"simply an attempt at grandiose effect, though the composer's use of such forces earned the work the subtitle ""Symphony of a Thousand"" from his press agent (a name still applied to the symphony). Like Stravinsky, Mahler makes extensive and extended use of counterpoint, especially in the first part, ""Veni Creator Spiritus"". Throughout this section, according to music writer Michael Kennedy, Mahler displays considerable mastery in manipulating multiple independent melodic voices. Musicologist Deryck Cooke adds that Mahler handles his huge forces ""with extraordinary clarity"". Vaughan Williams also insisted on a balance between words and music in ""A Sea Symphony"", writing in"
"Ottorino Respighi Ottorino Respighi (; 9 July 187918 April 1936) was an Italian violinist, composer and musicologist, best known for his trilogy of orchestral tone poems: ""Fountains of Rome"" (1916), ""Pines of Rome"" (1924), and ""Roman Festivals"" (1928). His musicological interest in 16th-, 17th- and 18th-century music led him to compose pieces based on the music of these periods. He also wrote several operas, the most famous being ""La fiamma"". Ottorino Respighi was born on 9 July 1879 in an apartment inside Palazzo Fantuzzi on Via Guido Reni in Bologna, Italy, into a musical family. His father, a local piano"
"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"
"Engarandus Juvenis Engarandus Juvenis, ""Enguerrand the Younger"" (fl. 1480s-90s) is a composer, presumed to be of French origin, whose three known works are all preserved in a single codex in the Cistercian monastery of Staffarda, Italy. He is notable as the composer of the earliest surviving example of a polyphonic setting of a Requiem mass complete with Dies Irae section. No biographical information about the composer survives. The epithet """"juvenis"""" ""the Younger"" suggests a connection to an older Engarandus (Latin), or Enquerrand (French), but no older composer of this name is recorded. Possible non-composer Enguerrands as fathers, or simply as"
"complete performance in London a year later. The conductor for this performance was Thomas Beecham. A Mass of Life Eine Messe des Lebens - A Mass of Life Eine Messe des Lebens - (english translated title ""A Mass of Life"") is a cantata by English composer Frederick Delius, based on the German text of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical novel ""Thus Spoke Zarathustra"". In 1898, Delius had written a male choir and orchestral setting of ""Midnight Song"" from the same work, and this was revised to form part of the ""Mass"". The English born composer Frederick Delius formally chose for his work"
"Harald Sæverud Harald Sigurd Johan Sæverud (17 April 1897 – 27 March 1992) was a Norwegian composer. He is most known for his music to Henrik Ibsen's ""Peer Gynt"", ""Rondo Amoroso"", and the ""Ballad of Revolt"" (). Sæverud wrote nine symphonies and a large number of pieces for solo piano. He was a frequent guest conductor of his own works with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Harald Sæverud was born in Bergen and received his basic music education at the local conservatory where his teacher was the Leipzig-educated composer Borghild Holmsen. During his conservatory years he began working on what would"
"Symphony of Psalms The Symphony of Psalms is a three-movement choral symphony composed by Igor Stravinsky in 1930 during his neoclassical period. The work was commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The symphony derives its name from the use of Psalm texts in the choral parts. According to Stravinsky, the commission for the work came about from ""a routine suggestion"" from Koussevitzky, who was also Stravinsky's publisher, that he write something ""popular"" for orchestra without chorus. Stravinsky, however, insisted on the psalm-symphony idea, which he had had in mind for some time."
