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About Me
- Nige
- Nige, who, like Mr Kenneth Horne, prefers to remain anonymous, was also a founder blogger of The Dabbler and a co-blogger on the Bryan Appleyard Thought Experiments blog. He is the sole blogger on this one, and his principal aim is to share various of life's pleasures. These tend to relate to books, art, poems, butterflies, birds, churches, music, walking, weather, drink, etc, with occasional references to the passing scene. His book, The Mother of Beauty: On the Golden Age of English Church Monuments, and Other Matters of Life and Death, is available on Amazon or direct from the author.
1791. What a year Nige. Not knowing that December would bring his passing, he finished the last great piano concerto, knocked out The Magic Flute and Clemenza di Tito, the E flat string quartet and the Clarinet Concerto, and somehow found time to at least start the Requiem. And somewhere along the line he wrote this sublime motet in less than two days. Did he sleep?
ReplyDeleteWe can only marvel, Mm. What gifts, what industry, what genius. He's up there with Bach, surely, in all those departments.
ReplyDeleteLovely Nige. A few years ago I went to a Juventus match in the Stadio delle Alpi and then did my Christmas shopping in the Galleria where these people are singing. Turin is wonderful. An account here:
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Thanks Guy. Turin sounds like a pretty amazing city. Hope I see it one day..
ReplyDeleteWe'll bring you back to the Old Faith yet, Nige!
ReplyDeleteWell, I must say an awful lot of the best church monuments in my book are to Recusants...
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