The Patron Connection
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![Nadezhda von Meck supported Tchaikovsky financially for 13 years, with the stipulation that they never meet.](/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,width=780/media/3906758/patron_connection.jpg)
Nadezhda von Meck supported Tchaikovsky financially for 13 years, with the stipulation that they never meet.
Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony was dedicated to a wealthy woman who provided the composer with financial support--with the stipulation that they never meet.
Beethoven named several of his best-known works after Archduke Rudolf of Austria, and Ravel dedicated his Pavane for a Dead Princess to the heir of an American sewing machine company.
In this hour, these and other extraordinary patrons of music--and the works they inspired.
FEATURED RECORDINGS
CD Title |
Group/Artist |
Catalog # |
UPC |
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 |
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Ozawa |
Deutsche Gramophone 427 354-2 |
4011790608228 |
Beethoven: Piano Trios, Vol. 2 |
Perlman, Harrell, Ashkenazy |
EMI Classics 85496 |
724358549621 |
Copland: Appalachian Spring, etc. |
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernstein |
Deutsche Gramophone 413 324-2 |
028941332424 |
Ravel: Works for Solo Piano [for Pavane for a Dead Princess] |
Jean-Yves Thibaudet |
London 433 515-2 |
0028942586024 |
Mozart Overtures [for Abduction from the Saraglio] |
Capella Istropolitana, Barry Wordsworth |
Naxos 8.550185 |
730099518529 |
Mozart Requiem |
Dunedin Consort & Players, John Butt |
Linn Records CKD 449 |
691062044929 |
Wagner: Wesendonk Lieder & Tristan und Isolde |
Norman, London Symphony Orchestra, Davis |
Philips 412 655-2 |
028941265524 |