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  1. On 31 May 1809: #JosephHaydn, Austrian #composer of the classical period (The Creation; Trumpet Concerto), died at 77.
    #RIP 🕯️

  2. “Common sense is not so common”*…

    The Enlightenment is under attack by the Left and the Right. It can only be “saved,” Eliane Glaser argues, through use of its greatest legacy: permanent critique. And then there’s AI. After summarizing the critiques from both sides, she continues…

    In consequence of this pincer-movement attack, the Enlightenment’s legacy is existentially vulnerable. It makes me deeply worried as someone whose entire career has been built on trying to understand and analyse the world around me – especially a world that still tries to confine thinking women to the realms of emotion and ‘personal experience’.

    I believe that Enlightenment values are essential, but that we have largely forgotten how to make a good case for them: we need to rely on shared facts, tested by experiment; a public sphere where open discussion can take place; and the belief that discussion should be founded on reasoned argument. We need, moreover, to cherish the more political values of tolerance, freedom, human rights and the common good. Advocates for artificial intelligence have the temerity to claim that large language models are ushering in a ‘second Enlightenment’ (a claim that was uncritically echoed in a paper published by the World Economic Forum last year) when what we are in fact seeing is the destruction of the Enlightenment legacy under the false banner of its name. As the historian David Bell argued in The New York Times in 2025, AI is actually ‘shedding Enlightenment values’ by simply reinforcing ‘what we already think we know.’ In The Guardian,the journalist and geopolitical risk consultant Joseph de Weck warned that ‘AI is taking us back to the dark ages’, making us lazy, and stymying independent thinking.

    The evidence suggests that we are going through a rapid de-enlightenment. Newspaper circulations, attention spans, and trust in forms of agreed knowledge are in freefall. Misinformation, disinformation and deepfakes are gaining ground. If we let go of the valuable aspects of the Enlightenment project, we open ourselves up to a world of AI blather, ‘my truth’ pronouncements, wobbly sentiment and unchecked power.

    My unease with this parlous state of affairs has provoked me to go back and rethink the Enlightenment and what it has to offer. But, rather than unthinkingly recouping it as a mission, I want instead to tease out and weigh up its merits, to discern with nuance what is still fit for our times. I want to ask if it is possible to rescue the Enlightenment’s rallying power, and if it’s worth defending what the combined forces of Left and Right are coming together to attack. Are the Enlightenment’s deficiencies barnacles on an old ship, or integral to its design?…

    And so she does. Do read on: “Flickering Enlightenment,” from @elianeglaser.bsky.social in @aeon.co.

    * Voltaire

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    As we reclaim reason, we might spare a thought for a glorious product of the Enlightenment, Joseph Haydn; he died on this date in 1809. A composer of the Classical period, he was pivotal in the evolution of chamber music forms like the string quartet and piano trio, and is known as the “Father” of both the symphony and sonata forms. Haydn was a friend and mentor of Mozart, and a teacher of Beethoven; indeed, the Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven trio are sometimes referred to as the “First Viennese School.”

    Schonberg wrote that Haydn “was the Classic performer par excellence, and in his long life, from 1732 to 1809, he grew up with the new musical ideas and, more than any one man, shaped them.”

    https://youtu.be/CuBGDwgkZzM?si=QvXLWDRCB-Tq-CM7

    #AgeOfEnlightenment #AI #artificialIntelligence #Beethoven #classicalMusic #culture #Enlightenment #Haydn #history #JosephHaydn #Mozart #music #philosophy #politics #reason #society #TheEnlightenment
  3. On the 31st of March 1732: #JosephHaydn, Austrian #composer of the classical period (The Creation; Trumpet Concerto), born in Rohrau, Austria (d. 1809).
    #HappyBirthday #RIP 💔🕊️

  4. On Mar 23, 1792: #JosephHaydn's 94th Symphony in G at the Hanover Square Rooms in London, England.

  5. “Trumpet Concerto in E Flat Major” by Joseph Haydn (youtu.be/vpFaWJQHwbA?si=ybBOUa) was written for Viennese trumpet virtuoso Anton Weidinger in the late 1700s to coincide with his invention of the Keyed Trumpet by showing off as much of the instrument’s range as possible.
    #SymSat #JosephHaydn

  6. #OnThisDay in 1792, In Vienna, #LudwigvanBeethoven (22) receives his first lesson in music composition from Franz #JosephHaydn (60).

  7. This is from the 1990 performance of “Die Schöpfung AKA The Creation” conducted by Christopher Hogwood featuring the talents of The Academy of Ancient Music Orchestra & Chorus and The New College, Oxford Choir. You can watch the entire thing for free here (youtu.be/bH5KM700AlQ?si=9b2BEb)
    #SymSat #JosephHaydn

  8. “Die Schöpfung AKA The Creation” an Oratorio by classical composer Joseph Haydn🇦🇹 with the libretto by diplomat/amateur musician Gottfried van Swieten🇳🇱🇦🇹. It takes inspiration from the Books of Genesis & Psalms and John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”. Tonight we’re listening to part 1 (youtu.be/8omYmytYvlo?si=LVCHnr) & part 2 (youtu.be/S03cwGuw43s?si=oUS8Ie) which encompass the first day of Part 1’s first 4 days of creation. You can follow along with a free score here (archive.org/details/creation00)
    #SymSat #JosephHaydn

  9. Haydn’s “Symphony No. 45” AKA “The Farewell Symphony” (youtu.be/FIpswLApdb4?si=TecGLG) is a #LaborDay classic b/c it was written during a labor dispute between Haydn's patron Nikolaus I and the musicians he employed to join him in rural Hungary. Nikolaus I wanted everyone to stay longer than expected w/o additional payment. Haydn diplomatically wrote into the score of the final adagio: each musician stops playing & leaves until just two muted violins remain
    #SymSat #TheFarewellSymphony #JosephHaydn

  10. Joseph Haydn (March 31, 1732- May 31, 1809)🇦🇹 AKA “The father of the Symphony” was a Classical/“Age of Enlightenment” era composer who is known for being extremely prolific having officially composed 107 symphonies, 83 string quartets, 45 piano trios, 62 piano sonatas, 14 masses, 26 operas, etc. Most importantly, phenologists removed and stole his head after he died and it was only reunited with his body in 1954-nearly 150yrs after he died!
    #SymSat #TheFarewellSymphony #JosephHaydn

  11. Aktuell in der HörBar: Haydn Vol. 15 / Giovanni Antonini

    Sehr kontinuierlich und keineswegs überstürzt schreitet die aus der Schweiz umfassend gesponserte Gesamteinspielung der Sinfonien von Joseph Haydn voran. Hier ist es nun die Folge 15 – mit Werken aus der mittleren Zeit (wenn ,am so will). Aber was sagt das schon aus? Haydn ist in nah

    hoerbar.nmz.de/2024/07/haydn-v
    #EMusik #Klassik #AlphaLabel #JosephHaydn #KammerorchesterBasel #GiovanniAntonini