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The new Musicatlas now also has many places in North-West Italy and North-East Italy. Work is still in progress, so keep coming back to check the latest additions. Hungary is now complete, and should only get minor corrections or additions.
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Latest composer news
- Wagner's Villa Wahnfried to be renovated
(23 June 2009)The German government has announced that it will invest €500,000 for the renovation of Richard Wagner's former house. Villa Wahnfried is situated in the city of Bayreuth in South Germany.
In Villa Wahnfried there is also a museum as well as an archive about Wagner. Museum director Sven Friedrich said that museum will be extended with an exhibition about the arguable role the Wagner family played in Nazi-Germany.
[Source: NRC Handelsblad / nrc.nl]
[→ Go to Richard Wagner’s page] - €500,000 Kagel legacy for Amsterdam ensemble
(23 June 2009)The German-Argentinean composer Mauricio Kagel, who died last year, has left a legacy of €500,000 to Amsterdam-based Asko/Schönberg Ensemble. Kagel's only condition is that the sum is not to be spent on performances of his own compositions.
[Source: NRC Handelsblad / nrc.nl]
[→ Go to Mauricio Kagel’s page] - Fauré score was lost, now sells for £20,000
(10 June 2009)The BBC site reports that a recently discovered piano duet score by Gabriel Fauré was sold for £20,000 at an auction at Sotheby's last Wednesday. The composition for piano duet stems from around 1870.
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8093731.stm for more information. The site also allows you to listen to a fragment of a recording of the composition.
[Source: news.bbc.co.uk]
[→ Go to Gabriel Fauré’s page] - The Gottschalk project
(5 June 2009)Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn’s Historic Green-Wood Cemetery today announced a new fundraising campaign to recreate “The Angel of Music” – a delicate and intricate sculpture that once marked the grave of legendary 19th century American composer- pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869). The angel disappeared from the gravesite under unknown circumstances more than 50 years ago.
The initiative, Saved in Time: The Gottschalk Project, is administered under the auspices of The Green-Wood Historic Fund, a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization.
A New Orleans native, Gottschalk was recognized as a child prodigy by the local bourgeois establishment, and by the 1860s was considered the foremost pianist in the “New World.” Existing photos of his monument show a white marble angel approximately 4’10” high standing atop a 6 ½-foot tall marble pedestal and base. The angel’s left hand held a tablet inscribed with titles of Gottschalk’s most famous compositions. A heraldic trumpet was tucked beneath the angel’s arm. Her right hand extended in a gesture suggestive of leading an orchestra. At her feet was a classical lyre.
“Green-Wood Cemetery boasts thousands of artistically and architecturally significant sculptures, statues and monuments. But, with each passing year, caring for these historic treasures becomes a more daunting and expensive task,” said Richard J. Moylan, president of Green-Wood Cemetery.
“While mystery surrounds the angel’s disappearance, our ultimate goal is to restore this beautiful site for future generations and to once again honor this great musical virtuoso with a new statue that captures the character and spirit of the original,” Moylan added.
The Historic Fund is currently reviewing design submissions from sculptors around the country. Three finalists will be announced in late June. The winning design will be unveiled in October 2009. Mr. Moylan estimated total costs for the Gottschalk Project will be approximately $200,000.00.
Established in 1838, Green-Wood Cemetery was declared a National Historic Landmark by the Department of the Interior in 2006. The 478-acre cemetery is home to thousands of monuments, many designed by world renowned turn of the century sculptors. Among the nearly 600,000 souls interred there are, Leonard Bernstein, Horace Greeley, FAO Schwartz, Samuel Morse, Boss Tweed, and more than 3,000 veterans of the Civil War – both North and South.
To support the Gottschalk Project with a tax deductible contribution, or for more information visit www.green-wood.com.
[Source: J. Salter / www.green-wood.com]
[→ Go to Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s page]