#Anton Arensky

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Dear Anton, you make my soul bleed.

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Anton Arensky (1861-1906) - Vocal Quartet op57 with cello accompaniment

Russian State Synphonic Capella under Valeri Polyansky

Dmitry Miller - cello

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Anton Arensky

(12 July 1861 - 25 February 1906)

Happy Birthday, Anton!

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Der klassische Monat mit Roberto Rogant: Anton Stepanovich Arensky

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1660 – In New Netherland Colony, J.Q. van der Linde, a married man, is tied into a sack and drowned for sodomy with an adolescent male. Three years later his widow files for bankruptcy.

1842 – Sir Arthur Sullivan was an English composer (d.1900). He is best known for 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Mikado. Like the later partnership of Rodgers and Hart, the musical marriage of Gilbert and Sullivan was one of temperamental unequals – Gilbert straight and Sullivan Gay – perfectly matched in the art they jointly created.

Sullivan never married, but he had serious love affairs with several women. The first was with Rachel Scott Russell (1845–1882), the daughter of the engineer John Scott Russell.

Sullivan's longest love affair was with the American socialite Fanny Ronalds, a woman three years his senior, who had two children. He met her in Paris around 1867, and the affair began in earnest soon after she moved to London in 1871.

Some books and websites also speculate that Sullivan was homosexual or bisexual. One claim is that Sullivan had a relationship with the second son of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert Edward,the Duke of Edinburgh. It is undisputed that Sullivan and the Duke (who was married) were friends, but the only evidence cited for a sexual relationship is unspecified "Victorian cartoonists." The Gay Book of Days and The Alyson Almanac both list Sullivan as a gay composer, again not stating the source.

Sullivan’s sexuality, though widely known to his contemporaries, was practiced discreetly. He played by the rules that permitted the upper classes their “vices” so long as there was no threat of public scandal. That Sullivan, unlike his straight partner, was knighted, shows how well, and how prudently, he played the game. Hypocritical? Perhaps. But the Irish Oscar Wilde might not have died quite so young had he understood the English character as well as Sullivan.

1850 – Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian dramatist, opera librettist and translator (d.1916).

Modest Ilyich was the younger brother of the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He graduated from the School of Jurisprudence with a degree in law. Like many graduates of this school (including his brother) he was homosexual and lived relatively openly with the poet Aleksey Apukhtin and then with another boyfriend, Kolya Konradi. Modest became the tutor to the deaf-mute boy Nikolai ("Kolya") Hermanovich Konradi and, using a special teaching method, helped him to talk, write, and read - and they became lovers.

Tchaikovsky chose to dedicate his entire life to literature and music. He wrote plays, translated sonnets by Shakespeare into Russian and wrote librettos for operas of his brother, as well as other composers such as Eduard Nápravník, Arseny Koreshchenko, Anton Arensky and Sergei Rachmaninov. Being the nearest friend of his brother, he became his first biographer, and also the founder of Tchaikovsky's museum in Klin.

1940 – The English novelist, archeologist and travel writer Bruce Chatwin was born in Sheffield England (d.1989). Chatwin's book include the travelogue In Patagonia (1977), The Viceroy of Ouidah (1980), on the slave trade in Benin, For The Songlines, on the power of Australian aboriginal music and On the Black Hill a novel on the relationship of twin brothers in Wales.

Chatwin is admired for his spare, lapidary style and his innate story-telling abilities. However, he has also been criticised for his fictionalised anecdotes of real people, places, and events. Frequently, the people he wrote about recognised themselves and did not always appreciate his distortions of their culture and behaviour. Chatwin was philosophical about what he saw as an unavoidable dilemma, arguing that his portrayals were not intended to be faithful representations. As his biographer Nicholas Shakespeare argues: "He tells not a half truth, but a truth and a half."

Much to the surprise of many of his friends, Chatwin married Elizabeth Chanler (a descendant of John Jacob Astor) on 26 August 1965. He had met Chanler at Sotheby's, where she worked as a secretary. Chatwin was bisexual throughout his married life, a circumstance his wife knew and accepted. They had no children. After fifteen years of marriage, she asked for a separation and sold their farmhouse at Ozleworth in Gloucestershire. Toward the end of his life, they reconciled. According to Chatwin's biographer Nicholas Shakespeare, the Chatwins' marriage seems to have been celibate. He describes Chatwin as homosexual rather than bisexual.

