Joseph marcello composer biography

Joseph Marcello, a professional musician, composer and teacher, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1947; he is the winner of the 1998 national Delius Award.
Joseph Marcello is an American composer and author, and the director of Music for Life Studios in Northfield, Massachusetts.
Joseph Marcello is an award-winning composer and author of many books on well-being and spirituality.

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Joachim Raff

German-Swiss composer and pianist (1822–1882)

Joseph Joachim Raff (27 May 1822 – 24 or 25 June 1882) was a German-Swiss composer, pedagogue and pianist.^[1]

Biography

Raff was born in Lachen in Switzerland.^[2] His father, a teacher, had fled there from Württemberg in 1810 to escape forced recruitment into the military of that southwestern German state that had to fight for Napoleon in Russia. Joachim was largely self-taught in music, studying the subject while working as a schoolmaster in Schmerikon, Schwyz and Rapperswil.^[1] He sent some of his piano compositions to Felix Mendelssohn who recommended them to Breitkopf & Härtel for publication. They were published in 1844 and received a favourable review in Robert Schumann's journal, the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, which prompted Raff to go to Zürich and take up composition full-time.^[3]

In 1845, Raff walked to Basel to hear Franz Liszt play the piano. After a period in Stuttgart where he became friends with the conductor Hans von Bülow, he wo

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Talon of the Blackwater: Laura Siersema

WALES ONLINE

Meet the US songwriter moved to pen a song to pay tribute to the victims of Aberfan – despite having no links to Wales

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/meet-songwriter-moved-pen-song-9014905

Thursday, April 9, 2015

Story by Huw Silk

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Aberfan – One Woman’s elegy for a Welsh village’s young disaster victims

Aberfan – One Woman’s elegy for a Welsh village’s young disaster victims (page 2)

Saturday, April 4, 2015

Story by Richie Davis

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Encores & Curtain Calls: “Humility & Conviction”

By Joseph Marcello
Thursday, October 31, 2013

“I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life — but I have felt it.”— Igor Stravinsky

You don’t need to have a bulldozer to go deep; if you know where to find the gold, you can mine the same treasure much more humbly with a simple spade.

Laura Siersema is a singer-composer-keyboardist who prefers the simple spade. Her creations are seldom if ever complex, often rocking us into her

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The piano concerto was invented by a Venetian named Benedetto Marcello in the early 1700s. Marcello was a well-known and respected composer of the time, and his concertos were highly popular. Unfortunately, little is known about Marcello’s life, and no records of his concertos survive. It is believed that he wrote at least six piano concertos, but only two of them have been found. The first known piano concerto was written by Marcello in 1708. It was published in London in 1711 under the title “Concerti per il cembalo.” The concerto was in three movements, and it was likely performed by Marcello himself. The concerto was well-received, and it was reprinted several times. The second known piano concerto by Marcello was written in 1717. It was published in Amsterdam in 1720 under the title “Concerti per il cembalo e violino.” This concerto was in four movements, and it was likely performed by Marcello and his son, Pietro. The concerto was once again well-received, and it was reprinted several times. Marcello’s concertos were highly influential, and they helped to establish the pia