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Historical classical music recordings are generally classical music recordings made prior to the stereo era of vinyl disc recording, which began around 1957. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As time passes, even later recordings, made in the early stereo era are also being released as "historical" recordings, especially if they were never released or were dropped ...
Ring-and-spring microphones, such as this Western Electric microphone, were common during the electrical age of sound recording c. 1925–45.. The second wave of sound recording history was ushered in by the introduction of Western Electric's integrated system of electrical microphones, electronic signal amplifiers and electromechanical recorders, which was adopted by major US record labels in ...
This is a list of classical music composers by era. [1] [2] [3] [4] With the exception of the overview, the Modernist era has been combined with the Postmodern ...
Headquartered in Berlin Friedrichshain, it is now part of Universal Music Group (UMG) since its merger with the UMG family of labels in 1999. Deutsche Grammophon is the world's oldest surviving established record company. [2] Presidents of the company are Frank Briegmann, Chairman and CEO Central Europe of Universal Music Group and Clemens ...
There are probably still more early guitar recordings of high value and historic importance that can be discovered (e.g. there seems to be a lack of early recordings by Central and Eastern European guitarists, etc.), possibly in archives of record companies (or discontinued record companies), or in early radio recordings or private collections.
Date ranges of classical music eras are therefore somewhat arbitrary, and are only intended as approximate guides. Scholars of music history do not agree on the start and end dates, and in many cases disagree whether particular years should be chosen at all. The 20th century has exact dates, but is strictly a calendar based unit of time.
February 14 – Wilhelm Fitzenhagen, cellist and music teacher (b. 1848) March 13 – Henry Wylde, conductor, composer, music teacher and critic (b. 1822) April 16 – John Barnett, composer and music writer (b. 1802) May 6 – Hubert Léonard, violinist (b. 1819) May 28 – Viktor Nessler, composer (b. 1841)
The piece “Echoes from Ugarit”, whose name bears the album, is the oldest music notation in the world that was discovered in the city of Ugarit, Ras Shamra - Syria, on cuneiform tablets dating back to the fourth century BC. Malik Jandali, the Syrian pianist, was the first musician in the world to deal with this notation, add rhythm and ...