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Celebrating the birthday of Joaquín Rodrigo, born November 22

November 22, 2017 By Bard Suverkrop Leave a Comment

Joaquín Rodrigo

Joaquín Rodrigo (born on November 22, 1901) was blind from the age of three but went on to become one of the most popular composers of the 20th century known especially for his contribution to guitar music, an instrument he never mastered.

Rodrigo has left us some 70 songs for voice and piano, 10 songs with guitar accompaniment, and a number of songs for voice and instrumental ensemble. IPA Source provides the translation and IPA for 54 of his public domain song texts and his Zarzuela, El hijo fingido.

Cuatro madrigales amatorios:

Con qué la lavaré

IPA Text: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/10275/category/3374/

Listen to Eglise Gutierrez: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJssYKVJa3M

Vos me matasteis

IPA Text: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/10290/category/3374/

Listen to Teresa Berganza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BycC_onZSMM

¿De dónde venís, amore?

IPA Text: https://www.ipasource.com/de-donde-venis-amore-11376.html

Listen to Kathleen Battle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5SHd5jJPdA

De los álamos vengo, madre

IPA text: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/10276/category/3374/

Listen to Montserrat Caballe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmW3mFw-esM

View our complete collection of Joaquín Rodrigo texts:

https://www.ipasource.com/composer/r/rodrigo-joaquin-1901-1999.html

Filed Under: Composers Tagged With: birthday, composers, Joaquín Rodrigo

Celebrating the birthday of Fanny Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Hensel, born November 14

November 14, 2017 By Nora Miller Rubinoff 1 Comment

Fanny Hensel 1842
Fanny Hensel

Fanny Hensel (née Fanny Mendelssohn-Bartholdy) born November 14, 1805, was a German composer and pianist, and the sister of composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.

As a child, her parents kept her performances limited to periodic Sonntagsmusik salons that she and her brother Felix delivered at the Mendelssohn-Bartholdy home, to a selected group of family friends. Her brother Felix was permitted many more opportunities to travel and further educate himself while Fanny was instructed to focus on her future responsibilities as a wife and mother.

Fanny married Wilhelm Hensel in 1829 and in 1839/40, she and her husband traveled Italy for a year. Fanny was incredibly happy, as she finally received recognition for her work outside her family circle, and met many musicians who encouraged her and inspired her creativity. Upon returning home from Italy, she composed her most important piano work, the biographical cycle Das Jahr (1841).

Throughout her life, she was discouraged from publishing her work. Some of her pieces were actually published under her brother Felix’s name. Were she alive today, surely Fanny Hensel would have also chimed in on the #MeToo Movement. Women were not thought to have the intellect to write music and were told they should focus on being good wives and mothers to their children. She must have faced a constant uphill battle against those, including her own brother, who thought she should not publish her works.

From a 1987 New York Times article:

”I think discrimination against women composers still exists because the prestigious conducting positions are still held by men. I think it’s a problem, especially for older women composers.”

– Dr. Marilyn Thomas, professor of theory and composition at Carnegie Mellon University

Fanny Hensel died May 14, 1847. At the request of Fanny’s husband, Wilhelm Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy had arranged for publishing of some of Fanny’s additional works, which happened after Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s death (November 4, 1847). These works appeared in 1850.

In 1987, the Furore Verlag began publishing those of her works which had remained unprinted.

This month, both our founder & principal author, Bard Suverkrop, as well as our business manager, Nora Miller Rubinoff, share a few Fanny Hensel selections from our collection, along with recommended listening links.

Bard’s selections:

Warum sind denn die Rosen so blaß?
IPA Text: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/6555/category/662/
Listen to Diana Damrau: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-Shaw6QibE

Schwanenlied
IPA Text: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/6553/category/662/
Listen to Elisabeth Breuer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fao0-otebeU

Nora’s selections:

Ich kann wohl manchmal singen
IPA Text: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/6525/category/662/
Listen to Margarita Nosal-Strasser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbZGj3b64lY

Abendlich schon rauscht der Wald
IPA Text: https://www.ipasource.com/abendlich-schon-rauscht-der-wald-6588.html
Listen to the Hollywood Master Chorale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI3sd8CoCi4

Dämmrung senkte sich von oben
IPA Text: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/6516/category/662/
Listen to Tobias Berndt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEKVdvz8bDs

View our complete collection of Fanny Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Hensel texts:

https://www.ipasource.com/composer/h/hensel-fanny-mendelssohn-1805-1847.html

Filed Under: Composers Tagged With: #MeToo, birthday, composers, Fanny Hensel, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn, Mendelssohn, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Celebrating Verdi’s birthday

October 9, 2017 By Nora Miller Rubinoff Leave a Comment

Giuseppi Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Frencesco Verdi was born 10/9/1813.

