CLARA FAISST - GERMANY
BORN 22 JUNE
BORN 22 JUNE
Clara Mathilda Faisst was a German pianist, composer and writer.
Faisst was born in Karlsruhe, Baden. She studied music at the Karlsruhe Conservatory and later traveled to Berlin, then in Prussia, to study under the noted pianist Max Bruch (1838 – 1920). After completing her studies, she worked as a pianist, music teacher and composer.
During World War II, Faisst conducted house concerts. She was a prolific composer, producing over a hundred separate works, including ballads, choral pieces and sonatas for violin and piano. She corresponded with Albert Schweitzer and the two became good friends. Faisst never married and died in Karlsruhe at age seventy-six. As she had no family, her possessions were put out as trash, but some of her letters and music were rescued and preserved.
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BEATRIZ CORONA - CUBA
BORN 22 JUNE
Beatriz del Carmen Corona Rodríguez is a composer, choir director, arranger and musical producer. She is one of the most solid and prestigious composers of Choral Music in Cuba as well as one of Cuba's most prolific contemporary composers. Her catalog of choral works as well as her arrangements for voices in different formats define her as an important choral music composer of today.
As a composer she has managed to offer a vast musical production with a catalog with around 200 choral works of different formats: orchestral music, chamber music, religious works, incidental music for movies (for the films Amor Vertical and Sabor Latino), (the latter with her brother Kiki Corona).
Her interest in the human voice predominates in her compositions as insurmountable sound medium.
Beatriz'music nourishes the repertoire of almost all the choirs of our music schools, that of choral, symphonic and chamber ensembles such as the Exaudi, National choirs, and the Schola Cantorum Coralina. The Santiago de Cuba Symphony Orchestra and the D'Camera Trio conducted by the pianist Marita Rodríguez.
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