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...500th anniversary of his birth, East Germany celebrated Martin Luther. Today, in their tercentenary year, it praises George Frideric Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach, the two greatest composers of the Baroque. Here, where the lives and paths of such men as Luther, Handel, Bach, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Richard Wagner intersect, the glory, unity and tragedy of German history are a living memory...
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...postwar cultural reconstruction of Europe. Dresden, a baroque jewel set gracefully on the banks of the Elbe, has long been a center of German musical life. It boasts a distinguished lineage of kapellmeisters that extends back to Heinrich Schutz in the 17th century and includes Carl Maria von Weber and Richard Wagner. It has been called an "El Dorado for premieres," and so it was: among the operas first performed there are Wagner's The Flying Dutchman and Tannhauser, and Richard Strauss's Salome, Elektra and Der Rosenkavalier. Symbolically, the resurrected Semper Opera opened with Weber's Der Freischutz...
...German Composer Udo Zimmermann and an opera by Siegfried Matthus, so perhaps Dresden's reputation as a home for new music will be at least partially restored. And Wolfgang Wagner, the composer's grandson who maintains the family shrine at Bayreuth, will direct a new production of Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg in December. But what the Semper needs is what the rest of Eastern Europe's houses need: the free exchange of singers, designers and directors with the West so that the art form can flower fully. The current political chill between the superpowers may not allow...
Despite inferior housing arrangements and Houses. If students like a diverse House population enough that it more than compensates for inferior structures and greater isolation can von imagine how valuable diversity would be in an architecturally first-rate as Eliot or Lowell...