The old maxim that "history is written by the winners" is a strong one in the historiography of music. In reference to Russian music of the nineteenth century, common wisdom dictates that the "winners" are the Russian nationalist school exemplified by the followers of Mily Balakirev, composers such as Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. Such a narrow ...
Swiss singer, pianist, and composer Fanny Hünerwadel was born in 1826 and died of typhoid fever in 1854, at age 28. The booklet notes do a nice job of introducing her, noting among other things that she practiced an early form of music therapy in an insane asylum. She was apparently very good at what would today be called networking, crossing ...
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