Program Notes - Chamber Music Tulsa
... receiving “the spirit of Mozart from the hands of Haydn” were dashed when he found the elder composer to be a pedantic and detached teacher. In 1795, Beethoven broke off all contact after Haydn savaged his Opus 1 piano trios, calling them unfit for publication. Yet for three years, Beethoven avoided ...
... receiving “the spirit of Mozart from the hands of Haydn” were dashed when he found the elder composer to be a pedantic and detached teacher. In 1795, Beethoven broke off all contact after Haydn savaged his Opus 1 piano trios, calling them unfit for publication. Yet for three years, Beethoven avoided ...
Prazak String Quartet - San Antonio Chamber Music Society
... theme heard two ways: first in a minor key and then in major. Around this simple theme, Haydn weaves rich counterpoints, some of which make greater than usual demands on the cello. ...
... theme heard two ways: first in a minor key and then in major. Around this simple theme, Haydn weaves rich counterpoints, some of which make greater than usual demands on the cello. ...
program notes for this concert
... encourages me to offer them to you and leads me to hope that you will not consider them wholly unworthy of your favor”. In February of that year at a quartet performance in the Mozart home, Haydn spoke to Leopold, Wolfgang’s father, saying “Before God and as an honest man I tell you that your son is ...
... encourages me to offer them to you and leads me to hope that you will not consider them wholly unworthy of your favor”. In February of that year at a quartet performance in the Mozart home, Haydn spoke to Leopold, Wolfgang’s father, saying “Before God and as an honest man I tell you that your son is ...
Schumann, String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 41, No. 1
... musical medium over an extended time. For example, we are acquainted with his “song year” (1840) and his “symphony year” (1841). During his “chamber music years” (1842-43), Schumann composed several works, including the three string quartets of Op. 41. In a burst of enthusiasm, he wrote all three qu ...
... musical medium over an extended time. For example, we are acquainted with his “song year” (1840) and his “symphony year” (1841). During his “chamber music years” (1842-43), Schumann composed several works, including the three string quartets of Op. 41. In a burst of enthusiasm, he wrote all three qu ...
Shaw`s “Entracte”
... Spain, where he wrote an enormous amount of chamber music under the patronage of Don Luis (the Spanish Infante and younger brother of King Charles III). All in all he composed 91 string quartets, 137 quintets (mostly for 2-cello ensemble—a radical instrumentation for that time period), 30 symphonies ...
... Spain, where he wrote an enormous amount of chamber music under the patronage of Don Luis (the Spanish Infante and younger brother of King Charles III). All in all he composed 91 string quartets, 137 quintets (mostly for 2-cello ensemble—a radical instrumentation for that time period), 30 symphonies ...
LALLsp011
... several works for violin/piano duo, and some others 2 (complete) piano trios 2 great quintets 1 great octet many works for piano four-hands (including the Grand Duo) perhaps 21 piano sonatas (±) 6 masses and much other liturgical music 1 oratorio 5 (or so) operas, and much incidental music for the s ...
... several works for violin/piano duo, and some others 2 (complete) piano trios 2 great quintets 1 great octet many works for piano four-hands (including the Grand Duo) perhaps 21 piano sonatas (±) 6 masses and much other liturgical music 1 oratorio 5 (or so) operas, and much incidental music for the s ...
Michele Levin - Montana Chamber Music Society
... of the Curtis Institute of Music with a double major in piano and composition. She began her studies there at the age of eleven and is the first woman to receive their Master’s degree in Composition. The Johann Sebastian Bach International Piano Competition in Washington DC awarded her First Prize i ...
... of the Curtis Institute of Music with a double major in piano and composition. She began her studies there at the age of eleven and is the first woman to receive their Master’s degree in Composition. The Johann Sebastian Bach International Piano Competition in Washington DC awarded her First Prize i ...
Programme Notes from Making Music, the National Federation of
... of the cryptic motif F-A-E (Frei aber einsam), Joachim’s motto, and used twenty years before in a composite violin sonata with Schumann and Dietrich. Brahms adapted Joachim’s motto into his own F-A-F (Frei aber froh) motif, and this appears later in the movement. The second subject has some of the l ...
... of the cryptic motif F-A-E (Frei aber einsam), Joachim’s motto, and used twenty years before in a composite violin sonata with Schumann and Dietrich. Brahms adapted Joachim’s motto into his own F-A-F (Frei aber froh) motif, and this appears later in the movement. The second subject has some of the l ...
