"he could carry out gestures even grander than his son's. Legend has it that Handel composed ""Water Music"" to regain the favour of King George I. Handel had been employed by the future king George while he was still Elector of Hanover, before he succeeded to the British throne. The composer supposedly fell out of favour for moving to London during Queen Anne's reign. This story was first related by Handel's early biographer John Mainwaring; although it may have some foundation in fact, the tale as told by Mainwaring has been doubted by some Handel scholars. Another legend has it"
"Water Music (Telemann) Water Music (""), TWV 55:C3, is the common name of an orchestral suite by the German Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann, with the full title (Hamburg ebb and flood). Telemann composed the piece in ten movements to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the in a performance on 6 April 1723. The suite draws upon Hamburg's geographical location as an important and successful port on the river Elbe while Telemann illustrates the piece with mythological water deities and tone painting giving the nautical theme added depth. The overture begins by representing the physical movement of the ocean, followed"
"Water Music The Water Music is a collection of orchestral movements, often published as three suites, composed by George Frideric Handel. It premiered on 17 July 1717, in response to King George I's request for a concert on the River Thames. The ""Water Music"" is scored for a relatively large orchestra, making it suitable for outdoor performance. The ""Water Music"" opens with a French overture and includes minuets, bourrées and hornpipes. It is divided into three suites: There is evidence for the different arrangement found in Chrysander's Gesellschaft edition of Handel's works (in volume 47, published in 1886), where the"
"by several dance movements: first, the sleeping sea goddess Thetis, the mother of Achilles, who then awakes; the sea god Neptune in love; playful water nymphs known as Naiads; Neptune's son and sea messenger Triton joking; Aeolus, ruler of the winds; and Zephir, god of the west wind. Two final pieces follow, one depicting the tides of Hamburg and finally, its happy sailors. Water Music (Telemann) Water Music (""), TWV 55:C3, is the common name of an orchestral suite by the German Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann, with the full title (Hamburg ebb and flood). Telemann composed the piece in"
"for the Royal Fireworks and the oratorio Messiah. Another important composer was Georg Philipp Telemann, one of the most prolific musicians in history. By the middle of the 18th century, the cities of Vienna, Dresden, Berlin and Mannheim had become the center for orchestral music. The Esterházy princes of Vienna, for example, were the patrons of Joseph Haydn, an Austrian who invented the classic format of the string quartet, symphony and sonata. Later that century, Vienna's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart emerged, mixing German and Italian traditions into his own style. Mozart was a prolific and influential composer who composed over 600"
"is borne out more than ever by the fact that ""Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians"" contains no article about him. Nonetheless, his Sarabande in G minor remains a standard teaching piece for intermediate violinists and violists. Carl Bohm Carl Bohm (also known as Carl Bohm, Henry Cooper [pseudonym] and Karl Bohm) (11 September 1844 – 4 April 1920) was a German pianist and composer. Bohm is regarded as one of the leading German songwriters of the 19th century, and wrote such works as ""Still as the Night"", ""Twilight"", ""May Bells"", ""Enfant Cheri"" and ""The Fountain"". The ""Oxford Companion to"
"Johann Adolph Hasse Johann Adolph Hasse (born in Bergedorf, near Hamburg, baptised 25 March 1699 – died in Venice 16 December 1783) was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music. Immensely popular in his time, Hasse was best known for his prolific operatic output, though he also composed a considerable quantity of sacred music. Married to soprano Faustina Bordoni and a great friend of librettist Pietro Metastasio, whose libretti he frequently set, Hasse was a pivotal figure in the development of ""opera seria"" and 18th-century music. Hasse's career began in singing, when he joined the Hamburg Opera (his"
