Henry Purcell composed an impressive quantity of music during his
... imitation of the most fam’d Italian Master’s.” While one can say that he succeeded in imitating Italian style on many levels, Purcell’s use of expressive dissonances and complex counterpoint in his trio sonatas betray not only his English roots, but his skill and creativity as a composer. Indeed, R ...
... imitation of the most fam’d Italian Master’s.” While one can say that he succeeded in imitating Italian style on many levels, Purcell’s use of expressive dissonances and complex counterpoint in his trio sonatas betray not only his English roots, but his skill and creativity as a composer. Indeed, R ...
AVS Viola Repertoire Guide: Weber Andante e Rondo ungarese
... Details: The Andante e Rondo ungerese is Weber’s second work for viola and orchestra, following on the Sechs Variationen, J. 49, completed in 1806. Written for the composer’s brother Fritz, the early history of the work is unknown, and the manuscript did not surface until 1864, when it was given to ...
... Details: The Andante e Rondo ungerese is Weber’s second work for viola and orchestra, following on the Sechs Variationen, J. 49, completed in 1806. Written for the composer’s brother Fritz, the early history of the work is unknown, and the manuscript did not surface until 1864, when it was given to ...
Program Notes - Lincoln Center`s Great Performers
... piano solos, mostly a few of the Lyric Pieces, have become concert repertory. But it is Grieg’s chamber music that has fallen most deeply into obscurity. This last is especially regrettable with regard to the composer’s three violin sonatas. These are among his most ambitious pieces for small ensemb ...
... piano solos, mostly a few of the Lyric Pieces, have become concert repertory. But it is Grieg’s chamber music that has fallen most deeply into obscurity. This last is especially regrettable with regard to the composer’s three violin sonatas. These are among his most ambitious pieces for small ensemb ...
early music up late
... through its regular employment of singers usually seen on the stage. A particularly delightful feature of Charpentier’s Midnight Mass for Christmas is the use of noëls (carols) which enhance the delicate, pastoral quality of the music. Bassoonist and conductor Marc Minkowski founded Les Musiciens du ...
... through its regular employment of singers usually seen on the stage. A particularly delightful feature of Charpentier’s Midnight Mass for Christmas is the use of noëls (carols) which enhance the delicate, pastoral quality of the music. Bassoonist and conductor Marc Minkowski founded Les Musiciens du ...
BMC 32 - The Art of The Chaconne
... Baroque spirit expressed in music is: Order, Pattern, and Form. Here there is to be no disorder, no atonal meandering, no shapeless movements. In the Baroque musical repertoire we find Fugues, in which a given theme is repeated in different clefs, and the stricter Canon, which is a ‘round’, each ent ...
... Baroque spirit expressed in music is: Order, Pattern, and Form. Here there is to be no disorder, no atonal meandering, no shapeless movements. In the Baroque musical repertoire we find Fugues, in which a given theme is repeated in different clefs, and the stricter Canon, which is a ‘round’, each ent ...
Gwyneth Nelmes and Stephanie Townend
... the international port of Hamburg where he was a driving force for many of the latest trends in European music. To his contemporaries, Telemann was rated second to none, including Bach and Handel. He was the most prolific composer of all time – an estimated 3,000 works in total. The editors of the U ...
... the international port of Hamburg where he was a driving force for many of the latest trends in European music. To his contemporaries, Telemann was rated second to none, including Bach and Handel. He was the most prolific composer of all time – an estimated 3,000 works in total. The editors of the U ...
blazing baroque - Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
... and twenty five concertos. His knowledge of instruments and the ability to compose specifically for each of them was developed as a child, when he taught himself to play virtually every instrument available. ‘An exceedingly intense fire’, he wrote, drove him ‘to make myself familiar not only with th ...
... and twenty five concertos. His knowledge of instruments and the ability to compose specifically for each of them was developed as a child, when he taught himself to play virtually every instrument available. ‘An exceedingly intense fire’, he wrote, drove him ‘to make myself familiar not only with th ...
