Tag: art
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Chopin & the Parisian Salon
“But if indeed he wrote for a salon of any sort, it was for a salon frequented exclusively by geniuses.” — Heinrich Schenker The music of Frederick Chopin has been so successfully adopted into our twenty-first century culture of large-scale recitals and international competitions that it is worth revisiting the social setting in which his music…
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Finishing the Unfinished: Schubert and Artificial Intelligence
Originally published by the Oxford Review of Books (ORB) in Summer 2019. You shall live as few live, but of course you cannot die an ordinary death; you will die of eternity. –Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (Novalis) In 1814, the Leipzig-based Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung published the first version of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s…
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