On this week's Sunday on Blue Lake with Foley Schuler we celebrate the birthday today of the Viennese music publisher, editor and composer, Anton Diabelli, best remembered as the author of the little waltz on which Beethoven wrote his monumental set of 33 variations for piano (which will serve as our musical centerpiece this week.)
We'll also be celebrating several other early September birthdays—including that of Anton Bruckner (on September 4) by way of the composer's only extended chamber music work, the Quintet in F, in our first hour and his beloved choral masterpiece, the Te Deum in the final one. He would refer to his powerful setting of the traditional Chritian hymn as the “pride of my life, officially dedicating the score "A.M.D.G." ("Ad maiorem Dei gloriam"—Latin for "For the greater glory of God"), in heartfelt gratitude for surviving years of severe professional anxiety and artistic rejection in Vienna.
Finally, rounding out the program will be several enigmatic early works for solo piano by the great American composer, thinker and pioneering figure of the musical avant-garde, John Cage, in honor of the recent anniversary of his birth on Saturday, September 5,
You can hear Sunday on Blue Lake with Foley Schuler every Sunday from 1 until 4 pm on Blue Lake Public Radio.
