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3 days ago · TITLE "Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 7" REM COMPOSER "Franz Krommer" FILE "Franz Krommer - Symphonies Nos. 4, 5, 7 (Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, Howard Griffiths).flac" WAVE TRACK 01 AUDIO TITLE "Symphony No. 4 in C minor, op. 102: I. Largo - Allegro vivace" PERFORMER "Howard Griffiths, Orchestra della Svizzera italiana" REM COMPOSER "Franz Krommer"
1 day ago · She argues that in the 1800s, women composers typically wrote art songs for performance in small recitals rather than symphonies intended for performance with an orchestra in a large hall, with the latter works being seen as the most important genre for composers; since women composers did not write many symphonies, they were deemed not to be ...
5 days ago · Answer: Beethoven Beethoven was going to dedicate this symphony to Napoleon, but when Napoleon declared himself Emperor of the French, Beethoven erased his name in the dedication so hard that he wore a hole in the paper. This symphony marks a transition from the Classical to the Romantic period in music.
1 day ago · Bernstein's Amberson Productions continued its collaborations with Unitel throughout the 1980s. In 1982, PBS aired an Emmy-nominated series Bernstein/Beethoven featuring all nine Beethoven symphonies and other works using films that Unitel had recorded of Bernstein conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in the late 1970s. [156]
1 day ago · In 1774 he wrote the book which would bring him worldwide fame, The Sorrows of Young Werther. The broad shape of the work's plot is largely based on what Goethe experienced during his time at Wetzlar with Charlotte Buff (1753–1828) [ 30 ] and her fiancé, Johann Christian Kestner (1741–1800), [ 30 ] as well as the suicide of the Goethes ...
4 days ago · Franz Kafka (born July 3, 1883, Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now in Czech Republic]—died June 3, 1924, Kierling, near Vienna, Austria) was a German-language writer of visionary fiction whose works—especially the novel Der Prozess (1925; The Trial) and the story Die Verwandlung (1915; The Metamorphosis)—express the anxieties and alienation felt by many in 20th-century Europe and ...
5 days ago · Impressionism, in music, a style initiated by French composer Claude Debussy at the end of the 19th century. Elements often termed ‘impressionistic’ include static harmony, melodies that lack directed motion, surface ornamentation that obscures or substitutes for melody, and an avoidance of traditional musical form.
