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19 hours ago · Igor Stravinsky. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky [a] (17 June [ O.S. 5 June] 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945). He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century and a pivotal figure in modernist music .
19 hours ago · Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra in B-flat major, Op. 83 (1881) Johannes Brahms was known for big-hearted generosity and breathtaking sarcasm. When he finished the Piano Concerto No. 2 in July 1881, Brahms wrote to his friend Elisabet von Herzogenberg that he’d written “a tiny, tiny piano concerto with a tiny, tiny wisp of a scherzo.”
19 hours ago · Ravel, Maurice: Sonatine - 1. Modéré - Julien Brocal (pno) (Rubicon RCD 1008) Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Adagio, from Serenade No 10 in Bb K361, Gran Partita (3)-ASMF/Neville Marriner (Philips 412 726) Traditional arr Marshall: Minoi, Minoi - 1992 New Zealand National Youth Choir/Karen Grylls (MANU CD MANU 1412) 6:00 Mornings with Andrew Clark
19 hours ago · The Baroque ( UK: / bəˈrɒk / bə-ROK, US: /- ˈroʊk / -ROHK; French: [baʁɔk]) is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s. [1] It followed Renaissance art and Mannerism and preceded the Rococo (in the past often referred to as ...
19 hours ago · En première partie de concert, l’Orchestre de chambre de Paris donne d’abord le Concerto brandebourgeois n° 5 de Bach suivi du Concerto pour piano et orchestre nᵒ 3 de Beethoven avec David Fray. À noter avant cela, à 18 h 15 et au même endroit, la conférence « Beethoven, au rythme de l’histoire » présentée par le musicologue ...
19 hours ago · During the 9th century, several important developments took place. First, there was a major effort by the Church to unify the many chant traditions and suppress many of them in favor of the Gregorian liturgy. Second, the earliest polyphonic music was sung, a form of parallel singing known as organum.