"scenes (or six, counting the two versions of ""Hoch-Zeiten"" separately), and a concluding ""farewell"". Most of the scenes include elaborate spatial movement, each with ""a distinctive spatial imprint"" . ""Lichter—Wasser"" (Lights—Waters) is both the first scene and the ""Gruss"" (greeting) of the opera. An initial duet by the soprano (Eve) and tenor (Michael) is followed by the entrance of the orchestra, who take their places throughout the audience, which is arranged in triangular segments facing the centre. Each musician is provided with a rack with a lamp and a glass of water. Seventeen high-register instruments are identified by seventeen blue"
"Tallis and William Byrd, followed up by Henry Purcell from the Baroque period. German-born George Frideric Handel became a British subject and spent most of his composing life in London, creating some of the most well-known works of classical music, ""The Messiah"", ""Water Music"", and ""Music for the Royal Fireworks"". One of his four Coronation Anthems, ""Zadok the Priest"", composed for the coronation of George II, has been performed at every subsequent British coronation, traditionally during the sovereign's anointing. There was a revival in the profile of composers from England in the 20th century led by Edward Elgar, Benjamin Britten,"
"1878, the new theater in 1879, and the opera in 1885. His compositions include the opera ""Drottningens vallfart"", the ballet ""Undina"" and music to the plays ""Brand"", ""Lyco-Pers resa"" and ""Diamantbröllopet"". He also composed diverse chamber music, piano pieces, choral works and solo songs. He was married in 1879 to Fanny Louise Behrens and in 1900 to Thyra Maria Gyllenskepp. He died in Malmö, Sweden in 1925. Richard Henneberg Karl Vilhelm Albert Richard Henneberg (August 5, 1853 – October 19, 1925) was a German composer and conductor. His mother was named Augusta Boltman, and his father, Albert Henneberg, was an"
"in 1872. Esser composed operas, five symphonies, two suites for orchestra and a large number of lieder that were largely known at their time. His two best known operas are ""Thomas Riquiqui oder die politische Heirath"" (op. 10, Text by Carl Gollmick, first performance in Frankfurt am Main, 1843) and ""Die zwei Prinzen"" (op. 15, Text by Carl Gollmick, first performance in Munich, 1845). Furthermore, his Fourth Symphony (in d-minor op. 44, 1853) and Second Suite (in a-minor op.75, 1866) Heinrich Esser Heinrich Joseph Esser (15 July 1818 – 3 June 1872) was a German violinist, influential conductor and composer."
"Carl Maria von Weber Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (18 or 19 November 1786 5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, and was one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school. Weber's operas ""Der Freischütz"", ""Euryanthe"" and ""Oberon"" greatly influenced the development of the ""Romantische Oper"" (Romantic opera) in Germany. ""Der Freischütz"" came to be regarded as the first German ""nationalist"" opera, ""Euryanthe"" developed the ""Leitmotif"" technique to an unprecedented degree, while ""Oberon"" may have influenced Mendelssohn's music for ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" and, at the same time, revealed Weber's lifelong interest"
"groups. In 1749 Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks was performed as a piece for winds after King George II ordered Handel to remove the string parts. Harmoniemusik played an equally important role in the eighteenth century for open-air and important social occasions. Together with the string quartet, the ensemble and genre most typifies the Classical era. In 1782, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, founded his Imperial Wind Ensemble in Vienna. Harmoniemusik had an important influence on the development of the symphony orchestra. Mozart and Beethoven became more daring in the way they wrote for the wind sections in their"
"been performed by many others. Lincke also composed the wedding dance played in the 1997 movie ""Titanic""; it is played while the ship is going down and in the dining room in earlier scenes. Paul Lincke Carl Emil Paul Lincke (7 November 1866 – 3 September 1946) was a German composer and theater conductor. He is considered the ""father"" of the Berlin operetta and holds the same significance for Berlin as does Johann Strauss for Vienna and Jacques Offenbach for Paris. His well-known compositions include """" (""Berlin Air""), the unofficial anthem of Berlin, from his operetta ""Frau Luna""; and ""The"
"Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner (; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, ""music dramas""). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the ""Gesamtkunstwerk"" (""total work of art""), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic,"
"and Nazism, the performance of his music in the State of Israel has been a source of controversy. Prose works by Wagner Other sources Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner (; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, ""music dramas""). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Carl Maria von Weber"
