BROTHERS JUDD CLASSICAL MUSIC WEB GUIDE:
CLASSICAL MUSIC: GENERAL:
-AMERICAN
MUSIC RESOURCE (information about all styles of music)
-Arts
Wire
-Bravo
Notes (music theory and composition)
-British Composers
Project
-Classical
Corner (for Beginners)
-Classical
is Cool (MP3s, etc)
-Classical
Music Central
-Classical
Music on the Web
-The Classical
Music Pages (bios, explanations of musical forms, dictionary of terminologies)
-Classical Music Research
-Classical
Music UK
-Classical
Music Webring
-Classical Net
(guides, reviews, files, links)
-Guide
to Composer Data & Works Lists (Classical Net)
-The Classical Source
(reviews, etc.)
-Classimuse
(Reviews, Interviews, General Opinionatedness from Steve Holtje)
-CultureFinder
Guide to Classical & Opera
-CultureFinder:
Classical Music All-Stars (short bios, major works)
-CF:
Article Archive (reviews, profiles, etc.)
-EMORY
UNIVERSITY: 20th-Century Music
-Enrico
Caruso Page (1873-1921)
-Modern
Music Review (Paul James, online overview and guide to aspects of 20th
Century Classical Music)
-Music
Education Online
-OrchestraNET:
your essential guide to the World's finest orchestras
-Requiem
Web
-Seth
Fuller's Classical Music Tribute
-The
WWW Virtual Library: Classical Music
-ESSAY
: Orff's Musical and Moral Failings (RICHARD TARUSKIN, NY Times)
COLLECTING:
-Masterpieces
of the Century: A Critical Guide (Terry Teachout, Commentary Magazine)
-A
Newbie's Guide to Classical CD-Buying (Lionel Choi)
-Rough
Guides: Classical Music on CD
CORPORATE:
-Amazon.com
(to order cd's)
-Artaria Editions
(Publishers of 18th Century Classical Music)
-BMG
Classics World
-BMG Music
Club
-Columbia
House Music Club
-Essentials
of Music (W.W. Norton & Company, it's built around Essential Classics
cd series)
-Hyperion
Records
-Musical
Heritage Society Music Club
-Naxos and Marco Polo
(hnh.com The Classical Music Website)
-Philips
Music Group
-G. Schirmer,
Inc. and Associated Music Publishers, Inc.
-Unitel
(KirchGruppe's music production company)
DOWNLOADS:
-Classical
Midi Files
-Classical
is Cool (MP3s, etc)
-Music
Gallery Classical Collection (Real Audio files)
ESSAYS (GENERAL):
Schiff, David (The Atlantic)
-ESSAY:
Classical Appeal: Throw together a composer, a blues band, and a symphony
orchestra, and what you have is the kind of crossover event that orchestras
increasingly rely on to sell tickets -- and a sign, many believe, of imminent
economic and artistic doom. (David Schiff, The Atlantic)
-ESSAY:
Music: Unreconstructed Modernist Making sense of Pierre Boulez,
one of the most puzzling figures in the music of our time (David Schiff,
The Atlantic)
Teachout, Terry (Commentary Magazine)
-ESSAY:
The Composer and the Commissars: Debate still rages on whether Dmitri
Shostakovich was a closet dissident--and on whether, and how, it matters
(Terry Teachout, Commentary)
-ESSAY:
Opera USA: Needed: modern works in the grand style, and the houses
to stage them (Terry Teachout, Commentary)
-ESSAY:
Two Fallen Stars: The careers of the piano virtuosos Van Cliburn and
Glenn Gould raise afresh the question of early celebrity (Terry Teachout,
Commentary)
-ESSAY:
Modernism With a Smile: Dismissed as lightweights, two French composers
take their place among the key musical figures of the century (Terry Teachout,
Commentary)
-ESSAY:
The New Tonalists: Having traveled down one blind alley after another,
composers are returning to the path of the classical tradition (Terry Teachout,
Commentary)
-ESSAY:
Not the Metropolitan Opera: A crisis-ridden company still has a mission:
to preserve and to present American repertory (Terry Teachout, Commentary)
-ESSAY:
The Trouble with Karajan (Terry Teachout, Commentary)
-ESSAY:
American Opera in Progress (Terry Teachout, Commentary)
-ESSAY:
First Nights (Janet Tassel, Harvard Magazine)
INSTRUMENTS:
-The Harpsichord
Clearing House (early keyboards, including the harpsichord, virginal,
spinet, clavichord, fortepiano or continuo organ)
