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Élégie Pour Cor Et Piano
''Élégie pour cor et piano'' – Elegy for horn and piano – List of compositions by Francis Poulenc#List of works by FP number, FP 168 is a short, one-movement work by the French composer Francis Poulenc, written in memory of the French horn, horn player Dennis Brain, who died in 1957. It was first performed in January 1958. Background and premiere Poulenc had a profound admiration for the British horn player Dennis Brain. When the latter died in a car crash in 1957, aged 36, Poulenc composed the Élégie as a tribute. Unsure of the capabilities of the solo instrument, he sought the advice of the horn player Georges Barboteu before completing the piece. The Élégie was premiered by the BBC in a broadcast on 17 February 1958, played by Brain's former Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia colleague Neill Sanders, with the composer at the piano."Poulenc's Elegy for Dennis Brain", ''The Times'', 8 February 1958, p. 3 Structure The work typically takes between nine and ten minutes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Compositions By Francis Poulenc
This is a list of works written by the French composer Francis Poulenc (1899–1963). As a pianist, Poulenc composed many pieces for his own instrument in List of solo piano compositions by Francis Poulenc, his piano music and chamber music. He wrote works for orchestra including several concertos, also three operas, two ballets, incidental music for plays and film music. He composed songs (''Mélodie, mélodies''), often on texts by contemporary authors. His religious music includes the Mass in G major (Poulenc), Mass in G major, the Stabat Mater (Poulenc), Stabat Mater and Gloria (Poulenc), Gloria. Overview The composer had written a catalogue of his works in 1921, which is reproduced in Schmidt's book. According to this list, the first noted piece was in 1914 ''Processional pour la crémation d'un mandarin'' for piano, now lost or destroyed. Poulenc completed his last work, his Oboe Sonata (Poulenc), Oboe Sonata, in 1962. Piano, chamber music and songs As a professional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilfrid Mellers
Wilfrid Howard Mellers (26 April 1914 – 17 May 2008) was an English music critic, musicologist and composer. Early life Born in Leamington, Warwickshire, Mellers was educated at the local Leamington College and later won a scholarship to Downing College, Cambridge, where he read English under F. R. Leavis. He later lodged with the Leavises for three years while pursuing a Music degree. Mellers also took private composition lessons in Oxford from Egon Wellesz and Edmund Rubbra.East, Leslie, revised Gordon Rumson. 'Mellers, Wilfrid (Howard)', in ''Grove Music Online'' (2001) From 1938 he taught at Dartington Hall, and in September 1940 he married Vera Muriel Hobbs. He spent the Second World War working on the land as a conscientious objector.Dickinson, Peter.Mellers, Wilfrid Howard in ''The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (2013) Career After writing many articles for Leavis's journal '' Scrutiny'' since the September 1936 issue, he appeared on the editorial board o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1957 Compositions
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Chamber Music By Francis Poulenc
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Julius Drake
Julius Drake (born 5 April 1959) is an English pianist who works as a song recital accompanist and chamber musician. Biography Drake was educated at the Purcell School and the Royal College of Music; he made his professional debut at the Purcell Room in 1981 and developed a special affinity for the music of Robert Schumann. Drake is now a professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and a visiting professor at the Royal Northern College of Music; he lives in London with his wife and two children and, between performing, recording and teaching, is actively involved in the Jean Meikle Music Trust, a charity set up in commemoration of his mother. Drake is an uncle of theatre and opera director Sophie Hunter. Drake was director of the Perth International Chamber Music Festival in Australia from 2000 to 2003 and was musical director of Deborah Warner's staging of Leoš Janáček, Janáček's ''Diary of One Who Vanished'', touring to Munich, London, Dublin, Amsterdam and New Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Watkins
Richard Watkins (born 1962) is a horn player. He performs as a concerto soloist and chamber music player. He was Principal Horn of the Philharmonia Orchestra from 1985 to 1996, a position he relinquished to devote more time to his solo career. He has appeared as soloist in the Royal Festival Hall, at the Barbican Centre and abroad with conductors such as Carlo Maria Giulini, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Leonard Slatkin, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Andrew Davis and Gennadi Rozhdestvensky. He is in great demand as a chamber musician and recitalist and has worked closely with pianists such as Barry Douglas, Peter Donohoe, Pascal Rogé, Barry Scott and Martin Roscoe. He is a member of the Nash Ensemble. His recordings include Sir Malcolm Arnold's two horn concertos for the Conifer Classics label, to great critical acclaim, and Mozart's '' Sinfonia Concertante'' with the Philharmonia and Giuseppe Sinopoli for Deutsche Grammophon; other recordings include the Mozart Horn Concertos with Rich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éric Le Sage