"being more in keeping with Puccini's evolving technique. See also List of operas by Franco Alfano. Operas Other compositions Notes Franco Alfano Franco Alfano (8 March 1875 in Posillipo, Naples – 27 October 1954 in Sanremo) was an Italian composer and pianist, best known today for his opera ""Risurrezione"" (1904) and above all for having completed Puccini's opera ""Turandot"" in 1926. He had considerable success with several of his own works during his lifetime. Alfano was born in Posillipo, Naples. He attended piano lessons given privately by Alessandro Longo, and harmony and composition respectively under Camillo de Nardis (1857–1951) and"
"it was more this sensitive trembling) the Cathedral today — I thought it the most beautiful music I had ever heard"". On November 23, 1963, the day after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Leonard Bernstein conducted the New York Philharmonic and the Schola Cantorum of New York in a nationally televised memorial featuring the ""Resurrection Symphony"" by Gustav Mahler. This was the first televised performance of the complete symphony. Mahler's music had never been performed for such an event, and since the tribute to JFK, Mahler symphonies have become part of the standard repertoire for national mourning. In"
"light which no eye has penetrated! Die shall I in order to live. Rise again, yes, rise again, Will you, my heart, in an instant! That for which you suffered, To God shall it carry you!</poem> On 29 November 2016 the original handwritten score was sold at Sotheby's of London for £4.5 million, the highest ever price for a musical manuscript sold at auction. There were four telephone bidders for the manuscript, with the winning bidder choosing to remain anonymous. Sources Symphony No. 2 (Mahler) Symphony No. 2 by Gustav Mahler, known as the Resurrection Symphony, was written between 1888"
"Henry Mancini Enrico Nicola ""Henry"" Mancini (; April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger, who is best remembered for his film and television scores. Often cited as one of the greatest composers in the history of film, he won four Academy Awards, a Golden Globe, and twenty Grammy Awards, plus a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. His best known works include the theme and soundtrack for the ""Peter Gunn"" television series as well as the music for ""The Pink Panther"" film series (""The Pink Panther Theme"") and ""Moon River"" from ""Breakfast"
"Krzysztof Penderecki Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (; born 23 November 1933) is a Polish composer and conductor. ""The Guardian"" has called him Poland's greatest living composer. Among his best known works are ""Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima"", ""Symphony No. 3"", his ""St. Luke Passion"", ""Polish Requiem"", ""Anaklasis"" and ""Utrenja"". Penderecki composed four operas, eight symphonies and other orchestral pieces, a variety of instrumental concertos, choral settings of mainly religious texts, as well as chamber and instrumental works. Born in Dębica to a lawyer, Penderecki studied music at Jagiellonian University and the Academy of Music in Kraków. After graduating from the"
"Franco Alfano Franco Alfano (8 March 1875 in Posillipo, Naples – 27 October 1954 in Sanremo) was an Italian composer and pianist, best known today for his opera ""Risurrezione"" (1904) and above all for having completed Puccini's opera ""Turandot"" in 1926. He had considerable success with several of his own works during his lifetime. Alfano was born in Posillipo, Naples. He attended piano lessons given privately by Alessandro Longo, and harmony and composition respectively under Camillo de Nardis (1857–1951) and Paolo Serrao at the conservatory San Pietro a Majella in Naples. Later, after graduating, he pursued further composition studies with"
"Gianluca Minucci. Ulpio Minucci Ulpio Minucci (June 29, 1917 – March 9, 2007) was an Italian-born American composer and musician. Minucci wrote a number of popular hits in the 1950s, including ""Domani,"" ""A Thousand Thoughts of You,"" and ""Felicia."" He was nominated for two Emmy Awards for his work on ABC's ""Saga of Western Man"" in 1964 and 1965. He is also well known among anime fans as the composer of the theme and musical score for the 1985 animated television series ""Robotech"". He also played piano on ""Round Trip"", a 1974 jazz album by Japanese saxophonist Sadao Watanabe. In"
"Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (; 4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian Baroque musical composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher, and priest. Born in Venice, the capital of the Venetian Republic, he is regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe. He composed many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other instruments, as well as sacred choral works and more than forty operas. His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as the ""Four Seasons"". Many of his compositions were written for the"
"Ulpio Minucci Ulpio Minucci (June 29, 1917 – March 9, 2007) was an Italian-born American composer and musician. Minucci wrote a number of popular hits in the 1950s, including ""Domani,"" ""A Thousand Thoughts of You,"" and ""Felicia."" He was nominated for two Emmy Awards for his work on ABC's ""Saga of Western Man"" in 1964 and 1965. He is also well known among anime fans as the composer of the theme and musical score for the 1985 animated television series ""Robotech"". He also played piano on ""Round Trip"", a 1974 jazz album by Japanese saxophonist Sadao Watanabe. In Jan 10,"
