Influenced by the early loss of his father and the loss of his fatherland later in his life, after World War I the Galician Jew Roth grew into his role of chronicler of the perished Habsburg …

Swan Song Composer Schubert, Franz: Opus/Catalogue Number Op./Cat. No. D.744 (Op.23 No.3) I-Catalogue Number I-Cat. No. IFS 656 Key A-flat major Movements/Sections …

An equally simple crucifix is supposed to have spoken to Emperor Ferdinand II when beset by a delegation of Protestant nobles who wanted to exploit the Habsburg monarch’s precarious …

2016年10月31日 · Fin-de-siècle Vienna crackled with intellectual and cultural activity. The swan song of the moribund Habsburg empire, its cultural efflorescence has much to tell us about …

Additionally, the song asks God that “Thy Law always be his Will, And may this be like laws to us” (Cross 370), calling on the empire’s subjects to treat the will of the emperor as the will of God. …

„Dich, o Geist, anweht?“ Bis das Leben floh. Das bedeutet des Schwanen Gesang! That flows through my limbs? With its breath?' Until life ebbed away. That is the swan's song! Franz Peter …

The ‘Holy Grail’, an agate dish, was held to be the vessel that caught the blood of Christ on the Cross and was therefore of major religious significance. It was rumoured to contain a …

2021年11月1日 · From the mountaintop, the swan trumpeted God’s Word to the hearts of God’s people, arming simple laymen with the triumphant song of the Reformation, sola Scriptura. …

But the idea of the silent swan leaving a final musical offering to posterity is a traditional one. Unlike Schütz's, Bach's swan song appears to have been conceived not for devotional …

Veneration of the Eucharist was a leitmotif of Habsburg piety. The Corpus Christi procession was always celebrated with great opulence; it was not only a resplendent spectacle for the general …