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  2. List of oboists - Wikipedia

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    An oboist (formerly hautboist) is a musician who plays the oboe or any oboe family instrument, including the oboe d'amore, cor anglais or English horn, bass oboe and piccolo oboe or oboe musette. The following is a list of notable past and present professional oboists, with indications when they were/are known better for other professions in ...

  3. Oboe d'amore - Wikipedia

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    The oboe d'amore (Italian for 'love oboe'; (pronounced [ˈɔːboe daˈmoːre]), less commonly hautbois d'amour (French: [obwɑ damuʁ]), is a double reed woodwind musical instrument in the oboe family. [1] Slightly larger than the oboe, it has a less assertive and a more tranquil and serene tone, and is considered the mezzo-soprano of the oboe ...

  4. Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 - Wikipedia

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    continuo. Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (Heart and mouth and deed and life), [1] BWV 147 in 1723 during his first year as Thomaskantor, the director of church music in Leipzig. His cantata is part of his first cantata cycle there and was written for the Marian feast of the Visitation on 2 July ...

  5. List of compositions by Tōru Takemitsu - Wikipedia

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    for flute, harp and orchestra. incomplete; Takemitsu's last work inspired by the sculpture of Joan Miró. Chamber music. 1951, 1989. 妖精の距離. Distance de fée. for violin and piano. Chamber music. 1955.

  6. Harpsichord Concerto in A major, BWV 1055 - Wikipedia

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    Unlike Bach's other harpsichord concertos, BWV 1055 has no known precursors, either as an instrumental concerto or as a movement with obbligato organ in a cantata. It has generally been accepted that it is a reworking of a lost instrumental concerto, since Donald Francis Tovey first made the suggestion in 1935, when he proposed the oboe d'amore as the melody instrument.

  7. Organ Sonatas (Bach) - Wikipedia

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    The organ sonatas, BWV 525–530 by Johann Sebastian Bach are a collection of six sonatas in trio sonata form. Each of the sonatas has three movements, with three independent parts in the two manuals and obbligato pedal. The collection was put together in Leipzig in the late 1720s and contained reworkings of prior compositions by Bach from ...

  8. List of transposing instruments - Wikipedia

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    C 2. Arpeggione. C 2 /C 3. Bagpipe. Great Highland bagpipe. variable D ♭4 - D 4. A minority of bagpipes, made for playing with other instruments, are exactly D ♭4 (referred to as B ♭, relative to the tonic note A rather than C). Most bagpipes are sharper than this, between D ♭4 and D 4. [1]. Northumbrian smallpipes in F or F+.

  9. Keyboard concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach - Wikipedia

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    That it was an oboe d'amore was proposed in 1936 by Donald Tovey, [39] in 1957 by Ulrich Siegele, [35] in 1975 by Wilfried Fischer, [40] and in 2008 by Pieter Dirksen. [36] Alternatively, Wilhelm Mohr argued in 1972 that the original was a concerto for viola d'amore. [ 41 ]