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Luigi Boccherini – creating a lasting impression
Posted on September 10, 2013
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Searching for musical notes written down outside Haydn’s, Mozart’s and Beethoven’s study rooms I stumbled into some truly delightful pearls of creation. Prior to this moment in my life, hearing the name of Boccherini would have put a broad smile on my face, reminding me about some of my first contacts with music as a child watching The Muppet Show. He is widely known for this Celebrated Minuet (in the key of A major) from his String Quintet in E major, Op. 11 No 5, which appears in the media wherever there is a need to mock the aristocratic high society, or just “high culture” in general. I have included here one of my favourite sketches by the Muppet band called Electric Mayhem (I wanted to include them somewhere in my blog anyway):
The Muppet Show: The Electric Mayhem - "Minuet In G Major" https://youtu.be/_yC-Qd_nq30 via @YouTube
Béla Viktor János Bartók March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945
http://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/musicalofferings/vol3/iss2/2/
http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/events/exhibitions/in-the-musee-dorsay/exhibitions-in-the-musee-dorsay/article/allegro-barbaro-37122.html?tx_ttnews[backPid]=254&cHash=89fbb7ff65
the Musée d’Orsay on great figures in modern music – Mahler and Debussy - this exhibition will give the French public an opportunity to discover a particularly vibrant period in Hungarian cultural and artistic life, through Béla Bartók (1881-1945), the man and his music.
In the early 20th century, musicians and painters in Hungary shared a desire to seek new forms of expression and a renewal with tradition. Breaking new ground within the European avant-garde, in just a few years they created their own distinctive idiom, a modernity imbued with the traditions of Hungary.
With around one hundred paintings from public collections in Hungary and from private collections, including numerous documents relating to the young Bartók and to the musicians, composers, writers, poets, philosophers and psychoanalysts in his circle (musical scores, photographs, films, archive recordings, etc), the exhibition aims to revive this rich dialogue between music and the arts from early 20th century Hungary.
This exhibition takes place under the high patronage of Monsieur François Hollande, President of the French Republic, and János Áder, President of the Republic of Hungary.
- For a detailed presentation http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/events/exhibitions/in-the-musee-dorsay/exhibitions-in-the-musee-dorsay-more/article/allegro-barbaro-37122.html?tx_ttnews[backPid]=254&cHash=89fbb7ff65
Curators
Claire Bernardi, curator, Musée d'OrsayGergely Barki, art historian, Research Centre for the Humanities - Hungarian Academy of Sciences - INSTITUTE OF ART HISTORY, Budapest
Zoltan Rockenbauer, art historian
Exhibition organised with the special participation of the Budapest Szépművészeti Múzeum.
