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Wolfgang Holzmair

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Wolfgang Holzmair (born 1952 in Vöcklabruck) is an Austrian baritone. [1]

79 relations: A German Requiem (Brahms), A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera), Andreas Haefliger, Ariadne auf Naxos, Baritone, Benjamin Britten, Bern Theatre, Boulevard Solitude, Canadian Opera Company, Capriccio (opera), Claude Debussy, Così fan tutte, Darius Milhaud, David Leisner, David Matthews (composer), Der Rosenkavalier, Dido and Aeneas, Die schöne Müllerin, Dmitri Smirnov (composer), Eduard Mörike, Engelbert Humperdinck (composer), Erich Zeisl, Ernst Krenek, Fellow, Francis Poulenc, Franz Mittler, Franz Schreker, Franz Schubert, Grammy Award, Gstaad, Hanns Eisler, Hans Werner Henze, Hansel and Gretel (opera), Heinrich Heine, Henry Purcell, Herbert Blomstedt, Hugo Wolf, Imogen Cooper, International Vocal Competition ´s-Hertogenbosch, Jörg Demus, Johannes Brahms, Kuhmo, Kurt Schwertsik, La Folle Journée, Les mamelles de Tirésias, Lied, Lockenhaus, Lori Laitman, Lotte Lehmann Foundation, Master class, ..., Meistersinger, Mozarteum University Salzburg, Musiktheater im Revier, Musikverein, Nash Ensemble, Neues vom Tage, Nigel Osborne, Oxford Lieder Festival, Paul Hindemith, Pelléas et Mélisande (opera), Philippe Cassard, Richard Strauss, Risør, Robert Schumann, Roger Vignoles, Royal College of Music, Schwanengesang, Styriarte, Tannhäuser (opera), The Electrification of the Soviet Union, The Magic Flute, Theresienstadt concentration camp, Trio Wanderer, Udo Zimmermann, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Vöcklabruck, War Requiem, Weiße Rose (opera), Wigmore Hall. Expand index (29 more) »

A German Requiem (Brahms)

A German Requiem, to Words of the Holy Scriptures, Op.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera)

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, is an opera with music by Benjamin Britten and set to a libretto adapted by the composer and Peter Pears from William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Andreas Haefliger

Andreas Haefliger (1962, Berlin) is a German-born Swiss pianist.

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Ariadne auf Naxos

(Ariadne on Naxos), Op. 60, is an opera by Richard Strauss with a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

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Baritone

A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice types.

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Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist.

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Bern Theatre

Bern Theatre, known in the city as Stadttheater Bern, is an opera house and theatre in Bern, Switzerland.

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Boulevard Solitude

is a (lyric drama) or opera in one act by Hans Werner Henze to a German libretto by Grete Weil after the play by Walter Jockisch, in its turn a modern retelling of François Prévost's Manon Lescaut.

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Canadian Opera Company

The Canadian Opera Company (COC) is an opera company in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Capriccio (opera)

Capriccio, Op.

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Claude Debussy

Achille-Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer.

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Così fan tutte

(Thus Do They All, or The School for Lovers), K. 588, is an Italian-language opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart first performed on 26 January 1790 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria.

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Darius Milhaud

Darius Milhaud (4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher.

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David Leisner

David Leisner (born December 22, 1953) is a classical guitarist, composer, and teacher at the Manhattan School of Music and an expert on focal dystonia.

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David Matthews (composer)

David Matthews (born 9 March 1943) is an English composer of mainly orchestral, chamber, vocal and piano works.

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Der Rosenkavalier

(The Knight of the Rose or The Rose-Bearer), Op.

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Dido and Aeneas

Dido and Aeneas (Z. 626) is an opera in a prologue and three acts, written by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate.

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Die schöne Müllerin

(Op. 25, D. 795), is a song cycle by Franz Schubert based on poems by Wilhelm Müller.

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Dmitri Smirnov (composer)

Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov (Дми́трий Никола́евич Смирно́в; born 2 November 1948, Minsk), also known by his pen names Dmitri N. Smirnov and D. Smirnov-Sadovsky, is a Russian and British (since 1991) composer.