"An Alpine Symphony An Alpine Symphony (""Eine Alpensinfonie""), Op. 64, is a composition for orchestra written by German composer Richard Strauss in 1915. It is one of Strauss's largest non-operatic works; the score calls for about 125 players and a typical performance usually lasts around 50 minutes. The program of ""An Alpine Symphony"" depicts the experiences of eleven hours (from daybreak just before dawn to the following nightfall) spent climbing an Alpine mountain. In 1981 a recording of ""An Alpine Symphony"", made with Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic, became the first work ever to be pressed on the"
"Sinfonia (Berio) Sinfonia (Symphony) is a composition by the Italian composer Luciano Berio which was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic for its 125th anniversary. Composed in 1968–69 for orchestra and eight amplified voices, it is a musically innovative post-serial classical work, with multiple vocalists commenting about musical (and other) topics as the piece twists and turns through a seemingly neurotic journey of quotations and dissonant passages. The eight voices are not used in a traditional classical way; they frequently do not sing at all, but speak, whisper and shout words by Claude Lévi-Strauss, whose ""Le cru et le cuit"""
"Symphony No. 2 (Albert) The Symphony No. 2 is a three-movement symphony for orchestra by the American composer Stephen Albert. The work was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic for their sesquicentennial anniversary. However, the piece had to be completed posthumously by the composer Sebastian Currier after Albert died suddenly in a car crash on December 27, 1992. Albert's previous Symphony No. 1 ""RiverRun"" had won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1985. The symphony has a duration of approximately thirty minutes and is composed in three movements: Fellow composer and music critic Steve Schwartz wrote about the work: In"
"Nicolas Astrinidis Nicolas Astrinidis (Greek: ; Cetatea Albă, 6 May 1921– Thessaloniki, 10 December 2010) was a Romanian-born Greek composer, pianist, conductor, and educator, known for his large-scale symphonic oratorios ""St. Demetrios"" (1962), ""Symphony 1821"" (1971), and ""Alexander the Great's Youth"" (1995). After receiving diplomas in piano performance and composition from the Schola Cantorum de Paris, Astrinidis embarked on an international career as pianist (soloist or accompanist). During the 1950s and the early 1960s, he toured East Asia and the Americas, performing in cities, such as Evanston and Hong Kong. He collaborated with renowned performers of the period, such as"
"The Creation (Haydn) The Creation () is an oratorio written between 1797 and 1798 by Joseph Haydn (Hob. XXI:2), and considered by many to be one of his masterpieces. The oratorio depicts and celebrates the creation of the world as described in the Book of Genesis. The libretto was written by Gottfried van Swieten. The work is structured in three parts and scored for soprano, tenor and bass soloists, chorus and a symphonic orchestra. In parts I and II, depicting the creation, the soloists represent the archangels Raphael (bass), Uriel (tenor) and Gabriel (soprano). In part III, the bass and"
"work for solo flute played by Emmanuel Pahud. Alexandre Desplat Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat (; born 23 August 1961) is a French film composer. He has won two Academy Awards for his musical scores to the films ""The Grand Budapest Hotel"" and ""The Shape of Water"", and received seven additional Academy Award nominations, eight César nominations (winning three), seven BAFTA nominations (winning three), seven Golden Globe Award nominations (winning two), and six Grammy nominations (winning two). Desplat has worked on a variety of films, including independent and commercial successes ""The Queen"", ""The Golden Compass"", ""The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"","
"Symphony No. 101 (Haydn) The Symphony No. 101 in D major (Hoboken 1/101) is the ninth of the twelve London symphonies written by Joseph Haydn. It is popularly known as The Clock because of the ""ticking"" rhythm throughout the second movement. Haydn completed the symphony in 1793 or 1794. He wrote it for the second of his two visits to London. Having heard one of his symphonies played in London with an orchestra of 300-strong, his ""Clock"" Symphony has that large scale grandeur written in it. On 3 March 1794, the work was premiered with an orchestra of 60 personally"
"Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (; ; baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Classical music, he remains one of the most recognised and influential of all composers. His best-known compositions include 9 symphonies; 5 piano concertos; 1 violin concerto; 32 piano sonatas; 16 string quartets; a mass, the ""Missa solemnis""; and an opera, ""Fidelio"". Beethoven was born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy Roman Empire. He displayed his musical talents at"
