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... Claudius Tanski has shown what the compositional artist Ferruccio Busoni formed from Bach and set on its own new compositional ground. Here we present another audiophile mind-expanding experience in the field of late-romantic sound splendor — certainly more than merely a “fully valid Busoni disc” (F ...
... Claudius Tanski has shown what the compositional artist Ferruccio Busoni formed from Bach and set on its own new compositional ground. Here we present another audiophile mind-expanding experience in the field of late-romantic sound splendor — certainly more than merely a “fully valid Busoni disc” (F ...
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... Vincenzo Bellini continued Italian opera’s dominance through their innovations in both opera seria and opera buffa. ...
... Vincenzo Bellini continued Italian opera’s dominance through their innovations in both opera seria and opera buffa. ...
Richard Strauss Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40 Richard Strauss was born
... No small furor arose when it was learned upon its premiere in 1899 that Richard Strauss had written Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life) about himself. Those who were appalled at the notion shouldn’t have been surprised; after all, Richard Strauss may have had many faults, but excessive modesty wasn’t on ...
... No small furor arose when it was learned upon its premiere in 1899 that Richard Strauss had written Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life) about himself. Those who were appalled at the notion shouldn’t have been surprised; after all, Richard Strauss may have had many faults, but excessive modesty wasn’t on ...
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... As Liszt applies these harmonies, augmented and diminished chords become similar in that they consist of equidistant intervals and do not have unique harmonic root notes as Liszt applied them. When several of either of these chords sounds one after the other, without resolving to a consonant chord, ...
... As Liszt applies these harmonies, augmented and diminished chords become similar in that they consist of equidistant intervals and do not have unique harmonic root notes as Liszt applied them. When several of either of these chords sounds one after the other, without resolving to a consonant chord, ...
Franz Liszt`s Battle Against Tonality In The Solo Piano Piece Unstern
... do not have unique harmonic root notes as Liszt applied them. When several of either of these chords sounds one after the other, without resolving to a consonant chord, any sense of tonality is lost or at least greatly weakened. Liszt used this effect in his late works very often. Both augmented and ...
... do not have unique harmonic root notes as Liszt applied them. When several of either of these chords sounds one after the other, without resolving to a consonant chord, any sense of tonality is lost or at least greatly weakened. Liszt used this effect in his late works very often. Both augmented and ...
The mission of the Liszt Academy, Budapest
... Prosody, Italian language. Robert Volkmann died at the beginning of the 1883/84 academic year. After his death Koessler took over teaching music composition. Koessler retired in 1908, and between 1920 and 1925 he taught for five more years at the Academy of Music, during which time he taught music c ...
... Prosody, Italian language. Robert Volkmann died at the beginning of the 1883/84 academic year. After his death Koessler took over teaching music composition. Koessler retired in 1908, and between 1920 and 1925 he taught for five more years at the Academy of Music, during which time he taught music c ...
Carion Programs 2016
... The audience fainted at concerts of the „devil violinist“ Niccolò Paganini. Some even claim he has sold his soul to the devil to play masterly as he did. Virtuosity is also the characteristic feature of the woodwind quintet CARION: The perfect mastery of the instruments in connection with the sophis ...
... The audience fainted at concerts of the „devil violinist“ Niccolò Paganini. Some even claim he has sold his soul to the devil to play masterly as he did. Virtuosity is also the characteristic feature of the woodwind quintet CARION: The perfect mastery of the instruments in connection with the sophis ...
Matthew Richardson Music 1010 – 10 10-9
... Of importance was also his famous Piano Concerto in A Minor (1868). The concerto is a national piece, written for the piano solo accompanied by a small orchestral group. It was influenced, largely in part by the music of Robert Schumann, whose concerto is also in A Minor, and was used as a kind of ...
... Of importance was also his famous Piano Concerto in A Minor (1868). The concerto is a national piece, written for the piano solo accompanied by a small orchestral group. It was influenced, largely in part by the music of Robert Schumann, whose concerto is also in A Minor, and was used as a kind of ...
Liszt`s experiments with literature
... expression was unusually strong almost from the very beginning of his artistic career. Not only did the artist gladly spend his time among writers and read numerous texts, but he also turned to the technical and expressive means originating in literature. Among the most important attempts to work ou ...
... expression was unusually strong almost from the very beginning of his artistic career. Not only did the artist gladly spend his time among writers and read numerous texts, but he also turned to the technical and expressive means originating in literature. Among the most important attempts to work ou ...
