"Von diener Güt,' o Herr und Gott ......" Haydn's The Creation/ Die Schöpfung was first performed in Vienna #OTD in 1799.

So let us listen to Irmgard Seefried and Hans Hotter as Eve and Adam with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Eugen Jochum in 1951. Slower than we usually hear it nowadays, but utterly transcendental.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjlg8_pvPrY

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Hugo Wolf was born #OTD in 1860.

Irmgard Seefried sings Mignon's So lasst mich scheinen bis ich werde, at the Salzburg Festival in 1957 with Erik Werba at the piano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5PBjkD5TZM

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Hugo Wolf died in Vienna #OTD in 1903.

The incomparable Irmgard Seefried sings his Lieder der Mignon, in Salzburg in 1957, with Erik Werba at the piano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDGPhiYxXyk

@classicalmusic #Wolf #Seefried #Lieder