LOUISE REICHARDT - GERMANY
BORN 17 NOVEMBER
Louise Reichardt was a German composer and choral conductor. Her German songs or Lieder, written in an accessible style akin to folk music, were popular, and she was influential in the musical life of Hamburg, Germany, where she lived from 1809.
She was born in Berlin. She was the daughter of composers Juliane Reichardt (1752–1783) and Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752–1814) and granddaughter of Franz Benda (1709–1786).
In 1809 she moved to Hamburg where she studied with Johann Frederich Clasing. She taught music, instructed choruses, and composed. She did not rely on royalty or wealthy patrons to hear her music. During her time in Hamburg, from 1809 until 1826, she composed the majority of her Lieder. She reached the public by writing in an easily accessible, folksy style, combining memorable melodies with simple piano accompaniments.
Reichardt was also active as a choral conductor and established a Gesangverein choral society in Hamburg. However, due to the prevailing sexism of the times, she was never allowed to conduct them in public. "Despite these gender restrictions, Reichardt strongly influenced musical life in Hamburg through her composing, teaching, and behind-the-scenes conducting." She also translated the Latin works of Hasse and Graun into German.
Source: Wikipedia and A Modern Reveal
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Tiefe Andacht by Louise Reichardt
LANETE LIND - USA
BORN 17 NOVEMBER
BORN 17 NOVEMBER
Lanette Lind is an american Composer, Pianist and Teacher. She has composed symphonic and chamber music, in addition to music for theatre, dance, and documentary films. Major orchestras, including the St. Louis Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Syracuse Symphony, and Rochester Philharmonic, have performed her symphonic works. “A Celebration of Spirituals” was recently performed at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Her musical theater works have been presented at the American Music Festival in Philadelphia, at the Douglas Fairbanks Theater and Lincoln Center in New York, Theatre in the Park in Raleigh, NC and the Longstreet Theater in Columbia SC.
She has received numerous commissions and awards, including the North Carolina Composer’s Fellowship, National Music Theater Network, Raleigh Medal of Arts, Cornell University, Dance Associates, the Raleigh Oratorio Society, ASCAP and is in Marquis’ Who’s Who and Who’s Who in American Women.
She is the pianist and Artistic Director of the Free Spirits Ensemble of the Raleigh Symphony Orchestra. This chamber ensemble presents several concerts of new American music every season.
During her student years at Indiana University School of Music, she studied with Patricia Benkman and Ozan Marsh, whose principal teachers were Egon Petri, Emil Sauer, Robert Casadesus and Rachmaninoff.
As a teacher, she continues to share her love of music with students of all ages and levels of ability.
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