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Janet Horvath Associate Principal Cello MN Orch. Out now "The Cello Still Sings" also "Playing Less Hurt" Injury Prevention; @Interludehk

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Janet Horvath
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Good morning. A Monday musical 🎶 vision!
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2 years
#quoteoftheday timely thoughts from Ricardo Muti. #music #musiceducation
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Good morning. Did you know? The evolution of clefs. #music
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Janet Horvath
5 months
Here’s a lovely photo of Seiji Ozawa, with violinist Itzhak Perlman and cellist Yo Yo Ma posted by the ⁦ @BostonSymphony ⁩ where Ozawa was music director for almost three decades. #conductors #music
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Janet Horvath
3 years
#Historic #Photo Igor Stravinsky with his kitty #composer #cats
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Janet Horvath
2 years
Take cover! Gearing up for the Hammerschlag : the hammer blow in Mahler’s 6th Symphony the crucial representation of fate in the finale. Heart-stopping! #music #symphony
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Janet Horvath
3 years
#historic #photo of Johannes Brahms with Marie Soldat for many years the only woman who played his violin concerto. Brahms helped her acquire a Guarneri del Gesu violin now played by Rachel Barton Pine. Soldat also belonged to an all-woman string quartet. #classicalmusic #violin
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Janet Horvath
2 years
#jokeoftheday This is what I call sight-reading! #punny #music
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2 years
My father, cellist George Horvath, a member of the Toronto Symphony for 38 years. Here he is early 1940s before being deported to slave labor by the Nazis. I tell his story and of our family in my upcoming book “The Cello Still Sings” preorders from Jan. 1 release February 28.
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Janet Horvath
2 years
Beethoven’s #piano at the Beethovenhaus Baden, Austria where he lived during the summers of 1821-1823 and composed parts of his 9th Symphony! #Beethoven #music
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Janet Horvath
5 years
Ok carve something scary : Go! #violajoke #Halloween19
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Janet Horvath
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#jokeoftheday To be fair he dies in Aida Tristan and Otello! #opera #singing #music
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Janet Horvath
1 month
So many of you enjoyed the post about the development of clefs. Now here’s various composer’s squiggle! #music #handwriting
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Janet Horvath
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Isn’t this clever? #music #terms
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Janet Horvath
3 years
Wow 16th century knives carved with sheet #music so after dinner, guests can sing in #harmony !
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Janet Horvath
2 years
#Pianist #composer Franz Liszt’s desk in his former home in Budapest. I was able to see it in the same room as his concert grand with bust of #Beethoven
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Janet Horvath
2 years
#historic #photo two brilliant artists: Maestro Claudio Abaddo with Martha Argerich in 1967 during recordings of several piano concertos with the ⁦ @BerlinPhil #music #piano #conductor
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Janet Horvath
2 years
#Historic #photo of youthful Martha Argerich and Claudio Abbado. They met during piano classes of pianist Friedrich Gulda in Salzburg, and in fact, he played so beautifully that she was asked to accompany him! #music #piano
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Janet Horvath
2 years
#jokeoftheday You liked the Beethoven Für Elise joke so… #music #piano
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Janet Horvath
6 months
In case you need confirmation… #composers #music
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Janet Horvath
3 years
A little smile for Saturday! #Mozart #music #teachers
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Janet Horvath
1 month
Good morning. Did you know? Musical notes make these extraordinary shapes in water. Here’s a few notes to inspire your practicing! #music
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1 year
Historic photo of two brilliant musicians when they were young and embarking on their luminous careers - maestro Claudio Abbado and pianist Martha Argerich. The partnership resulted in a 2005 Grammy award for Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 and No. 3. #piano #conductor #music
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Janet Horvath
5 years
When the page-turner says they can’t make the #concert 😓 #musicianslife
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Janet Horvath
2 years
The grave of Ludwig van Beethoven in Vienna’s Zentralfriedhof cemetery, Austria. It was the 3rd place he was eventually permanently laid to rest. His music forever eternal. #Beethoven #music
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One of the pianos in the home of Franz Liszt where he practiced, composed, and taught, now the Franz Liszt Museum in Budapest. #music #piano
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Janet Horvath
4 years
#music before and after #COVID__19
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1 year
#jokofheday if you haven’t seen this #music joke it’s a good one! #Bach #musicians
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Janet Horvath
3 months
Good morning. A #coffee puzzle to start your day. Sorry to say you might need a few cups to solve this? #music
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Janet Horvath
2 years
The piano of Antonio Dvorak in his home in Prague- Mozart looking on from the corner! #music #piano #ifthewallshadears
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Janet Horvath
5 years
#punny this is what you call a can-tata oooh 🤣 #SaturdayMorning #music
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Janet Horvath
2 months
Three legendary pianists. Portuguese pianist Maria-João Pires with Daniel Barenboim and Martha Argerich both originally from Argentina.