IPA Source offers 120 arias from 25 of the Verdi operas but did you know we also offer translations and IPA transcriptions of the complete Ricordi art song collection Compasizioni di Camera?

Score: http://imslp.org/wiki/Songs_for_Voice_and_Piano_(Verdi,_Giuseppe)

IPA: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/v/verdi-giuseppe-1813-1901.html

Listen to the songs on Naxos (subscription necessary): https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.557778

View the entire collection of Verdi texts on IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/v/verdi-giuseppe-1813-1901.html

Filed Under: Composers Tagged With: birthday, Compasizioni di Camera, composers, Giuseppe Verdi

October composer birthdays

October 1, 2017 By Nora Miller Rubinoff Leave a Comment

We’re celebrating 13 composer birthdays during the month of October. Each composer has a link to our entire collection of texts for that individual.

Louis Vierne, born 10/8/1870
Our collection: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/v/vierne-louis-1870-1937.html

Giuseppe Fortunino Frencesco Verdi, born 10/9/1813
Our collection: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/v/verdi-giuseppe-1813-1901.html

Charles-Camille Saint-Saens, born 10/9/1825
Our collection: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/s/saint-saens-camille-1835-1921.html

Ralph Vaughan Williams, born 10/12/1872
Our collection: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/v/vaughan-williams-ralph-1872-1958.html

Alexander von Zemlinsky, born 10/14/1871
Our collection: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/z/zemlinsky-alexander-1871-1942.html

Baldassare Galuppi, born 10/18/1706
Our collection: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/g/galuppi-baldassare-1706-1785.html

Charles Edward Ives, born 10/20/1874
Our collection: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/i/ives-charles-edward-1874-1954.html

Franz Liszt, born 10/22/1811
Our collection: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/l/liszt-franz-1811-1886.html

Ferdinand Hiller, born 10/24/1811
Our collection: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/h/hiller-ferdinand-von-1811-1885.html

Johann Strauss II, born 10/25/1825
Our collection: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/s/strauss-johann-1825-1899.html

Georges Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold Bizet, born 10/25/1838
Our collection: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/b/bizet-georges-1838-1875.html

Alexander Tikhonovich Gretchaninov, born 10/25/1864
Our collection: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/g/gretchaninov-aleksandr-tikhonovich-1864-1956.html

Peter Warlock, born 10/30/1894
Our collection: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/w/warlock-peter-1894-1930.html

Filed Under: Composers Tagged With: birthday, birthdays, composers

Happy birthday, Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg

September 13, 2017 By Nora Miller Rubinoff Leave a Comment

Arnold Schoenberg la 1948Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (sometimes spelled Schönberg), born 9/13/1874, was an Austrian composer, music theorist, and painter. He moved to the US in 1934. Because he was Jewish, his music was labeled as degenerate music by the Nazi Party around 1938.

Schoenberg’s work is considered very influential on 20th century music. His approach polarized three generations of American and European composers, who either extended or reacted to his thinking.

Schoenberg is known for his development of the twelve-tone technique and coined the term developing variation.

Schoenberg was an influential teacher of composition. Many of his practices appear prominently throughout 20th century music.

More on Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg on Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schoenberg and at a legacy website, http://www.schoenberg.at/index.php/en/Schönberg.

View our entire collection of Arnold Schoenberg texts: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/s/schoenberg-arnold-franz-walter-1874-1951.html

Listen to Erwartung op.17 https://youtu.be/sJSvA8oP7rw. Download the IPA text for Erwartung here: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/8796/category/1716/

Filed Under: Composers Tagged With: Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg, birthday, composers, Schönberg

Happy birthday, Amy Beach

September 5, 2017 By Nora Miller Rubinoff Leave a Comment

Amy Beach 01Amy Beach, born 9/05/1867, was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. As a pianist, she was acclaimed for concerts she gave in the United States and in Germany. She was most popular, however, for her songs, of which she wrote about 150. The words of about five each are her own and those of H. H. A. Beach, for the rest by other poets. The Year’s at the Spring from Three Browning Songs, Op. 44 is perhaps Beach’s best-known work. Despite the volume and popularity of the songs during her lifetime, no single-composer collection of Beach’s songs exists. Some may be purchased through Hildegard Publishing Company and Masters Music Publication, Inc.

More on Amy Beach on Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Beach#Songs.

View our entire collection of Amy Beach texts: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/b/beach-amy-marcy-1867-1944.html

Listen to The Year’s at the Spring with Deborah Voigt at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-04k2Ii-Co. The text with IPA can be found on IPA Source. https://www.ipasource.com/the-year-s-at-the-spring-10926.html

Filed Under: Composers Tagged With: Amy Beach, birthday, composers

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