Category Archives: Commemorative Months

Classical Music Month~ September 6

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Lieder ohne Worte by Frederic, Lord Leighton

1861 / Oil on canvas / 40″x24 3/4″ / Tate Britain, London, UK

The title was suggested by a visitor to the artist’s studio, Mrs Ralph Benson,
and evokes Felix Mendelssohn‘s famous “Songs without Words“,
created for the piano between 1829 and 1845. ~ Tate Britain

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Classical Music Month~ September 5

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A Symphony by Moritz von Schwind

In 1852 [Schwind] “composed” A Symphony in oils, and provided the commentary on it himself:
“The whole should be imagined as the Beethoven wall of a music room…
and it is based on a composition by Beethoven, the Fantasia in C for Piano, Orchestra and Choir…”
~ https://www.wga.hu/html_m/s/schwind/symphony.html

1852 / Oil on canvas / 66 1/2″x39 2/5″ / Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

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