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, …
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 …
The history of piano interpretation is divided into two great eras. From the end of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century, we can only speak of prehistory of interpretation because the sound documents are completely missing. From the beginning of the twentieth century to nowadays, the increasing number of recordings let us make the so-called history of interpretation.
From the end of the eighteenth century …
Vienna, October 1767.
Out of ten children recorded in the death register, nine had died of smallpox.
The engaged princess Maria Josepha of Habsburg Lorraine, betrothed to Ferdinand IV of Bourbon king of Naples, contracts the disease and dies at sixteen.
All theaters in the Empire are closed for six weeks.
Leopold Mozart makes the decision to leave "this haunted city" and heads with his family to Olmütz, two hundred kilometers north.
After two days …
The influence of Field and Hummel, distinguished pianists, in the genesis of the Chopinian musical style has been widely examined by musicologists. Instead, it is interesting to research the tradition of instrumental style - the musical schools - that Chopin got to know in his formative years.
Chopin's first teacher was Wojciech Zywny, Bohemian. His musical education seems to be discreet. His specific knowledge of piano technique …