Chapter 10: Class of 1685 (I): The Instrumental Music of Bach and
... 1. By combining elements of familiar styles in unfamiliar ways, Bach produced new pieces that sounded somehow familiar, but not quite. 2. He put six concertos together in hopes of attaining a position in Berlin, but the concertos were never acknowledged or performed there. Their unusual scoring may ...
... 1. By combining elements of familiar styles in unfamiliar ways, Bach produced new pieces that sounded somehow familiar, but not quite. 2. He put six concertos together in hopes of attaining a position in Berlin, but the concertos were never acknowledged or performed there. Their unusual scoring may ...
Troy Chromatic Concerts Presents Lara St. John, violin
... work is easily remembered, even after first hearing. The music is full of joy, and its refreshing, hopeful quality makes the subtitle, 'Spring,' most appropriate. Throughout, the melodies are immediate, simple, and elegant. There are also humorous moments, reminding listeners that Beethoven was a ma ...
... work is easily remembered, even after first hearing. The music is full of joy, and its refreshing, hopeful quality makes the subtitle, 'Spring,' most appropriate. Throughout, the melodies are immediate, simple, and elegant. There are also humorous moments, reminding listeners that Beethoven was a ma ...
Early History of the Violin (1520-1650)
... shorter and lighter and the soundpost thinner. Early (convex) bows varied greatly in shape, and the modern frog was predated by various attempted solutions to holding the narrower ribbon of hair in place. The modern Tourte bow, with its logarithmic inward curvature, cannot be pressed too deeply in t ...
... shorter and lighter and the soundpost thinner. Early (convex) bows varied greatly in shape, and the modern frog was predated by various attempted solutions to holding the narrower ribbon of hair in place. The modern Tourte bow, with its logarithmic inward curvature, cannot be pressed too deeply in t ...
Johann Sebastian Bach
... fifteen, Bach secured his first position in the choir of St. Michael's School in Lüneburg. He travelled little, never leaving Germany once in his life, but held various postitions during his career in churches and in the service of the courts throughout the country. In 1703 he went to Arnstadt to ta ...
... fifteen, Bach secured his first position in the choir of St. Michael's School in Lüneburg. He travelled little, never leaving Germany once in his life, but held various postitions during his career in churches and in the service of the courts throughout the country. In 1703 he went to Arnstadt to ta ...
The Best of Mozart PROGRAMME NOTES Eine kleine Nachtmusik
... comprehensive summary of the classical symphony. Of the three symphonies, the one that has drawn the most attention is the arresting Symphony no. 40. In 1793, two years after Mozart’s death, it was advertised by the Viennese music dealer Johann Traeg as “one of the last and most beautiful of this ma ...
... comprehensive summary of the classical symphony. Of the three symphonies, the one that has drawn the most attention is the arresting Symphony no. 40. In 1793, two years after Mozart’s death, it was advertised by the Viennese music dealer Johann Traeg as “one of the last and most beautiful of this ma ...
Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in f minor BWV 1056 – Johann Sebastian
... greatest composer of all time.” Bach was also a very human individual. He was stubborn, impatient, penny-pinching and, at times, vindictive. And, having famously fathered 26 children, he must not have focused his energies exclusively on music. He wrote music under vastly different circumstances than ...
... greatest composer of all time.” Bach was also a very human individual. He was stubborn, impatient, penny-pinching and, at times, vindictive. And, having famously fathered 26 children, he must not have focused his energies exclusively on music. He wrote music under vastly different circumstances than ...
Yura Lee, violin, and Dina Vainshtein, piano
... composers across the continent were exposed to new ideas and influences from all regions of Europe, familiarizing such composers as Bartók and Kodály with the work of the Second Viennese School, led by Arnold Schoenberg, and vice versa. Though it is unclear whether Bartók and Schoenberg ever met in ...
