Songs & Dances of Death: 10 Classical Works for the End of Time

By |2023-01-20T17:38:06-06:00March 12th, 2020|Categories: Audio/Video, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gustav Mahler, Jean Sibelius, Music, Richard Strauss, Stephen M. Klugewicz, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|

From Modest Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death to Oliver Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, here are ten great classical pieces about death and the end of this world. They may or may not provide you comfort. 1. Songs and Dances of Death, by Modest Mussorgsky A song cycle for voice (usually bass [...]

“Dreaming by the Fireside”

By |2021-11-26T20:16:12-06:00December 10th, 2017|Categories: Audio/Video, Richard Strauss|

Richard Strauss' "Dreaming by the Fireside" ("Träumerei am Kamin") is one of the four orchestral interludes that the composer wrote for his 1924 opera, Intermezzo. Strauss himself wrote the libretto for this two-act drama, basing it on incidents in his marriage to his wife Pauline. The Imaginative Conservative applies the principle of appreciation to the discussion of [...]

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