Molto Espressivo

Leontyne Price, Photo by Irving Penn, 1961

Music in Film: Amadeus (1984) dir. Miloš Forman

The opening bars of Bach’s Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244.

“The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.” Glenn Gould [born 25 September 1932]

Alban Berg’s autographed musical quotation from Lulu dedicated to Dr. Alfred Kalmis, his lifelong publisher, dated 1935.

First page of Debussy’s Noctures signed and inscribed “à Maurice Ravel en réelle sympathie, Claude Debussy, August 1901″.

𝙾𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚊 𝙶𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚎𝚛 𝚒𝚗 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚜, 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎.

Handwritten manuscript of Mendelssohn’s Lieder ohne Worte - Op. 19, No. 2 (dated December 11, 1830), which belonged to Vladimir Horowitz.

Charles Mingus at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, 1964. Photos by Guy Le Querrec.

Stravinsky at his aunt’s house in Ustyluh, 1912.

Leonard Bernstein and Maria Callas during rehearsals for La Somnambula at La Scala, 1955.

Handwritten manuscript of Mendelssohn’s Lieder ohne Worte - Op. 19, No. 2 (dated December 11, 1830), which belonged to Vladimir Horowitz.

Maria Callas in costume for La Traviata, 1955

1812 Overture- Tchaikovsky // Overture (from William Tell)- Rossini // Rite of Spring- Stravinsky // Hungarian Dance No. 3-  Brahms // Gran Partita- Mozart //  Quartet No. 12, “The American”- Dvorak // Ave Maria- Bach and Gounod // Piano Concerto No. 2- Rachmaninoff // The Four Seasons: Spring- Vivaldi 

Palais Garnier - Grand Staircase (3D Model) | by walidlayouni

Maria Callas and Leonard Bernstein, 1955