What’s new on my music pages

20 February 2007

• Adjusted Mahler’s place-of-birth information, in response to comment from Patrik Zima. Kaliste (not Kalist) is in the modern Czech Republic.

17 January 2007

• Added link to online Neue Mozart-Ausgabe. (Thanks to Martin Percossi for pointing out its existence.)

14 June 2006

• Wrote a little more about Schumann, including story of self-inflicted finger injury. Also added picture (from Wikipedia).

19 April 2005

• Added link to www.all-about-beethoven.com site.

16 February 2005

• Added mention of Mendelssohn’s St. Paul oratorio to his entry, at Julie McDougal’s suggestion.

24 June 2004

• Added link to www.lvbeethoven.com site.
• Worried about list bullets overlapping with portrait images (at least in Firefox).
• Deleted Kenneth Leighton entry as the page at Edinburgh University had disappeared.

22 July 2003

Added a link to a “notes on Schubert” page.

2001

24 July 2001

Added a link to what appears to be Robert Craft's home-page on the page about his reactions to Shostakovich.

18 June 2001

Revised discussion of Holst's characterisation of his Planets, thanks to a comment from Tomi Inkinen.

15 March 2001

• Added description of Sibelius’ work on what was to be his eighth symphony.

10 January 2001

• Added a link to my weblog's description of Holst's The Planets.
• Also removed claim that each "planet" reflects character of appropriate Greco-Roman deity (consider Neptune).

2000

19 June 2000

• Added entry for Bruckner in "omitted" list.

10 April 2000

• Added link to my log in the main listing's preamble.

30 March 2000

• Updated entry for Strauss on the omitted composers list to make it clear that he is not a relation of the waltz composers. Also altered claim that Brahms didn't like Wagner to be vice versa.

23 March 2000

• Added an entry for Barber on the omitted composers list, and also extended the entry for Britten there.

2 February 2000

• Added link to Chopin Society's web-page in entry for Chopin, and added mention of his career in Paris.

1999

23 July 1999

• Recanted on retelling of “myth” of Brahms's seedy childhood.

23 April 1999

• Added paragraph to Brahms entry discussing slow concerto movements with prominent roles for non-solo instruments.

19 April 1999

• Prompted by John “Dear Tin Ears” Leydon, added minimal entry for Schoenberg on omitted composers page.
• Added brief paragraph to Elgar entry mentioning his cello concerto.

25 February 1999

• Shifted Tchaikovsky from the “omitted composers” page to the main web page.
• Started a subsidiary page on Tchaikovsky's Pathétique symphony.

11 February 1999

• Mentioned Elgar's third symphony, as reconstructed by Payne.

1998

21 August 1998

• Started this what's new page; linked to it from the main page.
• Recommended Ashkenazy recording of Shostakovich's seventh symphony.

Last modified: Mon Feb 19 22:39:05 GMT 2007