In the late 1980s, Chatwin contracted AIDS. He was one of the first high-profile sufferers of the disease in Britain and although he hid the illness - passing off his symptoms as fungal infections or the effects of the bite of a Chinese bat, a typically exotic cover story - it was a poorly kept secret. Chatwin told different stories about how he contracted the virus, such as that he was gang-raped in Dahomey, and that he believed he caught the disease from Sam Wagstaff, the patron and lover of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

He did not respond well to AZT, and suffered increasing bouts of psychosis which included extravagant shopping trips around the auction rooms of London - many of which purchases his wife quietly returned.

With his condition deteriorating rapidly, Chatwin and his wife went to live in the South of France at the house that belonged to the mother of his one-time lover, the designer Jasper Conran. Chatwin died in Nice in 1989 at age 48. The novelist Paul Theroux, Chatwin's one-time friend and fellow-writer, later commented on the memorial service in a piece he wrote for Granta, condemning Chatwin for failing to acknowledge that the disease he was dying of was AIDS.

Lovers of the French little black moleskin journals have undoubtedly read the story of Chatwin's popularizing of the books. The story goes that when the small bookmaker in Paris was going out of business, Chatwin bought out all of their stock to use on his travels.

1944 – Today is also the birthday of gay writer and serialist Armistead Maupin. Maupin is most famous for his six book "Tales of the City" series.

Maupin's early position on a Charleston newspaper was followed with an offer of a position at the San Francisco bureau of the Associated Press in 1971. He says he had known he was gay since childhood, but didn't have sex until he was 26 and only decided to come out in 1974 when he was about 30. The same year, he began what would become the Tales of the City series as a serial in a Marin County-based newspaper, the Pacific Sun, moving to the San Francisco Chronicle after the Sun's San Francisco edition folded.His later novels include "The Night Listener" and "Maybe The Moon" and 2009's "Michael Tolliver Lives." His name, coincidentally, is an anagram of "is a man I dreamt up." It's a busy life for The Wonderful Mr. Maupin with a brand spanking new musical being prepared based on Tales of the City.

Maupin's former partner of 12 years, Terry Anderson, was once a gay rights activist (Maupin himself has done much of that sort of work), and co-authored the screenplay for The Night Listener. He lived with Anderson in San Francisco and New Zealand. Ian McKellen is a friend and Christopher Isherwood was a mentor, friend, and influence as a writer.

Maupin is married to Christopher Turner, a website producer and photographer whom he first saw on a dating website. He then "chased him down Castro Street, saying, 'Didn't I see you on Daddyhunt.com?'" Maupin and Turner were married in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on February 18, 2007, though Maupin says that they had called each other "husband" for two years prior.

1957 – Born: Alan Ball, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, director, producer and occasional actor , who is best known for writing the screenplay for the Oscar- winning film "American Beauty," and for creating the Emmy and Peabody Award- winning HBO original drama series "Six Feet Under."

Ball is gay and has been called "a strong voice for [the] LGBT community". In 2008 he made Out magazine's annual list of the 100 most impressive gay men and women. Alan Ball has, in numerous interviews, discussed his Buddhist faith and how it has influenced his film making. He lives with his partner, Peter Macdissi (who had a recurring role in Six Feet Under as Olivier) in Los Angeles.

It was not until Ball began achieving professional success that he found the courage to come out to his mother. She understood his trepidation about broaching the subject and admitted that the announcement made her uncomfortable."It took a little getting used to," she said, "but he gave me some books to read, and I understand that God made him like that."

Ball's brothers were immediately supportive when they learned of his homosexuality, but some other relatives were not accepting.

1974 – Time Magazine reports of "The New Bisexuals." The magazine says "bisexuals, like homosexuals before them, are boldly coming out of their closets, forming clubs, having parties and staking out discotheques." The article cites Kinsey and feminism as causes for the rise in visibility.

1979 – Scott Miller is an American LGBT rights activist, philanthropist and former banker. He served as the U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein from 2022.

Together with his husband, Tim Gill, Miller is active in LGBT rights activism, philanthropy, and Democratic Party politics. Both are co-chairs of the Gill Foundation, one of the largest sponsors of LGBT equality causes in the United States. The foundation was instrumental in improving the reputation and visibility of LGBT people in Colorado and changing its image as a "hate state".

