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Piano Quintet in E major, Op. 15 (1921–1922) Viel Lärmen um Nichts ("Much Ado about Nothing"), Op. 11, four movement suite for violin and piano (1918–1919) String Quartet No. 1 in A major, Op. 16 (1920–1923) Suite for two violins, cello and piano left hand, Op. 23 (1930) String Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 26 (1933)
Jan Ladislav Dussek's Piano Sonata No. 18 in E ♭ major, Op. 44, known as Les Adieux ("The Farewell"), was written and published in 1800. It was dedicated to Dussek's fellow composer and virtuoso pianist, Muzio Clementi. This sonata is the longest of Dussek's piano sonatas.
Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 26 in E ♭ major, Op. 81a, known as Les Adieux ("The Farewell"), was written during the years 1809 and 1810. This sonata was influenced by Jan Ladislav Dussek's sonata with the same nickname. The title Les Adieux implies a programmatic nature.
Single-string courses are separated by spaces; multiple-string courses (i.e. paired or tripled strings) are shown with courses separated by bullet characters (•). Scientific pitch notation. Pitch: Unless otherwise noted, contemporary western standard pitch (A 4 = 440 Hz) and 12-tone equal temperament are assumed. [3]
prepared piano, i.e. introducing foreign objects into the workings of the piano to change the sound quality; string piano, i.e. hitting or plucking the strings directly or any other direct manipulation of the strings; sound icon, i.e. placing a piano on its side and bowing the strings with horsehair and other materials; whistling, singing or ...
All but the lowest notes of a piano have multiple strings tuned to the same frequency. The notes with two strings are called bichords, and those with three strings are called trichords. These allow the piano to have a loud attack with a fast decay but a long sustain in the attack–decay–sustain–release (ADSR) system.
An orchestral reduction is a sheet music arrangement of a work originally for full symphony orchestra (such as a symphony, overture, or opera), rearranged for a single instrument (typically piano or organ), a smaller orchestra, or a chamber ensemble with or without a keyboard (e.g. a string quartet). A reduction for solo piano is sometimes ...
This permits larger, but not necessarily longer, strings to fit within the case of the piano. [1] The invention of cross-stringing in the 1820s is variously credited to Alpheus Babcock [2] [3] and Jean-Henri Pape. [4] The first use of the patent in grand pianos in the United States was by Henry Steinway Jr. in 1859.