The Greatest Baroque Composer Never Known
by Jennifer Noonan from Damn Interesting on (#3T9MY)
The Greatest Baroque Composer Never Known:
As a choirmaster in 1870s Salzburg, Innocenz Achleitner often saw sheet music treated in a less-than-reverent manner. It might be scattered across a composer's desk, crammed into vocalists' folios, or even marred with personal notes about bowings or breath marks. Never before, however, had he seen it wrapped around vegetables. Only about 80% of men ["]