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Silent Woods (Dvořák)
''Silent Woods'' () is the translated title of the composition by Antonín Dvořák initially published under the German language, German title ''Waldesruhe''. It is the fifth part of the cycle for piano four-hands, ''Ze Šumavy (Dvořák), Ze Šumavy'' (From the Bohemian Forest) Opus number, Op. 68, Burghauser number, B. 133, composed in 1883. The work is also transcribed by the composer for cello and piano (B. 173) and for cello and orchestra (B. 182). The original piano cycle Op. 68 was composed in 1883 on demand of Fritz Simrock. As it was popular in the late nineteenth century to make arrangements of popular works for other instruments, on 28 December 1891 Dvořák made an arrangement for cello and piano of the fifth piece, for a farewell concert tour he gave with violinist Ferdinand Lachner and cellist Hanuš Wihan in the first months of 1892 before embarking for the New World. The arrangement became so popular that Dvořák made a new arrangement for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonín Dvořák
Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8September 18411May 1904) was a Czech composer. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic-era nationalist example of his predecessor Bedřich Smetana. Dvořák's style has been described as "the fullest recreation of a national idiom with that of the symphonic tradition, absorbing folk influences and finding effective ways of using them," and Dvořák has been described as "arguably the most versatile... composer of his time". Dvořák displayed his musical gifts at an early age, being a talented violin student. The first public performances of his works were in Prague in 1872 and, with special success, in 1873, when he was 31 years old. Seeking recognition beyond the Prague area, he submitted scores of symphonies and other works to German and Austrian competitions. He did not win a prize until 1874, with Johannes Brahms on the jury of the Austrian State Competit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harriet Krijgh
Harriet Krijgh (born 1991) is a Dutch cellist. Life She received her first cello lessons at the age of five. In 2000, she was accepted into the young talent class at the Utrechts Conservatorium, where she was taught by Lenian Benjamins. In 2004, Harriet moved to Vienna to study cello with Lilia Schulz-Bayrova and Jontscho Bayrov at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. Since September 2013, Harriet has been studying as a "Young Soloist" at the Kronberg Academy with Frans Helmerson, a study made possible by the Casals Scholarship. She continues her artistic training with Schulz-Bayrova in Vienna in parallel. In 2019, she took over the cello part in the Artemis Quartet from founding member . In addition to regular concerts and solo recitals in Vienna, Krijgh often plays in chamber music festivals, such as the Haydn Festival Eisenstadt, Diabelli Summer, St.Gallen, Trigonale and Hagen Open. In the Netherlands, she has given recitals in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, "d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1883 Compositions
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Compositions For Cello And Piano
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Compositions For Piano Four-hands
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Compositions By Antonín Dvořák
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 visuals and digital space *Composition (visual arts), the plan, placement or arrangement of the elements of art in a work * ''Composition'' (Peeters), a 1921 painting by Jozef Peeters *Composition studies, the professional field of writing instruction * ''Compositions'' (album), an album by Anita Baker *Digital compositing, the practice of digitally piecing together a still image or video *Musical composition, an original piece of music, or the process of creating a new piece Computer science *Compose key, a key on a computer keyboard *Compositing window manager a component of a computer's graphical user interface that draws windows and/or their borders *Function composition (computer science), an act or mechanism to combine simple functi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fayard
Fayard (complete name: ''Librairie Arthème Fayard'') is a French Paris-based publishing house established in 1857. Fayard is controlled by Hachette Livre. In 1999, Éditions Pauvert became part of Fayard. Claude Durand was director of Fayard from 1980 until his retirement in 2009. He was replaced by Olivier Nora, previously head of Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle another division of the Hachette group. On 6 November 2013, Nora was replaced by Sophie de Closets, who officially took over at the beginning of 2014. In December 2009, Hachette Littérature (publisher of the ''Pluriel'' pocket collection) was absorbed by Fayard. Isabelle Seguin, the director of Hachette Littérature, became literary director of Fayard. Imprints Fayard has three imprints: * Editions Mille et Une Nuits * Editions Mazarine * Pauvert Works published Works published by Editions Fayard include: *''Dictionnaire de la France médiévale'' by French historian Jean Favier * ''Les Égarés'' by French writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François-René Tranchefort
François-René Tranchefort (30 June 1933 – 22 May 2019) was a contemporary French musicologist. Biography Tranchefort has written, edited or directed, alone or in collaboration with other musicologists, a number of reference works on a wide range of themes related to classical music: chamber music, symphonic music, piano, harpsichord, opera, sacred music, choral, and musical instruments. on Amazon. Among others, he has collaborated with Harry Halbreich
Harry Halbreich (Berlin, 9 February 1931 – Brussels, 27 June 2016) was a Belgian musi ...
