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May 24, 2023:
18th-Century Musicians Saw Themselves as Craftworkers
18th-century metalworkers The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there. — L.P. Hartley: The Go-Between (1953) In the …
May 23, 2023:
Telemann’s Flute Fantasias
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1676) played the flute (among several other instruments), which explains his understanding of the capabilities of the …
May 22, 2023:
What is Historically Enlightened Performance?
Adolph von Menzel: Flötenkonzert Friedrichs des Großen in Sanssouci (c.1850)
Historically Enlightened Performance (HEP) is a term I recently coined …