Capriccio For Harp And String Orchestra
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Walter Piston Walter Hamor Piston, Jr. (January 20, 1894 – November 12, 1976), was an American composer of classical music, music theorist, and professor of music at Harvard University. Life Piston was born in Rockland, Maine at 15 Ocean Street to Walter ...
's Capriccio for Harp and String Orchestra was commissioned in
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on the occasion of its twentieth anniversary, and is dedicated to the harpist Nicanor Zabaleta, who premiered it in Madrid on October 19, 1964.Steven Low
Liner notes
to ''Walter Piston: Symphony No. 4, Capriccio for Harp and String Orchestra, Three New England Sketches''. Seattle Symphony Orchestra; Gerard Schwarz, conductor. Naxos CD 8.559162. ong Kong Naxos, 2002.
The work is in one movement and lasts for approximately 10 minutes.


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Concertos by Walter Piston
Piston A piston is a component of reciprocating engines, reciprocating pumps, gas compressors, hydraulic cylinders and pneumatic cylinders, among other similar mechanisms. It is the moving component that is contained by a cylinder (engine), cylinder a ...
1963 compositions Compositions for string orchestra
Piston A piston is a component of reciprocating engines, reciprocating pumps, gas compressors, hydraulic cylinders and pneumatic cylinders, among other similar mechanisms. It is the moving component that is contained by a cylinder (engine), cylinder a ...
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