The "Lessons on Aesthetics" are the result of notes taken by Hegel's students at the university lectures on aesthetics given by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in Heidelberg and Berlin between 1818 and 1829.
For Hegel, music is one of the supreme points of art because if art tends by its essence to grasp the absolute in the sensible, and it is all the more perfect the more it tries to overcome it, …
After regular studies in the Leipzig Conservatory and an advanced course with a pupil of Liszt, Eugène d'Albert, Backhaus played in Germany and England and at twenty-one won the Anton Rubinstein Competition that was held in Paris in 1905.
One of his opponents was Béla Bartók, who said of the winner "actually sounds very good", while observing a bit acidly "plays Bach's Fugues with the metronome", that is mechanically.
Backhaus' first recordings date …
There are three types of levers distinguished by the position of their elements: power, resistance, fulcrum. Human body levers are almost all of third species, ie in them the fulcrum is positioned between power and resistance. The latin word fulcrum means to support: it is the point from which a lever moves. The fulcrum is a motionless point from which levers operate and acquire their power. The fulcrum itself exerts …
Without intervals we wouldn’t have melody, chords, or scales. They really are one of the foundations of music. An interval in music is defined as a distance in pitch between any two notes. The larger the interval between two notes, then the greater the difference in pitch between the notes. And vice versa, the smaller the interval between two notes then the smaller the pitch between the notes. Semitones and …
Beethoven's fame exploded across Europe after the 1814-15 Vienna Congress. During the Congress Beethoven had conducted a concert which included his Symphony n. 7. The second movement of the Symphony, Allegretto, had aroused such enthusiasm that it had to be immediately replicated. And since about two hundred diplomatic delegations from all over Europe were then present in Vienna, it is easy to understand how Beethove’s name spread to the most …