Category: Articles
Appreciating Haydn the Opera Composer
Appreciating Haydn the Opera Composer: With Background and Analysis of Joseph Haydn’s L’Infedeltà delusa By Sara Hartley Llewellyn (nee. Frister) Spring 2001 When music critics of today look back at Classical era opera, they see Mozart, not his equally talented, overshadowed counterpart, Joseph Haydn. This inequality is very unfortunate, but when we take [...]
German Lied
German Lied: The Foundation of German Romanticism By Sara Hartley Llewellyn (nee. Frister) March 2000 Romanticism and the poetry from which it sprang made possible the development of the great Leider of Schubert, Wolf, Mahler and the great song writers of their time. Contributing factors to the development of this intimate musical [...]
Alcohol as the Veinnese Vehicle for Denial and Disillusionment
Alcohol as the Veinnese Vehicle for Denial and Disillusionment: An Analysis of “Drink My Darling” and “King Champagne the First” from Johann Strauss’s Dei Fledermaus By Sara Hartley Llewellyn (nee. Frister) December 1998 In Die Fledermaus Johann Strauss confronts political disillusionment with unmistakable Viennese escapist humor. Ever since its opening in Vienna [...]
An Analysis of Verdi’s “Lachrymose” from the Requiem
Tears Appealing Judgment: An Analysis of Verdi’s “Lachrymose” from the Requiem By Sara Hartley Llewellyn (nee. Frister) April 1998 The deep, bitter realization that every great creator of music in Italy had perished prompted Verdi to compose his Requiem. He expressed a great emotion in the tearful “Lachrymose”. Here within we will expose the history [...]
