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13 Days When Music Changed Forever - Program 08:<br>January 25, 1909: Richard Strauss' "Elektra"

The premiere of “Elektra,” Richard Strauss‘s farthest out work and perhaps the only piece from the days of early modernism that retains its ability to shock today.

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13 Days When Music Changed Forever - Program 06:<br>August 13, 1876: Launch of the "Ring" Cycle

The launch of the first “Ring” cycle at Bayreuth. A program about the danger and appeal of Wagner’s full-immersion mythology, and why the composer was so important, even to those who hated him.

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13 Days When Music Changed Forever - Program 03: October 29, 1787: The Premiere of Don Giovanni

With this work, Mozart attains his maturity and writes a masterpiece that dominates opera forever afterwards, echoing in Wagner and beyond.

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13 Days When Music Changed Forever - Program 01: February 24, 1607 - The Premiere of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

 

A program about the dawn of opera, but also about secular music becoming through-composed high art (something that had been the exclusive purview of church music). Up for discussion include precursors to L’Orfeo in Ancient Greece and Rome, as well as Jacopo Perri’s Euridice, written a generation before Monteverdi.

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