Tag: classical-music
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December 8, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Reading brings us unknown friends.” — Honore de Balzac BIRTHDAYS: 65 BC Horace, Roman poet renowned for his lyric odes, satires, and epistles that blended Greek literary traditions with Roman sensibilities during the Augustan Age. 1731 František Xaver Dušek, Czech pianist, harpsichordist, and composer, born in Chotěborky, Vilantice, Kingdom of Boehmia.…
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December 7, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations BIRTHDAYS: 1598 Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor, architect, painter and city planner. 1637 Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer, born in Massa e Cozzile, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Toccata con lo scherzo del cucco 1648…
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December 6, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” — Scott Adams BIRTHDAYS: 1550 Orazio Tiberio Vecchi, Italian composer, born in Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio. “So ben mi ch’ha bon tempo”, and Amfiparnaso – Prologo. 1642 Johann Christoph Bach, German harpsichordist and composer. Keyboard…
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December 5, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he…
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December 4, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” — Carl Sagan BIRTHDAYS: 1660 Andre Campra, French composer. Sarabande à deux, and Rigaudon, and Marche du triomphe from Tancrède 1667 Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, French composer. Cantate “La mort de Didon”, and La Bergère 1858 Chester Greenwood, American inventor best known for creating the earmuff.…
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December 3, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Never memorize something that you can look up.” — Albert Einstein BIRTHDAYS: 1596 Nicolo Amati, Italian luthier renowned for his mastery in crafting violins, violas, and cellos during the 17th century in Cremona, establishing the Amati family as a cornerstone of the Cremonese school of violin making. 1729 Antonio Soler, Spanish…
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December 2, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” — Charles Darwin BIRTHDAYS: 1578 Agostino Agazzari, Italian organist, composer of madrigals and sacred music, maestro di…
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December 1, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it’s like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can’t eat steak.” — Robert Heinlein BIRTHDAYS: 1634 Jan-Erasmus Quellinus [Quellien], Flemish painter (court painter to Emperor Leopold I) 1709 Franz Xaver Richter, Austro-Moravian composer, singer and conductor, born in Holleschau, Moravia.…
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November 30, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” — Mark Twain BIRTHDAYS: 1634 Andrés de Sola, Spanish organist and composer. Tiento de medio registro de tiple, and „Tiento de medio registro de mano derecha de 1.tono”, and Tiento de IV Tono 1645 Andreas Werkmeister, German organist, musical theorist,…
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November 29, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Friendship … is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .” — C. S. Lewis BIRTHDAYS: 1797 Domenico Gaetano Donizetti, Italian opera composer (L’elisir d’amore; Lucia di Lammermoor), born in Bergamo, Cisalpine Republic. “una furtiva Lagrima”…
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