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Kyllikki (Sibelius)
(subtitled "Three Lyric Pieces"; in German: ""), Opus number, Op. 41, is a three-movement (music), movement suite (music), suite for piano written in September 1904 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. Although the title is taken from the ''Kalevala'', Finland's national epic, Sibelius denied that the piece was programmatic in nature. ( is a maiden who appears in Cantos of the Kalevala#Cantos 11 – 15: First Lemminkäinen Cycle, Runos XI–XII.) History In September 1904 found Sibelius beset by dual distractions. First, he worried that he was beginning to go deafness, deaf (as he wrote to his patronage, patron, , "My hearing is very bad ... As far as the new works I am working on are concerned, I rely on the inner ear ...") and he even admitted himself to a private clinic). Moreover, construction on Sibelius's new home in Järvenpää (subsequently named Ainola after his wife, Aino Sibelius, Aino) was nearing completion and the family was preparing to mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piano Solo
The piano is often used to provide harmonic accompaniment to a voice or other instrument. However, solo parts for the piano are common in many musical styles. These can take the form of a section in which the piano is heard more prominently than other instruments, or in which the piano may be played entirely unaccompanied. The term ''piano solo'' is also often used to mean a musical composition written solely for piano. Compositions for solo piano Composition or Compositions may refer to: Arts and literature *Composition (dance), practice and teaching of choreography * Composition (language), in literature and rhetoric, producing a work in spoken tradition and written discourse, to include ... Piano Music performance Solo music {{Music-theory-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Incidental Music
Incidental music is music in a play, television program, radio program, video game, or some other presentation form that is not primarily musical. The term is less frequently applied to film music, with such music being referred to instead as the film score or soundtrack. Incidental music is often background music, and is intended to add atmosphere to the action. It may take the form of something as simple as a low, ominous tone suggesting an impending startling event or to enhance the depiction of a story-advancing sequence. It may also include pieces such as overtures, music played during scene changes, or at the end of an act, immediately preceding an interlude, as was customary with several nineteenth-century plays. It may also be required in plays that have musicians performing on-stage. History The use of incidental music dates back at least as far as Greek drama. A number of classical composers have written incidental music for various plays, with the more famous e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Izumi Tateno
Izumi Tateno (, ''Tateno Izumi'', (born 10 November 1936 in Tokyo) is a Japanese pianist. Tateno studied at the Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku and is today a professor at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. After a stroke during a concert on 9 January 2002, he had to take a break for some time. Even after medical rehabilitation, he still had paralysis of the right side of his body; since his comeback in May 2004, he has therefore played exclusively with his left hand. Numerous composers dedicated pieces to him specially tailored to his requirements. Tateno has won many prizes and awards. Since 17 September 1990, he has been chairman of the Japanese Sibelius Society (日本シベリウス協会, ''Nihon Shiberiusu Kyōkai''), of which he is a founding member. Tateno is currently active mainly in Finland. In Japan, he has become widely known through the theme tune he performed for the television drama ''Taira no Kiyomori'', composed by Takashi Yoshimatsu is a Japanese classical music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musical Heritage Society
Musical Heritage Society was an American mail-order record label founded in New York City in 1962 by Michael "Mischa" Naida (1900–1991), co-founder of Westminster Records, and T. C. Fry Jr. (1926–1996). Background After a small initial group of pseudonymous issues—licensed from the Telemann Society and Philips—MHS issued many recordings licensed from Erato. Eventually the label issued most of the Erato catalogue, including discs previously issued on several US retail labels. MHS also drew on such catalogues as Amadeo, Angelicum, Arcophon, Boston, Christophorus Records, Da Camera, Expériences Anonymes, Hispavox, Iramac, Library of Recorded Masterpieces, Lyrichord Discs, Muza, Pelca, Somerset, Supraphon, Unicorn-Kanchana, Valois, and Harmonia Mundi. The company operated on a subscription basis similar to book clubs, offering monthly selections and the opportunity to order further from catalogues regularly issued to subscribers. MHS also offered albums of jazz music thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Rubinstein (pianist)
David Rubinstein (born 1949 in New York, New York New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Uni ...) is a pianist. His recordings have been critically acclaimed and appear regularly on the playlists of major broadcasting and streaming services including Classical24 and Pandora Radio. He has performed throughout the U.S. and Europe and has appeared on numerous international radio broadcasts. Born in New York City, he was a student of George Kochevitsky, and later studied briefly with Claudio Arrau. Rubinstein recently recorded the world premiere of his transcription of Gustav Holst's ''The Planets''. His performances typically feature lesser-known works such as the Prokofiev Fourth Sonata and the Busoni Elegies, as well as standard repertoire. Sources *http://www.musicwebintern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romanticism (music)