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... The first public mention of an orchestral song cycle, on the other hand, was in January 1885 (Allgemeine Musik-Zeitung, Berlin). One song from Sommer’s cycle premièred in the Netherlands in 1889, while the cycle as a whole received its world première in Brunswick in 1903. Sommer left behind a total ...
... The first public mention of an orchestral song cycle, on the other hand, was in January 1885 (Allgemeine Musik-Zeitung, Berlin). One song from Sommer’s cycle premièred in the Netherlands in 1889, while the cycle as a whole received its world première in Brunswick in 1903. Sommer left behind a total ...
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... German Baroque composer J.S. Bach was born in 1685. He is one of the most prolific composers in the history of music, writing for virtually every instrument and ensemble known in his lifetime. Besides his well–known cantatas and concertos, Bach offered great contributions to keyboard music. Some of ...
... German Baroque composer J.S. Bach was born in 1685. He is one of the most prolific composers in the history of music, writing for virtually every instrument and ensemble known in his lifetime. Besides his well–known cantatas and concertos, Bach offered great contributions to keyboard music. Some of ...
Die Elite der Pianisten
... The Freiburg company „M. WELTE & Söhne, Freiburg i. Br.“ (founded in 1832) is credited with the invention that allows pianists’ performances, with all their changes in dynamics and rhythm, to be recorded on a paper roll by means of a hole-punching system. This music can then be faithfully reproduced ...
... The Freiburg company „M. WELTE & Söhne, Freiburg i. Br.“ (founded in 1832) is credited with the invention that allows pianists’ performances, with all their changes in dynamics and rhythm, to be recorded on a paper roll by means of a hole-punching system. This music can then be faithfully reproduced ...
MUSIC FOR THE PIANO SESSION FOUR: THE PIANO IN
... written by the generation of composers after Beethoven. Last week’s session was called, “The Piano’s Golden Age,” and featured music by three composers who tried to carry on Beethoven’s legacy, but with a fuller, more romantic sound: Chopin, Mendelssohn, and Robert Schumann. This week’s session feat ...
... written by the generation of composers after Beethoven. Last week’s session was called, “The Piano’s Golden Age,” and featured music by three composers who tried to carry on Beethoven’s legacy, but with a fuller, more romantic sound: Chopin, Mendelssohn, and Robert Schumann. This week’s session feat ...
Johann Sebastian Bach
... with a serious expression on her face, she was irritated by poverty, shame, hard labour Beethoven’s earliest music instructor was from his father, on the violin. It was not long before Johann was struck with the thought of his son becoming another Mozart. Night after night Johann made the boy to get ...
... with a serious expression on her face, she was irritated by poverty, shame, hard labour Beethoven’s earliest music instructor was from his father, on the violin. It was not long before Johann was struck with the thought of his son becoming another Mozart. Night after night Johann made the boy to get ...
PROGRAM NOTES - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
... Strauss came to terms with the devastation of Nazi power. When he learned of the destruction of the opera houses in Weimar and Munich, he gave in to grief and outrage—his world had collapsed. Virtually every major opera house or concert hall in his land was now rubble. He wrote: The burning of the ...
... Strauss came to terms with the devastation of Nazi power. When he learned of the destruction of the opera houses in Weimar and Munich, he gave in to grief and outrage—his world had collapsed. Virtually every major opera house or concert hall in his land was now rubble. He wrote: The burning of the ...
program notes - Rockport Music
... The second of Chopin’s three piano sonatas was composed during his first year at the rural estate of his long-time companion George Sand (nom de plume of the woman novelist Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin). During the years that he spent at Nohant, in the French countryside, Chopin composed some of his ...
... The second of Chopin’s three piano sonatas was composed during his first year at the rural estate of his long-time companion George Sand (nom de plume of the woman novelist Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin). During the years that he spent at Nohant, in the French countryside, Chopin composed some of his ...
Ditta Rohmann cellist Ditta Rohmann was born in 1983 in Budapest
... Ditta Rohmann was born in 1983 in Budapest and began playing the cello at the age of 7. She studied at the New England Conservatory in Boston from 1993-1994 with Suren Bagratuni. After returning to Hungary she was a student at the Franz Liszt Music Academy from 19952005, first at the preparatory dep ...
... Ditta Rohmann was born in 1983 in Budapest and began playing the cello at the age of 7. She studied at the New England Conservatory in Boston from 1993-1994 with Suren Bagratuni. After returning to Hungary she was a student at the Franz Liszt Music Academy from 19952005, first at the preparatory dep ...
