"performance of the quintet runs slightly more than 30 minutes. The quintet is in five movements: Piano Quintet (Shostakovich) The Piano Quintet in G Minor, opus 57, by Dmitri Shostakovich is one of his best-known chamber works. Like most piano quintets, it is written for piano and string quartet (two violins, viola and cello). Shostakovich began work on the piece in the summer of 1940 and completed it on September 14. It was written for the Beethoven Quartet, as were most of his string quartets, and premiered by them with Shostakovich himself at the piano on November 23, 1940 at"
"Ludwig Nohl Ludwig Nohl (born December 5, 1831 in Iserlohn; d. December 15, 1885 in Heidelberg) was a German music scholar and writer best known for discovering and publishing Beethoven's famous bagatelle, ""Für Elise"". After graduation from the Gymnasium in Duisburg, Nohl studied jurisprudence at the universities in Bonn, Heidelberg, and Berlin, where he received instruction in music from Siegfried Dehn and Friedrich Kiel. From 1853 to 1856 he was a referendary and undertook journeys to France and Italy, and he also taught music in Heidelberg. In 1860 he wrote his thesis on Mozart and earned the rank of privatdozent"
"Étude An étude (; , meaning 'study') is an instrumental musical composition, usually short, of considerable difficulty, and designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular musical skill. The tradition of writing études emerged in the early 19th century with the rapidly growing popularity of the piano. Of the vast number of études from that era some are still used as teaching material (particularly pieces by Carl Czerny and Muzio Clementi), and a few, by major composers such as Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt and Claude Debussy, achieved a place in today's concert repertory. Études written in the 20th century"
"with the Adelaide and Sydney Symphony orchestras. As well as performing and recording, she continues teaching at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music as Associate Professor in piano. Stephanie McCallum has released 18 solo CDs, and her recordings of the music of Liszt and her popular CDs of French piano music have recently been re-released as boxed sets. Her recording of all of Beethoven's Bagatelles for piano, contains the published sets of Bagatelles, Opus 33, 119 and 126, individual pieces such as the popular ""Für Elise"", and also the first recording of what is believed to be the last piano piece"
"or of musicians. Of educational interest is the fact that each dance is accompanied by a tablature, including the fingering (all in the first position) for all stringed instruments, as well as the letter ""P"" for spread (""Pontar in sù"") and ""T"" for smear (""tirare in giù""), modeled by Francesco Rognoni Taeggio in his ""Selva di varii passagi..."" (1620). only two copies of this print are currently known, which are owned by the Bibliothèque de France in Paris and the Biblioteca del Conservatorio in Florence Gasparo Zanetti Gasparo Zanetti (after 1600 – 1660) was an Italian violin teacher, composer of"
"Élégie (Fauré) The Élégie (Elegy), Op. 24, was written by the French composer Gabriel Fauré in 1880, and first published and performed in public in 1883. Originally for cello and piano, the piece was later orchestrated by Fauré. The work, in C minor, features a sad and sombre opening and climaxes with an intense, fast-paced central section, before the return of the elegiac opening theme. In 1880, having completed his First Piano Quartet, Fauré began work on a cello sonata. It was his frequent practice to compose the slow movement of a work first, and he did so for the"
"suggested that Beethoven wrote his famous Bagatelle No. 25 for piano, commonly known as ""Für Elise"", in the days of Elisabeth Röckel's departure from Vienna. It had the inscription """" (For Elise on 27 April [1810] in memory of L. v. Bthvn). Indeed, Anna Milder-Hauptmann named her ""Elise"" in a letter to her. During the days before Beethoven's death, she and her husband Hummel visited Beethoven several times, and cut and saved a lock of his hair. This was later discovered in 1934 in Florence by Wilhelm Hummel, a descendant of Johann Nepomuk Hummel. The lock of hair is now"
"indeed ""Elise"". In 2014, the Canadian musicologist Rita Steblin suggested that Elise Barensfeld might be the dedicatee. Born in Regensburg and treated for a while as a child prodigy, she first travelled on concert tours with Beethoven's friend Johann Nepomuk Mälzel, also from Regensburg, and then lived with him for some time in Vienna, where she received singing lessons from Antonio Salieri. Steblin argues that Beethoven dedicated this work to the 13-year-old Elise Barensfeld as a favour to Therese Malfatti who lived opposite Mälzel's and Barensfeld's residence and who might have given her piano lessons. Steblin admits that question marks"
