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Cello Concerto In D Minor (Cassadó)
Gaspar Cassadó's Cello Concerto in D minor was first performed in 1926 by Cassadó and Pablo Casals, to whom the work was dedicated. The concerto consists of two movements: :I. Allegro non troppo :II. Andante con variazioni e Allegro finale: Andante con sentimento austero – Allegro ritmico e piuttosto moderato. This piece, like the Suite for Cello Solo, has folk music elements: Spanish, Oriental, and Impressionistic. Gaspar Cassadó studied composition with Maurice Ravel Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism in music, Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composer ... and Ravelian "carnival music" can be heard in the second theme of the first movement. The second movement is a theme and variations. An attacca leads to a pentatonic Rondo. Recordings * 2002 – Martin Ostertag, cello; Baden-Badener Philharmonie conducted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaspar Cassadó
Gaspar Cassadó i Moreu (30 September or 5 October 1897 – 24 December 1966) was a Catalan cellist and composer of the early 20th century. Biography Gaspar Cassadó i Moreu was born in Barcelona to a church musician father, Joaquim Cassadó, and began taking cello lessons at age seven. When he was nine, he played in a recital where Pablo Casals was in the audience; Casals immediately offered to teach him. The city of Barcelona awarded him a scholarship so that he could study with Casals in Paris. In 1914 World War I broke out and his brother Agustí died a victim of an epidemic. Gaspar returned to Barcelona and began to offer concerts with the main orchestras of Spain. From 1918 he also performed in France and Italy, thanks to his friendship with Alfredo Casella. In 1920 he toured Argentina. From 1922 he began to make known his own compositions, both pieces for cello and concerts, chamber music, oratorios and a sardana. He also made transcriptions for cello. In 1923 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo Casals
Pau Casals i Defilló (Catalan: ; 29 December 187622 October 1973), known in English as Pablo Casals, ''The New York Times'', 1911-04-09, retrieved 1 August 2009 was a Spanish and Puerto Ricans, Puerto Rican cellist, composer, and conductor. He made many recordings throughout his career of solo, chamber, and orchestral music, including some as conductor, but he is perhaps best remembered for the recordings he made of the Cello Suites (Bach), Cello Suites by Johann Sebastian Bach, Bach. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy (though the ceremony was presided over by Lyndon B. Johnson). Biography Childhood and early years Casals was born in El Vendrell, Catalonia, Spain. His f ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suite (Cassadó)
The Suite (music), Suite for Solo Cello was written in 1926 by Gaspar Cassadó. This suite for violoncello, like the Cello Concerto in D minor (Cassadó), Cello Concerto and the Piano Trio, came from one of Gaspar Cassadó's most prolific periods, in the mid-1920s. It was dedicated to Francesco von Mendelssohn, "a ''Francesco von'' ''Mendelssohn con affettuosa eprofonda amicizi''." History Cassado may have been influenced by the Cello Suites (Bach), Bach Cello Suites when composing the solo suite in 1926. Cassado's teacher was Pablo Casals, credited for rediscovering the Bach cello suites in the early 20th century. Cassado is Barcelonian, and his family moved to Paris when he was 10 where he started his studies with Casals. Many of Cassado's compositions draw from elements of Spanish folk music and French nationalism. Cassado's Catalans, Catalonian background contributed to the Catlan Cello School and is evident of the virtuoso movement of the 19th century. There may be connection ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Impressionistic
Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience. Impressionism originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s. The Impressionists faced harsh opposition from the conventional art community in France. The name of the style derives from the title of a Claude Monet work, ''Impression, soleil levant'' (''Impression, Sunrise''), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a Satire, satirical 1874 review of the First Impressionist Exhibition published in the Parisian newspaper ''Le Charivari''. The development of Impressionism in the visual arts was soon foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Ravel
Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism in music, Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer. Born to a music-loving family, Ravel attended France's premier music college, the Paris Conservatoire; he was not well regarded by its conservative establishment, whose biased treatment of him caused a scandal. After leaving the conservatoire, Ravel found his own way as a composer, developing a style of great clarity and incorporating elements of modernism (music), modernism, baroque music, baroque, Neoclassicism (music), neoclassicism and, in his later works, jazz. He liked to experiment with musical form, as in his best-known work, ''Boléro'' (1928), in which repetition takes the place of development. Renowned for his abi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Ostertag
Martin Ostertag (born in 1943) is a German classical cellist and music educator. Life Born in Lörrach, Ostertag studied cello with Leo Koscielny at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe and with André Navarra in Paris. In 1967 he was a prizewinner of the international competition in Vienna, and in 1968/69 he won the national selection of the Deutscher Musikrat ''Konzert junger Künstler''. Afterwards he was first solo cellist of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the ''Amati Ensemble'' Berlin, the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and finally from 1974 of the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg. He undertook numerous concert tours and gab master classes in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Finland, Italy and Japan. Since 1980 he has taught at the Karlsruhe Music Academy. Together with Nicolas Chumachenco, Erika Geldsetzer and Benjamin Rivinius, Ostertag founded the ''Villa Musica String Quartet'', with whom he won two ECHO Klassik prizes for recordings of Mozart's S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Stiefel
Operation Atlantis was a project started by Werner Stiefel in 1968 aiming to establish a new, Libertarianism, libertarian nation in international waters. The operation launched a Ferrocement, ferro-cement boat on the Hudson River in December 1971 and piloted it to an area near the Bahamas. Upon reaching its destination, it sank in a hurricane.Halliday, Roy"Operation Atlantis and the Radical Libertarian Alliance: Observations of a Fly on the Wall" Libertarian Nation. 2001. After a number of subsequent failed attempts to construct a habitable sea platform and achieve sovereign status, the project was abandoned. Origin Werner Stiefel was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1921. In 1847, his family established a soap manufacturing business in what later became Germany. His father moved to America in 1910 to establish a new subsidiary of the company, but World War II put the entire company out of business. In 1947, Stiefel, his father, and his brother set up a new business in the United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
