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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's Die Zauberflöte (1791) is usually said to be the beginning of German opera. An earlier starting date for German opera, however, could be Heinrich Schütz 's Dafne from 1627. Schütz is said to be the first great German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach, and was a major figure in 17th-century music.
The German Music Archive (German: Deutsches Musikarchiv, DMA) in Leipzig, [1] is the central collection of printed and recorded music and the music-bibliographic information centre for Germany. It is a Federal agency founded in 1970, tasked with collecting all music published in the country. Publishers of printed and recorded music in Germany ...
Website. www .zpkm .uni-freiburg .de. The Deutsche Volksliedarchiv, a research institute for Volkslied (folk song) in German, was founded in 1914 and was integrated into the University of Freiburg in 2014, now called Zentrum für Populäre Kultur und Musik (Centre of popular culture and music). It has extensive collections of traditional and ...
IFA Wartburg toured Im Dienste des Sozialismus in Germany and Switzerland from 1998–1999, attracting the attention of the German media. An unofficial lyric and music video for the first track Freie Deutsche Jugend (lit. ' Free German Youth '), posted to YouTube by the channel Omnistar East, has accumulated over 5 million views as of June 2024.
Website. www .fdj .de. The Free German Youth ( German: Freie Deutsche Jugend; FDJ) is a youth movement in Germany. Formerly, it was the official youth movement of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. [1] The organization was meant for young adults, both male and female, between the ages of 14 and 25 and ...
Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Ernst Heinrich Leopold Richter, Schlesische Volkslieder mit Melodien, 1842. " Die Gedanken sind frei " (Thoughts are free) is a German song about freedom of thought. The original lyricist and the composer are unknown, though the most popular version was rendered by Hoffmann von Fallersleben in 1842.
Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart ( MGG; "Music in the Past and Present") is a German music encyclopedia. It is among the world's most comprehensive encyclopedias of music history and musicology, on account of its scope, content, wealth of research areas, and reference to related subjects. It has appeared in two self-contained printed ...
Frank Peterson (born 29 December 1963) is a German music producer known for his work with Enigma and artists such as Sarah Brightman, Ofra Haza, Gregorian, Princessa, and Andrea Bocelli on his first international album, Romanza . Peterson was born in Hamburg. As a child, he taught himself to play the piano and keyboard, going on to work in a ...