Romantic music is a stylistic movement in Western Classical music associated with the period of the 19th century commonly referred to as the Romantic era (or Romantic period). It is closely related to the broader concept of Romanticism—the intellectual, artistic and literary movement that became prominent in Western culture from approximately 1798 until 1837. Romantic composers sought to create music that was individualistic, emotional, dramatic and often Program music, programmatic; reflecting broader trends within the movements of Romantic Romantic literature, literature, Romantic poetry, poetry, art, and philosophy. Romantic music was often ostensibly inspired by (or else sought to evoke) non-musical stimuli, such as nature, literature, poetry, super-natural elements or the fine arts. It included features such as increased chromaticism and moved away from traditional forms. Background The Romantic movement was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Barnett (music Writer)
Andrew Charles Robert Barnett (born 1968) is the Director of the UK Branch of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Barnett was born in New South Wales and has dual Australian and British citizenship. He attended the University of St Andrews, graduating in 1990 with an MA in Modern History. In 2002, Barnett was the Director of Communications at the UK Sports Council, where the advocacy plan for bidding London as a host city for the 2012 Olympics was developed. From 2005-2007 he was Director of Communications at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Housing Trust. In 2007, he took on the directorship of the UK branch of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He is a director of the Forces in Mind Trust and a committee member of Healthwatch England. Barnett was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours The 2021 New Year Honours are appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violin Concerto (Sibelius)
The Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 of Jean Sibelius, originally composed in 1904 and revised in 1905, is the only concerto by Sibelius. It is symphonic in scope and included an extended cadenza for the soloist which takes on the role of the development section in the first movement. History Sibelius originally dedicated the concerto to the noted violinist Willy Burmester, who promised to play the concerto in Berlin. For financial reasons, however, Sibelius decided to premiere it in Helsinki, and since Burmester was unavailable to travel to Finland, Sibelius engaged Victor Nováček (1873–1914), a Hungarian violin pedagogue of Czech origin who was then teaching at the Helsinki Institute of Music (now the Sibelius Academy). The initial version of the concerto premiered on 8 February 1904, with Sibelius conducting. Sibelius had barely finished the work in time for the premiere, giving Nováček little time to prepare, and the piece was of such difficulty that it would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Layton (musicologist)
Robert Edward Layton (2 May 1930 – 9 November 2020) was an English musicologist and music critic. Biography Between 1949 and 1953 Layton studied at Worcester College, Oxford under Edmund Rubbra and Egon Wellesz.Scott, Davi"Layton, Robert" ''Grove Music Online'', Oxford University Press 2001. Retrieved 10 June 2020 He then went to Sweden, where he learned the language and studied with Carl-Allan Moberg at the universities of Uppsala and Stockholm (1953–1955).Slonimsky ''et al'', p. 2054 He was a teacher before joining the BBC in 1959. He worked first on music presentation and from 1961 on music talks. He was the BBC's senior music talks producer (1970) and senior music producer (1982–90). Layton specialised in Scandinavian music. He wrote extensively on Franz Berwald – his book ''Franz Berwald'' was first published in Swedish in 1956, and in English three years later – and published books on Edvard Grieg and Jean Sibelius. He made many broadcasts, contributed reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pelléas And Mélisande
''Pelléas and Mélisande'' (french: Pelléas et Mélisande) is a Symbolist play by Maurice Maeterlinck about the forbidden, doomed love of the title characters. It was first performed in 1893. The work never achieved great success on the stage, apart from in the operatic setting by Claude Debussy, but it was at the time widely read and admired by the literary elite in the symbolist movement, such as Strindberg and Rilke. It also inspired other contemporary composers, including Gabriel Fauré, Arnold Schoenberg, Jean Sibelius, and Mel Bonis. Synopsis Golaud finds Mélisande by a stream in the woods. She has lost her crown in the water but does not wish to retrieve it. They marry, and she instantly wins the favor of Arkël, Golaud's grandfather and king of Allemonde, who is ill. She begins to be drawn to Pelléas, Golaud's brother. They meet by the fountain, where Mélisande loses her wedding ring. Golaud grows suspicious of the lovers, has his son Yniold spy on them, and discov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations". The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. He was a leading member of La Jeune Belgique group and his plays form an important part of the Symbolist movement. In later life, Maeterlinck faced credible accusations of plagiarism. Biography Early life Maeterlinck was born in Ghent, Belgium, to a wealthy, French-speaking family. His mother, Mathilde Colette Franço ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