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Eduard Mörike

Eduard Friedrich Mörike (8 September 1804 – 4 June 1875) was a German Romantic poet and writer of novellas and novels.

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Engelbert Humperdinck (composer)

Engelbert Humperdinck (1 September 1854 – 27 September 1921) was a German composer, best known for his opera Hansel and Gretel.

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Erich Zeisl

Erich Zeisl (May 18, 1905 – February 18, 1959) was an Austrian-born Jewish American composer.

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Ernst Krenek

Ernst Krenek (August 23, 1900December 22, 1991) was an Austrian, later American, composer of Czech origin.

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Fellow

A fellow is a member of a group (or fellowship) that work together in pursuing mutual knowledge or practice.

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Francis Poulenc

Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (7 January 189930 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist.

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Franz Mittler

Franz Mittler (April 14, 1893, in Vienna – December 28, 1970, in Munich) was an Austrian (and later on an American) composer, musician, and humorist.

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Franz Schreker

Franz Schreker (originally Schrecker; 23 March 1878, Monaco – 21 March 1934, Berlin) was an Austrian composer, conductor, teacher and administrator.

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Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Gstaad

Gstaad is a village in the German-speaking section of the Canton of Bern in southwestern Switzerland.

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Hanns Eisler

Hanns Eisler (6 July 1898 – 6 September 1962) was an Austrian composer (his father was Austrian, and Eisler fought in a Hungarian regiment in World War I).

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Hans Werner Henze

Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer.

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Hansel and Gretel (opera)

Hansel and Gretel (German) is an opera by nineteenth-century composer Engelbert Humperdinck, who described it as a (fairy-tale opera).

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Heinrich Heine

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was a German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic.

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Henry Purcell

Henry Purcell (or; c. 10 September 1659According to Holman and Thompson (Grove Music Online, see References) there is uncertainty regarding the year and day of birth. No record of baptism has been found. The year 1659 is based on Purcell's memorial tablet in Westminster Abbey and the frontispiece of his Sonnata's of III. Parts (London, 1683). The day 10 September is based on vague inscriptions in the manuscript GB-Cfm 88. It may also be relevant that he was appointed to his first salaried post on 10 September 1677, which would have been his eighteenth birthday. – 21 November 1695) was an English composer.

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Herbert Blomstedt

Herbert Blomstedt (born July 11, 1927) is a conductor laureate of the San Francisco Symphony.

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Hugo Wolf

Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf (13 March 1860 – 22 February 1903) was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder.

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Imogen Cooper

Imogen Cooper, CBE (born 28 August 1949) is an English pianist.

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International Vocal Competition ´s-Hertogenbosch

The International Vocal Competition 's-Hertogenbosch (Dutch: Internationaal Vocalisten Concours 's-Hertogenbosch, IVC) has been in existence since 1954.

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Jörg Demus

Jörg Demus (born 2 December 1928, in St. Pölten) is an Austrian pianist.

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Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic period.

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Kuhmo

Kuhmo is a town and a municipality in Finland and is located at the south-eastern corner of the Kainuu region.

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Kurt Schwertsik

Kurt Schwertsik (born 25 June 1935, Vienna) is an Austrian contemporary composer.

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La Folle Journée

La Folle Journée is a French annual classical music festival held in Nantes.

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Les mamelles de Tirésias

Les Mamelles de Tirésias (The Breasts of Tiresias) is an opéra bouffe by Francis Poulenc, in a prologue and two acts based on the eponyme play by Guillaume Apollinaire.

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Lied

The lied (plural lieder;, plural, German for "song") is a setting of a German poem to classical music.

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Lockenhaus

Lockenhaus (Hungarian Léka; Croatian Livka) is a town in the district of Oberpullendorf in the Austrian state of Burgenland.

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Lori Laitman

Described by Fanfare Magazine as “one of the most talented and intriguing of living composers,” Lori Laitman has composed multiple operas and choral works, and over 250 songs, setting texts by classical and contemporary poets (including those who perished in the Holocaust).

