In tune:
Happy 2011!!

Composer of the
Month:
Florent Schmitt

In tune:
Summing up and
looking ahead

Mozartwoche – Mozarteum Salzburg

Established by the Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg, which is directly linked to Mozart museums and Mozart Institute, the festival has gathered music lover around the globe to explore the new approaches of analyzing works by the composer since 1956. The festival aims at preserving the tradition while fostering contemporary view… read more

Date: January 21 to 30, 2011
Country: Austria
Website: http://www.mozarteum.at

Shanghai Sinfonietta: New Year's Concert

Florent Schmitt

Florent Schmitt (September 28, 1870 – August 17, 1958) is one of the most fascinating French composers active in the first half of the 20th century. A Lorrainer, born in Meurthe-et-Moselle, Schmitt originally took music lessons in Nancy with the local composer Gustave Sandré. At the age of 19, he entered the Paris Conservatory, and studied composition with Gabriel Fauré, Jules Massenet, Théodore Dubois, and Albert Lavignac. In 1900, he won the prestigious Prix de Rome.

In addition to composing, Schmitt was very active in the music scene of Paris. From 1929 to 1939, he worked as a music critic for Le Temps... read more

Happy 2011!!

For years, my New Year’s resolutions have looked like this: Get better grades; Find a handsome boyfriend… read more

Summing up and
looking ahead

A crazy 2010 has come to an end. It was the year of the Shanghai Expo and vuvuzelas, of positive events and negative happenings… read more

The sight of music

That’s the idea behind the Music Animation Machine, which sets the work of Bach, Satie, Chopin, and other composers to an animated, Atari-like series of colored bars and dots, to visually explain pitch and timing to those who can’t understand conventional music notation. The result is a sort of meditative “Guitar Hero” experience, with each note lighting up as it’s played across a scrolling screen. MAM’s most recent video, created in June, is Beethoven’s “Great Fugue", the last movement of his String Quartet No. 13... read more

Tengfei Zhou plays
Jean-Marie Leclair

After two years of research, Tengfei Zhou managed to find music scores for all 6 sonatas for two violins by Jean-Marie Leclair... listen

Glenn Gould -
J. S. Bach: Aria, from
Goldberg Variations

Feel the serenity in Gould's heavenly rendition of the Aria... watch the video