The Anna Amalias

[ardcarp]

Interesting for their place in musical history. Both were competent composers (though much of the music played in the programme was by male associates) but the younger had connections with Kirnberger..... pupil ofJ.S. Bach.....and the older, Goethe. Their chief contribution to music is that, via their lavish courts, both left large music libraries, with important manuscripts, especially unpublished work of J.S. Bach. For me their place in the transition from Baroque to Galante was notable.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000sycn

[Historian]

Been reading about the younger Anna-Amalia today, pure coincidence, nothing to do with the programme. She must have been a remarkable woman, acting as a successful regent of Saze-Weimar-Eisenach for 17 years, quite apart from her musical talent (a fitting subject on International Women's Day):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchess_Anna_Amalia_of_Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Thank you very much for bringing the programme to my attention. I will make sure to listen to it.

[Constantbee]

Interesting for their place in musical history. Both were competent composers (though much of the music played in the programme was by male associates) but the younger had connections with Kirnberger..... pupil ofJ.S. Bach.....and the older, Goethe. Their chief contribution to music is that, via their lavish courts, both left large music libraries, with important manuscripts, especially unpublished work of J.S. Bach. For me their place in the transition from Baroque to Galante was notable.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000sycn

Thanks for this ardie. Looking forward to this. Just wondering whether they mentioned the catastrophic fire of 2004 that destroyed the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar, part of the UNO Classical Weimar World Heritage Site and founded by the younger A-A. A virtual walkthrough of the restored building now possible here:

https://www.klassik-stiftung.de/en/herzogin-anna-amalia-bibliothek/

[oddoneout]

Thanks for this ardie. Looking forward to this. Just wondering whether they mentioned the catastrophic fire of 2004 that destroyed the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar, part of the UNO Classical Weimar World Heritage Site and founded by the younger A-A. A virtual walkthrough of the restored building now possible here:

https://www.klassik-stiftung.de/en/h...ia-bibliothek/

The fire was indeed mentioned.