During the trend of composers writing operas about composers (witness, for example, Alfred Schnittke's 1994 Gesualdo, Franz Hummel's 1996 Gesualdo, and Bo Holten's 2004 Gesualdo) it was not, in fact, an entirely new phenomenon. Pfitzner's 1915 Palestrina is the earliest composer-opera to have come anywhere close to entering the repertoire, but ...
It is the Strauss family that comes to mind when dance music of the middle nineteenth century is mentioned, but other continental cities had their composer/orchestra leaders who ruled their local scenes when it came to the waltz, polka, galopp, and numerous lesser dance crazes. The relevant figure for Berlin was Benjamin Bilse, largely ignored ...
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