"Lisiecki. The piece has appeared in a number of films and television series, including: Three Concert Études Three Concert Études (""Trois études de concert""), S.144, are a set of three piano études by Franz Liszt, composed between 1845–49 and published in Paris as ""Trois caprices poétiques"" with the three individual titles as they are known today. As the title indicates, they are intended not only for the acquisition of a better technique, but also for concert performance. Liszt was himself a virtuoso pianist; due to having unusually flexible fourth fingers, he was able to easily play many complex patterns generally"
"Elegies (Busoni) Elegies (), BV 249, by the Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni is a set of solo piano pieces which can be played as a cycle or separately. Initially published in 1908 with six pieces, it was subsequently expanded to seven by the addition of the ""Berceuse"" (BV 252). The set of seven takes just over 40 minutes to play. The seven pieces are titled as follows: Although labelled as ""Neue Klavierstücke"" [New Piano Pieces] by the publisher Breitkopf & Härtel, that is not a totally accurate description, since three of the pieces are based on other, older compositions by"
"Six Studies in English Folk Song Six Studies in English Folk Song is a piece of chamber music written by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1926. It is a collection of six English folk songs set for cello and piano. Each song follows the same format: presentation of the tune in the solo line, followed by a full iteration of the folk song in the piano with an ornamented solo line. Originally written for cellist May Mukle and piano, Vaughan Williams wrote that his aim in setting the songs was for them to be “treated with love.” It has"
"Elgar and Saint-Saëns cello concertos. In 1898 the French composer Gabriel Fauré dedicated his cello piece ""Sicilienne"" to Squire. Squire's own compositions were written mainly for the cello; these included several solo pieces of light character and a cello concerto; he also wrote the music for a number of songs. One of Squire's legacies is a collection of student-level works for cello and piano which appear in string teaching syllabuses all over the world including those of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, the Internet Cello Society and the Suzuki method of string instrument teaching. William Henry"
"group The Nice recorded an arrangement of the Intermezzo which appeared on the album ""Ars Longa Vita Brevis"". They later recorded a live version with the Sinfonia of London, which appeared on the album ""Five Bridges"". Karelia Suite Jean Sibelius's Karelia Suite, Op. 11, was written in 1893 for the Viipuri Students' Association. It was premiered in the Imperial Alexander University in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland, under the title Karelia Music. The suite is one of Sibelius's earlier works and remains one of his most popular. Karelia Music was written in the beginning of Sibelius' compositional career, and the"
"Three Concert Études Three Concert Études (""Trois études de concert""), S.144, are a set of three piano études by Franz Liszt, composed between 1845–49 and published in Paris as ""Trois caprices poétiques"" with the three individual titles as they are known today. As the title indicates, they are intended not only for the acquisition of a better technique, but also for concert performance. Liszt was himself a virtuoso pianist; due to having unusually flexible fourth fingers, he was able to easily play many complex patterns generally considered difficult. The Italian subtitles now associated with the études—""Il lamento"" (""The Lament""), ""La"
"tenth harpsichord ""ordre"" (1717), in which a rondeau is titled ""Les bagatelles"" . The best-known bagatelles are probably those by Ludwig van Beethoven, who published three sets, Opp. 33, 119 and 126, and wrote a number of similar works that were unpublished in his lifetime including the piece that is popularly known as ""Für Elise"". Other notable examples are Franz Liszt's ""Bagatelle sans tonalité"" (an early exploration into atonality), a set for violin and piano (Op. 13) by François Schubert of which No. 9, ""The Bee"", is often performed, the set by Antonín Dvořák for two violins, cello and harmonium"
"Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire, Strasbourg, France. Marie Jaëll Marie (Trautmann) Jaëll (17 August 1846 – 4 February 1925) was a French pianist, composer, and pedagogue. Marie Jaëll composed pieces for piano, concertos, quartets, and others, She dedicated her cello concerto to Jules Delsart. and was the first pianist to perform all the piano sonatas of Beethoven in Paris. She did scientific studies of hand techniques in piano playing and attempted to replace traditional drilling with systematic piano methods. Her students included Albert Schweitzer, who studied with her while also studying organ with Charles-Marie Widor in 1898-99. She died in Paris."