BELCEA QUARTET
... within twelve days, each concert featuring one work from the early, middle and late quartets. With his sixteen string quartets, Beethoven forged the backbone of this repertoire. The six quartets Opus 18 show the composer’s mastery of the classical form. In contrast, the five middle quartets burst th ...
... within twelve days, each concert featuring one work from the early, middle and late quartets. With his sixteen string quartets, Beethoven forged the backbone of this repertoire. The six quartets Opus 18 show the composer’s mastery of the classical form. In contrast, the five middle quartets burst th ...
PDF - Brentano Quartet
... composer and exclaimed, "Cramer! Cramer! We shall never be able to do anything like that!" But he meant to try. Unlike the later Beethoven, the shatterer of creative molds and ways of musical thinking, this young newcomer to Vienna was bent on making his name in an established field, of doing th ...
... composer and exclaimed, "Cramer! Cramer! We shall never be able to do anything like that!" But he meant to try. Unlike the later Beethoven, the shatterer of creative molds and ways of musical thinking, this young newcomer to Vienna was bent on making his name in an established field, of doing th ...
30.,31.07.,01.,02.08. Dubrovačka trilogija
... personalities of his native homeland of Moravia. Though largely a vocal author, whose 'chants of speech' in his operas made a decisive step in breaking up with the romantic traditions, in his symphony and chamber music Janáček wrote original and expressive pieces that place him at the very top of th ...
... personalities of his native homeland of Moravia. Though largely a vocal author, whose 'chants of speech' in his operas made a decisive step in breaking up with the romantic traditions, in his symphony and chamber music Janáček wrote original and expressive pieces that place him at the very top of th ...
salida aspen concerts 2005
... Artists of Baltimore. Ivory Classics released her acclaimed CD featuring solo piano works of Schumann in 2001. Among her numerous appearances annually at Aspen were a 2003 concert dedicated entirely to Elliott Carter, including the piano and cello sonatas. Earl Carlyss, violin, was a member of the J ...
... Artists of Baltimore. Ivory Classics released her acclaimed CD featuring solo piano works of Schumann in 2001. Among her numerous appearances annually at Aspen were a 2003 concert dedicated entirely to Elliott Carter, including the piano and cello sonatas. Earl Carlyss, violin, was a member of the J ...
Program booklet
... northerner' as Brahms was known, left the veritable examples of his above all sensible and shy person right in the field on chamber music. Master Brahms wrote two compositions for the string sextet - the first of the two, Op. 18 in B flat major, being an early work by the date of its birth, but a hi ...
... northerner' as Brahms was known, left the veritable examples of his above all sensible and shy person right in the field on chamber music. Master Brahms wrote two compositions for the string sextet - the first of the two, Op. 18 in B flat major, being an early work by the date of its birth, but a hi ...
Borodin, Alexander - Department of Physics | Oregon State
... Under Balakirev’s tutelage, Borodin, as well as Cesar Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, made up the group known as The Five. These five composers worked to create distinctly Russian music, largely in Balakirev’s vision. Alexander, uniquely among The Five, embraced chamber music an ...
... Under Balakirev’s tutelage, Borodin, as well as Cesar Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, made up the group known as The Five. These five composers worked to create distinctly Russian music, largely in Balakirev’s vision. Alexander, uniquely among The Five, embraced chamber music an ...
Program Notes Brenda Dalen Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756
... The “Kegelstatt” Trio is cast in three movements. The opening Andante, in sonata form, favours the clarinet and piano in the presentation and development of the two main themes, although the viola does play the second theme in the recapitulation. The second movement is a robust minuet. In the contra ...
... The “Kegelstatt” Trio is cast in three movements. The opening Andante, in sonata form, favours the clarinet and piano in the presentation and development of the two main themes, although the viola does play the second theme in the recapitulation. The second movement is a robust minuet. In the contra ...
AS Music summer work
... How many Brandenburg Concertos were written? What are the solo instruments used in this concerto? Find out the dates of Bach’s life List 5 contemporaries of J.S Bach What is a ripieno? List 8 other works written by J S Bach - and not the other Brandenburg concertos!!!!! ...
... How many Brandenburg Concertos were written? What are the solo instruments used in this concerto? Find out the dates of Bach’s life List 5 contemporaries of J.S Bach What is a ripieno? List 8 other works written by J S Bach - and not the other Brandenburg concertos!!!!! ...
Program Notes for Thanksgiving Concert 2015
... and the String Quartet. He was not quite that, but indeed he shaped and enhanced the two genres that we accept as the Classical forms of these compositions. He brought new order and form and instrumental texture to the graceful, decorated music of the previous era. Haydn wrote 104 or more symphonies ...
