Who wrote the music commonly known as 'The Funeral March', it comes from his Piano Sonata No.2 written in 1837?
"of the earliest commercial recordings of the work were made by Percy Grainger and Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1928 and 1930 respectively. Commercial recordings have also been made by such pianists as Alfred Cortot, Emil Gilels, Vladimir Horowitz, William Kapell, Evgeny Kissin, Arthur Rubinstein, and Chopin International Piano Competition winners Martha Argerich, Yulianna Avdeeva, Maurizio Pollini, Adam Harasiewicz, Li Yundi, and Garrick Ohlsson. Piano Sonata No. 2 (Chopin) Frédéric Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35, is a piano sonata in four movements. Chopin completed the work while living in George Sand's manor in Nohant, some south of"
"a ""Funeral March"" for 5-part choir and orchestra, curiously written from the liturgical ""Pie Jesu"". It was composed on the occasion of the service celebrated at Notre-Dame-de-Paris in 1806 to commemorate the dead of the Battle of Austerlitz. His contemporary, the critic Albert Gilbert, considered it ""as one of his most remarkable inspirations"". The composer took it over in 1808 on the occasion of the death of cardinal de Belloy, the Archbishop of Paris. The audience was impressed and attributed it to Mozart, whose Mass of ""Requiem"" was performed during the same service. Pierre Desvignes died in 1827 in Paris"
"Funeral March of a Marionette The Funeral March of a Marionette () is a short piece by Charles Gounod. It was originally written for solo piano in 1872 and orchestrated in 1879. It is perhaps best known as the theme music for the television program ""Alfred Hitchcock Presents"". While residing in London, England, between 1871 and 1872, Gounod started to write a suite for piano called ""Suite burlesque"". It was a satirical character piece intended to be a parody of the personality of Henry Chorley, a music critic. It greatly amused Gounod's English patron, Georgina Weldon, who described Chorley as"
"In Memoriam: President Garfield's Funeral March ""In Memoriam: President Garfield's Funeral March"" is a funeral dirge composed by John Philip Sousa in 1881, while serving as director of ""the President's Own"" United States Marine Band, for the state funeral of President of the United States James Garfield. It was debuted during the committal of Garfield's remains and, 51 years later, was performed at Sousa's own funeral by the Marine Band. It is one of only two compositions Sousa dedicated to an American president, both of which were made to Garfield. On July 2, 1881 at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad"
"Island Discs"". Funeral March of a Marionette The Funeral March of a Marionette () is a short piece by Charles Gounod. It was originally written for solo piano in 1872 and orchestrated in 1879. It is perhaps best known as the theme music for the television program ""Alfred Hitchcock Presents"". While residing in London, England, between 1871 and 1872, Gounod started to write a suite for piano called ""Suite burlesque"". It was a satirical character piece intended to be a parody of the personality of Henry Chorley, a music critic. It greatly amused Gounod's English patron, Georgina Weldon, who described"
"""Marche funèbre"" to produce a sonata. The work was finished in the summer of 1839 in Nohant (near Châteauroux), in France, and published in May 1840 in London, Leipzig, and Paris. The work was not furnished with a dedication. The sonata comprises four movements: 5–7 minutes When the sonata was published in 1840 in the usual three cities of Paris, Leipzig, and London, the London and Paris editions indicated the repeat of the exposition as starting at the very beginning of the movement (at the ""Grave"" section). However, the Leizpig edition designed the repeat as beginning at the ""Doppio movimento"""
"Funérailles Funérailles is the 7th and one of the most famous pieces in ""Harmonies poétiques et religieuses"" (""Poetic and Religious Harmonies""), a collection of piano pieces by Franz Liszt. It was an elegy written in October 1849 in response to the crushing of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 by the Habsburgs. ""Funérailles"" has been recorded by pianists such as György Cziffra, Claudio Arrau, Vladimir Horowitz, Arthur Rubinstein, John Ogdon, Martha Argerich, Evgeny Kissin, Sviatoslav Richter, Arnaldo Cohen, Jonathan Paul Cambry, Arcadi Volodos, Sergio Fiorentino and Krystian Zimerman. The piece is composed of four distinct sections, with three main themes repeating"
"Concerto funebre Concerto funebre (""Funereal Concerto"") is a musical composition for violin soloist and string orchestra by the German composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann. Written in 1939 and substantially revised in 1959, it is by far Hartmann's best known work, especially noted for its lyrical final movement. It is scored for string orchestra only. The title is Italian. Unlike many of his works, which the composer did not consider completed before they had been substantially reworked as part of an ongoing process after the end of World War II, he completed the ""Concerto funebre"" in a relatively short timespan, principally in"
