#oratorios

[kecobe]

Le Paradis et la Péri = Paradise and the Peri Henri Fantin-Latour (French; 1836–1904) 1901 Lithograph, on smooth cream paper (signed proof) © The Trustees of the British Museum

Inspired by Robert Schumann's secular cantata Das Paradies und die Peri

The plate was published in Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, October 1901.

[rapture-in-red]

I love Carmina Burana. It's like a Humanist Oratorio

[bobonbooks]

Review: Handel: The Man & His MusicT

Review: Handel: The Man & His MusicT

Handel: The Man & His Music, Jonathan Keates. New York: Random House, 2009.

Summary: A biography of George Frideric Handel, tracing his life through his music, from his training in Halle, his time in Italy, and his long career in England, following George I’s ascent to the English throne, through the formation of three opera companies, and the composition of the oratorios for which he is most…

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[themusicofstillness]

Sometimes I stumble across gems in my music history notes like “they couldn’t sing in the church, so they sang outside like hippies” or “Handel started his career with opera in Italy but had financial troubles so he said fuck it and moved to England to write oratorios”

[theblackcatknowsall]

Reasons to love Easter: ORATORIOS

[letme-singforyou]

I should never be allowed to take notes