-International
Committee of Musical Instrument Museums & Collections
-Piano Page
MAGAZINES:
-Classical
Magazine
-Classics
Today
-Continuo
(Early Music Magazine)
-Global
Music Network
-Gramophone
-La
Scena Musicale
-Music
& Vision Daily
-New Music
Box (Web Magazine from the American Music Center)
-Opera
Magazine
OPERA:
-Coordinated
Opera Resource Pages
-Met
Opera Broadcasts
-Operabase
-The
OperaGlass (performance histories, synopses, libretti, discographies,
pictures, links)
-Opera Links
-Operanet
(kulture kiosque)
-Opera
Net 101 Best
-New York City
Opera Company (Library: synopses, biographies, discographies)
-Gilbert
and Sullivan Archive: The Premier Internet Light Opera Site
-REVIEW
: Curiouser & curiouser, a review of a new biography of
W. S. Gilbert by Jane W. Stedman & The Complete Annotated Gilbert &
Sullivan edited by Ian Bradley (Kennedy, X. J. , New Criterion)
-REVIEW:
of Opera in History: From Monteverdi to Cage by Herbert Lindenberger
(Alex Ross, Lingua Franca)
-REVIEW:
Moses at the Met (Michael Linton, First Things)
RADIO:
-NPR's Sunday
Baroque
REFERENCE:
-Grove
Dictionaries
REVIEWS:
-Classical
CD Reviews
-The
InkVault: Classical Music
-Unwanted
Opinion
LINKS:
-Classic
99 Links (KFUO FM)
-Classical
Music Links (Alabama Public Radio)
-Classical
Music Links at Orchestra Net
-Classical
Music on the Net
-Other
Music Sites (NPR)
-Sibelius
Academy Music Resources
-Yahoo
Classical Music Section
COMPOSERS (General):
-Boosey
& Hawkes Composer Index: Information on composers published by
Boosey & Hawkes
-Classical
Composers Archive (bios, photos, etc.)
-Classical
Composers Database
-Composer
biographies
-Composers
(selected biographies, work lists, program notes, reviews, and photos of
composers represented by G. Schirmer, Inc. and affiliates)
-Composers Page
-International Association
of Music Information Centres
-Joshua Lilley's
Composers Page
-Jos
Smeets' Classical Composers Database
-Open
Directory: Composers
COMPOSERS (Chronological):
DESPREZ, JOSQUIN (1440-1521)
PALESTRINA, GIOVANNI PERLUIGI (1525-1594) (February
3, 1525)
-ESSAY
: Whatever Happened to Palestrina? : Lawrence R. Porter wonders why the
Renaissance composer's music is so seldom heard in Church (The Crisis)
MONTEVERDI, CLAUDIO GIOVANNI ANTONIO (1567-)
SCHUTZ, HEINRICH (1585-1672)
CORELLI, ARCANGELO (1653-) (February 17, 1653
PACHELBEL, JOHANN (1653-)
TORELLI, GIUSEPPE (1658-)
PURCELL, HENRY (1659-1695)
-Purcell,
Henry (Culture Finder)
-Composer
Notes: Henry Purcell (bio, samples)(GMN.com)
VIVALDI, ANTONIO (1678 - 1741) born Venice, 4 March 1678;
died Vienna, 28 July 1741
-Antonio
Vivaldi Homepage ***
-Classical
Net: Basic Repertoire
-Catalogue
RV: Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) (Works listing)
-Lampson/Vivaldi
Instrumental Works Cross-Reference (Classical Net)
-Vivaldi,
Antonio (Culture Finder)
TELEMANN, GEORG PHILLIP (1681-1767)
-Telemann,
Georg Phillip (Culture Finder)
RAMEAU, JEAN-PHILLIPE (1683-1764)
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN (1685-1750)
-The J.S. Bach
Home Page
-Culture
Finder: Bach, Johann Sebastian Active Years: 1685-1750
-Bach
Bibliography: RESEARCH PUBLICATION ON THE INTERNET
-ESSAY:
Was Bach Jewish? (Norman Podhoretz, Prospect, December 1999)
-ESSAY
: Genius in Private (Charles Rosen, NY Review of Books)
-ESSAY
: BACH AT 300 : WORDS, NOTES AND NUMBERS (James A. Winn, NY Times Book
Review)
HANDEL, GEORG FRIEDERICH (1685-1759)
-Culture
Finder: Handel, George Frideric Active years: 1685-1759
SCARLATTI, GIUSEPPE DOMENICO (1685-1757)
CORRETTE, MICHEL (1709-95)
BOYCE, WILLIAM (1711-)
BACH, CARL PHILLIP EMANUEL (1714-)
HAYDN, JOSEPH (1732-1809) (March 31, 1732)
-Haydn,
Joseph Active Years: 1732-1809 (Culture Finder)
BOCCHERINI, LUIGI (1743-) (Feb 19, 1743)
CLEMENTI, MUZIO (1752-)
-ESSAY:
Music: Finished Symphonies: Muzio Clementi (1752-) was once more famous
than Mozart. His under-known music deserves attention. (William H.
