Whose oratorio The Seasons was first performed in 1801?
"Robbins Landon. In 1801, August Eberhard Müller (1767–1817) prepared a piano version of the oratorio's orchestra part, for purposes of rehearsal and informal performance. Haydn, whose health was in decline, did not take on this task himself, but he did look over a draft of Müller's work and wrote some suggested changes in the margins. Amid these changes appeared an off-the-cuff complaint about van Swieten's libretto: Robbins Landon continues the story as follows: A later letter of Griesinger's indicates that the rift thus created was not permanent. The term ""Frenchified trash"" was almost certainly not a gesture of contempt for"
"oratorio ""The Seasons"" (1801), in which the bass soloist depicts a plowman whistling Haydn's tune as he works. The same theme is also frequently adapted for the purpose of teaching musical beginners; see Papa Haydn. The composer Charles Ives wrote a parody of the second movement in 1909, penning the words ""Nice little easy sugar-plum sounds"" under the opening notes. Ives was unhappy with concert audiences who unadventurously resisted difficult modern music—as is shown by other words in his parody: ""Nice sweety silk bonnet melodies ... nice pretty perfumed sounds for the dress circle cushion chai[r] ears."" Since the opening"
"then moved on to larger projects: the full-scale oratorios ""The Creation"" (1798) and ""The Seasons"" (1801). Van Swieten translated (from English to German) and adapted the source material, which came from an anonymous English libretto and James Thomson's poem ""The Seasons"", respectively. He also translated in the reverse direction, putting the German back into English in a way that would fit the rhythm of Haydn's music. This reverse translation, though often awkward, enabled the first published editions of these oratorios to serve both German- and English-speaking audiences. In the margins of his libretti, Van Swieten made many specific artistic suggestions"
"The Seasons (ballet) The Seasons (, ""Vremena goda""; also ) is an allegorical ballet in one act, four scenes, by the choreographer Marius Petipa, with music by Alexander Glazunov, his Op. 67. The work was composed in 1899 and first performed by the Imperial Ballet in 1900 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The score for Marius Petipa's ""Les Saisons"" (""The Seasons"") was originally intended to have been composed by the Italian composer and conductor Riccardo Drigo, who was Glazunov's colleague and close friend. Since 1886, Drigo held the posts of director of music and ""chef d’orchestre"" to the Ballet of the"
"""The Seasons"" was prepared by August Schleicher in 1865, but this edition was criticized by Georg H. F. Nesselmann, who prepared an edition in 1869. Donelaitis and his works are considered to be an important part of Lithuanian culture, which also led to creation of literature and music works based on Donelaitis's life and his poem ""The Seasons"". In Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre in 1985, an opera ""Kristijonas"" by Algimantas Bražinskas was performed. In 2012, an oratorio ""Seasons"" by Bronius Kutavičius was performed. Kristijonas Donelaitis Kristijonas Donelaitis (; 1 January 1714 – 18 February 1780) was a Prussian"
"The Seasons (poem) The Seasons () is the first Lithuanian poem written by Kristijonas Donelaitis around 1765–1775. It is in quantitative dactylic hexameters as often used for Latin and Ancient Greek poetry. It was published as """"Das Jahr"""" in Königsberg, 1818 by Ludwig Rhesa, who also named the poem and selected the arrangement of the parts. The German translation was included in the first edition of the poem. The book was dedicated to Wilhelm von Humboldt. The poem is considered a masterpiece of early Lithuanian literature. The poem consists of 4 parts: ""Spring Joys"" (""Pavasario linksmybės""), ""Summer Toils"" (""Vasaros darbai""),"
"him to write a poem, ""Konrad Wallenrod"". Goethe is also said to have liked the poem. Acclaimed Lithuanian theatre director Eimuntas Nekrošius has adapted the first and third part of the piece to the performances ""Donelaitis. Metai. Pavasario linksmybės"" (""Donelaitis.The Seasons.Spring joys"") and ""Donelaitis. Metai. Rudens darbai"" (""Donelaitis.The Seasons.Autumn toils""), staged in 2003. The Seasons (poem) The Seasons () is the first Lithuanian poem written by Kristijonas Donelaitis around 1765–1775. It is in quantitative dactylic hexameters as often used for Latin and Ancient Greek poetry. It was published as """"Das Jahr"""" in Königsberg, 1818 by Ludwig Rhesa, who also named"
"The Seasons (Thomson) The Seasons is a series of four poems written by the Scottish author James Thomson. The first part, ""Winter"", was published in 1726, and the completed poem cycle appeared in 1730. The poem was extremely influential, and stimulated works by John Christopher Smith, Joseph Haydn, Thomas Gainsborough and J. M. W. Turner among many others. Thomson was educated first at the Parish school of Southdean then at Jedburgh Grammar School and Edinburgh University where he was a member of ""The Grotesques"" literary club; some of his early poems were published in the Edinburgh Miscellany of 1720. Seeking"