"book in forming his students at the Curtis Institute of Music. Georges Gillet Georges-Vital-Victor Gillet (May 17, 1854 – February 8, 1920) was a French oboist and composer, influential as a soloist, teacher, manufacturer, and composer through his sets of études. In addition to premiering the oboe works of prominent French composers of the 19th century, including Émile Paladilhe, Charles-Édouard Lefebvre, and Clémence de Grandval, among others, he was the teacher of Fernand Gillet and Marcel Tabuteau. Gillet also helped develop the F. Lorée brand of oboe and composed a number of études that are still used today. Gillet was"
"the student compares ""pieces by my friend Madame Louis"" to those of the Venetian composer Domenico Alberti (ca. 1710–1740), a collection of whose sonatas had been published in Paris in 1760: both composers must be played ""with delicacy and good taste"" and are therefore difficult to perform, the pupil observes. By contrast, she knows pieces that are ""strong in harmony, loaded with sounds, varied through modulations,"" so that, while they may sound difficult, they ""require only precision and a steady beat."" The published score contains an overture and twenty musical numbers—eleven ariettes, or arias, sung by four of the five"
"a Country Churchyard"" (1750). In French, perhaps the most famous elegy is ""Le Lac"" (1820) by Alphonse de Lamartine. ""Elegy"" (French: ""élégie"") may denote a type of musical work, usually of a sad or somber nature. A well-known example is the Élégie, Op. 10, by Jules Massenet. This was originally written for piano, as a student work; then he set it as a song; and finally it appeared as the ""Invocation"", for cello and orchestra, a section of his incidental music to Leconte de Lisle's ""Les Érinnyes"". Elegy In English literature, an elegy is a poem of serious reflection, usually"
"the étude. Some critics have claimed that this collection of études has not become more popular because it is inspired in the compositional style of Chopin, Scriabin and Rachmaninoff (the latter, more specifically, in the third étude). Quatre études, Op. 7 (Stravinsky) Quatre études (Four Studies), Op. 7 is a collection of short études for piano by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was finished between June and July 1908 and was composed in Ustyluh, Ukraine. It is one of his major early works for piano, which were preceded only by his Piano Sonata in F-sharp minor. The four movement are"
"given piece. Each of the études has a different character, designated by its name: Preludio; Molto Vivace; Paysage / Landscape; Mazeppa; Feux Follets - Irrlichter/ Will-o'-the-wisp ; Vision; Eroica; Wilde Jagd/ Wild Hunt; Ricordanza; Allegro Molto Agitato; Harmonies du Soir/ Evening Harmonies; and Chasse-neige / Snow-whirls. The 19th century also saw a number of étude and study collections for instruments other than the piano. Guitarist composer Fernando Sor published his 12 Studies, op. 6 for guitar in London as early as 1815. These works all conform to the standard definition of 19th-century étude in that they are short compositions, each"
"Enrico Toselli Enrico Toselli, Count of Montignoso (March 13, 1883 – January 15, 1926), was an Italian pianist and composer. Born in Florence, he studied piano with Giovanni Sgambati and composition with Giuseppe Martucci and Reginaldo Grazzini. He embarked on a career as a concert pianist, playing in Italy, European capital cities, Alexandria and North America. His most popular composition is ""Serenata 'Rimpianto' Op.6 No.1"". His other works include two operettas, ""La cattiva Francesca"" (1912) and ""La principessa bizzarra"" (1913). Toselli's fame largely derives not from his musical ability but from his scandalous elopement with Archduchess Louise of Austria, the"
"Gabriel Fauré Gabriel Urbain Fauré (; 12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th-century composers. Among his best-known works are his ""Pavane"", Requiem, ""Sicilienne"", nocturnes for piano and the songs ""Après un rêve"" and ""Clair de lune"". Although his best-known and most accessible compositions are generally his earlier ones, Fauré composed many of his most highly regarded works in his later years, in a more harmonically and melodically complex style. Fauré was born into a"
"making provision for the performance of a Requiem mass in his memory. Czerny composed a very large number of pieces (more than a thousand pieces and up to Op. 861). Czerny's works include not only piano music (études, nocturnes, sonatas, opera theme arrangements and variations) but also masses and choral music, symphonies, concertos, songs, string quartets and other chamber music. The better known part of Czerny's repertoire is the large number of didactic piano pieces he wrote, such as ""The School of Velocity"" and ""The Art of Finger Dexterity."" He was one of the first composers to use étude (""study"")"
"For instance, the structure and proportions of the ""Erscheinung"" seem exemplary."" Elegies (Busoni) Elegies (), BV 249, by the Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni is a set of solo piano pieces which can be played as a cycle or separately. Initially published in 1908 with six pieces, it was subsequently expanded to seven by the addition of the ""Berceuse"" (BV 252). The set of seven takes just over 40 minutes to play. The seven pieces are titled as follows: Although labelled as ""Neue Klavierstücke"" [New Piano Pieces] by the publisher Breitkopf & Härtel, that is not a totally accurate description, since"
