Piano Concerto No. 2 (Mozart)

	Piano Concerto No. 2 (Mozart) Piano Concerto No. 2 refers to the second piano concerto written by one of a number of composers: * Piano Concerto No. 2 (Bartók) in G major * Piano Concerto No. 2 (Beethoven) in B-flat major * Piano Concerto No. 2 (Brahms) in B-flat major Piano Concerto No. 2 (Chopin) in F minor Piano Concerto No. 2 (Field) in A-flat major * Piano Concerto No. 2 (Ginastera) * Piano Concerto No. 2 (Glass), ''After Lewis and Clark'' * Piano Concerto No. 2 (Hummel) in A minor Piano Concerto No. 2 (Kabalevsky) in G minor Piano Concerto No. 2 (Lindberg) * Piano Concerto No. 2 (Liszt) in A major Piano Concerto No. 2 (MacDowell) in D minor Piano Concerto No. 2 (MacMillan) Piano Concerto No. 2 (Mendelssohn) in D minor Piano Concerto No. 2 (Moszkowski) in E major * Piano Concerto No. 2 (Mozart) in B-flat major Piano Concerto No. 2 (Prokofiev) in G minor Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rachmaninoff) in C minor * Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rautavaara) Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rubinstein) in F major Piano Concerto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Piano Concerto No The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys (small levers) that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings. It was invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700. Description The word "piano" is a shortened form of ''pianoforte'', the Italian term for the early 1700s versions of the instrument, which in turn derives from ''clavicembalo col piano e forte'' (key cimbalom with quiet and loud)Pollens (1995, 238) and ''fortepiano''. The Italian musical terms ''piano'' and ''forte'' indicate "soft" and "loud" respectively, in this context referring to the variations in volume (i.e., loudness) produced in response to a pianist's touch or pressure on the keys: the grea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , group=n ( ; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets '' Swan Lake'' and ''The Nutcracker'', the '' 1812 Overture'', his First Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto, the '' Romeo and Juliet'' Overture-Fantasy, several symphonies, and the opera ''Eugene Onegin''. Although musically precocious, Tchaikovsky was educated for a career as a civil servant as there was little opportunity for a musical career in Russia at the time and no system of public music education. When an opportunity for such an education arose, he entered the nascent Saint Petersburg Conservatory, from which he graduated in 1865. The formal Western-oriented teaching that he received there set him apart from composers of the contemporary na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]