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Symphony In B-flat Major
This is a list of symphonies in B-flat major written by notable composers. See also For symphonies in other keys, see List of symphonies by key. Notes References * Bryan, Paul, ''Johann Waṅhall, Viennese Symphonist: His Life and His Musical Environment'' Stuyvesant: Pendragon Press (1997) * Hill, George R.: "Thematic Index" in ''The Symphony 1720–1840 Series B - Volume X'', ed. Barry S. Brooks (New York & London, 1981) {{portal bar, Classical music, Music Lists of symphonies by key, B flat major Compositions in B-flat major, Symphonies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
B-flat Major
B-flat major is a major scale based on B, with pitches B, C, D, E, F, G, and A. Its key signature has two flats. Its relative minor is G minor and its parallel minor is B-flat minor. The B-flat major scale is: : Many transposing instruments are pitched in B-flat major, including the clarinet, trumpet, tenor saxophone, and soprano saxophone. As a result, B-flat major is one of the most popular keys for concert band compositions. History Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 98 is often credited as the first symphony written in that key, including trumpet and timpani parts. However, his brother Michael Haydn wrote one such symphony earlier, No. 36. Nonetheless, Joseph Haydn still gets credit for writing the timpani part at actual pitch with an F major key signature (instead of transposing with a C major key signature), a procedure that made sense since he limited that instrument to the tonic and dominant pitches.H. C. Robbins Landon, ''Haydn Symphonies'', London: British Broa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niels Gade
Niels Wilhelm Gade (22 February 1817 – 21 December 1890) was a Danish composer, conductor, violinist, organist and teacher. Together with Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, he was the leading Danish musician of his day. Biography Gade was born in Copenhagen, the son of a joiner and instrument maker. He was intended for his father's trade, but his passion for a musician's career, made evident by the ease and skill with which he learnt to play upon a number of instruments, was not to be denied. Though he became proficient on the violin under Frederik Wexschall, and in the elements of theory under Christoph Weyse and Weyse's pupil Andreas Berggreen, he was to a great extent self-taught. He began his professional career as a violinist with the Royal Danish Orchestra, which premiered his concert overture ''Efterklange af Ossian'' ("Echoes of Ossian") in 1841. \ When the performance of his first symphony had to be delayed in Copenhagen, it was sent to Felix Mendelssohn. Mendels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1782 In Music
Events * March 17 – Violinist Giovanni Battista Viotti makes his début at the Concert Spirituel in Paris. * August 4 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart marries Constanze Weber in Vienna. * September 30 – The Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm is inaugurated with a performance of Johann Gottlieb Naumann's ''Cora och Alonzo''. * William Shield is appointed resident composer to Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. * Antoine Bournonville and his sister Julie Alix de la Fay join the Royal Swedish Ballet at Stockholm. Published popular music *James Aird (compiled and edited) – ''A Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs'' (including "The Miners of Wicklow", possibly the first published version of "Yankee Doodle") *Robert Burns – ''John Barleycorn'' (original version from 16th century) Classical music *Ludwig van Beethoven **9 Variations on a March by Dressler, WoO 63 **''Schilderung eines Mädchen'', WoO 107 *Friedrich Benda, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Benda – 3 Flut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1780 In Music
Events *Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes his opera ''Idomeneo'' at Munich. *The Danish royal anthem, " Kong Christian", is first sung. *Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's ''Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen'' goes into its third edition. *1780–1782 Emanuel Bach revises his ''Magnificat'' Wq 215 (H 772) (Hamburg version). Classical music *Carl Friedrich Abel – 6 String Trios, Op. 16 *Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach **Keyboard Sonata in F major, H.269 **Keyboard Sonata in A major, H.270 **Rondo in G major, H.271 **''Geistliche Gesänge'', Book 1 H.749 * Johann Christian Bach **6 Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin or Flute, Op.16 (W.B 10-15a) **6 Keyboard Sonatas, Op. 17 **2 Keyboard Quintets, Op. 22 *Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier – ''12 Noëls avec un Carillon des morts'' *Franz Benda – Violin Sonata in C minor, L3.9 * Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Benda **Viola Concerto in F major, LorB 314 **3 Sonatas, Op. 3 *Georg Benda – ''Sammlung Vermischter Stücke'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1779 In Music
Events *February 16 – Composer William Boyce is buried in St Paul's Cathedral. The music at his funeral features the massed choirs of St Paul's itself, Westminster Abbey and the Chapel Royal. * March 7 – Griffith Jones, aged about 21, is recommended for membership of the Royal Society of Musicians. *April – ''The London Magazine'' reports on the organ-playing of three-year-old prodigy William Crotch. *December 26 – Teatro alla Scala in Milan opens its operatic carnival season with Josef Mysliveček's new opera ''Armida''. *The opera house at Eszterháza burns down. * Mezzo-soprano Luigia Polzelli and her violinist husband Antonio arrive at the Esterházy court, where she quickly becomes the lover of Joseph Haydn. Opera * Johann Christian Bach – '' Amadis de Gaule'' (premiered Dec. 14 in Paris) *Domenico Cimarosa **''L'infedeltà fedele'' **''L'italiana in Londra'' (premiered Dec. 28 in Rome) **''Il matrimonio per raggiro'' * Christoph Willibald Gluck – '' Iph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1774 In Music
{{Year nav topic5, 1774, music Events *Antonio Salieri is appointed court composer to the Emperor Joseph II. *Domenico Cimarosa is invited to Rome for the opera season. * Charles Burney writes ''A Plan for a Music School''. * Pascal Taskin becomes keeper of the King's instruments. * Georg Joseph Vogler becomes a pupil of Giovanni Battista Martini at Bologna. Opera *Pasquale Anfossi ''– Olimpiade'' * Christoph Willibald Gluck **'' Iphigenie en Aulide'' Wq.40 **''Orphée et Eurydice'', Wq.41 (French revision of Wq. 30) * Josef Mysliveček – ''Artaserse'', ED.10:B.b5 * Giovanni Paisiello ** ''Il duello'' ''comico'', R.1.41 ** ''La frascatana'', R.1.43 * Antonio Salieri – ''La Calamita de’ cuori'' Classical music *Carl Friedrich Abel – 6 Keyboard Concertos, Op. 11 * Johann Christian Bach – Symphony in B-flat major, W.B 17 *Wilhelm Friedemann Bach – Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, F.9 * Josse-François-Joseph Benaut – Mass in C major *Ernst Eichner – 2 Harp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1767 In Music