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Janet Horvath
7 months
Another one going around! #music
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Janet Horvath
3 years
If #Beethoven and #VanGogh lived the same time… #music
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Janet Horvath
2 years
#quoteoftheday “ I compose music because I must give expression to my feelings, just as I talk because I must give utterance to my thoughts.” — Sergei Rachmaninov here in a spectacular #historic #photo #classicalmusic
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Janet Horvath
2 years
My photo of one of the desks of the wonderful pianist Franz Liszt. His home in Budapest, Hungary is now the Liszt Memorial Museum. He evidently composed at his desk as well as the two grand pianos in the room! #piano #composer
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Janet Horvath
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#historic #photo of Johannes Brahms having breakfast with Adele, the wife of Johann Strauss’ ca 1895 in Bad Ischl Austria. #music #composers
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Cool architecture! #music #piano
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Janet Horvath
5 months
Two great! Abbado and Argerich! #conductors #pianists
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Janet Horvath
5 years
Rare set of 16th century knives with a musical score engraved so the guests could sing after supper! At the National #MusicMuseum South Dakota
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Janet Horvath
2 years
#historic #photo The great violinist Yehudi Menuhin plays #violin for his little daughter Zamira. His dog seems to be enjoying it too! —“I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being: a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body, and spirit.” #music
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Janet Horvath
2 years
Did you know? I do get goosebumps. Do you? #music
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6 years
#Bach in his own handwriting. The calming effect of his #music is needed.
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#Historic #photo of the great composer Johannes Brahms seemingly caught spontaneously in mid-step on a walk. #composer #music
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#jokeoftheday isn’t it time for a #music pun?
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Janet Horvath
6 years
Leonard Bernstein, Glenn Gould, Igor Stravinsky— three greats! #ClassicalMusic
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Janet Horvath
6 years
#JokeoftheDay The ultimate punishment for a misbehaving #Cellist ! 😂
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Janet Horvath
7 years
😂😂 this has to be the best typo/fail ever #Beethoven @CrossEyedPiano
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Janet Horvath
5 months
#jokeoftheday Isn’t it time for an #opera joke? #music
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Janet Horvath
1 year
Wow! Gustav Mahler himself rehearsing his 8th Symphony. #music #symphony #ClassicalMusic
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Janet Horvath
2 years
#quoteoftheday “Piano playing consists of common sense, heart, and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. The profession has its hazards.” —Vladimir Horowitz #music
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Janet Horvath
5 years
For my 39th birthday today we baked all my followers a cake! #music #cello #piano
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1 year
What is this? A gorgeous crypt? It’s the inside of a cello where all those beautiful sonorities swirl around! #music #cello #cellists
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#jokeoftheday Isn’t it time for a #pianist joke ? Rachmaninov envy! #music #piano
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Janet Horvath
5 years
Sing for your supper? Rare set of 16th century knives engraved with musical lines for guests to sing before and after dinner. Each knife is intended for soprano, counter-tenor, or mezzo, tenor, and bass! Photo Johan Osterman #music
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Janet Horvath
2 years
#Historic #photo #cellist Rostropovich with #composer Shostakovich. Rostropovich learned the first cello concerto in 4 days! #music
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Janet Horvath
3 years
This is a good one... #music
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Janet Horvath
1 year
Vladimir Horowitz plays for a tough crowd: Bruno Walter, George Szell, George Balanchine, Edgar Varèse, Nathan Milstein, Carl Friedberg, Leonard Bernstein and crowd at the Soviet Consulate in NY likely 1940s or 50s. #music #conductors #piano #composers #pianists
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Janet Horvath
5 years
Wow! Heard about this quarter-tone piano designed and housed at the #Sibelius Academy in #Finland ? #showpianolove
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Janet Horvath
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Pianist and composer Sergei Rachmaninov in conversation with maestro Arturo Toscanini. Note Toscanini’s cool shoes! #historic #piano #conductor #composer #musicLegends #music
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Janet Horvath
3 years
One of my favorites and creative: the parking lot gates at the Estonian National #Opera #conductor #baton #traffic -control #music
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3 years
One of the best #photos I’ve seen of the great #composer Johannes Brahms. #music
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5 months
