Wolfgang Kossuth | Lo scultore tedesco della Scala di Milano

Wolfgang Alexander Kossuth (1947-2009) è stato un pittore, scultore, violinista e direttore d’orchestra Tedesco.

Ha dedicato tutta la sua vita all’arte, fondendo la passione per la musica a quella per le arti figurative.

Le sue opere ritraggono grandi personalità del mondo della musica, della letteratura e della danza.

Wolfgang Alexander Kossuth nasce in Germania, a Pfronten nel 1947 e muore a Milano, il 31 dicembre 2009.

Richard Strauss and Nietzsche: "Also Sprach Zarathustra"

Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 is a tone poem by German composer Richard Strauss, composed in 1896 and inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's 1883-1885 philosophical work of the same name.

Strauss conducted its first performance on 27 November 1896 in Frankfurt.

A typical performance lasts roughly 33 minutes.

The initial fanfare - titled "Sunrise" in the composer's programme notes - became well known after its use in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Eumir Deodato's jazz-funk hit version won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.

The Strauss monument in Vienna

Elli Michler | Ti auguro Tempo

Non ti auguro un dono qualsiasi,

ti auguro soltanto quello che i più non hanno.

Ti auguro tempo, per divertirti e per ridere;

se lo impiegherai bene potrai ricavarne qualcosa.

Anton Dieffenbach | Pittore di genere

Anton Heinrich Dieffenbach (1831-1914) è stato un pittore paesaggista e di genere Tedesco, noto per i suoi ritratti di bambini.

Si trasferì a Strasburgo con i suoi genitori nel 1840 e prese lezioni da un artista locale di nome Charles Duhamel.

Grazie alla raccomandazione di Duhamel, poté recarsi a Parigi e studiare con lo scultore James Pradier.

William Bouguereau / Franz Liszt | Liebestraum (Dreams of Love)

Liebesträume (German for Dreams of Love) is a set of three solo piano nocturnes (S.541/R.211) by Franz Liszt published in 1850.

Originally the three Liebesträume were conceived as lieder after poems by Ludwig Uhland and Ferdinand Freiligrath.

In 1850 two versions appeared simultaneously as a set of songs for high voice and piano, and as transcriptions for piano two-hands.

Arthur Schopenhauer: "Music is the melody whose text is the world"

• "For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible".

• "A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free".

Antonio Nunziante

Rudi Hurzlmeier, 1952 | Cartoonist / Illustrator

Rudi Hurzlmeier (born in Mallersdorf Abbey, in Bavaria) is a German cartoonist, painter and author.

Hurzlmeier has been dedicated to comic art since the early eighties.

His works have also been acclaimed by classical art critics.

In 2010 he was awarded the German Caricature Prize in Dresden, the most important award for cartoonists in Germany.

Bertolt Brecht | Of all the works of man / Tra tutte le opere

Of all the works of man I like best

Those which have been used.

The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges

The knives and forks whose wooden handles

Have been worn away by many hands: such forms

Seemed to me the noblest.

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) | Crouching Boy, 1524 | Hermitage, St. Petersburg