Hacker News with Generative AI: Classical Music

Vega's Puzzling Disk (centauri-dreams.org)
Over the weekend I learned about Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 47, unusual in that it offers up some of its treasures in perfect symmetry.

Music, Symmetry, Classical Music

59 points by JPLeRouzic 16 days ago | 1 comments

A Chopin waltz unearthed after nearly 200 years (nytimes.com)
An unknown work in the composer’s hand has emerged in a New York museum, the first such find in more than a half century. The pianist Lang Lang plays it here.

Music, Classical Music, History, New York

444 points by perihelions 25 days ago | 130 comments

Fantasia for Piano: Joyce Hatto's Incredible Career (2007) (newyorker.com)
Joyce Hatto must be the greatest living pianist that almost no one has ever heard of.

Music, Biography, Piano, Classical Music

22 points by mitchbob 46 days ago | 1 comments

Previously Unknown Mozart Composition Turns Up in a German Library (artnet.com)
In his lifetime, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed upwards of 600 works—symphonies, operas, sonatas, and concertos—that have fixed him in the pantheon of Western Classical music. His known oeuvre, though, just got one bigger as a German library has unearthed a previously unheard piece he wrote in his youth.

Classical Music, History, Germany, Music Discovery

5 points by mdp2021 61 days ago | 3 comments

'Tchaikovsky's Empire' Review: Echoes of an Imperial Composer (wsj.com)

Classical Music, Music Reviews, Russia, Tchaikovsky

7 points by tintinnabula 87 days ago | 2 comments

Why don't they compose music like Bach any more? (marginalrevolution.com)

Music, Classical Music, History, Composition

10 points by paulpauper 125 days ago | 6 comments

Why don't they compose music like Bach any more? (marginalrevolution.com)

Music, Classical Music, History

53 points by surprisetalk 126 days ago | 80 comments

French court rules Ravel is sole author of classical music masterpiece 'Bolero' (france24.com)

Music, Law, Classical Music

11 points by rntn 145 days ago | 6 comments

Diminuendo Lagrimoso: Tracing the decline of big opera voices (2023) [pdf] (princeton.edu)