"at the age of 23. In the late 19th century, Sibelius's ""Karelia Suite"" was written for the students of the Helsinki university. Brought on by Impressionism, the piano suite was reintroduced by early 20th-century French composers such as Ravel and Debussy. Debussy's ""Pour le piano"" is a suite in three movements, published in 1901, and his ""Suite bergamasque"", revised in 1905, is probably one of the most famous suites, especially the third movement, ""Clair de Lune"". Ravel is particularly well known for his ""Miroirs"" suite for piano and lesser known for ""Le tombeau de Couperin"", both requiring tremendous skill and"
"Antoine Gilis Antoine François Gilis (1702–1781) was an 18th-century French musician and composer who composed mainly for the piano and violin. He believed that ""above all, the student who starts out learning the piano, should have fun."". To accomplish this, his study pieces are very melodic and increase slowly in difficulty throughout the books as to ""stimulate interest"". Throughout his books, study pieces are accompanied by easy explanations of music theory. Several books were published by A. Hammond & Co and Schott & Co around 1910, such as his famous ""Méthode de Piano"". This statement mixes two composers by the"
"Jane Mary Guest Jane Mary Guest, also known as Jenny Guest and later as Jane Mary Miles, (c. 1762 – 20 March 1846) was an English composer and pianist. A pupil of Johann Christian Bach, and initially composing in the galante style, she composed keyboard sonatas, other keyboard works and vocal works with keyboard accompaniment. She was piano teacher to Princess Amelia and Princess Charlotte of Wales. Guest was born c. 1762, probably in Bath, Somerset, where her father Thomas Guest was a tailor. At Bath her teachers included Thomas Orpin and Thomas Linley, and she was giving performances there"
"Rapsodie nègre Rapsodie nègre, FP 3, is a work dating from 1917 by Francis Poulenc for flute, clarinet, string quartet, baritone and piano. It was the composer's first work to be publicly performed. The piece is in five movements, three of them purely instrumental; the central interlude is for baritone and piano, and the finale features all the performers. The dedicatee of the piece was Erik Satie. By 1917 the 18-year-old Poulenc, who was then a pupil of Ricardo Viñes, had composed an unknown number of works. His biographer Carl Schmidt lists two earlier pieces known to have been destroyed"
"true ""elegiac"" work mourning Tchaikovsky's death. Trio élégiaque No. 1 (Rachmaninoff) ""Trio élégiaque"" No. 1 in G minor is a composition for piano, violin and cello by Sergei Rachmaninoff. The trio was written on January 18–21, 1892 in Moscow, when the composer was 19 years old. The work was first performed on January 30 of the same year with the composer at the piano, David Kreyn at the violin and Anatoliy Brandukov at the cello. It waited until 1947 for the first edition to appear, and the trio has no designated opus number. Rachmaninoff wrote a second Elegiac piano trio"
"romances, two offertories, four toccatas in the style of Niccolò Paganini, three slow movements, seven marches, twelve waltzes, four polkas, two polonaises, and three czardas. After the études were published, Cyrille Rose, a French clarinetist, adapted 32 of Ferling's etudes for the clarinet, often transposing the music or changing the meter, articulation, or dynamics. In addition, Rose occasionally omitted some of Ferling's phrases or composed new ones. After the first edition was published in 1840, oboist Louis Bleuzet republished the études in the early 20th century. Later, Southern Music, under the direction of Albert Andraud, edited and republished Bleuzet's version"
"Francis Planté Francis Planté (2 March 1839 – 19 December 1934) was a French pianist famed as one of the first ever recording artists. He was France's most important pianist in the nineteenth century, apart from Chopin. Planté was born in Orthez. He studied piano under Antoine Marmontel, his career beginning at the age of seven in Paris. While there he met and befriended many like-minded musicians who would have a long-lasting effect on his career. These included Franz Liszt, with whom he played arrangements of two of Liszt's symphonic poems (""Les Préludes"", and ""Tasso, Lamento e Trionfo"") for 2"
"Droßdik died in Vienna. Therese Malfatti Baroness Therese von Droßdik, born Therese Malfatti (1 January 1792 – 27 April 1851), was an Austrian musician and a close friend of Ludwig van Beethoven. She is best known as one of the supposed dedicatees of Beethoven's famous bagatelle, ""Für Elise"", WoO 59. Born in Vienna , Austria on 1 January 1792. Therese Malfatti was the daughter of the Viennese merchant Jacob Friedrich Malfatti (1769–1829) and a cousin of the famous and wealthy physician, Johann Baptist Malfatti von Monteregio (1775–1859). Her father, who from 1804 on owned an estate in Walkersdorf am Kamp"