"Paul Lincke Carl Emil Paul Lincke (7 November 1866 – 3 September 1946) was a German composer and theater conductor. He is considered the ""father"" of the Berlin operetta and holds the same significance for Berlin as does Johann Strauss for Vienna and Jacques Offenbach for Paris. His well-known compositions include """" (""Berlin Air""), the unofficial anthem of Berlin, from his operetta ""Frau Luna""; and ""The Glow-Worm"", from his operetta ""Lysistrata"". Lincke was born on 7 November 1866 in the Jungfern Bridge district of Berlin. He was the son of magistrate August Lincke and his wife Emilie. His father played"
"recorder, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, oboe d'amore, 2 bassoons, 3 trumpets, 3 horns, drums, 2 violins, viola, cellos and basso continuo. Admiralitätsmusik Hamburger Admiralitätsmusik (""Hamburg Admiralty Music"") TWV 24:1 is a secular oratorio for soloists, choir and orchestra composed by Georg Philipp Telemann to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Hamburg's admiralty. It was first performed on April 6, 1723, along with Telemann's ""Wassermusik (Hamburger Ebb' und Fluth)"" at a banquet for the city's merchants, sea captains, and councillors that lasted until dawn. The work is on a nautical theme and set to verses by Michael Richey, a professor at the"
"Herbert Menges Herbert Menges OBE (27 August 190220 February 1972) was an English conductor and composer, who wrote incidental music to all of Shakespeare’s plays. Siegfried Frederick Herbert Menges was born in Hove on 27 August 1902. His father was German and his mother British. His elder sister was the violinist Isolde Menges. Herbert appeared in public as a violinist at the age of four. He later abandoned the violin for the piano, and he studied at the Royal College of Music under Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Other teachers included Mathilde Verne and Arthur De Greef. Menges's mother"
"European light music include the operettas of composers such as Franz von Suppé or Sir Arthur Sullivan; the Continental salon and parlour music genres; and the waltzes and marches of Johann Strauss II and his family. The Straussian waltz became a common light music composition (note for example Charles Ancliffe's ""Nights of Gladness"" or Felix Godin's ""Valse Septembre""). These influenced the foundation of a ""lighter"" tradition of classical music in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In the UK, the light-music genre has its origin in the seaside and theatrical orchestras that flourished in Britain during the 19th and early"
"the 1736 Schemelli ""Gesangbuch,"" taking ""An Wasserflüssen Babylon"" as the incipit: the key of G occurs 7 times and D once. The German composer of opera— ""Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor""—and lieder, Otto Nicolai composed a 4-part setting of ""An Wasserflüssen Babylon"" in around 1832 as one of four songs in his op.17. The hymn also inspired seventeenth and early eighteenth century organ compositions in Northern Germany. Organ chorale preludes and free works by Johann Christoph Bach (Johann Sebastian's first cousin once removed), Johann Adam Reincken, Johann Pachelbel and Johann Sebastian Bach have been based on ""An Wasserflüssen Babylon"". The"
"of 21 of his Grandfather's passions. He also taught at the cathedral school. In 1812, he published a collection of Chorale settings for organ entitled ""Sammlung alter und neuer Choral-Melodien"" and a year later took the position of organist at the cathedral. He retired in 1828 due to a deteriorating eye condition. He died in Riga in 1831. Georg Michael Telemann Georg Michael Telemann (20 April 1748 – 4 March 1831) was a German composer and theologian. Telemann was born in Plön, the son of the local pastor Andreas Telemann (1715–1755) and his wife Augusta Clara Catharina Capsius. After the"
"""Water Music"", by George Frideric Haendel ""(Händel - later Anglicized to 'Handel')"". The 'English' Artillery (the title 'Royal' was first used in the Regiment's appellation in 1720) raised additional musicians on ""ad hoc"" terms for occasions such as these, reverting immediately afterwards to the permanent eight. The composer Händel once again enlisted the musical services of the 'Artillerie' [Royal Artillery] on 27 April 1749 at the Royal Fireworks in Green Park. [The number of musicians augmenting the Royal Band on that occasion is unspecified, but particular mention of the ""Artillerie kettledrums (of a particularly large pattern)"" is nevertheless well documented."
