Word: orfeo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Florentine musician in the court of the Duke of Mantua named Claudio Monteverde produced one of the first real operas. This work, "L'Orfeo", was revolutionary in character for it employed a wide varsity of musical forms as well as utilising what was then an unusually large orchestra. From this opera, two orchestral interludes titled Sinfonie and Ritornelli are to be played by the Symphony, providing an excellent seventeenth century balance for the rest of the program...
...music under a church organist, was later taught by the great French Organist Charles Marie Widor. Concurrently he studied theology, took degrees at the University of Strasbourg. A Protestant curate at 25, he became organist at 28 to the Societe J. S. Bach of Paris, later played tor the Orfeo Catala in Barcelona. Rapidly becoming an expert on the eschatological elements in Christ's thought, Dr. Schweitzer published in 1906 his epochal work The Quest of the Historical Jesus. But he felt satisfied neither as a man of letters nor as a man of Bach. A statue of a savage...