Youngren, The Atlantic)
MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS (1756-91)(born January 27, 1756
in Salzburg, Austria)
-The
Mozart Project
-Mozart's
Own Website
-Austria
Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Austria Tourism)
-Mozart,
Wolfgang Amadeus Active Years: 1756-1791 (Culture Finder)
-Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart @ Design House
-ARTICLE:
Mozart was not killed : New Theory Contrary to theories that
the great Austrian composer died of foul play, a professor of medicine
says the cause was clearly severe rheumatic fever (The Straits Times)
-REVIEW
: Correspondent con brio Michael Kennedy reviews Mozart's Letters, Mozart's
Life: Selected Letters by Robert Spaethling (booksonline uk)
-REVIEW
: of MOZART'S LETTERS, MOZART'S LIFE edited and translated
by Robert Spaethling Mozart's letters reveal the all-too- human side
of an artist revered as quasi-divine (HUGH CANNING, Sunday Times of London)
BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN (1770-1827)
-Beethoven
Depot
-Culture
Finder: Beethoven, Ludwig van Active Years: 1770-1827
-ESSAY:
The Sublime Beethoven: Did the composer share an aesthetic principle with
Immanuel Kant? (Dmitri Tymoczko, Boston Review)
-ESSAY:
"The Beethoven Mystique" (Jeffrey Dane, Art Bin)
-ESSAY
: Unhealthy Guide to musical genius (ANNA KING MURDOCH, 19 September
2001, The Age)
-ARTICLE
: Lock of hair unveils clue to Beethoven's torment (Peter Gorner, Chicago
Tribune)
-REVIEW
: of Beethovenís Hair: An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Musical
Mystery Solved by Russell Martin (Russell Davies, booksonline uk)
-REVIEW
: of Beethoven by Barry Cooper (Richard Freed, Washington Post)
WEBER, CARL MARIA VON (1786-1826)
-Encyclopaedia
Britannica: Your search: "Carl Maria von Weber"
-Carl
Maria von Weber (1786-1826)(Classical Music Pages)
-Carl
Maria von Weber. (Eutin, 1786 - London, 1826)(bio & discs, Phillips
Music)
-COMPOSERS:
Carl Maria von Weber (Opera Glass)
-Weber,
Carl Maria von (1786 - 1826)(hnh.com)
ROSSINI, GIOACCHINO ANTONIO (1792-1868)
-Encyclopaedia
Britannica
-BIO:
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI (1792-1868)(NYC Opera)
-CultureFinder
Guide to Classical & Opera: Opera All-Stars Rossini, Gioacchino
SCHUBERT, FRANZ (1797-)
-ESSAY:
Schubert Lives: While the scholars dispute the meaning and relevance
of his biography--and his sexuality--his compositions remain central to
the aesthetic life of the West (Terry Teachout, Commentary)
BERLIOZ, HECTOR (1803-1869)
-Berlioz,
Hector Active Years: 1823-1869 (Culture Finder)
-ESSAY:
An Unloved Romantic: Why is Berlioz the only great composer of the
19th century never to have been popular? (Terry Teachout, Commentary)
MENDELSSOHN, FELIX (1809-47)
(February 3, 1809)
-Mendelssohn,
Felix Active Years: 1809-1847 (Culture Finder)
CHOPIN, FREDERIC (1810-49)
(March , 1810)
-Encyclopedia
Britannica
-The
Unofficial Frédéric Chopin Homepage
LISZT, FRANZ (1811-1886)
-REVIEW:
Performance Artist: Franz Liszt: The Final Years, 1861-1886 by
Alan Walker (Terry Teachout, Commentary)
WAGNER, RICHARD (1813-)
-Richard
Wagner Archive
-ESSAY
: What do opera and adultery have in common? Richard Sennett on how music
keeps up with illicit love (New Statesman)
-REVIEW
: of Wagner and Philosophy by Bryan Magee (Vincent Deane, Irish Times)
-ESSAY
: Master of decadence, on Wagner's Ring at the Metropolitan Opera (Penrose,
James F. , New Criterion)
VERDI, GIUSEPPI (1813-1901)
-Verdi,
Giuseppi Active Years: 1839-1901 (Culture Finder)
-REVIEW:
