
In 1737 at age 71, after more than four decades serving in numerous positions as a Court violinist, orchestra director, and part-time composer, Jean-Féry Rebel
There’s some question as to whether or not all of these works are by Gluck, but it doesn’t matter. The music is unfailingly enjoyable, the
As far as his church music is concerned, Johann Christian Bach, the youngest of Johann Sebastian’s surviving sons and often referred to as “the London
What are we to make of music by a composer who died at 27 because he had the “bizarre” idea of eating spiders and who
For more than 25 years Ignaz Holzbauer (1711-83) was the music director of the Court of Mannheim. Although his fame (and his appointment to his