• About This Site

    This is a blog dedicated to literary fiction, the arts, and just general thoughts. It will feature book reviews, essays about music and art work, as well as thoughts about philosophy. About Me I am a writer with a Ph.D. in History from Carnegie Mellon University. I also attended St. John’s College, via the Davies-Jackson…

  • Little Known Composers: Artemy Vedel

    To commemorate the one-year anniversary of Russian invasion of Ukraine, Wikipedia recently featured an article about the Ukrainian choral composer Artemy Vedel on its front page. In many respects, Artemy Vedel is the embodiment of both a little-known composer and Russian oppression of Ukraine, as he faced persecution from the Russian government and subsequent censorship…

  • Little Known Composer: Fernando Sor

    Fernando Sor, whose name has been variously rendered as Ferdinand Sor, Joseph Fernando Macario Sors, Ferdinando Sor, and Ferran Sors, was a late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century composer and performer of the classical guitar. In modern times, when the guitar is more closely associated with jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll – to…

  • Little Known Composer: Arvo Part

    Arvo Part is a comparatively recently composer, born in 1935 and still alive today. Part was born in Estonia and received heavy training as a musician in his early years, unlike some other composers who were basically autodidacts. He began composing works when he was only a teenager, and a biography states that “He just…

  • Little Known Composer: Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Wilhelm Stenhammar is a now obscure but very talented Swedish composer who lived in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A child prodigy who initially composed pieces for the piano, his musical aspirations were transformed by the influence of other Scandinavian composers such as Jean Sibelius. Sibelius’s example led him to overhaul his musical…

  • Little Known Composer: Anton Reicha

    Little Known Composer: Anton Reicha

    Recently, I have been listening to the music of Anton Reicha, also known as Antonin or Antoine Reicha or Rejcha.

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