A Ukrainian Baroque composer for balance: Dmitry Bortniansky (1751-1825), a prolific composer of operas, chamber works, symphonies. ••He performed the première Beethoven’s Missa solemnis••
Berlioz heard: “…an entanglement of voice parts that seemed impossible: vague murmurs as one sometimes hears in dreams and attacks that, in their intensity, resembled outbursts, seizing the heart all of the sudden.”
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