Violin Sonata No. 3 (Mozart)
Violin Sonata No. 3 may refer to: * Violin Sonata No. 3 (Bantock) by Granville Bantock * Violin Sonata No. 3 (Beethoven) * Violin Sonata No. 3 (Brahms) * Violin Sonata No. 3 (Enescu) * Violin Sonata No. 3 (Grieg) * Violin Sonata No. 3 (Guarnieri) by Camargo Guarnieri * Violin Sonata No. 3 (Hill) * Violin Sonata No. 3 (Medtner) * Violin Sonata No. 3 (Mozart) * Violin Sonata No. 3 (Villa-Lobos) by Heitor Villa-Lobos * Violin Sonata No. 3 (Ysaÿe) The ''Sonata for Solo Violin in D minor ‘Ballade’, Op. 27, No. 3'' is a sonata in one movement written in 1923, as the third sonata from the set of Six Sonatas for solo violin (Ysaÿe), Six Sonatas for solo violin by Eugène Ysaÿe. It is dedica ...

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The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular use. The violin typically has four strings (some can have five), usually tuned in perfect fifths with notes G3, D4, A4, E5, and is most commonly played by drawing a bow across its strings. It can also be played by plucking the strings with the fingers (pizzicato) and, in specialized cases, by striking the strings with the wooden side of the bow (col legno). Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres. They are most prominent in the Western classical tradition, both in ensembles (from chamber music to orchestras) and as solo instruments. Violins are also important in many varieties of folk music, including country music, bluegrass music, and in jazz. Electric violins with solid bodies and piezoelectric pickups a ...
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Granville Bantock
Sir Granville Ransome Bantock (7 August 186816 October 1946) was a British composer of classical music. Biography Granville Ransome Bantock was born in London. His father was an eminent Scottish surgeon.Hadden, J. Cuthbert, 1913, ''Modern Musicians'', Boston: Le Roy Phillips; London & Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, pp.42–46 His younger brother was the dramatist and film director Leedham Bantock. Granville Bantock was intended by his parents for the Indian Civil ServiceAnderson, Keith (2001)''Granville Bantock (1868–1946): Old English Suite; Russian Scenes; Hebridean Symphony (sleevenotes)'' Naxos. Retrieved 16 July 2011. but he suffered poor health and initially turned to chemical engineering. At the age of 20, when he began studying composers' manuscripts, at South Kensington Museum Library, he was drawn into the musical world. His first teacher was Dr Gordon Saunders at Trinity College of Music. In 1888, he entered the Royal Academy of Music where he studied harmony and compos ...
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Camargo Guarnieri
Mozart Camargo Guarnieri (February 1, 1907 – January 13, 1993) was a Brazilian composer. Name Guarnieri was born in Tietê, São Paulo, and registered at birth as Mozart Guarnieri, but when he began a musical career, he decided his first name was too pretentious. Thus he adopted his mother's maiden name Camargo as a middle name, and thenceforth signed himself M. Camargo Guarnieri. In 1948, he legally changed his name to Mozart Camargo Guarnieri, but continued to sign only the initial of his first name. Guarnieri's Italian father, Michele Guarneri, a lover of classical music, named one of Camargo's brothers Rossine (a Portuguese misspelling of Rossini), and two others Verdi and Bellini. Life Guarnieri studied piano with Ernani Braga and and composition with at the Conservatório Dramático e Musical de São Paulo. In 1938, a fellowship from the Council of Artistic Orientation allowed him to travel to Paris, where he studied composition and aesthetics with Charles Koechlin a ...
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Heitor Villa-Lobos
Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, conductor, cellist, and classical guitarist described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known South American composer of all time. A prolific composer, he wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works, totaling over 2000 works by his death in 1959. His music was influenced by both Brazilian folk music and stylistic elements from the European classical tradition, as exemplified by his ''Bachianas Brasileiras'' (Brazilian Bachian-pieces) and his Chôros. His Etudes for classical guitar (1929) were dedicated to Andrés Segovia, while his ''5 Preludes'' (1940) were dedicated to his spouse Arminda Neves d'Almeida, a.k.a. "Mindinha". Both are important works in the classical guitar repertory. Biography Youth and exploration Villa-Lobos was born in Rio de Janeiro. His father, Raúl, was a civil servant, an ...
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