If a requiem looms large among a composer's works, especially one written near the end of his or her life or in a morbid frame of mind, it inevitably becomes an unofficial, autobiographical epitaph.

Giovanni Sgambati conducted the Italian premiere of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 in 1867. He conducted the Italian premiere of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in 1870. Let that sink in for a moment.

Mala Punica (literally, pomegranates) is a vocal and instrumental ensemble devoted to the music of the trecento (14th century) and Ars Subtilior in Italy, a repertory that has been called the ...

From the musical hellfire of the Dies Irae to the sorrowful Lacrymosa and supplication of the Libera Me, Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem is one dramatic tour de force. When he heard about the death of ...

Domenico Cimarosa was a fast and witty writer of Italian opera who cranked out some 65 works in a comparatively short lifetime (he died at 51). The only one that survives is No. 49—a comic opera ...

The Requiem Mass by Giuseppe Verdi is a musical monument to art itself. It honors the great Italian writer Alessandro Manzoni, whose novel “I promessi sposi,” or “The Betrothed” in English, is among ...

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