User:Gerda Arendt | |
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| Born | August 2, 2009 Idstein, Germany |
| Other names | User:Gerda the Notorious Infoboxen wikiCriminal[2] |
| Education | Technische Hochschule Hannover |
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| Criminal penalty | Arbcom sanctions |
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| people, places, performances no foul, play on quality article improvement | |
Did you know ...
- ... that Bach created "colourful and delicate effects" by scoring 1714's Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn, BWV 152, a dialogue of Jesus and the Soul, for recorder, oboe, viola d'amore and viola da gamba?
- ... that Bach's Magnificat in E-flat major, BWV 243a, was performed for his first Christmas as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, but its initial performance may have been earlier in 1723 at a Marian feast there?
- ... that the hymn "Jesu, meine Freude"
(Jesus, my joy) by Johann Franck and Johann Crüger mentions singing in defiance of the "old dragon", death, and fear? - ... that rehearsing Dvořák's Eighth Symphony, a conductor said: "Gentlemen, in Bohemia the trumpets never call to battle – they always call to the dance!"?
- ... that in Handel's Messiah
, Part II contains the famous Hallelujah Chorus and the oratorio's longest movement, the air for alto He was despised? - ... that in the structure of Bach's St John Passion (first page pictured), the centre of symmetry is "Durch dein Gefängnis ...", expressing: "By your prison ... came our freedom"?
- ... that Johann Sebastian Bach reworked music from more than three decades earlier for the central piece Crucifixus in the symmetrical structure of his Mass in B minor?
- ... that Richard Strauss reportedly composed "Traum durch die Dämmerung" ("Dream in the Twilight"), from a love poem by Otto Julius Bierbaum, in 20 minutes?
- ... that Bach marked to repeat the opening chorus of cantata Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! BWV 172 after the final chorale? (8 June 2014)
- ... that soprano Carmen Reppel performed several parts in the Jahrhundertring, Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle staged by Patrice Chéreau, and sang in Siegfried Wagner's Schwarzschwanenreich?
- ... that Bishop Franz Kamphaus opposed the pope, "convinced that our way of counselling women would save the lives of many more children"?
- ... that it took more than half a century to complete the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, the second edition of the collected works of Johann Sebastian Bach?
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