"Alfred Newman (composer) Alfred Newman (March 17, 1901 – February 17, 1970) was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music. From his start as a music prodigy, he came to be regarded as a respected figure in the history of film music. He won nine Academy Awards and was nominated forty-three times. In a career spanning more than four decades, Newman composed the scores for over 200 motion pictures. Some of his most famous scores include ""Wuthering Heights"", ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"", ""The Mark of Zorro"", ""How Green Was My Valley"", ""The Song of Bernadette"", ""Captain from"
"which have the advantage of indicating the groups of six quartets that Haydn published together; thus for example the string quartet Opus 76, No. 3 is the third of the six quartets published in 1799 as Opus 76. Informational notes Citations Bibliography<br> Joseph Haydn (Franz) Joseph Haydn (; ; 31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the piano trio. His contributions to musical form have earned him the epithets ""Father of the Symphony"" and ""Father of the String Quartet"". Haydn spent much of"
"Symphony No. 1 (Albert) Symphony No. 1 ""RiverRun"" is an orchestral symphony in four movements by the American composer Stephen Albert. The piece was completed in 1983 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1985. The title comes from the novel ""Finnegans Wake"" by James Joyce, whose literature served as inspiration for the work. The symphony has a duration of approximately 33 minutes and is composed in four movements: Music critic Steve Schwartz said of the work, ""Albert's characteristic mode of musical expression is epic. It takes big breaths and proceeds in long phrases. It is full of 'parody"
"Symphony No. 1 (Herrmann) Symphony No. 1 is a four-movement orchestral composition by American composer Bernard Herrmann. The work was jointly commissioned in 1940 by CBS and the New York Philharmonic and was completed March 29, 1941, though Herrmann revised the work in 1973. It premiered July 27, 1941 at the CBS Radio Theater, with Herrmann conducting the CBS Symphony Orchestra. Though he would continue to compose concert music and film scores throughout his later life, the symphony would be Herrmann's last foray into nonprogrammatic music. The symphony has a duration of roughly 35 minutes and is composed in four"
"""pedes meos"" from the second, and ""in cymbalis"" from the third. Symphony of Psalms The Symphony of Psalms is a three-movement choral symphony composed by Igor Stravinsky in 1930 during his neoclassical period. The work was commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The symphony derives its name from the use of Psalm texts in the choral parts. According to Stravinsky, the commission for the work came about from ""a routine suggestion"" from Koussevitzky, who was also Stravinsky's publisher, that he write something ""popular"" for orchestra without chorus. Stravinsky, however, insisted on the"
"reflects Dallapiccola's complete disillusionment with fascism (which he had naïvely supported when Mussolini first came to power) and the music contained therein is both beautifully realized and supremely disquieting. His final opera ""Ulisse"", with his own libretto after ""The Odyssey"", was the culmination of his life's work. It was composed over eight years, including and developing themes from his earlier works, and was his last large-scale composition. Luigi Dallapiccola Luigi Dallapiccola (February 3, 1904 – February 19, 1975) was an Italian composer known for his lyrical twelve-tone compositions. Dallapiccola was born in Pisino d'Istria (current Pazin, Croatia), to Italian parents."
"Ennio Morricone Ennio Morricone, (; was born 10 November 1928) is an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and former trumpet player, writing in a wide range of musical styles. Since 1946 Morricone has composed over 500 scores for cinema and television, as well as over 100 classical works. His filmography includes over 70 award-winning films, including all of Sergio Leone films since ""A Fistful of Dollars"" (including ""For a Few Dollars More"", ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"", ""Once Upon a Time in the West"" and ""Once Upon a Time in America""), all Giuseppe Tornatore films (since ""Cinema Paradiso""), ""The"
"the United Kingdom) of Mahler's Symphony No. 8 ""Symphony of a Thousand"" was scheduled for the opening night of the 1965 Edinburgh Festival, with the Scottish National Orchestra, but a suitable choir was lacking. Lord Harewood and Alexander Gibson approached Oldham to create one and train the singers, and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus was born. Under his direction for the next 12 years, the chorus went on to participate in major works such as Verdi's ""Requiem"" (under Giulini), Tippett's ""A Child of Our Time"" (under Gibson), Bach's ""Magnificat"" (under Herbert von Karajan), Prokofiev's ""Seven, They are Seven"" (under Gennady Rozhdestvensky],"
"of his musical development. In 1905, he met Gustav Mahler while conducting the off-stage brass at a performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 2, ""Resurrection"". He also made a piano reduction of the second symphony. The two men became friends, and Klemperer became conductor at the German Opera in Prague in 1907 on Mahler's recommendation. Mahler wrote a short testimonial, recommending Klemperer, on a small card which Klemperer kept for the rest of his life. Later, in 1910, Klemperer assisted Mahler in the premiere of his Symphony No. 8, ""Symphony of a Thousand"". Klemperer went on to hold a number of"