"The Seasons (Cage) The Seasons is a ballet with music by John Cage and choreography by Merce Cunningham, first performed in 1947. It was Cage's first piece for orchestra and also the first to use what Cage later called the ""gamut"" technique, albeit in an early form. Cage composed the music in early 1947, in the midst of working on ""Sonatas and Interludes"". A piano version was first completed, and an orchestral arrangement followed. Cage dedicated ""The Seasons"" to Lincoln Kirstein. The ballet was premiered on May 17, 1947 by the Ballet Society (by which the work was commissioned) at"
"The Four Seasons (Vivaldi) The Four Seasons () is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. They were written around 1721 and were published in 1725 in Amsterdam, together with eight additional violin concerti, as (""The Contest Between Harmony and Invention""). ""The Four Seasons"" is the best known of Vivaldi's works. Though three of the concerti are wholly original, the first, ""Spring"", borrows motifs from a Sinfonia in the first act of Vivaldi's contemporaneous opera ""Il Giustino"". The inspiration for the concertos was probably"
"The Seasons (Tchaikovsky) The Seasons, Op. 37a (also seen as Op. 37b; ; published with the French title Les Saisons), is a set of twelve short character pieces for solo piano by the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Each piece is the characteristic of a different month of the year in the northern hemisphere. The work is also sometimes heard in orchestral and other arrangements by other hands. Individual excerpts have always been popular – ""Troika"" (November) was a favourite encore of Sergei Rachmaninoff, and ""Barcarolle"" (June) was enormously popular and appeared in numerous arrangements (for orchestra, violin, cello, clarinet,"
"influential London political and cultural figures. In June 1744 Thomson published a drastically revised version of ""The Seasons"", which became extremely influential over the following century. Joseph Haydn wrote a major oratorio based on the poem, significant artists including Thomas Gainsborough, J. M. W. Turner and Richard Westall painted scenes from it, and over 400 editions of ""The Seasons"" in a number of languages were published between 1744 and 1870. The painting depicts a scene from ""Summer"" in which the young Damon sits thinking by a stream on a hot summer's day. The beautiful Musidora strips naked to cool down"
"complete English version of the Christmas Oratorio was that prepared in 1874 by John Troutbeck for the music publisher Novello. A new edition has been worked up by Neil Jenkins. Each section combines choruses (a pastoral ""Sinfonia"" opens Part II instead of a chorus), chorales and from the soloists recitatives, ariosos and arias. By notational convention the recitatives are in common time. Christmas Oratorio The Christmas Oratorio (), , is an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach intended for performance in church during the Christmas season. It was written for the Christmas season of 1734 and incorporates music from earlier compositions,"
"in Eisenstadt, and over the course of several years wrote six masses for them. By this time Haydn had become a public figure in Vienna. He spent most of his time in his home, a large house in the suburb of Windmühle, and wrote works for public performance. In collaboration with his librettist and mentor Gottfried van Swieten, and with funding from van Swieten's Gesellschaft der Associierten, he composed his two great oratorios, ""The Creation"" (1798) and ""The Seasons"" (1801). Both were enthusiastically received. Haydn frequently appeared before the public, often leading performances of ""The Creation"" and ""The Seasons"" for"
"was based on extracts from the long English poem ""The Seasons"" by James Thomson (1700–1748), which had been published in 1730. Whereas in ""The Creation"" Swieten was able to limit himself to rendering an existing (anonymous) libretto into German, for ""The Seasons"" he had a much more demanding task. Olleson writes, ""Even when Thomson's images were retained, they required abbreviation and adaptation to such an extent that usually no more than faint echoes of them can be discerned, and the libretto often loses all touch with the poem which was its starting point. Increasingly during the course of the oratorio,"
"appears to have started this trend of adapting music from ""The Four Seasons"", and since then it has expanded into many aspects of the performing arts (as have other instrumental & vocal works by the composer). This ""contest between harmony and invention"" (as it were) now involves various genres around the world: 1775 The Four Seasons (Vivaldi) The Four Seasons () is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. They were written around 1721 and were published in 1725 in Amsterdam, together with eight"
"compositional technique involves using ""gamuts"" of sounds, i.e. predefined sonorities (single notes, chords, aggregates); Cage started developing this approach in ""The Seasons"", and later perfected it in ""String Quartet in Four Parts"" and ""Concerto for Prepared Piano"". The Seasons (Cage) The Seasons is a ballet with music by John Cage and choreography by Merce Cunningham, first performed in 1947. It was Cage's first piece for orchestra and also the first to use what Cage later called the ""gamut"" technique, albeit in an early form. Cage composed the music in early 1947, in the midst of working on ""Sonatas and Interludes""."
