Trio sonata - Trio sonata The trio sonata is a musical form which was particularly popular around the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th century. A trio sonata is written for two solo melodic instruments and basso continuo, making three parts in all, hence the name trio sonata. However, because the basso continuo is usually made up of at least two instruments (typically a cello or bass viol and a keyboard instrument such as the harpsichord), trio sonatas are typically performed by at least four instruments. The melody instruments used are usually both violins. A well known exception is the trio sonata in Johann Sebastian Bach's The Musical Offering, which is for violin and flute..
Trio - Trio Generally speaking, a trio or threesome is a group of three. The word is most often used in music to refer to a group of three musicians. For example, a group of three singers would be called a trio. The word is also used in chamber music to mean a grouping of three instrumentalists or any piece written for such a grouping. The most common forms of trio in classical music are the piano trio (piano, violin and cello) and the string trio (violin, viola and cello). Another use of the word in music is to refer to the middle, contrasting section of a piece in ternary form. This usage gives rise to the "minuet and trio" (or the "scherzo and trio") which often appears.
String trio - String trio A string trio is a group of three string instruments or a piece written for such a group. The most usual such group in classical chamber music is made up of a violin, a viola and a cello. The earliest string trio form consisted of two violins and cello, a grouping which had grown out of the baroque trio sonata. Joseph Haydn is thought to have been the first to have written for violin, viola and cello, and Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert also wrote music in that form, although they are not generally reckoned to be amongst their better pieces. A number of composers wrote string trios throughout the 19th century, and in the 20th century, string trios by by Arnold Schoenberg, Anton.
Piano Sonata No. 14 (Beethoven) - Piano Sonata No. 14 (Beethoven) Ludwig van Beethoven's opus 27 no. 2 is the Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor "Quasi una fantasia" (Italian: Like a fantasy), popularly known as the Moonlight Sonata. Beethoven wrote this sonata in 1801 and dedicated it to the 17-year-old Countess Giulietta Guicciardi, with whom he was (or, according to some accounts, had been) in love. In 1832, several years after Beethoven's death, the poet Ludwig Rellstab compared the music to moonlight shining on Lake Lucerne. Since then, it has been known as the Moonlight Sonata. The Sonata has three movements: Adagio sostenuto (attacca), Allegretto and Presto agitato The first movement, written in a kind of truncated sonata form, is the most well known. Its powerful, haunting and quiet melody.
Piano trio - Piano trio A piano trio is a group of piano and two other instruments, almost always a violin and a cello, or a piece of music written for such a group. It is one of the most common forms found in classical chamber music. Traditionally, piano trios tend to be in the same overall form as a sonata, which can be roughly said to be as follows: First movement - a quick movement in sonata form Second movement - a slow movement Third movement - a minuet and trio or a scherzo in ternary form Fourth movement - another quick movement, often in rondo form or sonata-rondo form However, many variations on this form exist, and there are piano trios which bear no resemblance to this formal.
Piano Sonata No. 11 (Mozart) - Piano Sonata No. 11 (Mozart) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331 is in three movements: Andante grazioso - a theme with six variations Menuetto - a minuet and trio Rondo alla Turca: Allegretto The last movement, a rondo, is often heard on its own, and is one of the most well known of all Mozart's works. It imitates the drums and melodies of Turkish Janissary bands, the music of which was so in vogue at that time. Various other works of the time imitate the music, including Mozart's own opera The Abduction from the Seraglio. It is not known for certain exactly where and when Mozart composed the sonata - in Vienna or Salzburg in around 1783 is currently thought to.
Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610 (Monteverdi) - by Monterverdi. Additionally, Monteverdi did not specify a specific set of plainchant antiphons to insert before each psalm and the concluding Magnificat. This allows the performers to tailor the music according to the available insturmental forces and the occasion of the performance (the particular feast day's liturgy would have included suggested antiphons that could be chanted before Monterverdi's psalm settings). Monterverdi's unique approach to each movement of the Vespers earned the work a place in history, The work not only presents intimate, prayerful moments within its monumental scale, but it also incorporates secular music in this decidedly religious performance and its individual movements present an array of musical forms--sonata, motet, hymn, and psalm--without losing focus. The Vespers achieves overall unity by building each movement on the traditional Gregorian plainchant for each.
