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Symphony No. 1 in C minor, is the first symphony by American composer John Knowles Paine. History The symphony was composed between 1872 and 1875 and first performed ...
A symphony is an extended ... and No. 23, "Ani", Op. 249, composed in 1958, 1959, 1961, and 1972 respectively; [45] John Barnes Chance's Symphony No. 2 ...
John Adams (born 1947), American composer who has used the term 'Symphony' to describe a number of works, including the Chamber Symphony (1992) and its sequel Son of Chamber Symphony (2007), the Dr. Atomic Symphony (2007), drawn from his opera of the same name, and Scheherazade.2, a "dramatic symphony" for violin and orchestra.
John Knowles Paine. John Knowles Paine (January 9, 1839 – April 25, 1906) was the first American-born composer to achieve fame for large-scale orchestral music. The senior member of a group of composers collectively known as the Boston Six, Paine was one of those responsible for the first significant body of concert music by composers from the United States.
The Symphony No. 1 is the first symphony by the American composer John Harbison.The work was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra [1] and was composed in 1981. It was given its world premiere in Boston on March 22, 1984 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the conductor Seiji Ozawa.
The symphony performed for the occasion, no. 92 has since come to be known as the Oxford Symphony, although it had been written two years before, in 1789. [44] Four further new symphonies (Nos. 93, 94, 97 and 98) were performed in early 1792. Haydn as portrayed by John Hoppner in England in 1791
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music , electroacoustic music , and non-standard use of musical instruments , Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde .
Thalassa (1933, reworked into his Symphony No. 2 in D minor between 1939-40) Mily Balakirev ... Sir John Falstaff, Op. 60 (1904) Paul von Klenau