Johann Pachelbel Baroque, Classical Born: 1653, Nuremberg, Germany Nationality: German Died: 3 March 1706, Free Imperial City of Nuremberg
Pachelbel was a composer, organist, and teacher recognised for bringing the South German organ schools to their peak. He composed a large body of work including sacred and secular music and contributed to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue earning him a place among the most important composers of the middle Baroque
Now, joy is born of parents poor, And pleasure of our richer kind; Though pleasure’s free, she cannot sing As sweet a song as joy confined.
Pleasure’s a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night; But Joy’s a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature’s light.
Joy’s like a Bee that gently sucks Away on blossoms its sweet hour; But pleasure’s like a greedy Wasp, That plums and cherries would devour.
Joy’s like a Lark that lives alone, Whose ties are very strong, though few; But Pleasure like a Cuckoo roams, Makes much acquaintance, no friends true.
Joy from her heart doth sing at home, With little care if others hear; But pleasure then is cold and dumb, And sings and laughs with strangers near
William Henry Davies Born: 3 July 1871, Newport, Wales Nationality: Welsh Died: 26 September 1940, Gloucestershire, England
Davies was a poet and writer. He spent much of his life as a tramp or hobo in the UK and the USA yet became one of the most popular poets of his time. His themes included his observations on life’s hardships, the human condition reflected in nature his travels as a tramp, and the characters he met. Davies is classified as a Georgian Poet, however much of his writing is not typical of the group in style and theme
You Can Run Album: A Flock of Seagulls Date: 1982 Genre: Alternative/Indie Artist: A Flock of Seagulls
A Flock of Seagulls are a new wave band formed in Liverpool, UK in 1979. Their best-known line-up consisted of Mike Score, Ali Score, Frank Maudsley, and Paul Reynolds. The band hit the peak of their chart success in the early 1980s
Cathedral 1919 Woodcut The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
‘Cathedral’ appeared on the cover of the Bauhaus Manifesto as a representation of the utopian vision of the school with a ‘Cathedral of Socialism.’ Its angular structure and its transparencies Feininger reflects the influence of Bruno Taut’s glass architecture
Lyonel Feininger Modern Art, Expressionism, Cubism, Der Blaue Reiter Born: 17 July 1871, New York, USA Nationality: German-American Died: 13 January 1956, New York, USA
Feininger was a painter and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He is also known as a caricaturist and comic strip artist. His work, characterized by prismatically broken, overlapping forms in translucent colours with references to architecture and the se made him one of the most important artists of classical modernism