Franz Schubert: “When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.” Robert Schumann: “To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.” Franz Liszt: “Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.”

Sources for this episode:

Hector Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewoAW-Zyuj8

Other Sources:

https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/periods-genres/romantic/#:~:text=Discover%20Music%20Home-,Romantic,inspiration%20from%20art%20and%20literature.

https://www.britannica.com/art/Romanticism/Music

https://www.musictheoryacademy.com/periods-of-music/romantic-period-music/

https://racheltaylorgeier.org/2017/04/15/75-inspirational-composer-quotes/

https://cnx.org/contents/5xVkusr9@11/The-Music-of-the-Romantic-Era

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zgcmxnb/revision/2

For those of you who know and don’t know, there is a conspiracy theory that Salieri killed Mozart by poisoning him with, perhaps using arsenic. Is that true? Or is it not? That’s the question that we will explore today!

Sources for this episode:

Amadeus Movie Scene, Mozart vs. Salieri:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ciFTP_KRy4

Salieri – Piano Concerto in B-flat major:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiDroZRF7YA

Salieri – Venice Symphony in D major:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKEI0iYnYVw

Other Sources:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Antonio-Salieri

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/dec/19/classicalmusicandopera.italy

http://www.salieri-online.com/bio1.php

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/03/antonio-salieris-revenge

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/mozart/guides/did-salieri-murder-mozart-mythbuster/

https://www.musicacademyonline.com/composer/biographies.php?bid=42

At 1 am on December 5 he died suddenly and unexpectedly. His corpse was consecrated in a cheap coffin and brought to the St. Marx Cemetery outside Vienna without any funeral cortege. Only the undertaker kept him company as the corpse, covered in a linen cloth, was lowered into a simple grave with five other deceased. The exact spot remains unknown. A monument, erected many years after his death at St. Marx Cemetery, commemorates the great composer and musician.

Sources for this episode:

Apollo et Hyacinthus, Mozart’s First opera:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g7-7zPZDr0

K.397, Fantasia in D minor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BkZ8ci8_k4

The Magic Flute – Queen of the Night aria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuBeBjqKSGQ

Mozart - Don Giovanni - complete

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL2VdxseTvE

Mozart Piano concerto no 27 in B flat major, KV 595 Trevor Pinnock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idvrich2Tyw

Other Sources:

https://www.biography.com/musician/wolfgang-mozart

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/mozart/

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/mozart/pictures/mozarts-15-birthday-facts/

http://www.mozart.com/

Why is a symphony different from a concerto?

Do you know the answer to this? I do, do you? I have created a YouTube channel for this podcast, so if you want nothing to happen, then just ignore it. But, if you go the Exploring Classical Music YouTube Channel and comment your answers, then absolutely nothing will happen. It’s your choice!

Sources for this episode:

Mozart - Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183 [complete]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNeirjA65Dk

Mozart, Piano Sonata in C major, No 16, K 545, Allegro:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNbqRC4xtEg

Other Sources:

https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/periods-genres/classical/classical-music-beginners-guide/

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/musicappreciation_with_theory/chapter/overview-of-the-classical-era/

https://www.classicalmpr.org/story/2014/08/11/the-classical-era-on-learning-to-listen

https://www.britannica.com/art/musical-composition/The-Classical-period

https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199757824/obo-9780199757824-0128.xml

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zthrcdm/revision/2

https://www.wqxr.org/story/what-are-four-movements-symphony/

Today we will explore a life of an unusual person – someone who challenged the paradigms of his time, someone who spent 30 days in jail for quitting his job, someone who gave up comfortable living for his kids, someone who was forgotten for 100 years after his death.

Sources for this Episode:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Johann-Sebastian-Bach

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/bach/

https://www.biography.com/musician/johann-sebastian-bach

http://www.baroquemusic.org/biojsbach.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6vF9owrxMo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i5O923PzeQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o