Hans von Bulow - Dr David Wright
... He also became a champion of the music of Wagner and Brahms and admired Liszt who was the most gifted pianist of his time and, in fact, Bulow eventually married Liszt’s daughter Cosima (1837-1930). This wedding took place in 1857 but Cosima eventually left her husband for Wagner. Bulow was an excell ...
... He also became a champion of the music of Wagner and Brahms and admired Liszt who was the most gifted pianist of his time and, in fact, Bulow eventually married Liszt’s daughter Cosima (1837-1930). This wedding took place in 1857 but Cosima eventually left her husband for Wagner. Bulow was an excell ...
MUSIC DEPARTMENT INDEPENDENT STUDY Page 1
... 2) In 1875 Brahms conducts a major work by Johann Sebastian Bach. What was the name of this musical selection? 3) What key was the Brahms Symphony No. 1 written in? 4) The conductor Hans von Bulow refers to the first symphony by Johannes Brahms as the tenth. To what is he referring? 5) Why did von B ...
... 2) In 1875 Brahms conducts a major work by Johann Sebastian Bach. What was the name of this musical selection? 3) What key was the Brahms Symphony No. 1 written in? 4) The conductor Hans von Bulow refers to the first symphony by Johannes Brahms as the tenth. To what is he referring? 5) Why did von B ...
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... composed his most famous work, the programmatic Symphonie fantastique. Having an autobiographical basis, the piece is a highly romantic program symphony in five movements, the story of which tells of an artist who, unhappy in love, takes an overdose of opium and dreams of his own passions and desire ...
... composed his most famous work, the programmatic Symphonie fantastique. Having an autobiographical basis, the piece is a highly romantic program symphony in five movements, the story of which tells of an artist who, unhappy in love, takes an overdose of opium and dreams of his own passions and desire ...
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... Known during his life as “The Waltz King” he is of course best known for the sublime waltz, The Blue Danube, one of the most instantly recognisable pieces in music. Strauss was born into a musical dynasty, in the most intensely musical city in the world. Like Salzburg 150 years before, the 19th cent ...
... Known during his life as “The Waltz King” he is of course best known for the sublime waltz, The Blue Danube, one of the most instantly recognisable pieces in music. Strauss was born into a musical dynasty, in the most intensely musical city in the world. Like Salzburg 150 years before, the 19th cent ...
Program Notes - Charlotte Symphony
... Confesssore conducting the orchestra in a side-by-side performance with the Charlotte Symphony Youth Orchestra Les préludes is the third of twelve Symphonic Poems written by Franz Liszt during the Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor’s tenure at the Weimar court (1848-1861). Liszt originally co ...
... Confesssore conducting the orchestra in a side-by-side performance with the Charlotte Symphony Youth Orchestra Les préludes is the third of twelve Symphonic Poems written by Franz Liszt during the Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor’s tenure at the Weimar court (1848-1861). Liszt originally co ...
Interdyscyplinary 13
... form of the aria of the king doing penance for his crime, which is entitled Psalm 129. De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine. A characteristic feature of 19th-century composers, apologists of programme music, including those belonging to the New German School, was their preference for ‘representative’ ...
... form of the aria of the king doing penance for his crime, which is entitled Psalm 129. De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine. A characteristic feature of 19th-century composers, apologists of programme music, including those belonging to the New German School, was their preference for ‘representative’ ...
Program booklet
... 'eternally feminine' secret and of the tragedy of human (love) relations. His expression is so deeply captivating, that it deletes any speculations on the 'Schonberg-and-contemporary (modern?) music1 topics. ...
... 'eternally feminine' secret and of the tragedy of human (love) relations. His expression is so deeply captivating, that it deletes any speculations on the 'Schonberg-and-contemporary (modern?) music1 topics. ...
a performer`s analysis of liszt`s sonetto 47 del petrarca a creative
... Walker, Alan. Reflections on Liszt. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. Walker, Alan, ed. Franz Liszt: The Man and His Music. London, UK: Barrie & Jenkins, ...
... Walker, Alan. Reflections on Liszt. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. Walker, Alan, ed. Franz Liszt: The Man and His Music. London, UK: Barrie & Jenkins, ...
Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein
The Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein (ADMV) (General German Music Association) was a German musical association founded in 1861 by Franz Liszt and Franz Brendel, to embody the musical ideals of the New German School of music.