of Tosca's Rome: the Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective
by Susan Vandiver Nicassio When Floria Tosca would have faced
boos and jeers The historical background to a Puccini opera is explored
by an entertaining piece of scholarship (Pail Bailey, UK Telegraph)
-REVIEW
: of The Life of Verdi by John Rosselli (Frank Johnson, booksunlimited
uk)
OFFENBACH, JACQUES (1819-)
SMETANA, BEDRICH (1824-1884)
-BIO:
Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)(Classical Music Pages)
-RECOMMENDED
LIST: Smetana, Bedrich (1824 - 1884)
BRUCKNER, ANTON (1824-1896)
-Bruckner,
Anton Active Years: 1845-1896 (Culture Finder)
-REVIEW:
of Anton BRUCKNER (1824-1896) Symphony No.7 in E Vienna
Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN ( Roy Chan, Ink
Pot)
BRAHMS, JOHANNES (1833-97)
-Brahms,
Johannes Active Years: 1833-1897 (Culture Finder)
-Johannes Brahms
BIZET, GEORGES (1838-)
MUSSORGSKY, MODEST PETROVICH (1839-) (March 21,
1839)
-ESSAY:
Immodest Ambition : Modest Musorgsky's achievement. (Algis Valiunas,
weekly Standard)
TCHAIKOVSKY, PETER ILYICH (1840-1893) (May
7, 1840)
-Tchaikovsky,
Peter Ilyich Active Years: 1840-1893 (Culture Finder)
-REVIEW:
Enigma Variations: Lewis Owens reveals the realTchaikovsky thanks
to Alexander Poznansky's classic biography of the composer (Lewis Owens,
Spike)
DVORAK, ANTON (1841-1904)
-Dvorak,
Anton Active Years: 1865-1904 (Culture Finder)
GRIEG, EDVARD (1843-1907)
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, NIKOLAY ANDREYEVICH (1844-1908)
PUCCINI, GIACOMO (1858-1924)
MAHLER, GUSTAV (1860-1911) (July 7, 1860)
-Mahler,
Gustav Active Years: 1860-1911 (Culture Finder)
-ESSAY:
Music: Mahler's Unfinished Symphony: We can now hear several versions
of Mahler's Tenth, a work that should at last be recognized as among the
composer's greatest. (William H. Youngren, The Atlantic)
-REVIEW:
of Mahler: A Biography by Jonathan Carr ( LYNWOOD ABRAM, Houston Chronicle)
DELIUS, FREDERICK (1862-1934)
-Frederick
Delius b.1862, Bradford, England d.1934, Grez-sur-Loing, France (Boosey
& Hawkes)
DEBUSSY, CLAUDE (1862-1918) (August
22, 1862)
-Debussy,
Claude Active Years: 1862-1918 (Culture Finder)
STRAUSS, RICHARD (1864-1949)
-Richard
Strauss b.1864, Munich d.1949, Garmisch (Boosey & Hawkes)
-Strauss,
Richard Active Years: 1864- 1949 (Culture Finder)
SIBELIUS, JEAN (1865-1957)
-
Jean Sibelius Web Pages
-Sibelius,
Jean Active Years: 1865-1957 Sibelius, Jean [Johan]
(Julius Christian) (b Hameenlinna
(Tavastehus),
8 Dec 1865; d Jarvenpaa, 20 Sep 1957(Culture Finder)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, RALPH (1872-1958)
-Ralph
Vaughan Williams b.1872, Down Ampney, England d.1958, London (Boosey
& Hawkes)
RACHMANINOFF, SERGEI (1873-1943)
-Serge
Rachmaninoff b.1873 Semyonovo, Russia d.1943 Beverly Hills (Boosey
& Hawkes)
HOLST, GUSTAV (1874-1934)
-Holst,
Gustav Active Years: 1895-1934 (born 1874)(Culture Finder)
GLIERE, REINHOLD (1875-1956) (January 11, 1875)
-Encyclopaedia
Britannica: Your search: "Reinhold Gliere"
-Reinhold
Gliere (1875-1956) Songs (opus order)(Lied and Song Texts Page)
-REVIEW:
Classical Net Review - Gliere - Symphony #2
-REVIEW:
Classical Net Review - Gliere - Symphony #1
STRAVINSKY, IGOR (1882-1971)
-Igor
Stravinsky b.1882, Oranienbaum, nr St Petersburg d.1971, New York (Boosey
& Hawkes)
-ESSAY:
Music: Redeeming the Rake Stravinsky's difficult opera. (David
Schiff, The Atlantic)
-ESSAY:
Music: Craft's Stravinsky: Robert Craft is far more than the alter
ego of the century's greatest composer. (Allen Shawn, The Atlantic)
-ESSAY