"Musikalische Exequien Musikalische Exequien (Funeral music), Op. 7, SWV 279–281 is a sacred composition by Heinrich Schütz, dating from . Written for the funeral services of Count Henry II, Count of Reuss-Gera, who had died on 3 December 1635, it is Schütz's most famous work of funeral music. It comprises the following sections: Henry II had planned the service himself and chosen the texts, some of which are scriptural and others of which are from 16th-century Lutheran writers, including Martin Luther himself. He also commissioned Schütz to compose the music on the occasion of his death. Part I, by far"
"the United States Marine Band performed ""Holy, Holy, Holy"" by Reginald Heber, ""Our Fallen Heroes"", and ""The Vanished Army"" after clearing the Capitol Plaza and joining military units for the 35-minute march on Constitution Avenue to the White House. The United States Navy Band selected ""Symphony No. 3 ""The Funeral March"""" by Ludwig Van Beethoven, ""The Funeral March"" by Robert Browne Hall, and the hymn ""Onward, Christian Soldiers"" by Arthur Sullivan. The United States Air Force Band chose to perform ""Piano Sonata No. 2 ""The Funeral March"","" by Frédéric Chopin, the hymn ""Vigor in Arduis"" (also known as ""Hymn to"
"a result of nephritis five years later and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Richmond, Maine. His widow sold the manuscripts of many compositions. Unscrupulous publishers assembled and realized from fragments works they passed off as genuine Hall compositions. He left over a hundred marches and other compositions, including such classics as: The trio from Hall's ""New Colonial March"" provides the music for Stanford University's official fight song, ""Come Join the Band"". The trio from Hall's ""Officer of the Day March"" provides the melody for the Alma Mater of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. His March """"Death or Glory"""", 1895"
"Funeral Song (Stravinsky) ""Funeral Song (Погребальная песнь"" or ""Chant funèbre)"", Op. 5, is an 11-minute orchestral work by Igor Stravinsky, written in 1908 when he was 26 upon the death of his teacher Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. It was performed once, considered lost, then rediscovered in 2015. It was first performed on 17 January 1909 by Count Sheremetev's orchestra, conducted by Felix Blumenfeld, replacing an indisposed Glazunov. Stravinsky later called it, ""the best of my works before ""The Firebird"", and the most advanced in chromatic harmony."" Stravinsky's recollection was of a piece in which ""all the solo instruments of the orchestra filed"
"music declined, he would sell new arrangements for as little as 50 cents, or give compositions away outright. In later life, he composed many works for the Grampian Band in nearby Grampian, Pennsylvania, his favorite group, including the ""Grampian March"". He missed a 1948 tribute by the Navy Band because he didn't believe he had any suitable clothes. He died in poverty in Penfield on August 18, 1955. Nevertheless, his music was well-thought-of. His march ""Triumphant Battalions"" was played at the liberation of Paris and his dirge ""Immortal Heroes"" was played at the funerals of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill."
"Funeral March in Memory of Rikard Nordraak Edvard Grieg composed his Funeral March in Memory of Rikard Nordraak in 1866, in honour of his friend and fellow Norwegian composer Rikard Nordraak, who had died in March of that year at the age of 23. Grieg deeply respected his fellow musician and took no delay in producing the work. The march was originally written as a piano piece in A minor; Grieg also produced transcriptions of it for brass choir and wind band, in B minor. Grieg valued the work greatly, bringing it along on all of his travels. In one"
"Piano Trio No. 2 (Shostakovich) The Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, for violin, cello and piano, Op. 67, by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1944, in the midst of World War II. The composition was dedicated to Shostakovich's good friend, Ivan Sollertinsky, a Russian polymath and avid musician, who had recently died at age 41. The work received its premiere in Leningrad on 14 November 1944. The piece consists of four movements, with a complete performance running 25 to 27 minutes. The Jewish melody from the last movement was quoted in Shostakovich's famous String Quartet No. 8. The"
"final section. As the final movement, its canons mirror symmetrically the canons of the first movement, thus clearly honoring Bartók's preferences for such palindromic structures. The symmetry is reinforced as the canons of the final section reverse the order of the first section . Musique funèbre Musique funèbre (; ""Funereal Music"" or ""Music of Mourning"") is a composition for string orchestra by the Polish composer Witold Lutosławski, completed in 1958. Lutosławski began composing ""Musique funèbre"" in late 1954 and completed it in 1958. The piece is scored for a small string orchestra of four violins, two violas, two cellos, and"
