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POSTPONED THE DECISION OF THE MUSICAL ESSAY COMPETITION
28/12/2007
Due to the great amount of articles submitted to take part in the First Goldberg Musical Essay Competition promoted by the Goldberg Foundation, the Jury has resolved to postpone their decision until 31 January 2008. |
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GOLDBERG MAGAZINE Nº49: DOMENICO SCARLATTI
01/12/2007
We couldn’t conclude 2007 without paying our own special tribute to Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), the 250th anniversary of whose death has been marked this year. Although Italian by birth, as a musician he could also lay claim to Portuguese as well as Spanish credentials. The latter stem not only from the fact that Spain was his country of adoption, but from the intense musical activity and influential role that characterised his almost thirty years in Madrid. |
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GOLDBERG MAGAZINE Nº48: LUCA MARENZIO
01/10/2007
In 1610, a few years before his death, Luca Marenzio was hailed as 'that musician who goes dispersing delight with his sweetness and lightness, determined above all not to offend the ear, but enticing it with exquisite sweetness', and a century later another Italian writer referred to Marenzio as 'the sweetest swan who composed in the madrigal style'. |
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GOLDBERG MAGAZINE Nº47: SYLVIUS LEOPOLD WEISS
01/08/2007
'Only Silvio should play the lute', reads the inscription on his headstone, expressing the admiration that the German composer and instrumentalist inspired during his day and age. Silvius Leopold Weiss (1686-1750), the composer who occupies the central pages of this issue of our magazine, was recognized in his era as one of its greatest musicians. |
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GOLDBERG MAGAZINE Nº46: GUIDO D'AREZZO
01/06/2007
Guido d´Arezzo was not simply a trailblazing monk in the art of teaching music, but also one of the leading figures in the history of Catholic Church reform at the start of the 11th century, a time when the church faced a new period of turbulence in the eternal debate between opposing camps that believed in material and spiritual wealth, respectively. |
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GOLDBERG MAGAZINE Nº45: MATEO FLECHA THE ELDER
02/04/2007
Mateo Flecha, el Viejo, is one of the best-known Spanish composers of the Renaissance, despite his small output. But as Maricarmen Gómez explains in her article in this issue, this recognition did not come until 1955, when Higinio Anglés transcribed half a dozen of his ensaladas. |
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THE GOLDBERG FOUNDATION INVITES SUBMISSIONS FOR A PRIZE AWARDED TO ESSAYS AND ARTICLES ON EARLY MUSIC
02/04/2007
The Goldberg Foundation, recently created with a view to encouraging new initiatives in the rediscovery, promotion, dissemination and reappraisal of the classical music heritage, has instituted an annual prize for the best contributions in the research and dissemination of early music and its history. |
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GOLDBERG MAGAZINE NO44 : BALDASSARE GALUPPI
01/02/2007
The first issue of GOLDBERG in 2007 is an invitation to settle in a comfortable chair and forget about winter for a few hours as we discover some of the most fascinating, entertaining and exciting episodes in the history of music. The mosaic begins with the Venetian composer Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785), the leading figure of his day in the field of Italian opera. |
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GOLDBERG MAGAZINE NO43 : TOMASO ALBINONI
01/12/2006
There are few stories in the world of music as curious as that accompanying the fame of Albinoni, who is popularly and unfailingly associated with the music of an “Adagio” he never composed. But this is only one of many other surprising details Frédéric Délamea discusses in his excellent and exhaustive article about Tomaso Albinoni, a composer known for a spurious work while, paradoxically, the rest of the immense and extraordinary output is unknown. |
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GOLDBERG MAGAZINE NO42 : JEAN-FÉRY REBEL
01/10/2006
French music proudly boasts a golden age of baroque music from the 17th and 18th centuries, with names such as Charpentier, Couperin, Lully and Rameau, as well as tens of other lesser-known, but also important composers. One of them, Jean-Féry Rebel, is this issue’s feature composer. |
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