Frost Gully Violins

10/19/2024

Hope your October is 🎼POOKTACULAR! 🎵🎶

10/19/2024

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19.X.1987 — 19.X.2024

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01/31/2024

On 31 January 1797 Franz Schubert was born!

He took his first music lessons from his father, a music teacher. For five he sang as a soprano in the Viennese Stadtkonvikt chapel. In 1812, he began to study composition with Antonio Salieri. After leaving the chapel and completing his studies, he became a teacher at his father's school, a profession he quickly abandoned to devote himself to his work as a composer.

In Vienna, Schubert gave lessons and published his works, for which, however, publishers offered him an underpayment. Despite his unstable financial situation, the composer did not stop his creative work. He composed every day from the morning to 12:00 noon, while in the evenings he led an active social life. The musical evenings, during which his songs and dances were performed, were frequently called ‘schubertiads’.

Around 1822, the composer contracted a venereal disease, which began to manifest itself not only in physical pain, but also in episodes of depression. Despite his deteriorating health, Schubert worked assiduously until the end of his life, with which he earned his place in the pantheon of the most brilliant Romantic composers.
He wrote pieces in almost every possible musical genres. In his symphonic and chamber music, he initially followed Classical traditions, but over time he created an individual, Romantic style. He went down in history primarily as a composer of songs; he wrote more than 600 of them, many to words by Johann Wolfgang Goethe. In addition, Schubert's compositional legacy includes eight symphonies, 15 string quartets, more than 20 piano sonatas, cantatas, masses and other religious works, and more than a dozen operas.

Schubert created all these works within only 31 years. He died on 19 November 1828 in Vienna.

🖼️: Portrait of Franz Schubert, oil on wood, Gábor Melegh, 1827; Hungarian National Gallery.

01/19/2024

Peter Schickele, creator of P.D.Q. Bach has passed away. From 1990 to 1993, Shickele’s P.D.Q. Bach recordings won four consecutive Grammy Awards for Best Comedy Album. For many years, Schickele also hosted popular music education radio shows in the US. RIP to a good man and a fun musician.

The music comedy giant who gave us a celebrated classical alter-ego has died, aged 88.

01/02/2024

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Winter Wonderland on bluegrass fiddle. Thank you, Michael Cleveland.

11/29/2023

Holidays are here, time for a present? And then you get to play it when you’re finished putting it together! 🎵🎶

Woww!!

11/29/2023

Leah Hollingsworth and Bruce Hodges review two concerts by the superstar cellist within the space of two days

10/13/2023

In awe.

To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Casals in October 1973, Oskar Falta examines the great Catalan cellist's 'rediscovery' of the Bach Cello Suites, and the continuing legacy of his highly personal approach to the music