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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
His playing too advanced for small-town churches, his cantatas far more complex than those of his contemporaries (and thus under-appreciated), Bach initially found his genius thwarted. This program surveys the amazing achievements of the man of whom...
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Richard Wagner
In Lohengrin, Wagner links arias with recitatives - unbroken musical continuity is born. In Tristan und Isolde, he changes the very role of the orchestra. And in The Ring of the Niebelungen, he invents the leitmotif. This program charts the fortunes...