Mozart, The Music, The Myth, The Legend, w/ Jan Swafford
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
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The Requiem, Ove Verm Corpus, Is a Little, Incredibly Simple, Queer Notes and Halfs Pece That Just Goes Right to the Heart Simplicity
In the late period beethoven, you get a sense of him just reaching for this sort of cosmic level of music making and composition. He was about to get the best job in town, scapel master of the cathedral. And he started saying, what do i want to write for religious music? His earlier religious music was good and competent and all very nice. But it was not very original or innovated. The first example of that is ove verm corpus - one of the most sublime things ever written.
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