Word: spontini
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...each generation has the right to its own repertoire, if only it will exercise it. Classical music need not be so unrelentingly obsessed with its place in history. "Think of forgotten music that was played in the past with gusto and pleasure," says Luca, perhaps recalling the ghosts of Spontini and Spohr. "I am willing to take a chance that someone down the road will decide one day not to play the piece." And instead of a war-horse, play something...
...plaster. Scenes from plays like Goethe's Faust and Lessing's Nathan der Weise adorn the doorways; in the auditorium, the gilt chandelier is topped with the crest of the old Saxon monarchy. It illuminates a mid-19th century musical pantheon that includes Mozart, Beethoven, Gluck, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer and Spontini...