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Concerto Pathétique
The ''Concerto pathétique'' (List of compositions by Franz Liszt, S.258/2), completed in 1866, is Franz Liszt's most substantial and ambitious two-piano work. At least three piano concerto arrangements of the work have been made by other composers, based on Liszt's suggestions. History and significance In 1851 Breitkopf & Härtel published the solo piano work ''Grosses Concert-Solo'' (in modern editions as ''Grosses Konzertsolo'') (S.176) by Franz Liszt. Though not as popular as the later Piano Sonata in B minor (Liszt), Piano Sonata in B minor by the same composer, the work achieves significance by the fact that it anticipates the ''Sonata'' as a large-scale non-Program music, programmatic work. It shows structural similarities to the ''Sonata'' and obvious thematic relationship to both the ''Sonata'' and the ''Faust Symphony''. One unpublished earlier version of the work exists, titled in French in the manuscript ''Grand Solo de concert'' (S.175a). This version differs stru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Compositions By Franz Liszt
Hungarian Romantic music, Romantic composer Franz Liszt (1811–1886) was especially prolific, composing more than 700 works. A virtuoso pianist himself, much of his output is dedicated to solo works for the instrument and is particularly technically demanding. The primary cataloguing system for his compositions was developed by Humphrey Searle; it has been thoroughly revamped by Michael Short and Leslie Howard (musician), Leslie Howard. Legend The table below gives the following information for works by Franz Liszt (where applicable): # S. — numbering as given in Humphrey Searle, ''The Music of Liszt'', 1966 (with additions by Sharon Winklhofer and Leslie Howard (musician), Leslie Howard). A number sign (#) signifies that a number is no longer in use. # LW. — numbering by R. Charnin Mueller and M. Eckhardt referenced in ''Grove Music Online'' (2010) # Title — normally following the New Liszt Edition' and Library of Congress', as well as other authoritative sources # Forc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhapsody (music)
A rhapsody in music is a one-movement (music), movement work that is episodic yet integrated, free-flowing in structure, featuring a range of highly contrasted moods, colour, and tonality. An air of spontaneous inspiration and a sense of improvisation make it freer in form than a set of variation (music), variations. The word ''rhapsody'' is derived from the , ''rhapsōidos'', a reciter of epic poetry (a rhapsode, rhapsodist), and came to be used in Europe by the 16th century as a designation for literary forms, not only epic poems, but also for collections of miscellaneous writings and, later, any extravagant expression of sentiment or feeling. In the 18th century, literary rhapsodies first became linked with music, as in Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart's ''Musicalische Rhapsodien'' (1786), a collection of songs with keyboard accompaniment, together with a few solo keyboard pieces. The first solo piano compositions with the title, however, were Václav Tomášek, Václav Jan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ( – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945). He is widely considered one of the most important and influential 20th-century classical music, composers of the 20th century and a pivotal figure in modernism (music), modernist music. Born to a musical family in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Stravinsky grew up taking piano and music theory lessons. While studying law at the Saint Petersburg State University, University of Saint Petersburg, he met Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and studied music under him until the latter's death in 1908. Stravinsky met the impresario Sergei Diaghilev soon after, who commissioned the composer to write three ballets for the Ballets Russes's Paris seasons: ''The Firebird'' (1910), ''Petrushka (ballet), Petrushka'' (1911), and ''The Rite of Spring'' (1913), the last of which caused a List of classical music concerts with an unruly audience respons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concerto For Solo Piano
While a concerto is generally a piece for an instrument or instruments with orchestral accompaniment, some works for piano alone have been written with the seemingly contradictory designation concerto for solo piano. History Although various "concert" pieces have been written across history (such as Liszt's '' Trois études de concert'' and ''Grand solo de concert''), concertos for solo piano are very rare. The first (and still best known) example comes from Johann Sebastian Bach, whose ''Italian Concerto'', BWV 971, was published in 1735. Even though it was written for two-manual harpsichord, it is regularly played on the piano and considered the first example of a concerto fitted to solo keyboard. Schumann's Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor (1835), Op. 14, was labelled by Tobias Haslinger as a "Concerto without orchestra". The French composer Charles-Valentin Alkan wrote in 1857 his set of Op. 39 études, of which nos. 8–10 were labelled as a concerto for solo piano. It incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concertino (composition)
Concertino is the diminutive of concerto, thus literally a small or short concerto. Examples Listed by composer: *Hendrik Andriessen: **Concertino for oboe and string orchestra (1970) **Concertino for cello and chamber orchestra (1970) * Jurriaan Andriessen: **Concertino for bassoon and winds (1962) **Concertino for piano and orchestra (1962) **Concertino for sousaphone and orchestra (1967) * Alexander Arutiunian: Concertino for piano and orchestra (1951) * Kees van Baaren: Concertino for piano and orchestra (1934) * Henk Badings: Concertino for piano trio (violin, cello, and piano) and chamber orchestra (1942) * Marion Bauer: Concertino for oboe, clarinet, and string quartet, Op. 32b *Luciano Berio: Concertino for clarinet, violin, celesta, harp, and strings (1949, rev. 1951 and 1970) * Henriëtte Bosmans: Concertino for piano and orchestra (1929) * Ferrucio Busoni: , BV 276 (Op. 48) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konzertstück In F Minor (Weber)