Jacques Thibaud - his technique. In 1943 he established the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud International Competition, a competition for violinists and pianists with Marguerite Long. As well as a soloist, Thibaud was noted for his performances of chamber music, particularly as part of a piano trio with the pianist Alfred Cortot and cellist Pablo Casals. He was a friend of Eugčne Ysa˙e who dedicated his second sonata for solo violin to him. Thibaud was killed in an air crash on Mont Cemet. His Stradivarius violin was also destroyed..
Joseph Haydn - in the Eszterházy establishment with whom he carried on a long-term love affair. During the nearly thirty years that Haydn worked in the Eszterházy household, he produced a flood of compositions, and his musical style became ever more developed. His popularity in the outside world also increased. Gradually, Haydn came to write as much for publication as for his employer, and several important works of this period, such as the Paris symphonies (1785-6) and the original orchestral version of The Seven Last Words of Christ (1786), were commissions from abroad. Around 1781 Haydn established a close friendship with Mozart, whose work he had already been influencing by example for many years. The two composers enjoyed playing in string quartets together. Haydn was hugely impressed with Mozart's work; it is probably significant.
Johann Stamitz - and most prominent member of the so-called Mannheim School of composers, wrote a number of concertos (mainly for violin or flute), a quantity of chamber music and a mass (1755). His most significant works, however, are his symphonies, of which he wrote over fifty. He was the first composer to regularly write symphonies in a four-movement form, adding the minuet and trio to the other three standard movements. In introducing a second group of contrasting thematic material to his opening movements, he also did much to develop what would become known as sonata form. In common with other composers of the Mannheim School, Stamitz is also noted for giving a more prominent role to wind instruments, and making more adventurous use of dynamics. Johann was the father of Carl Stamitz and.
Juan Maria Solare: List of works - Stage works "Veinticinco de agosto, 1983" [August the 25th, 1983]. (1992/1993) "Diez Estudios Escénicos" [Ten scenic Etudes] (Cologne-Mollina, June-July 1996) "Trio for One" Chamber music "Suite Modal" for flute and clarinet (1985) [5']. First performed by Silvia Gelós and Amelia Saftich at the Anfiteatro Promúsica in Buenos Aires on 12/SEP/1986. Published: Dohr Verlag (Köln) ED 95286 (ISMN M-2020-286-5). Recording by Regine Kuhn (flute) and Heidi Voss (clarinet), CD "Pifferari - Werke für Flöte und Klarinette", July 2001, Label Heidi Voss (Wiesbaden, Germany). "Three pieces for clarinet and piano" (1986) [8'35"]. "Cuatro Croquis" [Four Sketches] for flute and piano (1988) [2'] Sonata for flute and piano (1988) [12'] "Seis bagatelas" "Demeter" for string quartet (1990) [15']. To the late clarinetist Ariel Martínez. It was awarded first prize in the 1990 competition for.
Heitor Villa-Lobos - piano & orchestra (1928) No. 12 for orchestra (1929) No. 13 for 2 orchestras & band (1929) - LOST No. 14 for orchestra, band & chorus (1928) - LOST Choros bis, for violin & cello (1928) Concertos Suite for Piano and Orchestra (1913) Momoprécoce, fantasy for piano and orchestra (1921) Fantasia de Movimentos Mistos, for violin & orchestra (1921) Choros no. 11 for piano & orchestra (1928) Ciranda das Sete Notas for basson & string orchestra (1933) Piano Concerto no. 1 (1945) Piano Concerto no. 2 (1948) Piano Concerto no. 3 (1952-57) Piano Concerto no. 4 (1952) Piano Concerto no. 5 (1954) Concerto for Guitar (1951) Harp Concerto (1953) Cello Concerto no. 2 (1953) Harmonica Concerto Concerto Grosso for wind quartet & wind ensemble (1959) Symphonies No. 1 O Imprevisto, The.
Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance - 2003 Andrew Keener (producer), Simon Dominic Eadon (engineer) & the Takács Quartet for Beethoven: String Quartets ("Razumovsky" Op. 59, 1-3; "Harp" Op. 74) Grammy Awards of 2002 Joanna Nickrenz (producer), Marc J. Aubort (engineer) & The Angeles String Quartetfor Joseph Haydn: The Complete String Quartets Grammy Awards of 2001 Da-Hong Seetoo, Max Wilcox (producers & engineers) & the Emerson String Quartet for Shostakovich: The String Quartets Grammy Awards of 2000 Anne-Sophie Mutter & Lambert Orkis for Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas (Nos. 1-3, Op. 12; Nos. 1-3, Op. 30; "Spring" Sonata) 1990s Grammy Awards of 1999 Andre Previn & Gil Shaham for American Scenes (Works of Copland, Previn, Barber, Gershwin) Grammy Awards of 1998 Emerson String Quartet for Beethoven: The String Quartets Grammy Awards of 1997 The Cleveland Quartet for John CoriglianoCorigliano]]:.
