Posts Tagged ‘Handel’

  • More Musical Pulp

    More Musical Pulp

    March 19th, 2012 | Artists and Musicians | journalpulp | 5 Comments

    Goethe at fourteen-years-old once heard Wolfgang Mozart (aged six) play the harpsichord: “The little man, with powdered wig and sword,” Goethe described him as. Luciano Pavarotti could not read music. David Bowie has a tattoo of a lizard on his ankle. Haydn and Beethoven each nominated Handel as the greatest of composers. Whereas Berlioz called […]

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  • Artists And Musicians

    Artists And Musicians

    February 23rd, 2012 | Artists and Musicians | journalpulp | 2 Comments

    Saphho was small and dark, yet in his famous rendering of her, Raphael made her blond and fleshy. Richard Wagner wore pink underwear and was about five feet tall. Gauguin fathered at least four illegitimate children in Tahiti — this in addition to the legitimate clan he abandoned back home. Beethoven, Brahms, Gluck, Haydn, Mahler, Mozart, […]

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