You finally got to it! I just was looking for more submissions for Leonardo Leo. I will study the score in detail. This is something that neither Mozart nor Bach could do. Wagner called it a cathedral. Will be back with more soon. Leo Depuydt
Hello again, I am curious when Wagner would have heard of Leo's music, I have not seen it mentioned in any of his biography's I have read, nor his diary (the Brown Book)
@@TheOneAndOnlyZeno Thanks again for doing this. I will try to find where Wagner called it a "cathedral." It is mentioned in more than one place. I did not note it down systematically. I will write as soon as I find out. I am sure that it is trustworthy. I did already find the answer to your question in Giuseppe Pastore's _Leonardo Leo_ (p. 109): Wagner heard Leo's Miserere in Naples in 1880 and modeled the children's choir in Parsifal after it. I have to check this out. I have not listened to this Parsifal. The question remains: Who is Wagner? A composer who adapted Leonardo Leo? Wow, that is so cool. Anything else that we need to know about Wagner? Leo Depuydt PS (Pastore 112) For just this Miserere, the Duke of Savoy gave Leo a yearly pension of 100 "once" (ounces?) of silver and "covered" him with rich gifts. Seems like a small amount for the greatest composer of the eighteenth century (says Johann Friedrich Reichardt). PPS As you know, the Miserere is the most prominent piece of music in the painting of Leonardo Leo at S. Pietro a Majella. PPPS And why is it not noted in any of Wagner's biographies as you say? I have the answer to that one: Because German music critics brutally repressed any hint about the superiority of Italian music to which they owed everything. Music is Italy's gift to the western world. I do have to check whether Glasenapp has it in the later edition of Wagner's biography.
@@leodepuydt308 Interesting and exhaustive comment, I am surprised you have not heard Parsifal, the great musical drama ever composed arguably, that or his even more famous Tristan und Isolde love-death drama - I have a score-video of the complete drama, and believe me when I say the first time I watched this work performed on the stage, and just hearing the music to the opening prelude, was a life changing experience, it is that powerful. Also the children's chorus is most prominent at 1:07:31 though I hear no connection or similarity to Leo's Miserere setting ruclips.net/video/Mq5fQ751i6A/видео.html
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You finally got to it! I just was looking for more submissions for Leonardo Leo. I will study the score in detail. This is something that neither Mozart nor Bach could do. Wagner called it a cathedral. Will be back with more soon. Leo Depuydt
Hello again, I am curious when Wagner would have heard of Leo's music, I have not seen it mentioned in any of his biography's I have read, nor his diary (the Brown Book)
@@TheOneAndOnlyZeno Thanks again for doing this. I will try to find where Wagner called it a "cathedral." It is mentioned in more than one place. I did not note it down systematically. I will write as soon as I find out. I am sure that it is trustworthy. I did already find the answer to your question in Giuseppe Pastore's _Leonardo Leo_ (p. 109): Wagner heard Leo's Miserere in Naples in 1880 and modeled the children's choir in Parsifal after it. I have to check this out. I have not listened to this Parsifal. The question remains: Who is Wagner? A composer who adapted Leonardo Leo? Wow, that is so cool. Anything else that we need to know about Wagner? Leo Depuydt PS (Pastore 112) For just this Miserere, the Duke of Savoy gave Leo a yearly pension of 100 "once" (ounces?) of silver and "covered" him with rich gifts. Seems like a small amount for the greatest composer of the eighteenth century (says Johann Friedrich Reichardt). PPS As you know, the Miserere is the most prominent piece of music in the painting of Leonardo Leo at S. Pietro a Majella. PPPS And why is it not noted in any of Wagner's biographies as you say? I have the answer to that one: Because German music critics brutally repressed any hint about the superiority of Italian music to which they owed everything. Music is Italy's gift to the western world. I do have to check whether Glasenapp has it in the later edition of Wagner's biography.
@@leodepuydt308 Interesting and exhaustive comment, I am surprised you have not heard Parsifal, the great musical drama ever composed arguably, that or his even more famous Tristan und Isolde love-death drama - I have a score-video of the complete drama, and believe me when I say the first time I watched this work performed on the stage, and just hearing the music to the opening prelude, was a life changing experience, it is that powerful. Also the children's chorus is most prominent at 1:07:31 though I hear no connection or similarity to Leo's Miserere setting
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