Events *February 22 – Lovisa Augusti performs at a concert in Gothenburg directed by a musician of the Hovkapellet. * September 11 – Eleven-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, his father Leopold, his mother Anna Maria, and his older sister Nannerl) left Salzburg for Vienna, travelling via Melk (where young Wolfgang plays the organ).Halliwell, Ruth (1998) The Mozart Family: Four Lives in a Social Context. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Page 120 A few weeks later, an outbreak of smallpox in Vienna causes them to flee the city, and they travel to Brno. * October 26 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is diagnosed with smallpox. He recovers by November 10, but Nannerl then contracts the disease; she also survives. *''Dictionnaire de musique'' by Jean-Jacques Rousseau is published. *Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes the first act of an oratorio, '' Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots'', to be completed by Michael Haydn and Anton Cajetan Adlgasser. Popular music * James Hook's first collec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Haydn
Franz Joseph Haydn ( , ; 31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions to musical form have led him to be called "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String quartet, String Quartet". Haydn spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Esterházy family at their Eszterháza Castle. Until the later part of his life, this isolated him from other composers and trends in music so that he was, as he put it, "forced to become original". Yet his music circulated widely, and for much of his career he was the most celebrated composer in Europe. He was Haydn and Mozart, a friend and mentor of Mozart, Beethoven and his contemporaries#Joseph Haydn, a tutor of Beethoven, and the elder brother of composer Michael Haydn. Biography Early life Joseph Haydn was born in Rohrau, Austria, Rohrau, Habsburg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Haarklou
Johannes Haarklou (May 13, 1847 – November 26, 1925) was a Norwegian composer, organist, conductor, and music critic. Biography Haarklou was born in the village of Haukedalen in the parish of Førde in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. He was the son of Ole Nilsson Dvergsdalen (1815-1872) and Orlaug Andersdatter Haarklou (1808-1870). He went to Balestrand lærerskole, then attended the Stord lærerskole where he graduated in 1868. He studied organ and harmony in Drammen, then in 1872 studied with Ludvig Mathias Lindeman in Christiania (now Oslo). Composer Fredrikke Waaler studied with Lindeman and also with Haarklou. From 1873 to 1875 he studied with Carl Reinecke at the Leipzig Conservatory and then at the Berlin Music Academy. In 1876 Haarklou was an organist at Tangen Church at Drammen. In 1877, he conducted his first orchestral work in Bergen followed later by a concert at the Gamle Logen in Christiania. In 1880, he became an organist and conductor in Christiania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Godard
Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (18 August 184910 January 1895) was a French violinist and Romantic-era composer of Jewish extraction, best known for his opera ''Jocelyn''. Godard composed eight operas, five symphonies, two piano and two violin concertos, string quartets, sonatas for violin and piano, piano pieces and etudes, and more than a hundred songs. He died at the age of 45 in Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes) of tuberculosis and was buried in the family tomb in Taverny in the French department of Val-d'Oise. Life and career Godard was born in Paris in 1849. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1863 where he studied under Henri Vieuxtemps (violin) and Napoléon Henri Reber (harmony) and accompanied Vieuxtemps twice to Germany. In 1876, his ''Concerto romantique'' was performed at the Concerts Populaires, and other of his large works were also performed at these concerts. In 1878, Godard was the co-winner of the Prix de la Ville de Paris. His winning composition, a dramatic symphony ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Glinka
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka ( rus, link=no, Михаил Иванович Глинка, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka., mʲɪxɐˈil ɪˈvanəvʲɪdʑ ˈɡlʲinkə, Ru-Mikhail-Ivanovich-Glinka.ogg; ) was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country and is often regarded as the fountainhead of Russian classical music. His compositions were an important influence on Russian composers, notably the members of The Five (composers), The Five, who produced a distinctive Russian style of music. Early life and education Glinka was born in the village of Novospasskoye, not far from the Desna River in the Smolensk Governorate of the Russian Empire (now in the Yelninsky District of the Smolensk Oblast). His wealthy father had retired as an army captain, and the family had a strong tradition of loyalty and service to the tsars, and several members of his extended family had lively cultural interests. His great-great-grandfather was a Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Glazunov
Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov; ger, Glasunow (, 10 August 1865 – 21 March 1936) was a Russian composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Russian Romantic period. He was director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 1905 and 1928 and was instrumental in the reorganization of the institute into the Petrograd Conservatory, then the Leningrad Conservatory, following the Bolshevik Revolution. He continued as head of the Conservatory until 1930, though he had left the Soviet Union in 1928 and did not return. The best-known student under his tenure during the early Soviet years was Dmitri Shostakovich. Glazunov successfully reconciled nationalism and cosmopolitanism in Russian music. While he was the direct successor to Balakirev's nationalism, he tended more towards Borodin's epic grandeur while absorbing a number of other influences. These included Rimsky-Korsakov's orchestral virtuosity, Tchaikovsky's lyricism and Taneyev's contrapuntal skill. Younger comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
