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Dances Of Galánta
''Dances of Galánta'' (''Galántai táncok'') is a 1933 in music, 1933 orchestral work by Zoltán Kodály. History The piece was composed on commission for the 80th anniversary of the Budapest Philharmonic Society. It is based on folk music of Galánta (now part of Slovakia), where Kodály lived for several years. The composer remarked: "At that time there existed a famous Gypsy band...This was the first 'orchestral' sonority that came to the ears of the child...About 1800 some books of Hungarian dances were published in Vienna, one of which contained music 'after several Gypsies from Galánta'...the composer has taken his principal themes from these old publications". Most of the pieces used were of the ''verbunkos'' style – originally developed as military recruiting music, but generalizing to a Hungarian folk tradition in the early 1800s. Kodály saw the piece as a "sequel" to his 1927 piano suite (later orchestrated) ''Dances of Marosszék''. Music ''Dances of Galánta'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1933 In Music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1933. Specific locations * 1933 in British music * 1933 in Norwegian music 1933 USA pop songs Specific genres * 1933 in country music *1933 in jazz Events *January 23 – Béla Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 2 receives its première in Frankfurt. *February – Billie Holiday is "discovered" singing at Monette's club. *March 6 – Nicolas Slonimsky conducts the world première of Edgard Varèse's ''Ionisation'' at Carnegie Hall in New York City. *June – No. 1 Rhythm Club, a pioneering jazz club, opens in Regent Street, London. *June 12 – Florence Price's Symphony In E Minor is premièred by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the first composition by an African American woman to be played by a major orchestra. *July 16 – John Jacob Niles hears the fragments of song in Appalachia that he adapts as the folk hymn " I Wonder as I Wander" completed on October 4 and first performed on December 19. *Dec 31 – Leo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
