Malevolent Creation - Remnants Of Withered Decay (90 Demo Version)

Anyone who wanted to achieve fame had to write operas in Italian and in the Italian style. As, for example, Georg Friedrich Handel, who, although he attracted attention at the Hamburg Opera, achieved real success only in Venice, Florence, Rome and Naples, and later became famous in London with his Italian operas. His younger colleague, Johann Adolf Hasse, who was born in the suburbs of Hamburg Bergedorf and worked for many years in Dresden, was also quite Italian musically, and he also married an Italian diva. Until the end of the 18th century, Italy set the tone for European music, just as America and Great Britain undoubtedly occupy leading positions in pop music. The situation changed only with the advent of Mozart. Gioacchino Rossini, whom back in 1822, during his visit to Vienna,greeted with such enthusiasm that Beethoven and Schubert turned pale with envy, put it this way: “The Germans from ancient times were great masters in the field of harmony, we Italians, better than others, understood the melodies. But when they brought Mozart into the north, we Southerners were defeated in our own field, for this man towers above both nations. ”