Gill and Miller are political allies of Colorado Governor Jared Polis, and Gill has been described as "one of the architects of the Democratic takeover of Colorado politics". Gill and Miller have donated at least $3.6 million to Democratic candidates and campaigns since 2010, and Miller has been active in groups supporting the presidential candidacies of Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden.

On August 6, 2021, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Miller to be the U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein. The post is traditionally given to a political appointee, often a prominent donor.

Miller married Tim Gill, the founder of Quark, in 2009, in a ceremony officiated by Governor Deval Patrick. The couple lives in Denver.

1998 – Timothy R. McVeigh was promoted to master chief petty officer, the Navy's highest enlisted rank. He was chosen from a pool of 168 candidates. The Navy had attempted to discharge him after discovering his AOL profile said he was gay. As such he became the first person to ever win a case against the U.S. military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy. (He is not to be confused with Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma bomber).

1992 – Tommy Dorfman is an American actor known for his role as Ryan Shaver in the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why (2017).

Dorfman was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from Fordham University's drama program in 2015 with a B.A. in theatre arts. After graduating, he was cast in the role of Ryan Shaver on the Netflix drama 13 Reasons Why, which premiered in 2017. Also that year, he helped design a fashion collection with ASOS, and, in October, was honored with the Rising Star Award by GLAAD.

Dorfman is openly gay. Dorfman and Peter Zurkuhlen became engaged in April 2015 and were married in Portland, Maine, on November 12, 2016.

In June 2018, Dorfman came out as non-binary.

TODAY'S GAY WISDOM

Armistead Maupin

My only regret about being Gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short. -Armistead Maupin [Editors Note: This is the quote that appeared on one of the Starbucks quote cups a few years ago that so irritated religious fundamentalists that they threatened a boycott.]***

I've always been proud of the fact that I've been openly gay longer than just about anybody writing today ... but I never intended for that declaration to mean that I was narrowing my focus in any way, or joining a niche ... now publishing has decided there's money in this, or at least a market ... now a formalised thing has sprung up which I think is extremely detrimental to anybody beginning to write today. ... It's possible to write a novel now which has gay themes, which has any truth you want to speak, that can be sold to a mainstream publisher and sold in a mainstream bookstore, so the notion of people who've narrowed their focus to only write books for a gay audience for gay people about gay people is stifling to me; in some ways, it's another form of the closet, as far as I'm concerned. I think Jerry Falwell must be very happy with those little cubby-holes at the back of book stores that say 'gay and lesbian' - it's a warning sign, they can keep their kids away from that section. I'd like people to stumble on my works in the literature section of Barnes and Noble and have their lives changed because of it.

It's complicated. I don't want to feel any less queer, but I think for us to march along in a dutiful little herd called 'gay and lesbian literature' and have little seminars that we hold together is pointless at this point, it makes no sense to me at all. ... I cringe when I get 'gay writer' each time. Why the modifier? I'm a writer. It's like calling Amy Tan a Chinese-American writer every time you mention her name, or Alice Walker a black writer. We're all discussing the human condition. Some of us have revolutionised writing by bringing in subject-matter that nobody's heard about before. But we don't want that to narrow the definition of who we are as an artist. ... I don't mind being cross-shelved. I'm very proud of being in the gay and lesbian section, but I don't want to be told that I can't sit up in the front of the book store with the straight, white writers.

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"Dmitrii Khrychev - 4 Morceaux, Op. 56: No. 2, Romance"

Anton Arensky (1861-1906)

Dmitrii Khrychev is a prominent chamber and orchestral musician and soloist. Born in Leningrad (now St Petersburg) in 1973 into a family of engineers, he started learning the cello at the age of seven, continuing his training at the Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music and the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory.

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OTD in Music History: Soviet composer and pedagogue Reinhold Gliere (1875 - 1956) is born in what is now the Ukraine. In 1894, the young Gliere entered the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied counterpoint with Sergei Taneyev (1856 - 1915), composition with Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859 - 1935), and harmony with Anton Arensky (1861 - 1906). When he graduated in 1900, Gliere was awarded a coveted gold medal in composition. The following year, he accepted a teaching post at the Moscow Gnesin School of Music, and the year after that his former professor Taneyev sent two very important private pupils his way: Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881 - 1950), and a startling eleven-year-old prodigy named Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953). In 1920, following the Russian Revolution, Gliere relocated to the Moscow Conservatory, where he taught intermittently until 1941. His students there included noted Armenian composer and conductor Aram Khachaturian (1903 - 1978). During his own lifetime, Gliere enjoyed a very high status within the Soviet musical world -- largely because of his pronounced interest in exploring the ethnic folk music traditions that were native to various Soviet satellite states. He also directed committees of both the Moscow Union of Composers and Union of Soviet Composers, and was generally feted as something of a cultural celebrity within the USSR. Today, however, only Gliere's so-called "Russian Sailors' Dance," an arrangement of the traditional folk song "Yablochko" ("Little Apple") that closes the first act of his ballet "Krasny mak" ("The Red Poppy," 1927), is still played with any frequency. It seems clear that Gliere's lasting musical legacy lies in his substantial pedagogic impact, rather than his own creative output... PICTURED: A c. 1910 real photo postcard showing the young Gliere sporting an impressive mustache.