The ''Konzertstück in F minor for Piano and Orchestra'', Op. 79, J. 282, was written by Carl Maria von Weber. He started work on it in 1815, and completed it on the morning of the premiere of his opera ''Der Freischütz'', 18 June 1821. He premiered it a week later, on 25 June, at his farewell Berlin concert. Background The ''Konzertstück'' started out as a third piano concerto; however, because it is in one continuous movement (in four sections) and has an explicit program, Weber decided not to name it "concerto" but "Konzertstück" (Concert Piece). The score calls for flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, and trumpets in pairs, bass trombone, timpani, and strings. It takes about 17 minutes to perform and a brilliant technique is called for. Structure and Programme On the morning of the ''Der Freischütz'' premiere, Weber played the Konzertstück through to his wife Caroline and his pupil Julius Benedict, and told them the program: :(F minor; Larghetto affetuoso): " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Maria Von Weber
Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and Music criticism, critic in the early Romantic music, Romantic period. Best known for List of operas by Carl Maria von Weber, his operas, he was a crucial figure in the development of German ''Romantische Oper'' (German Romantic opera). Throughout his youth, his father, , relentlessly moved the family between Hamburg, Salzburg, Freiberg, Augsburg and Vienna. Consequently he studied with many teachers—his father, Johann Peter Heuschkel, Michael Haydn, Giovanni Valesi, Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, and Georg Joseph Vogler—under whose supervision he composed four operas, none of which survive complete. He had a modest output of non-operatic music, which includes two symphonies, two concertos and a Concertino for Clarinet (Weber), concertino for clarinet and orchestra, a Bassoon Concerto (Weber), bassoon concerto, a Concertino for Horn and Orchestra (Weber), horn concer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allegro De Concert (Chopin)
Frédéric Chopin's ''Allegro de concert'', Op. 46, is a Piece (music), piece for piano, published in November 1841. It is in one Movement (music), movement and takes between 11 and 15 minutes to play. The principal Theme (music), themes are bold and expressive. It has a curious place in the Chopin canon, and while its history is obscure, the evidence supports the view, shared by Robert Schumann and others, that it started out as the first movement of a projected third piano concerto, of which the orchestral parts are either now non-existent or were never scored at all. There is no evidence that Chopin ever even started work on the latter movements of this concerto. The autograph manuscript of the work is preserved in the National Library of Poland. History Chopin published his two piano concertos in 1830. That same year he wrote that he was planning a concerto for two pianos and orchestra, and would play it with his friend Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki if he managed to finish it. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Introduction And Concert Allegro (Schumann)
Robert Schumann's ''Introduction and Concert Allegro'' () in D minor for piano and orchestra, Op. 134, was one of his last works. Composed in 1853, Schumann gave the autograph score to his wife, Clara Schumann, as a birthday gift; she would give the first performance on 26 November. The work is dedicated to Johannes Brahms, and a typical performance is 13–14 minutes long. Scoring The Introduction and Concert Allegro is scored for solo piano, pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets in B and A, bassoons, horns, and trumpets, trombone, timpani and strings. References External links * {{Authority control 1853 compositions Concertante works by Robert Schumann Compositions for piano and orchestra Compositions in D minor Schumann Robert Schumann (; ; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic music, Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann (; ; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic music, Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber music, chamber groups, orchestra, choir and the opera. His works typify the spirit of the Romantic era in German music. Schumann was born in Zwickau, Saxony, to an affluent middle-class family with no musical connections, and was initially unsure whether to pursue a career as a lawyer or to make a living as a pianist-composer. He studied law at the universities of Leipzig University, Leipzig and Heidelberg University, Heidelberg but his main interests were music and Romantic literature. From 1829 he was a student of the piano teacher Friedrich Wieck, but his hopes for a career as a virtuoso pianist were frustrated by a worsening problem with his right hand, and he concentrated on composition. His early works were mainly piano pieces, inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gábor Darvas
Gábor Darvas (; until 1952 Gábor Steinberger; 18 January 1911 – 18 February 1985) was a Hungarian composer and musicologist. He was one of the first Hungarian composers to work in the field of electronic music. As a musicologist, his interest was primarily in music of the 15th and 16th centuries. Biography He was born at Szatmárnémeti (Austria-Hungary) in 1911. His family moved to Budapest in 1918, where he finished his high school studies. He studied piano from the age of nine, from 1926 until 1932 he attended the Academy of Music in Budapest as an instrumentalists and later studied composition under Zoltán Kodály. His orchestral compositions of the thirties were performed in concerts and in the Hungarian Radio. In 1939 he left the country. During the World War II, he lived in Chile, working as a conductor and a musicologist. He was a direct assistant of Erich Kleiber, In 1948 he returned to Hungary, where he has continued his composer activity in 1951, comme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Burmeister
Richard Burmeister (1860 in Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg – 1944) was a German-American composer and pianist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Biography Burmeister studied with Franz Liszt (1881–84). He made concert tours through Europe in 1883-85, and in 1885 he married fellow Liszt pupil Dory Petersen. From 1885 to 1897 was the head of the piano department of the Peabody Institute in Baltimore. Along with fellow composers Joseph Pache, Asger Hamerik, Fritz Finke and Otto Sutro, Burmeister played a sizeable role in the 1890s musical culture of Baltimore Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland. With a population of 585,708 at the 2020 census and estimated at 568,271 in 2024, it is the 30th-most populous U.S. city. The Baltimore metropolitan area is the 20th-large .... From 1897 to 1899 he was director of the Scharwenka Conservatory of Music's New York City branch. Burmeister returned to Europe and taught at the Royal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
