Classical Byways

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Coming up this week music and bios on
Giovanni #Bottesini
Francois #Boieldieu
Piotr of #Grudziadz

A quick tour via Milan, Rouen and the Polish city of Gruziadz

And you can still catch Danish composer Otto Makling
All at

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Franziska Dorothea Danzi 1756-1791

This week don’t miss our piece on the 18th century female composer Franciscan #Danzi
And later this week we have Nicolas #Vallet, Giacomo #Perti and Martin-Joseph #Mengal
All legends of their time
Brief bios and musical selection for each composer

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Daniel Pio Dal Barba 1715-1801

Don't miss today's composer Daniel da #Barba classicalbyways.substack.com/p/daniel-pio...
Coming up over the next few days we will be featuring:
Rebikov
Fiala
Paer
For each composer you'll find a brief biography and a sample of their music.
There's more to classical than Classic FM!!

Composers Over time we’ll cover lots of composers.

If you've missed some of our regular updates we've set up a new page with all of the #composers we've covered with
the composer's name, dates and the (modern) country in which they were born.
Each has a link to the page where we featured them:
classicalbyways.substack.com/p/composers

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After today's offering of the persecuted Lucrezia Vizzani (surely the composer with the most z's in their name?!) we have Sigismun Thalberg and Charles Marie Vidor coming up.
To listen to their music and find out more, pop along to classicalbyways.substack.com
Classical music roads less travelled

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Coming up in the next few days on Classical Byways, music by and notes on:
John Sheppard
Florian Deller
Emilie Mayer

Today we have a sample of chamber music by Gustaf Hägg

To listen in and read about these composers, go to:
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Today we feature Rachmaninoff, not an unknown but one of his lesser known pieces.
Coming up over the next few days:
John Plummer
Fanny (not Felix) Mendelssohn
Antonio Brioschi and Sylvius Weiss
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Today we have some music from the grandly named #Napoleon #Reber. Poor chap!
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Coming up over the next few days:
#desPrez
#Heinichen
#Plummer
#Rachmaninoff

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Comin up in the next week we have pieces by #Galuppi #Vieuxtemps #Reber and #DesPrez
What do they have in common?
All too rarely heard in the concert hall these days. We publish a new piece around every 2 days.
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Composers Over time we’ll cover lots of composers.

We've already clocked up over 50 lesser known composers or less well known pieces by well known composers on Classical Byways.
If you want to take a walk through the list you can do so here:
classicalbyways.substack.com/p/composers
Each composer on the list has a link to the music and bio.

Nikolai Myaskovsky 1881 - 1950

This morning on Classical Byways a more modern piece from Russia. One of those compositions you may not have heard of, but it still manages to sound so familiar.
#Myaskovsky
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Jean Richafort 1480 - 1547

In a world full of chaos, deceit and war sometimes the quiet contemplative qualify provided by the #harmony of the human voice can be the #panacea we need.
Today's Classical Byways takes a look at #JeanRichafort, the 15th c #Flemish composer.
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Pavel Chesnokov 1877 - 1944

This morning we have a piece from Pavel #Chesnokov featuring some amazing #bass voices
Unusual but mesmerising
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#TombTuesday the grave of Sergei Lyapunov, Russian emigre composer buried in Paris at Batignolles Cemetery

Kit Chapman on Classical byways If I had been listening to this blind, I might have identified the composer as George Butterworth. Anyway, I loved it. Thank you, Andrew …

To start the New Year we have planned music and bios for Jean #Richafort, Pavel #Chesnokov, Jan #Oehlschlagel, Petronio #Franceschini and Karel #Kohaut.
But to quote Eric Morecombe - not necessarily in that order. Some phenomenal music!
Have a listen:
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José Avelino Canongia 1784-1842

Todays offering from Classical Byways
#Canongia
#Clarinet

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Todays offering here:

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There’s a brief bio and a sample of music to listen to.

Try something different….

Johann Heinrich Schmeltzer 1623 - 1680

Here’s our latest offering:

classicalbyways.substack.com/p/johann-hei...

Each post follows the same format, the composer, their dates, a few biographical details and then a link to s piece of music to try.

Have a go and tell us why you think