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Lotte Lehmann Foundation

The Lotte Lehmann Foundation, named for the German soprano Lotte Lehmann, was founded in 1999, and served to preserve and perpetuate her legacy, and to honor her dream of bringing art song into the lives of as many people as possible.

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Master class

A master class is a class given to students of a particular discipline by an expert of that discipline — usually music, but also painting, drama, any of the arts, or on any other occasion where skills are being developed.

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Meistersinger

A (German for "master singer") was a member of a German guild for lyric poetry, composition and unaccompanied art song of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries.

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Mozarteum University Salzburg

The Mozarteum University Salzburg (German: Universität Mozarteum Salzburg), also known simply as Mozarteum Salzburg, is a university in Salzburg city, Austria, which specializes in music and the dramatic arts.

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Musiktheater im Revier

Musiktheater im Revier (MiR) (Music Theatre in the Ruhr) is the venue for performing opera, operetta, musical theatre and ballet in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

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Musikverein

The (Viennese Music Association), commonly shortened to, is a concert hall in the Innere Stadt borough of Vienna, Austria.

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Nash Ensemble

The Nash Ensemble of London is an acclaimed English chamber ensemble.

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Neues vom Tage

Neues vom Tage (English: News of the Day) is a comic opera (Lustige Oper) in three parts by Paul Hindemith, with a German libretto by Marcellus Schiffer.

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Nigel Osborne

Emeritus Professor Nigel Osborne MBE (born 23 June 1948, Manchester, England) is a British composer, teacher and aid worker.

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Oxford Lieder Festival

The Oxford Lieder Festival is a UK-based classical music festival, specialising in the art-song repertoire.

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Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith (16 November 1895 – 28 December 1963) was a prolific German composer, violist, violinist, teacher and conductor.

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Pelléas et Mélisande (opera)

Pelléas et Mélisande (Pelléas and Mélisande) is an opera in five acts with music by Claude Debussy.

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Philippe Cassard

Philippe Cassard (born 12 September 1962) is a French classical pianist.

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Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras.

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Risør

is a municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway.

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Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann (8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer and an influential music critic.

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Roger Vignoles

Roger Vignoles, born 12 July 1945, is a British pianist and accompanist.

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Royal College of Music

The Royal College of Music is a conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK.

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Schwanengesang

Schwanengesang ("Swan song"), D.957, is the title of a collection of songs written by Franz Schubert at the end of his life and published posthumously.

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Styriarte

Styriarte (also written styriarte) is an annual summer festival of classical music in Graz and Styria, Austria, established in 1985.

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Tannhäuser (opera)

Tannhäuser (full title Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg, "Tannhäuser and the Minnesingers' Contest at Wartburg") is an 1845 opera in three acts, music and text by Richard Wagner, based on two German legends; Tannhäuser, the legendary medieval German Minnesänger and poet, and the tale of the Wartburg Song Contest.

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The Electrification of the Soviet Union

The Electrification of the Soviet Union is an opera in two acts by Nigel Osborne.

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The Magic Flute

The Magic Flute (German), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder.

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Theresienstadt concentration camp

Theresienstadt concentration camp, also referred to as Theresienstadt ghetto, was a concentration camp established by the SS during World War II in the garrison city of Terezín (Theresienstadt), located in German-occupied Czechoslovakia.

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Trio Wanderer

Trio Wanderer is a French piano trio made up of Vincent Coq piano, Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian (since 1995, replacing Guillaume Sutre) violin and Raphaël Pidoux cello.

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Udo Zimmermann

Udo Zimmermann was born in Dresden on October 6, 1943.

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University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, abbreviated MDW) is an Austrian university located in Vienna, established in 1817.

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Vöcklabruck

() is the administrative center of the Vöcklabruck district, Austria.

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War Requiem

The War Requiem, Op. 66, is a large-scale, non-liturgical setting of the Requiem composed by Benjamin Britten mostly in 1961 and completed in January 1962.

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Weiße Rose (opera)

Weiße Rose (White Rose)The title of the opera is often shown as Die Weiße Rose; however, the publisher, Breitkopf & Härtel, shows both versions as.

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Wigmore Hall

The Wigmore Hall is a concert hall located at 36 Wigmore Street, London.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Holzmair

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