Concerto No. 12
Concerto No. 12

Author: Louis Spohr

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published:

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781457470998

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One of the leading composers of instrumental music of the early Romantic period, Louis Spohr was a violinist, composer, and conductor. In addition to symphonic works, string quartets, and other solo and chamber music, he composed operas, operettas, and songs. There has been a trend, starting in the late 20th century, to revive his instrumental works and songs.

The Penguin Companion to Classical Music
The Penguin Companion to Classical Music

Author: Paul Griffiths

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2004-10-07

Total Pages: 1412

ISBN-13: 0141909765

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This superbly authoratitive new work provides a comprehensive A-Z guide to some 1000 years of Western music. It explores in detail the lives and achievements of a vast range of composers, as well as looking at such key topics as music history (from medieval plainchant to contemporary minimalism), performers, theory and jargon. Throught Griffiths skilfully blends lightly worn scholarship with personal insight, whether examining the emotional colouring that different musical keys achieve or charting the rise and development of the symphony.

The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The years of celebrity, 1850-1856
The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The years of celebrity, 1850-1856

Author: Giacomo Meyerbeer

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9780838638446

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Volume 3 covers a time span that preeminently represents the period in the composer's life known as The Years of International Fame (1850-56). Confirmed as the major figure on the operatic scene, and freed from the more onerous duties of his official position, Meyerbeer was able to enjoy his most remarkable period of stability and renown, as the detailed and absorbing diary entries reveal. These years saw the composing, rehearsing, and staging of L'Etoile du Nord (1854), and his personal supervision of major productions in London, Dresden, Stuttgart, and Vienna.

The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music
The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music

Author: Don Michael Randel

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 1048

ISBN-13: 9780674372993

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Biographaical dictionary emphisizes classicaland art music; also gives ample attention to the classics as well as Jazz, Blues, rock and pop, and hymns and showtunes across the ages.

Concerto No. 6
Concerto No. 6

Author: Louis Spohr

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published:

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9781457470974

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One of the leading composers of instrumental music of the early Romantic period, Louis Spohr was a violinist, composer, and conductor. In addition to symphonic works, string quartets, and other solo and chamber music, he composed operas, operettas, and songs. There has been a trend, starting in the late 20th century, to revive his instrumental works and songs.

The Age of Musical Arrangements in Europe
The Age of Musical Arrangements in Europe

Author: Nancy November

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-08-31

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1108944396

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This Element considers the art and culture of arranging music in Europe in the period 1780–1830, using Haydn's London symphonies and Mozart's operas as its principal examples. The degree to which musical arrangements shaped the social, musical, and ideological landscape in this era deserves further attention. This Element focuses on Vienna, and an important era in the culture of arrangements in which they were widely and variously cultivated, and in which canon formation and the conception of musical works underwent crucial development. Piano transcriptions (for two hands, four hands, and two pianos) became ever more prominent, completely taking over the field after 1850. For various reasons, principal composers of the era under consideration, including Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, participated directly in the practice of arrangement. Motivations to produce arrangements included learning the art of composition, getting one's name known more widely, financial gain, and pedagogical aims.

Twelve Miniatures
Twelve Miniatures

Author: César Cui

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published:

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9781457470721

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Cui composed character pieces that are appropriate for lessons or recitals.