"left hand. The ""Marche funèbre"" alone has remained one of Chopin's most popular compositions and has become an archetypal evocation of death. It has been widely arranged for other instrumentations, most notably for orchestra. The first known orchestra on arrangement of the movement was made by Napoléon Henri Reber and was played at the graveside during Chopin's own burial on 30 October 1849 at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. The English conductor Henry Wood made two orchestrations of the ""Marche funèbre"", the first of which was played at The Proms on four occasions between 1895 and 1904. For the First"
"described by Nectoux as ""a burst of the highest spirits"". The playing time of the sonata is about twenty minutes. Cello Sonata No. 2 (Fauré) The Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 117 is the second of the two cello sonatas by Gabriel Fauré. In early 1921 Fauré had been commissioned by the French government to write a funeral march for a ceremony to be held on 5 May at Les Invalides to mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Napoleon. The sombre theme he composed for it remained in his mind and, as he said, ""turned"
"publicly playing ""La Marseillaise"", but was later acquitted. The elder Strauss remained loyal to the monarchy, and composed his ""Radetzky March"", Op. 228 (dedicated to the Habsburg field marshal Joseph Radetzky von Radetz), which would become one of his best-known compositions. When the elder Strauss died from scarlet fever in Vienna in 1849, the younger Strauss merged both their orchestras and engaged in further tours. Later, he also composed a number of patriotic marches dedicated to the Habsburg Emperor Franz Josef I, such as the ""Kaiser Franz-Josef Marsch"" Op. 67 and the ""Kaiser Franz Josef Rettungs Jubel-Marsch"" Op. 126, probably"
"Cello Sonata No. 2 (Fauré) The Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 117 is the second of the two cello sonatas by Gabriel Fauré. In early 1921 Fauré had been commissioned by the French government to write a funeral march for a ceremony to be held on 5 May at Les Invalides to mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Napoleon. The sombre theme he composed for it remained in his mind and, as he said, ""turned itself into a sonata"". By then the composer was frail, and his ill health delayed the completion of the outer"
"Trauermusik Trauermusik is a suite for viola and string orchestra, written on 21 January 1936 by Paul Hindemith at very short notice in memory of King George V of the United Kingdom, who died the previous night. The title means ""Mourning Music"" or ""Funeral Music"" in English, but the work is always known by its German title. On 19 January 1936, Paul Hindemith travelled to London, intending to play his viola concerto ""Der Schwanendreher"", with Adrian Boult and the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Queen's Hall, on 22 January. This was to be the British premiere of the work. However, just"
"Ballade No. 2 (Liszt) The Ballade (ballad) No. 2 in B minor, S. 171, is a piano composition by Franz Liszt, written in 1853. Liszt plied one of his favorite genres—the programmatic one movement tone poem designed to provide both the variety and unity of a sonata or symphony. He drew his program from Gottfried August Bürger’s once widely read Gothic horror ballad ""Lenore"". Punctuated with the grisly refrain ""The dead ride quickly! Are you afraid,"" the poem tells of Lenore’s wild hundred-mile midnight ride with the zombie of her recently slain soldier-fiancé, toward a cemetery where their nuptials are"
"John Philip Sousa John Philip Sousa (; November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932) was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era, known primarily for American military marches. Because of his mastery of march composition, he is known as ""The March King"", or the ""American March King"" due to his British counterpart, Kenneth J. Alford also being known by the former nickname. Among his best-known marches are ""The Stars and Stripes Forever"" (National March of the United States of America), ""Semper Fidelis"" (Official March of the United States Marine Corps), ""The Liberty Bell"" (used as the theme"
"that reintroduces the new theme first presented in the development section. The second movement is a funeral march in the ternary form (A–B–A) that is typical of 18th-century funeral marches, albeit one that is ""large and amply developed"" and in which the principal theme has the functions of a refrain as in rondo form. Musically, the thematic solemnity of the second movement has lent itself for use as a funeral march, proper. The movement is between 14 and 18 minutes long. The opening A-section in C minor begins with the march theme in the strings, then in the winds. A"
"to make the first recording of ""Chant Funèbre"", which it did with Riccardo Chailly making his debut recording with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra for release in January 2018. Funeral Song (Stravinsky) ""Funeral Song (Погребальная песнь"" or ""Chant funèbre)"", Op. 5, is an 11-minute orchestral work by Igor Stravinsky, written in 1908 when he was 26 upon the death of his teacher Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. It was performed once, considered lost, then rediscovered in 2015. It was first performed on 17 January 1909 by Count Sheremetev's orchestra, conducted by Felix Blumenfeld, replacing an indisposed Glazunov. Stravinsky later called it, ""the best of"