: Robert Craft on Stravinsky and Schoenberg (Robert R. Reilly, Crisis)
-REVIEW:
of STRAVINSKY: A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882-1934 By Stephen
Walsh (Patrick J. Smith, Washington Post Book world)
-REVIEW:
of Igor Stravinsky. A Creative Spring: Russia and France 1882-1934
(Stephen Walsh (Eric Griffiths, This is London)
-REVIEW:
of STRAVINSKY: A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882-1934
(Margaret Reynolds, London Times)
PROKOFIEFF, SERGEI (1891-1953)
-Serge
Prokofieff b.1891 Sontsovka, Ukraine d.1953 Moscow (Boosey & Hawkes)
-Prokofiev,
Sergei Active Years: 1891-1953 (Culture Finder)
MESSIAEN, OLIVIER
-ESSAY:
Music: An Audubon in Sound: Olivier Messiaen's brilliant fantasias
woven from the songs of birds (Matthew Gurewitsch, The Atlantic)
IVES, CHARLES (1874-1954) (October 20, 1874 Danbury,
Connecticut)
-Charles
Ives Society
-Charles
Ives (G. Schirmer, Inc. and affiliates)
-ESSAY:
Music: The Many Faces of Ives American composers have long gazed
inquiringly upon Charles Ives -- and seen images of their own choosing
reflected back. In the course of his rediscovery of the composer, the author
finds that "the mythological Ives is a trickster god." (David Schiff, The
Atlantic)
-ESSAY:
The Anti-Modern Modernist: Charles Ives has been hailed as America's
greatest composer, and dismissed as a mere curiosity; how good is his work?
(Terry Teachout, Commentary)
COPLAND, AARON (1900-90)
-Aaron
Copland 1900-90 (Boosey & Hawkes)
-ARCHIVE:
Featured Subject: Aaron Copland
With News and Reviews
From the Archives of The New York Times
-ESSAY:
Who was that Masked Man?: In political life as in his music,
Aaron Copland decorously hid his emotions (David Schiff, The Atlantic)
-ESSAY:
Fanfare for Aaron Copland: Giving full expression to his own genius,
he also gave full expression to the American national character in music
(Terry Teachout, Commentary)
-REVIEW:
Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man Ýby Howard Pollack
(Nicholas Stix, A Different Drummer)
SHOSTAKOVICH, DMITRI (1906-75)
-REVIEW:
of Shostakovich: A Life by Laurel Fay Was It Good Party Music?
(JEREMY EICHLER, The Nation)
BARBER, SAMUEL (1910-81) (Born 9 March 1910 in West Chester,
Pennsylvania)
-Samuel
Barber (G. Schirmer, Inc. and affiliates)
-Classical
Net - Basic Repertoire List - Barber
-Samuel
Barber (1910-1981): American Composer
-PROFILE:
SAMUEL OSBORNE BARBER (1910-1981)(I Hear America Singing, PBS)
BRITTEN, BENJAMIN (1913-76)
-Benjamin
Britten b.1913 Lowestoft d.1976 Aldeburgh (Boosey & Hawkes)
GORECKI, HENRYK MIKOLAJ (1933-) (6 December 1933 in Czernica,
near Rybnik, Silesia)
-Brothers Judd Essential
Disc
Górecki:
Symphony no 3 / Kilanowisz, Wit, Polish NRSO $5.67
-PROFILE:
HENRYK MIKO£AJ GÓRECKI by James Harley and Maria Anna Harley
(Polish Music Reference Center)
-Composers:
Henryk Gorecki (Classical Net)(Reviews, sound sample)
-Henryk
Mikolaj Górecki (G. Schirmer, Inc. and affiliates)
-BIO:
HENRYK GORECKI - 1933 POLAND - LERCHENMUSIK
-Henryk
Mikolaj Górecki b.December 6, 1933 (Boosey &
Hawkes)
HARBISON, JOHN (1938-) (Orange, New Jersey on 20 December
1938)
-John
Harbison (G. Schirmer, Inc. and affiliates) Orange, New Jersey
on 20 December 1938
-Great
Gatsby
ADAMS, JOHN (1947-) (Worcester, Massachusetts on 15 February
1947)
-John
Adams (G. Schirmer, Inc. and affiliates)
-John
Adams - An Annotated Thematic Guide
-
John Adams b.1947 (Boosey & Hawkes)
GLASS, PHILLIP
-ESSAY:
The ups and downs of repetition: Broken Glass (JOHN ROCKWELL, New Republic)
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