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List Of Compositions By Antonín Dvořák
This list of compositions by Antonín Dvořák includes works sortable by Jarmil Burghauser catalogue number (B.), opus number In music, the opus number is the "work number" that is assigned to a musical composition, or to a set of compositions, to indicate the chronological order of the composer's publication of that work. Opus numbers are used to distinguish among ... (when applicable), date of composition, titles, and genre. List External links Complete list on a comprehensive Dvorak site* {{DEFAULTSORT:List of compositions by Antonin Dvorak Dvorak Dvorak Dvorak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capriccio (record Label)
Capriccio is a formerly German, now Austrian, classical music record label. The original Capriccio label was founded in the 1980s and was until 2010 part of Delta-Music GmbH a German record company located in Großkönigsdorf, Frechen near Cologne, which was founded in 1970 by Philippe Sautot and Jürgen Moll. Following the bankruptcy of the Delta Music GMBH, the artistic director of Capriccio, Johannes Kernmayer, decided to carry on with several ongoing, but unfunded, recording projects from the profitable classical section of Delta as "Phoenix Edition." The releases on Phoenix Edition were commercially successful and enabled Kernmayer to rescue the classical back-catalogue of Capriccio and reestablish the Capriccio label as a new independent company in Vienna. Capriccio was acquired by Naxos Naxos (; , ) is a Greek island belonging to the Cyclades island group. It is the largest island in the group. It was an important centre during the Bronze Age Cycladic Culture and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustavo Gimeno
Gustavo Gimeno (born 1976, in Valencia, Spain) is a Spanish conductor. He is currently chief conductor of the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra and music director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Biography The son of a clarinetist, Gimeno studied percussion and piano as a youth. His elder brother studied clarinet and violin. Gimeno joined the percussion section of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (KCO) in 2001, and was named principal percussionist of the KCO in April 2002. During his career with the KCO, Gimeno continued his education at the Amsterdam Conservatory, with a focus on conducting. He received encouragement and mentoring from Mariss Jansons, and became an assistant conductor to Jansons with the KCO. He has participated in conducting master classes with Ed Spanjaard, Iván Fischer and Hans Vonk (conductor), Hans Vonk. Gimeno has also counted Claudio Abbado and Bernard Haitink among his other conducting mentors. In particular, he assisted Abbado with the Orchest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz
The Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz (German State Philharmonic of Rhineland-Palatinate) is a German orchestra based in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. The orchestra performs concerts principally at the Ludwigshafen Philharmonie. History In 1919, the orchestra was founded as the ''Landes-Sinfonie-Orchester für Pfalz und Saarland'' ('State Symphony Orchestra for Palatinate and Saarland'). In 1923, the orchestra was reorganised into a ''GMbH'' under the name ''Pfalzorchester''. The orchestra changed its name in 1933 to ''Saarpfalzorchester'', and subsequently to ''Landessymphonieorchester Westmark'' in 1941, holding the latter name to 1944. In 1967, the orchestra took the name ''Philharmonisches Orchester der Pfalz''. In 1974, the state of Rhineland-Palatinate took over sponsorship of the orchestra in place of the orchestra association, with a change in the orchestra's name to ''Pfälzische Philharmonie, Staatsorchester Rheinla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