"other candidates, such as ""America the Beautiful"", been largely forgotten, although it continues to appear in films set in the United States during the nineteenth century. Philip Phile Philip Phile (German: Pfeil) (c.1734–1793) was a German-American composer and violinist. His year of birth is uncertain, but believed to be approximately 1734. His works include a lost Violin Concerto (1787), but he is best known for ""The President's March"", written and performed at the inauguration of President George Washington. Joseph Hopkinson arranged the piece with lyrics and titled it ""Hail Columbia"". It was first performed by at the Chestnut Street Theatre"
"could do that"", he said. Trauermusik Trauermusik is a suite for viola and string orchestra, written on 21 January 1936 by Paul Hindemith at very short notice in memory of King George V of the United Kingdom, who died the previous night. The title means ""Mourning Music"" or ""Funeral Music"" in English, but the work is always known by its German title. On 19 January 1936, Paul Hindemith travelled to London, intending to play his viola concerto ""Der Schwanendreher"", with Adrian Boult and the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Queen's Hall, on 22 January. This was to be the British premiere"
"Funeral march A funeral march (""Marche funèbre"" in French, ""Marcia funebre"" in Italian, ""Trauermarsch"" in German), as a musical genre, is a march, usually in a minor key, in a slow ""simple duple"" metre, imitating the solemn pace of a funeral procession. Some such marches are often considered appropriate for use during funerals and other sombre occasions, the most well-known being that of Chopin. Handel uses the name dead march, also used for marches played by a military band at military funerals and executions. Examples in classical music include: Classical music examples with the character of a funeral march but"
"Triumphal march A triumphal march is a musical form generally reflecting a triumph, victory or great joy. See: march (music). Many composers have written a triumphal march, with maybe the best known one being by Italian opera composer, Giuseppe Verdi for his 1871 grand opera, ""Aida"", where, in the second act, Radames leads the Egyptian army on its return following their victory over the Ethiopians. The triumphal scene gives directors the opportunity for elaborate spectacle typical of the grand opera of the period in the nineteenth century. It often played during graduation ceremonies in Latin America and the Philippines which"
"Maurerische Trauermusik The (""Masonic Funeral Music"") in C minor, K. 477 (K. 479a), is an orchestral work composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1785 in his capacity as a member of the Freemasons. Mozart's own entry into his catalogue under the heading ""July 1785"" may be an error; he most likely forgot to enter a new heading for November. It was performed during a Masonic funeral service held on 17 November 1785 in memory of two of Mozart's Masonic brethren, Duke Georg August of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Count Franz Esterházy von Galántha, members of the Viennese aristocracy. The work uses the"
"his life, and ""after having written music for the 225th anniversary of Philadelphia in 1907, [he]...was music director for the 6th Illinois Regiment band, and then [moved] to Keokuk, IA, where he occupied a similar position with the 50th Iowa Volunteer regiment band."" Born on October 20, 1857, in Berks County, Pennsylvania, he passed away in California on April 28, 1936. In 1937, Mayhew Lake created a well-known arrangement of the march, adding ""a euphonium countermelody and some of the rhythmic patterns."" Lake's arrangement also ""altered the repeats, added many fills, and changed the trio key from G-flat major (relative"
"to E-flat minor) to the parallel E-flat major."" Joyce's 71st New York Regiment March Joyce's 71st N.Y. Regiment March is an American march composed by band director, arranger, and composer Thornton Barnes Boyer (1856-1936) in 1881. Boyer's ""most famous"" composition, it is a classic of the American parade and concert band march repertoire, and is regularly performed by U.S. military bands today. Dedicated to the regimental band of the 71st New York Infantry Regiment, ""one of the most well-known military bands of the 19th century,"" Boyer composed the march while living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and employed by the J. W."
"the ‘Marcia funebre’ in Beethoven’s third symphony. But might we not regard this ‘uomo da bene’ as Alkan’s father, Alkan Morhange, who died in 1855, two years before these studies were published? Jack Gibbons wrote: ""The funeral march's sense of restraint is borne out by Alkan's marking over the gentle central section, ""with contained sorrow"" [...] The distant drum roll that interrupts the march near its close adds an Alkanesque sense of disquiet to this already sombre music."" The Menuet is in ternary form, like the Marche Funèbre. François Luguenot writes that ""the Minuet in B minor is in fact"