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Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky, Op. 35a - Anton Arensky

Saint Petersburg Orchestra of the State Hermitage Museum Camerata · conducted by  Saulius Sondeckis

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Rachmaninow D minor Sonata Op 28 II Lento Zoltán Kocsis (Noten)

Rachmaninow D minor Sonata Op 28 II Lento Zoltán Kocsis, Noten, with sheet music Bester Notendownload aus unserer Bibliothek. Please, subscribe to our Library. Thank you!Background Composition Reception Best Sheet Music download from our Library.

Rachmaninow D minor Sonata Op 28 II Lento Zoltán Kocsis, Noten, with sheet music

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Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28, is a piano sonata by Sergei Rachmaninow, completed in 1908. It is the first of three "Dresden pieces", along with Symphony No. 2 and part of an opera, which were composed in the quiet city of Dresden, Germany. It was originally inspired by Goethe's tragic play Faust; although Rachmaninow abandoned the idea soon after beginning composition, traces of this influence can still be found. After numerous revisions and substantial cuts made at the advice of his colleagues, he completed it on April 11, 1908. Konstantin Igumnov gave the premiere in Moscow on October 17, 1908. It received a lukewarm response there, and remains one of the least performed of Rachmaninow's works. It has three movements, and takes about 35 minutes to perform. The sonata is structured like a typical Classical sonata, with fast movements surrounding a slower, more tender second movement. The movements feature sprawling themes and ambitious climaxes within their own structure, all the while building towards a prodigious culmination. Although this first sonata is a substantial and comprehensive work, its successor, Piano Sonata No. 2 (Op. 36), written five years later, became the better regarded of the two. Nonetheless, it, too, was given serious cuts and opinions are mixed about those. Background In November 1906, Rachmaninow, with his wife and daughter, moved to Dresden primarily to compose a second symphony to diffuse the critical failure of his first symphony, but also to escape the distractions of Moscow. There they lived a quiet life, as he wrote in a letter, "We live here like hermits: we see nobody, we know nobody, and we go nowhere. I work a great deal," but even without distraction he had considerable difficulty in composing his first piano sonata, especially concerning its form. The original idea for it was to be a program sonata based on the main characters of the tragic play Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust, Gretchen, and Mephistopheles, and indeed it nearly parallels Franz Liszt's own Faust Symphony which is made of three movements which reflect those characters. However, the idea was abandoned shortly after composition began, although the theme is still clear in the final version. Rachmaninow enlisted the help of Nikita Morozov, one of his classmates from Anton Arensky's class back in the Moscow Conservatory, to discuss how the sonata rondo form applied to his sprawling work. At this time he was invited, along with Alexander Glazunov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Scriabin, and Feodor Chaliapin, to a concert in Paris the following spring held by Sergei Diaghilev to soothe France–Russia relations, although Diaghilev hated his music. Begrudgingly, Rachmaninow decided to attend only for the money, since he would have preferred to spend time on this and his Symphony No. 2 (his opera project, Monna Vanna, had been dropped). Writing to Morozov before he left in May 1907, he expressed his doubt in the musicality of the sonata and deprecated its length, even though at this time he had completed only the second movement. On returning to his Ivanovka estate from the Paris concert, he stopped in Moscow to perform an early version of the sonata to contemporaries Nikolai Medtner, Georgy Catoire, Konstantin Igumnov, and Lev Conus. With their input, he shortened the original 45-minute-long piece to around 35 minutes. He completed the work on April 11, 1908. Igumnov gave the premiere of the sonata on October 17, 1908, in Moscow, and he gave the first performance of the work in Berlin and Leipzig as well, although Rachmaninow missed all three of these performances. Composition Movement 1. The piece is structured as a typical sonata in the Classical period: the first movement is a long Allegro moderato (moderately quick), the second a Lento (very slow), and the third an Allegro molto (very fast). - Allegro moderato (in D minor, ends in D major) The substantial first movement Allegro moderato presents most of the thematic material and motifs revisited in the later movements. Juxtaposed in the intro is a motif revisited throughout the movement: a quiet, questioning fifth answered by a defiant authentic