... composers across the continent were exposed to new ideas and influences from all regions of Europe, familiarizing such composers as Bartók and Kodály with the work of the Second Viennese School, led by Arnold Schoenberg, and vice versa. Though it is unclear whether Bartók and Schoenberg ever met in ...
Johann Sebastian Bach
... very busy, in his spare time, Bach conducted a group of musicians who liked to get together to perform at a local coffee house. During his lifetime, people thought of Bach as just an ordinary working musician. No one really knew much about his music until 100 years after his death, when another comp ...
... very busy, in his spare time, Bach conducted a group of musicians who liked to get together to perform at a local coffee house. During his lifetime, people thought of Bach as just an ordinary working musician. No one really knew much about his music until 100 years after his death, when another comp ...
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... Born in Eisenach, Germany on March 21st, 1685. His parents died when he was 10, so Johann lived with older brother, who was an organist. His uncles were also professional musicians, and his family was well established in the music community. First job was a court musician for Duke Johann Ernst III i ...
... Born in Eisenach, Germany on March 21st, 1685. His parents died when he was 10, so Johann lived with older brother, who was an organist. His uncles were also professional musicians, and his family was well established in the music community. First job was a court musician for Duke Johann Ernst III i ...
COMPOSITIONAL TRADITIONS AND INNOVATIONS IN VIOLIN LITERATURE: by Chien-Tai Hsu
... He Zhanhao, who were then studying at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. The pair was exploring the feasibility of setting Chinese music in a (Western) symphonic medium, incorporating borrowed devices from Chinese folk theatrical music as well as vocal techniques of Zhe Jiang's Yu Theatre. The end ...
... He Zhanhao, who were then studying at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. The pair was exploring the feasibility of setting Chinese music in a (Western) symphonic medium, incorporating borrowed devices from Chinese folk theatrical music as well as vocal techniques of Zhe Jiang's Yu Theatre. The end ...
Week 51
... St. Thomas Lutheran Church in Leipzig, Germany. Bach remained there for the rest of his life. Some of Bach's most famous works include the Christmas Oratorio, the Brandenburg Concertos, and the celebrated organ work Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. Johann Sebastian Bach died in 1750. Bach was not appre ...
... St. Thomas Lutheran Church in Leipzig, Germany. Bach remained there for the rest of his life. Some of Bach's most famous works include the Christmas Oratorio, the Brandenburg Concertos, and the celebrated organ work Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. Johann Sebastian Bach died in 1750. Bach was not appre ...
Beethoven String Quartet Op 18 no 5
... The A major quartet is something of a homage to Mozart, bearing many similarities with his K.464 ('Drum') quartet in the same key. It had particularly impressed Beethoven, who is reported to have said “That’s a work! That’s where Mozart said to the world: Behold what I might have done for you if the ...
... The A major quartet is something of a homage to Mozart, bearing many similarities with his K.464 ('Drum') quartet in the same key. It had particularly impressed Beethoven, who is reported to have said “That’s a work! That’s where Mozart said to the world: Behold what I might have done for you if the ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791)
... From the time he was seven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was endlessly paraded by his father from one European city to another. In little more than three years, Mozart and his family travelled to ten German cities, as well as Brussels, London, and Paris—where they dined with Louis XV at Versailles. Follo ...
... From the time he was seven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was endlessly paraded by his father from one European city to another. In little more than three years, Mozart and his family travelled to ten German cities, as well as Brussels, London, and Paris—where they dined with Louis XV at Versailles. Follo ...
Johann Sebastian Bach
... Lutheran Church in Leipzig, Germany. Bach remained there for the rest of his life. Some of Bach's most famous works include the Brandenburg Concertos, the WellTempered Clavier, and the celebrated organ work Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. Johann Sebastian Bach died in 1750. Bach was not appreciated du ...
... Lutheran Church in Leipzig, Germany. Bach remained there for the rest of his life. Some of Bach's most famous works include the Brandenburg Concertos, the WellTempered Clavier, and the celebrated organ work Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. Johann Sebastian Bach died in 1750. Bach was not appreciated du ...