Monthly Archives: May 2023

Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini (* October 17, 1720 in Milan; † January 19, 1795 ibid.) was an Italian composer and harpsichordist.

She sent a collection of arias to the Electress Maria Antonia Walpurgis, who was herself musically active as a composer and performer.
Furore Verlag has published three arias from this collection, edited by Michael Goldbach. It is documented that even the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa personally performed arias by Maria Teresa Agnesis. The twelve arias prove her ability to mirror the affects of a dramatic situation through harmony, vocal writing, and instrumentation.

New at Furore: An anthology of works for guitar resulting from a concert project with Stefan Barcsay Throw your fear into the air featuring works by:

Dorothea Hofmann: “Still …” (2021) for guitar solo and “Noch” (2021) for voice and guitar (text: Rose Ausländer)
Barbara Mayer: Discurso Poético (2022) (inspired by a northern Brazilian “Martelo agalopado”)
Florentine Mulsant: Poème pour guitare op. 113 (2022)
Vivienne Olive: …your dreams fall into nowhere… (2022) (Barafostus’ Dream)
Larisa Vrhunc Na Vetru (2022) (In the wind)

Some years ago Stefan Barcsay discovered a book of poems by Rose Ausländer with the poem NOCH BIST DU DA (You Are Still There), which fitted in perfectly with a concert trip to Ukraine to Lviv and Chernowitz that he was planning at the time. This had to be cancelled and instead the tour began in Suceava, in the Romanian part of Bukovina. Since then, many compositions for the project WIRF DEINE ANGST IN DIE LUFT (a line from the poem “Noch bist du da” by Rose Ausländer) have been written and premiered by Stefan Barcsay.