"The various scenes of the opera were commissioned by different organizations and were premiered separately in concert form. ""Lichter—Wasser"" (Lights—Waters) was composed in 1998–99 on commission of the Südwestrundfunk for the Donaueschinger Musiktage, and was premiered on 16 October 1999 in the Baar Gymnasium in Donaueschingen. The second scene, ""Engel-Prozessionen"" (Angel Processions), was commissioned by the Groot Omroepkoor (Netherlands Radio Choir) of Hilversum, the Netherlands, and its artistic director Jan Zekveld. It was composed in 2000, and premiered on 9 November 2002 at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, with James Wood and David Lawrence conducting . The music of ""Licht-Bilder"" was"
"Felix Draeseke Felix August Bernhard Draeseke (7 October 1835 – 26 February 1913) was a composer of the ""New German School"" admiring Liszt and Richard Wagner. He wrote compositions in most forms including eight operas and stage works, four symphonies, and much vocal and chamber music. Felix Draeseke was born in the Franconian ducal town of Coburg, Germany. He was attracted to music early in life and wrote his first composition at age 8. He encountered no opposition from his family when, in his mid-teens, he declared his intention of becoming a professional musician. A few years at the Leipzig"
"chorale prelude ""An Wasserflüssen Babylon"" has the same kind of expressive dissonances, with suspensions, as his ""Lamento"" ""Ach, daß ich Wassers gnug hätte"" for voice and strings. Born probably in 1643, Reincken was the natural successor to Scheidemann as organist at the St. Catherine's Church, Hamburg, with his musical interests extending beyond the church to the Hamburg Opera and the collegium musicum: as remarked by the 18th-century musician Johann Gottfried Walther, his famous, dazzling and audacious chorale fantasia ""An Wasserflüssen Babylon"" probably marked that succession; its vast dimension of 327 bars and 10 chorale lines, some broken into two, encompass"
"Heinrich Schütz Heinrich Schütz (; – 6 November 1672) was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as one of the most important composers of the 17th century. He wrote what is traditionally considered to be the first German opera, ""Dafne"", performed at Torgau in 1627, the music of which has since been lost. He is commemorated as a musician in the Calendar of Saints of some North American Lutheran churches on 28 July with Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel. Schütz was born in Köstritz, the"
"sonatas, string trio (1928), a flute sonata, four woodwind quintets, a string quartet (in G minor, his opus 51), a comic opera ""Die Fünfuhrthee"" (""The Five-o'Clock Tea"") (produced in Berlin and in Bremen in 1912) and a symphonic poem ""Erlösung"". Some of his chamber music has been recorded on three CDs on the label Crystal Records. Theodor Blumer Theodor Anton Blumer (24 March 1881 – 21 September 1964) was a German composer and conductor. Blumer was born in Dresden. He studied composition with Felix Draeseke and W. Brookman at the Dresden Conservatory. In 1931 he became the conductor of the"
"name and music to slip into obscurity. But as the 20th century ended, new recordings spurred a renewed interest in his music. An early symphony in C major, completed in 1856 and premiered that year, was still lost as of 1966. ""Portions of this page are reprinted by permission of the Internationale Draeseke Gesellschaft and International Draeseke Society/North America."" Felix Draeseke Felix August Bernhard Draeseke (7 October 1835 – 26 February 1913) was a composer of the ""New German School"" admiring Liszt and Richard Wagner. He wrote compositions in most forms including eight operas and stage works, four symphonies, and"
"Felix Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809 4 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early romantic period. Mendelssohn wrote symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano music and chamber music. His best-known works include his Overture and incidental music for ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", the ""Italian Symphony"", the ""Scottish Symphony"", the overture ""The Hebrides"", his mature Violin Concerto, and his String Octet. His ""Songs Without Words"" are his most famous solo piano compositions. After a long period of relative denigration due to changing musical tastes and antisemitism"
"Herman Darewski Herman Darewski (17 April 1883 – 2 June 1947) was a British composer and conductor of light music. His most successful work was perhaps ""The Better 'Ole"", which ran for over 800 performances in its original London production in 1917. Some of his songs became very successful in musical revues. Born in Minsk, and musically trained in Vienna, he worked in London, for the first 15 years of the new century, as a composer of light songs, some of which were written for the new theatre form, revue. After the First World War, Darewski had a long career"
"Edward German Sir Edward German (17 February 1862 – 11 November 1936) was an English musician and composer of Welsh descent, best remembered for his extensive output of incidental music for the stage and as a successor to Arthur Sullivan in the field of English comic opera. Some of his light operas, especially ""Merrie England"", are still performed. As a youth, German played the violin and led the town orchestra of Whitchurch, Shropshire. He also began to compose music. While performing and teaching violin at the Royal Academy of Music, German began to build a career as a composer in"
"speakers have contributed to numerous areas in British life, especially in establishing powerful family dynasties. There are also areas and buildings named after famous Germans, such as Holbein Place in Central London, named after the Renaissance painter Hans Holbein the Younger, as well as the Herschel Museum of Astronomy, an independent museum in Bath dedicated to the life and works of the famous astronomer William Herschel, who discovered the planet Uranus in 1781. In music, George Frideric Handel, one of the greatest composers of the Baroque era in the first half of the 18th century, was commissioned to write four"