The great Finnish composer Sibelius with his scores and cigar! #music #composers
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Janet Horvath
2 years
The magnificent National Opera House in Kyiv Ukraine. May they soon be making beautiful music again! #istandWithUkraine #music #art #architecture #opera
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Janet Horvath
8 years
lol #perfect #pitch not #baseball season anymore here in MN
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Janet Horvath
6 years
Brilliant: musical chairs! by John Atkinson #music
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Janet Horvath
6 months
Pianist Vladimir Horowitz after his triumphant return to the Carnegie Hall stage in 1965 after a 12 year absence. Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt Life Collection/ Getty Photos “False notes are human…You know, perfection itself is imperfection!” #music #piano #pianists
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2 years
Sweet. Composer Pianist Sergei Rachmaninov plays for his granddaughter. #piano #music
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2 years
#Historic #photo of Johann Strauss and Johannes Brahms looking dapper! “Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.” — Brahms #music #composers
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Janet Horvath
5 years
#JokeoftheDay —A walking bass line! 🤣 #Music
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Janet Horvath
2 years
Hmmm. Can you guess which mood I’m in? #music #Mozart #Beethoven
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Janet Horvath
3 months
Good morning. Did you know? Glenn Gould’s grave, Bach’s Goldberg Variations which Gould recorded several times. #music #piano
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Janet Horvath
2 years
#Historic #photo of the incomparable #pianist Vladimir Horowitz. “Always there should be a little mistake here and there. I am for it. The people who don’t do mistakes are cold like ice. It takes risk to make a mistake. If you don’t take risk, you are boring.” #piano #music
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Janet Horvath
3 years
#historic #photo Clara Wieck Schumann with her daughter Marie. Brilliant pianist, composer, muse to Johannes Brahms, and wife of Robert Schumann.
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Janet Horvath
2 years
Remembering Alma Rosé Austrian virtuoso #violinist , niece of Gustav Mahler, daughter of Arnold Rosé, longtime concertmaster of Vienna Philharmonic. She was deported to Auschwitz where she perished. She conducted the women’s Auschwitz orchestra and saved many of these women.
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Janet Horvath
6 years
In the category of ; now I’ve seen everything 🙄
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Janet Horvath
2 years
Two great artists: Martha Argerich and Maestro Claudio Abbado. “Many people learn how to talk, but they don’t learn how to listen. Listening to one another is an important thing in life. And music tells us how to do that.” —Claudio Abbado #conductor #piano #music
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Janet Horvath
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#Historic #photo of a piano lesson! #composer Dmitri Shostakovich with his daughter Galina December 1944 credit DSCH publisher DSCH journal #music #piano
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#Historic #photo of beloved composer Johannes Brahms surrounded by books, scores and music! #music #composer #Brahms
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#Historic #photo of Gustav Mahler. “It’s a funny thing but when I am making music all the answers I seek in life seem to be there, in the music. Or rather I should say, when I am making music, there are no questions and no need for answers.” #music #composers
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Janet Horvath
1 year
My father, cellist George Horvath, a member of the Toronto Symphony for 38 years;here early 1940s before being deported to slave labor by the Nazis. I tell his story and of our family in my new book “The Cello Still Sings.” Order on Amazon #music #Holocaust #cello #antisemitism
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Janet Horvath
6 months
Good morning. A lovely sight! #music #strings
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Janet Horvath
2 years
Did you know Charlie Chaplin not only was a great actor, he composed the music to many of his films and he played both the violin and cello - left handed! #historic #photo #music #film #cello
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Janet Horvath
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Three outstanding musicians in a charming photo: pianist Pollini, composer and conductor Boulez, conductor Abbado #music #piano #conductors
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Janet Horvath
1 year
#jokeoftheday Ever had this happen? A cellist complains about playing Pachelbel Canon then the bass player thrusts this music under his or her nose! #cello #bass #doublebass #music
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Janet Horvath
6 months
Good morning. Is it too early for a #keyboard #musical chocolate cake? 😋 #music #sweetnotes
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Janet Horvath
3 months
A music teacher’s poster! #music
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Janet Horvath
6 months
#jokeoftheday My next car! All it needs is an endpin. Where’s my bow? #cello #music
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Janet Horvath
2 years
Do you know of these Three legendary pianists? Lipatti, Haskil and Bachaus. #piano #music
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