Maren Morris - To Hell & Back

BONN (Bonn) - the capital of Germany. 229.4 thousand inhabitants (1970). Until the 17th century musesB.'s culture was limited to the church. by singing. Muses city ​​center (from the end of the 16th century) - St. Cassius His choir, consisting of students of monastery schools, was led by the parish. bandmaster Charles V J. Tenier. In the 17th century B. became the residence of the Cologne princes, archbishops, which affected the development of the parish. musesart. The parish was built. theater, organized by wok. and instr. chapels. Representations were given by wandering foreigners. actors and opera companies. In 1778, the Nat. theater (headed by K. G. Nefe). For the first time on his stage a post. several small ital. opera father of Beethoven - Johann van Beethoven. In the 18th century in the repertoire of ital. artists were dominated by opera buffa; him. troupes put in B. singing spiers of local composers and comedian. opera franc., german and Czech. masters. Later divertissements were staged, performed with music by local composers (P. Grabeler, A. Mora, I. Kinkel and others). In the aristocratic. In B.'s circles, home-made music was spread, in which patron aristocrats took part: the singer and pianist Countess M. A. von Hatsfeld (L. Beethoven dedicated her variations on the theme “Venni amore” - “Come, love!”, 1790, Vol. 1802),French horn chapels and composer, subsequently founder of the Bonn publishing house d'Antoine and others. Participants and hands. par. chapels in the 80s 18 century there were famous Italian composers M. Neri, J. Donini, the Rhys family, cellist B. Romberg, flutist, subsequently an outstanding theorist and comp.