Frederic Chopin - the Romantic period of classical music. However, Chopin regarded the Romantic movement in a negative way and did not want to associate himself with it. Nowadays, Chopin's music is considered to be the paragon of the Romantic style. His works, almost all for the piano, include: 58 mazurkas 19 waltzes 17 polonaises 21 nocturnes 4 ballades 4 scherzos 2 fantasies (if you include the Fantasie-Impromptu) 26 preludes 27 etudes 4 impromptus 3 ecossaises 2 bourrees 1 bolero 1 fugue 3 sonatas for solo piano 2 concertos for piano and orchestra 1 sonata for cello and piano 2 other works for cello and piano 1 piano trio for violin, cello and piano 20 songs for voice and piano In commemoration of the genius of Frédéric Chopin there is an international piano competition.
François Couperin - gave weekly 'concerts' for King Louis XIV. Many of these "concerts", as the titles read, were in the form of suites for Violin, Viol, Oboe, Bassoon, and Harpsichord of which he was a virtuoso player. Couperin acknowledged his debt to Corelli, whose trio sonata form Couperin introduced to French music. The title of Couperin's grand trio sonata, by which it is best known, is 'The Apotheosis of Corelli' ('l'Apothéose de Corelli'). His most famous book, L'Art de toucher le clavecin (published 1716), contained executions for fingerings, touch, ornamentation and other features of keyboard technique. It is said to have had great influence on Bach. Many of Couperin's keyboard pieces have evocative picturesque titles and express a mood through key choices, adventurous harmonies and (resolved) discords. These features attracted Richard Strauss, who.
Eine kleine Nachtmusik - ensemble of two violins, viola, and cello with optional double bass (it is often performed today with more than one person to a part). The opening tune of the first movement is widely known. This first movement is an allegro in sonata form, with the first subject of the exposition in the key of G major and the second subject in D major. The exposition is then repeated. The development section touches on D minor and C major before the work returns to G major for the recapitulation (a repetition of the exposition with both subjects in the same key, as is convention). The second movement is a "Romanze", the third is a minuet and trio in ternary form, and the fourth and last is in rondo form..
Chamber music - a church or a theatre. In this sense, the madrigalss of the renaissance period in the 16th century may be considered chamber music. When the phrase is used today, however, it is usually in reference to purely instrumental, non-vocal music. The most prominent Baroque form of this type is the trio sonata. In the Classical period, new forms were developed, most importantly the string quartet. These pieces were often written for amateurs, and not intended to be played in public. Many of the string quartets of Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, for example, were written to be played for fun and in private, by a string quartet of which they were both members. One of the composers responsible for bringing chamber music to the concert hall is Ludwig van Beethoven..
Christopher Hogwood - the Opera Australia, he performed Idomeneo in 1994 and La Clemenza di Tito in 1997 Iphigenie auf Tauris. Although Hogwood is best known for the baroque and early classical repertoire, he also performs contemporary music, with a particular affinity for the neo-baroque and neoclassical schools including many works by Stravinsky, Martinu and Hindemith. Since 1992 Hogwood has been international professor of Early Music Performance at the Royal Academy of Music, and a visiting professor at London's King's College. Hogwood has written a number of books, including a BBC Music Guide on the trio sonata (1979) and a biography of George Frideric Handel (1985)..
The Musical Offering - Canonica Arte Resoluta" (the theme given by the king, with additions, resolved in the canonic style), the first letter of which spells out the word ricercar (an old name for a fugue). In its finished form, The Musical Offering comprises a Ricercar a 6 (a six voice fugue), a Ricercar a 3 (a three voice fugue), ten canonss and a trio sonata featuring the flute, an instrument which Frederick played. Two of the canons have punning inscriptions. One of them, in augmentation (the length of the notes gets longer), is inscribed "Notulis crescentibus crescat Fortuna Regis" (may the fortunes of the king increase like the length of the notes), while a modulating canon which ends a tone higher than it starts is inscribed "Ascendenteque Modulationis ascendat Gloria Regis" (may the king's.
Tomaso Albinoni - used his basses for harmony exercises for his pupils. The Albinoni Adagio is a 1945 reconstruction by Remo Giazotti of a fragment from a slow movement of a trio sonata..