Éric Le Sage (born 15 June 1964 in Aix-en-Provence) is a contemporary French classical pianist. Biography After he finished his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris, Le Sage went to London to improve by Maria Curcio. Éric Le Sage is best known for his interpretations of romantic music, Schumann, but also for recording the complete piano music of Francis Poulenc. His curiosity for the unknown works led him to play more than twenty rare concertos by Dvořák, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Britten and others. Lesage is a guest of renowned groups such as the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra or the Dresden Philharmonic. Prizes He was the winner of the Porto International Piano Competition in 1985, of the Robert Schumann International Competition for Pianists and Singers at Zwickau in 1989 and of the Leeds competition in 1990. In 2000 and 2001, he obtained the ''grand prix du disque'' of the Académie Charles Cros, a Victoire de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Tharaud
Alexandre Tharaud (born 9 December 1968) is a French pianist. He is active on the concert stage and has released a large and diverse discography. Life and career Born in Paris, Tharaud discovered the music scene through his mother who was a dance teacher at the Opéra de Paris, and his father, an amateur director and singer of operettas. Tharaud thus appeared as a child in theatres around northern France, where the family spent many weekends.''Télérama'', n° 3083 du 11 février 2009, p. 14. Propos recueillis par Bernard Mérigaud His grandfather was a violinist in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. At the initiative of his parents, Alexandre started his piano studies at the age of five, and he entered Conservatory of the 14th Arrondissement, where his teacher was Carmen Taccon-Devenat, a student of Marguerite Long. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris at the age of 14 where he won first prize for piano in the class of Germaine Mounier when he was 17 years old. With :fr:Théodore P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hervé Joulain
Hervé Joulain (born 1966) is a French horn player. Biography Born in Saint-Romans-lès-Melle (Deux-Sèvres), Joulain was Premier French horn super-soloist of the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France under the direction of Marek Janowski. From the age of 20, Joulain played under the direction of Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta, Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Lorin Maazel, Armin Jordan, Seiji Ozawa, Riccardo Muti, Carlo Maria Giulini. Ten years later, he was promoted to the same position at the Orchestre national de France conducted by Charles Dutoit. Today, he has joined Lorin Maazel as first horn at the Filarmonica Toscanini in Parme. Joulain is also a member of the wind octet of the Opéra Bastille with whom he regularly travels abroad. He has already recorded about twenty CDs. on |
Lucien Thévet
Lucien Thévet (June 3, 1914 June 30, 2007) was a twentieth-century French horn player and teacher in France. Early life and education Lucien Thévet's father, Eugène Thévet, an amateur musician who played the cornet, introduced his son starting at age six to various wind instruments, but the horn became Lucien's preference. He soon began performing as a soloist with local musical groups, along with his father, in particular with the Beauvais Philharmonic Society. In 1933, he entered the Paris Conservatory in the horn class of Fernand Reine and, in 1937, received First Prize for Horn in the class of Louis-Édouard Vuillermoz. Career Thévet's professional career began in May 1937 with the Paris Radio Symphony Orchestra (renamed the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in 1964) when he won the audition for first horn, a position he held until 1941. Starting in 1938, he became principal horn of the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra (l'Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WorldCat
WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of tens of thousands of institutions (mostly libraries), in many countries, that are current or past members of the OCLC global cooperative. It is operated by OCLC, Inc. Many of the OCLC member libraries collectively maintain WorldCat's database, the world's largest bibliographic database. The database includes other information sources in addition to member library collections. OCLC makes WorldCat itself available free to libraries, but the catalog is the foundation for other subscription OCLC services (such as resource sharing and collection management). WorldCat is used by librarians for cataloging and research and by the general public. , WorldCat contained over 540 million bibliographic records in 483 languages, representing over 3 billion physical and digital library assets, and the WorldCat persons dataset ( mined from WorldCat) included over 100 million people. History OCLC was founded in 1967 under the leade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Ben
Big Ben is the nickname for the Great Bell of the Great Clock of Westminster, and, by extension, for the clock tower itself, which stands at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London, England. Originally named the Clock Tower, it was renamed Elizabeth Tower in 2012 to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. The clock is a striking clock with five bells. It was designed by Sir Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin in the Perpendicular Gothic and Gothic Revival styles and was completed in 1859. It is elaborately decorated with stone carvings and features symbols related to the four countries of the United Kingdom and the Tudor dynasty. A Latin inscription celebrates Queen Victoria, under whose reign the palace was built. It stands tall, and the climb from ground level to the belfry is 334 steps. Its base is square, measuring on each side. The dials of the clock are in diameter. The clock uses its original mechanism and was the largest and most accurate fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