... and the String Quartet. He was not quite that, but indeed he shaped and enhanced the two genres that we accept as the Classical forms of these compositions. He brought new order and form and instrumental texture to the graceful, decorated music of the previous era. Haydn wrote 104 or more symphonies ...
new • nouveaute • neuheit - MDG-Musikproduktion Dabringhaus
... contender for a top slot on the all-time hit list of classical masterpieces – and rightly so, as this new recording by the Leipzig String Quartet demonstrates. Here it is heard along with the same composer’s magnificent String Quintet, and the outstanding bassist Alois Posch joins forces with the Le ...
... contender for a top slot on the all-time hit list of classical masterpieces – and rightly so, as this new recording by the Leipzig String Quartet demonstrates. Here it is heard along with the same composer’s magnificent String Quintet, and the outstanding bassist Alois Posch joins forces with the Le ...
new • nouveaute • neuheit
... Against Doctor’s Orders Reger was never one to follow doctor's orders, even after his complete nervous and physical breakdown in February 1914. He had hardly settled in Merano to recuperate when he bought music paper and sat down to write his "Three Duos in the Old Style op. 131b." And the Piano Qua ...
... Against Doctor’s Orders Reger was never one to follow doctor's orders, even after his complete nervous and physical breakdown in February 1914. He had hardly settled in Merano to recuperate when he bought music paper and sat down to write his "Three Duos in the Old Style op. 131b." And the Piano Qua ...
Diderot String Quartet Bio June 2016.doc
... Juilliard School, all four musicians shared a background in historical performance and a passion for the string quartet genre; and they quickly found the thrill of exploring the latter repertoire on period instruments to be irresistible. Featured in the Chamber Music America article “New Voices in O ...
... Juilliard School, all four musicians shared a background in historical performance and a passion for the string quartet genre; and they quickly found the thrill of exploring the latter repertoire on period instruments to be irresistible. Featured in the Chamber Music America article “New Voices in O ...
Quatuor Ysaÿe - San Antonio Chamber Music Society
... his times, a young man over whose cradle Graces and Hero have stood watch.” From the very beginning he was the Brahms of noble melody, of rich texture, of rhythmic freedom, of large statements in big forms beautifully written for the instruments. This does not mean that there is little difference in ...
... his times, a young man over whose cradle Graces and Hero have stood watch.” From the very beginning he was the Brahms of noble melody, of rich texture, of rhythmic freedom, of large statements in big forms beautifully written for the instruments. This does not mean that there is little difference in ...
Radim Sedmidubský (viola) was born in 1964 in Prague
... years at the „Spezialschule für Musik Franz Liszt“ in Weimar. Besides his study at the Prague Concervatoire of Music in the 80’s he played baroque violin and viola in the authentic interpretation ensemble Musica Antiqua Prague. He also was a member of the Original Prague Syncopated Orchestra, who sp ...
... years at the „Spezialschule für Musik Franz Liszt“ in Weimar. Besides his study at the Prague Concervatoire of Music in the 80’s he played baroque violin and viola in the authentic interpretation ensemble Musica Antiqua Prague. He also was a member of the Original Prague Syncopated Orchestra, who sp ...
Program note: Shostakovich String Quartet No. 15 in E
... quartets of Beethoven and he strove to make his contribution in these august musical traditions. He planned to compose a set of twenty-four string quartets, one in each major and minor key, but he ran out of time. Dying of an aggressive cancer and frequently hospitalized, Shostakovich completed his ...
... quartets of Beethoven and he strove to make his contribution in these august musical traditions. He planned to compose a set of twenty-four string quartets, one in each major and minor key, but he ran out of time. Dying of an aggressive cancer and frequently hospitalized, Shostakovich completed his ...
Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or any small chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers, with one performer to a part. However, by definition it usually does not include solo instrument performances.Because of its intimate nature, chamber music has been described as ""the music of friends"". For more than 100 years, chamber music was played primarily by amateur musicians in their homes, and even today, when most chamber music performance has migrated from the home to the concert hall, many musicians, amateur and professional, still play chamber music for their own pleasure. Playing chamber music requires special skills, both musical and social, that differ from the skills required for playing solo or symphonic works.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe described chamber music (specifically, string quartet music) as ""four rational people conversing"". This conversational paradigm has been a thread woven through the history of chamber music composition from the end of the 18th century to the present. The analogy to conversation recurs in descriptions and analyses of chamber music compositions.