cadence, followed by a solemn chord progression. This densely thematic expression is taken to represent the turmoil of Faust's mind. The movement closes quietly in D major. - Lento (in F major) In key, the movement pretends to start in D major before settling in the home key of F major. Although the shortest in length and performance time, the second movement Lento provides technical difficulty in following long melodic lines, navigating multiple overlapping voices, and coherently performing the detailed climax, which includes a small cadenza. - Allegro molto (in D minor) Ending the sonata is the furious third movement Allegro molto. Lacking significant thematic content, the movement serves rather to exploit the piano's character, not without expense of sonority. The very first measures of the first movement are revisited, and then dissolves into the enormous climax, a tour de force replete with full-bodied chords typical of Rachmaninow, which decisively ends the piece in D minor. Reception Rachmaninow played early versions of the piece to Oskar von Riesemann (who later became his biographer), who did not like it. Konstantin Igumnov expressed interest upon first hearing it in Moscow, and following his suggestion Rachmaninow cut about 110 bars. The sonata had a mediocre evaluation after Igumnov's premiere in Moscow. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov had died several months previously, and the burden of heading Russian classical music had fallen on this all-Rachmaninow programme of October 17, 1908. Although the concert, which also included Rachmaninow's Variations on a Theme of Chopin (Op. 22, 1903), was "filled to overflowing", one critic called the sonata dry and repetitive, however redeeming the interesting details and innovative structures were. Lee-Ann Nelson, via her 2006 dissertation, noted that Rachmaninow's revisions are always cuts, with the material simply excised and discarded. The hypothesis is that the frequency of negative responses to many of his pieces, not just the response to the first symphony, led to a deep insecurity, particularly with regard to length. The musicologists Efstratiou and Martyn argued against, for instance, the cuts made to the second sonata on a formal basis. Unlike other pieces, such as the second piano sonata and the fourth piano concerto, no uncut version of this piece is currently known to be extant. Today, the sonata remains less well-known than Rachmaninow's second sonata, and is not as frequently performed or recorded. Champions of the work tend to be pianists renowned for their large repertoire. It has been recorded by Eteri Andjaparidze, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Boris Berezovsky, Idil Biret, Sergio Fiorentino, Leslie Howard, Ruth Laredo, Valentina Lisitsa, Nikolai Lugansky, Olli Mustonen, John Ogdon, Michael Ponti, Santiago Rodriguez, Alexander Romanovsky, Howard Shelley, Daniil Trifonov, Xiayin Wang, and Alexis Weissenberg. Lugansky performs the piece regularly. Read the full article

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Amar e ser amada incondicionalmente#

Ser inteligente# interesante# misteriosa

sedutora# Deusa da beleza e do amor.

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3. Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956) Gliere was from Kiev. He was a violinist, teacher and composer and I really like his chamber works. He may not have been innovative but he sure was inventive. In 1894 he studied violin with Jan Hrimaly and composition with Anton Arensky and the great Sergei Taneyev at the Moscow conservatory, where he later became professor. Earlier, between 1901 and 1913, he taught at the Gnesin Institute, Moscow – where his pupils included Myaskovsky and Prokofiev – and between 1913 and 1920 he was professor at Kiev Conservatory. He is probably best know forhis 3rd symphony (Ilya Muromets), but he wrote all sorts including songs, concertos, ballet music. I however, love his smaller scale music, in particular the string works and piano music, and I encourage anyone, who like myself, loves beautiful tunes to listen to these pieces. So, what to choose…..OK, I’ve made up my mind. I mentioned earlier the inventiveness, so I have chosen the 12 Duos for 2 Violins. Some other works for violin duo: 8 Violin Duos op.55 by Robert Fuchs Ten Old Dances for Two Violins, op. 91 by Johanna Senfter Theme and Variations for Two Violins by Alan Rawsthorne David Pulsford, @lesser-known-composers

musicainextenso: 3. Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956) Gliere was from Kiev. He was a violinist, teacher and composer and I really like his chamber works. He may not have been innovative but he sure was inventive. In 1894 he studied violin with Jan Hrimaly and composition with Anton Arensky and the great Sergei Taneyev at the Moscow…

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Anton Arensky (1861-1906) – Suite for Two Pianos No.1 in F major, Op.15 (1888).