"and later a busy entrepreneur, Haydn wrote his works quickly and in profusion, with frequent deadlines. As a rich man, Haydn now felt that he had the privilege of taking his time and writing for posterity. This is reflected in the subject matter of ""The Creation"" (1798) and ""The Seasons"" (1801), which address such weighty topics as the meaning of life and the purpose of humankind and represent an attempt to render the sublime in music. Haydn's new intentions also meant that he was willing to spend much time on a single work: both oratorios took him over a year"
"and Seasons"" and is hymn number 284 in the current hymnal for the LDS Church. The hymn makes only a single reference to Kolob, in the first line of the hymn (from which the hymn's title is derived). It is the only hymn in the current LDS Church hymnal that mentions Kolob. The hymn reflects doctrines unique to Mormonism, such as the eternal nature of spirit (including man's spirit) and matter. It also conveys doctrines elaborated by Smith, the first Latter-day Saint prophet, about the plurality of gods and eternal progression. The tune was arranged by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1906)"
"the opera, ""its lyrical and dramatic ingredients reflecting the philosophy of the opera"". It was first performed on 30 November 1982 by the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich. Act 1 ""Prologue"" A garden at the English court in May. The guide and chorus portray England in an encroaching Ice Age. The prime minister suggests that it would be a good time for the prince to choose a wife, for which purpose he presents the two Carolines and the two Annes. ""Scene 1"" The Carolines and Annes introduce themselves and sing of their identical purposes: to become the prince’s"
"leaves from autumn trees rain upon their merriment. Apotheosis — ""The Sable sky"" Constellations of stars sparkle above the earth. List of the numbers comprising ""The Seasons"" taken from the ""Yearbook of the Imperial Theatres, 1899-1900"", being the original titles of the dances and ""mise en scène"" as originally staged. Tableau I — ""L’Hiver"" (winter) Tableau II — ""Le Printemps"" (spring) Tableau III — ""L’Été"" (summer) Tableau IV — ""L’Automne"" (fall) Apotheosis The Seasons (ballet) The Seasons (, ""Vremena goda""; also ) is an allegorical ballet in one act, four scenes, by the choreographer Marius Petipa, with music by Alexander"
"were not the original Latin but pietist poetry, written in German. Haydn was impressed with the new work and decided to improve on it, preparing his own choral version. He had the assistance of Baron Gottfried van Swieten, who revised the lyrics used by Friebert. This was the first work in a serial collaboration with van Swieten as librettist that continued with the later oratorios ""The Creation"" and ""The Seasons"". The choral version was privately premiered in Vienna on 26 March 1796 before an audience of the nobility, under the sponsorship of the Gesellschaft der Associierten. The public premiere was"
"The Kingdom (Elgar) The Kingdom, Op. 51, is an English-language oratorio composed in 1906 by Edward Elgar. It was first performed at the Birmingham Music Festival on 3 October 1906, with the orchestra conducted by the composer, and soloists Agnes Nicholls, Muriel Foster, John Coates and William Higley. The dedication is """"A. M. D. G."""" Elgar wrote ""The Kingdom"" for choral and instrumental forces. Following ""The Dream of Gerontius"" and ""The Apostles"", the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival commissioned Elgar to produce another large oratorio for the 1906 festival. This was ""The Kingdom"", which continues the narrative of the lives of"
"Christmas Oratorio The Christmas Oratorio (), , is an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach intended for performance in church during the Christmas season. It was written for the Christmas season of 1734 and incorporates music from earlier compositions, including three secular cantatas written during 1733 and 1734 and a now lost church cantata, BWV 248a. The date is confirmed in Bach's autograph manuscript. The next performance was not until 17 December 1857 by the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin under Eduard Grell. The ""Christmas Oratorio"" is a particularly sophisticated example of parody music. The author of the text is unknown, although a"
"The Window (song cycle) The Window; or, The Songs of the Wrens is a song cycle by Arthur Sullivan with words by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Written in 1867–70, it was eventually published in 1871. There are multiple versions of the title: On the cover of the 1871 edition, the subtitle is given as ""The Loves of the Wrens"", however, ""Songs of the Wrens"" is used on the frontispiece and is the one generally used. George Grove, the secretary of The Crystal Palace, originally suggested a collaboration between Tennyson and Sullivan on a German-style song cycle, in English, but similar to"
