What does it mean to be a trailblazer? A trailblazing musician can be someone who experiments with unusual techniques on a musical instrument … or maybe it’s a young woman who follows her passion for music from inside the walls of a convent in 17th century Italy. You’ll hear music by these trailblazers on Sunday Baroque this week.
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This Labor Day holiday weekend, Sunday Baroque is featuring some of the hardest working musicians of the 16th through 18th centuries: exceptionally prolific composers including German musician Michael Praetorius who wrote more than 1500 compositions … and Neapolitan keyboard virtuoso Domenico Scarlatti, who created 555 keyboard sonatas. They’ll do the work while you enjoy the holiday weekend.
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Did you know that a baroque era composer – Georg Philipp Telemann – earned the Guinness Book of World Record’s title of “most prolific composer”?? On this Labor Day holiday weekend, Sunday Baroque will celebrate the hard working musicians of the 18th century with a sampling of his thousands of compositions. It’s on Sunday Baroque.
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For some musicians in the baroque era, making music was only a part-time profession … some strategically worked day jobs until they could support themselves in music, some had family wealth that allowed them to be dilettantes, and quite a few women composers in the baroque era were nuns who composed sacred music for their religious communities. You’ll hear compositions by some of these part- time musicians on Sunday Baroque this Labor Day weekend.
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