00:05 I. Romance. Allegretto. 04:08 II. Valse. Allegro. 09:05 III. Polonaise. Allegro ma non troppo.

performed by Piano duet "Petro Duo": Dmitrii Petrov & Anastasia Rogaleva.

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Arensky - Piano Trio no.1 in d minor, op.32 (1894)

Updating an old post on this piece

Arensky’s first piano trio is one of those overlooked treasures in music. Not only is it by a less popular name, but it’s also a chamber piece, and for some reason chamber music is overlooked in favor of big symphonies or solo piano music. Written in the 1890s, the work is very lyrical, and the instruments flow with each other in a way that feels free form. The slow movement is something special; I first heard it [the first time I even heard of this work] at a chamber music recital given by some of the musicians at my college who were playing as part of their final. It was the highlight of the evening.

Because this "hidden gem" is full of gorgeous melodies, it has gotten more popularity recently and will hopefully inspire more musicians to keep it in the standard rep.

Movements:

1. Allegro moderato

2. Scherzo - Allegro molto

3. Elegia - Adagio

4. Finale - Allegro non troppo

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Il Mese Classico con Roberto Roganti: Anton Stepanovich Arensky

 

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3. Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956) Gliere was from Kiev. He was a violinist, teacher and composer and I really like his chamber works. He may not have been innovative but he sure was inventive. In 1894 he studied violin with Jan Hrimaly and composition with Anton Arensky and the great Sergei Taneyev at the Moscow conservatory, where he later became professor. Earlier, between 1901 and 1913, he taught at the Gnesin Institute, Moscow – where his pupils included Myaskovsky and Prokofiev – and between 1913 and 1920 he was professor at Kiev Conservatory. He is probably best know forhis 3rd symphony (Ilya Muromets), but he wrote all sorts including songs, concertos, ballet music. I however, love his smaller scale music, in particular the string works and piano music, and I encourage anyone, who like myself, loves beautiful tunes to listen to these pieces. So, what to choose…..OK, I’ve made up my mind. I mentioned earlier the inventiveness, so I have chosen the 12 Duos for 2 Violins. Some other works for violin duo: 8 Violin Duos op.55 by Robert Fuchs Ten Old Dances for Two Violins, op. 91 by Johanna Senfter Theme and Variations for Two Violins by Alan Rawsthorne David Pulsford, @lesser-known-composers

musicainextenso: 3. Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956) Gliere was from Kiev. He was a violinist, teacher and composer and I really like his chamber works. He may not have been innovative but he sure was inventive. In 1894 he studied violin with Jan Hrimaly and composition with Anton Arensky and the great Sergei Taneyev at the Moscow…

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3. Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956) Gliere was from Kiev. He was a violinist, teacher and composer and I really like his chamber works. He may not have been innovative but he sure was inventive. In 1894 he studied violin with Jan Hrimaly and composition with Anton Arensky and the great Sergei Taneyev at the Moscow conservatory, where he later became professor. Earlier, between 1901 and 1913, he taught at the Gnesin Institute, Moscow – where his pupils included Myaskovsky and Prokofiev – and between 1913 and 1920 he was professor at Kiev Conservatory. He is probably best know forhis 3rd symphony (Ilya Muromets), but he wrote all sorts including songs, concertos, ballet music. I however, love his smaller scale music, in particular the string works and piano music, and I encourage anyone, who like myself, loves beautiful tunes to listen to these pieces. So, what to choose…..OK, I’ve made up my mind. I mentioned earlier the inventiveness, so I have chosen the 12 Duos for 2 Violins. Some other works for violin duo: 8 Violin Duos op.55 by Robert Fuchs Ten Old Dances for Two Violins, op. 91 by Johanna Senfter Theme and Variations for Two Violins by Alan Rawsthorne David Pulsford, @lesser-known-composers

musicainextenso: 3. Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956) Gliere was from Kiev. He was a violinist, teacher and composer and I really like his chamber works. He may not have been innovative but he sure was inventive. In 1894 he studied violin with Jan Hrimaly and composition with Anton Arensky and the great Sergei Taneyev at the Moscow…