"orchestra, choir, and eight soloists (soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto, 2 tenors, baritone, and 2 basses). The work is divided into eight parts and a prologue: Les Béatitudes Les Béatitudes, (Op. 25), CFF 185, FWV 53, is a French oratorio written by César Franck from 1869 to 1879 and scored for orchestra, chorus, and soloists. The text is a poetic meditation on the eight beatitudes of Jesus, from the Gospel of Matthew, by Joséphine-Blanche Colomb. It was first performed, in reduced form, on February 20, 1879, at a private performance in Franck's home in Paris. The full oratorio was not performed until"
"Die Tageszeiten Die Tageszeiten (""Times of the Day"") is a choral composition written for male voice choir and orchestra by Richard Strauss (1864–1949), TrV 256, Op. 76 (published 1928). It consists of four movements: ""The Morning"", ""Afternoon Peace"", ""The Evening"" and ""The Night"". The lyrics are based on four poems of the same names by Joseph Eichendorff (1788–1857) from his collection ""Wanderlieder"" (Wanderers' songs). The work was premiered on 21 July 1928 with the (Vienna Schubert Society) and the Vienna Philharmonic as part of the Schubert centenary. On 1 May 1924, the male voice choir of the (Vienna Schubert Society)"
"recorded in 1989 by Peter Allanson (baritone) and Stephen Betteridge (piano) on Symposium, 1074, as part of their recording, ""An Album of Victorian Song"". The cycle is part of the 2017 Chandos Records collection, ""Songs"", which includes 35 other Sullivan songs. ""The Window"" is sung by tenor Ben Johnson. David Owen Norris accompanies. The Window (song cycle) The Window; or, The Songs of the Wrens is a song cycle by Arthur Sullivan with words by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Written in 1867–70, it was eventually published in 1871. There are multiple versions of the title: On the cover of the 1871"
"Road Concert Hall in Cambridge. Le Laudi Le Laudi (""The Praises""), Op. 25, is an oratorio by the Swiss composer Hermann Suter. The full title is ""Le Laudi di San Francesco d'Assisi (Cantico delle creature)"" (""The Praises of St. Francis of Assisi (Canticle of the Creatures)"", based on Francis of Assisi's Canticle of the Sun in the original Italian. Suter scored it for soloists, choir, children's choir and large orchestra. Premiered in 1924, it is one of Suter's most important works and has been performed regularly in his home country. Suter composed the work to mark the 100th anniversary of"
"Royal Musical Festival held at Westminster Abbey in 1834. For George Smart's 1831 adaptation of Spohr's opera, Kearns composed the piano acompaniments, later having the same role for an 1839 London performance of Joseph Haydn's ""The Seasons"" and an 1837 performance of August Ferdinand Haeser's oratorio ""The Triumph of Faith"". In 1845, he produced an adaptation of ""Deh prendi un dolce amplesso"" from Mozart's ""La clemenza di Tito"", which became ""The Young Protestant's Hymn"" (""We won't give up the bible""). Kearns also composed additional wind accompaniments to Handel's ""Messiah"" and ""Israel in Egypt"". Together with Henry John Gauntlett, he was"
"is to a certain extent self-supporting, it must be borne in mind that unless a goodly number of honorary members are enrolled the committee will not be justified in incurring the heavy expenses inevitable on a Grand Oratorio performance."" On 1 February 1867, the choir gave an ""open rehearsal"" of Handel's oratorio ""Judas Maccabaeus"" at the Corn Exchange. A second ""open rehearsal"", this time of Haydn's ""Creation"", was given on 3 May 1867 to round off the first season's activities. In the interim, the choir had recruited many more members and the orchestra included, in addition to local players, ""several"
"wealthy patrons including Thomas Rundle, the countess of Hertford and Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot. He wrote ""Spring"" in 1728 and finally ""Autumn"" in 1730, when the set of four was published together as ""The Seasons"". During this period he also wrote other poems, such as ""to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton"", and his first play, ""The Tragedy of Sophonisba"" (1729). The latter is best known today for its mention in Samuel Johnson's ""Lives of the English Poets"", where Johnson records that one 'feeble' line of the poem – ""O, Sophonisba, Sophonisba, O!"" was parodied by the wags of"
"Solomon (Handel) Solomon, HWV 67, is an English oratorio by George Frideric Handel. The anonymous libretto – currently thought to have been penned by the English Jewish poet/playwright Moses Mendes (d.1758) – is based on the biblical stories of the wise king Solomon from the First Book of Kings and the Second Book of Chronicles, with additional material from ""Antiquities of the Jews"" by ancient historian Flavius Josephus. The music was composed between 5 May and 13 June 1748, and the first performance took place on 17 March 1749, with Caterina Galli in the title role at the Covent Garden"