Hours from Les Boréades by Rameau – Played by Víkingur Ólafsson
Víkingur Ólafsson plays an interlude from Rameau’s opera, “Les Boréades.” The original title of the piece is “The Arrival of the Muses, Zephyrs, Seasons, Hours and the Arts,” but Ólafsson’s…
