The Hammock Papers: Respighi

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09 July 2025

Happy Birthday, Ottorino Respighi

Ottorino Respighi was born on this day in 1879.

Olga Scheps performs the Siciliana from Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 3 ...

09 July 2023

Happy Birthday, Respighi

Ottorino Respighi was born on this day in 1879.

Anna Heller plays the Valse Caressante ...

16 September 2022

Respighi, Six Pieces for Piano

Roberto Plano performs the Notturno ...

09 July 2022

Happy Birthday, Respighi

Ottorino Respighi was born on this day in 1879.

The NBC Symphony Orchestra performs The Pines of Rome, conducted by Arturo Toscanini ...

09 July 2021

Happy Birthday, Respighi

Ottorino Respighi was born on this day in 1879.

Arturo Toscanini conducts the NBC Symphony in a performance of The Pines of Rome ...

09 July 2020

Happy Birthday, Respighi

Ottorino Respighi was born on this date in 1879.

Lorin Maazel conducts Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini in performing The Fountains of Rome filmed at the Great Baths at Emperor Adrian's villa in Tivoli ...

09 July 2018

Happy Birthday, Respighi.

Ottorino Respighi was born on this day in 1879.

The Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, directed by Carlos Kalmar, performs The Boutique Fatasque Suite ...

15 May 2018

Respighi, The Birds

Evgeny Svetlanov conducts the State Academic Symphony Orchestra ...

08 May 2018

Respighi, Adagio con variazioni, for Cello & Orchestra, P. 133

Misha Maisky, cello ...

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

"When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone and of good cheer – say travelling in a carriage or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep – it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence, and how, they come I know not ; nor can I force them. Those ideas that please me I retain in memory and am accustomed, as I have been told, to hum them to myself. If I continue in this way, it soon occurs to me how I may turn this dainty morsel to account, so as to make a good dish of it. That is to say, agreeable to the rules of counterpoint, to the peculiarities of various instruments etc. All this fires my soul, and, provided I am not disturbed, my subject enlarges itself, becomes methodised, and defined, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I can survey it like a fine picture or a beautiful statue at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once. What a delight this is, I cannot tell."

MARCUS AURELIUS

"Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?' neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility."

VINCENT van GOGH

"What am I in the eyes of most people? A nonentity or an oddity or a disagreeable person — someone who has and will have no position in society, in short a little lower than the lowest. Very well — assuming that everything is indeed like that, then through my work I’d like to show what there is in the heart of such an oddity, such a nobody. This is my ambition, which is based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Even though I’m often in a mess, inside me there’s still a calm, pure harmony and music. In the poorest little house, in the filthiest corner, I see paintings or drawings. And my mind turns in that direction as if with an irresistible urge. As time passes, other things are increasingly excluded, and the more they are the faster my eyes see the picturesque. Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and unceasing observation."