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Le Tombeau de Couperin. Le Tombeau de Couperin (The Grave of Couperin) is a suite for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, composed between 1914 and 1917. The piece is in six movements, based on those of a traditional Baroque suite. Each movement is dedicated to the memory of a friend of the composer (or in one case, two brothers) who had died fighting ...
The oboe is especially used in classical music, film music, some genres of folk music, and is occasionally heard in jazz, rock, pop, and popular music. The oboe is widely recognized as the instrument that tunes the orchestra with its distinctive 'A'.
Pavane (Fauré) Fauré in 1887. The Pavane in F-sharp minor, Op. 50, is a short work by the French composer Gabriel Fauré written in 1887. It was originally a piano piece, but is better known in Fauré's version for orchestra and optional chorus. It was first performed in Paris in 1888, becoming one of the composer's most popular works.
Phillip Ramey (born September 12, 1939) is an American composer, pianist, and writer on music.. Ramey was born in Elmhurst, Illinois.He studied composition with the Russian-born composer Alexander Tcherepnin from 1959 to 1962, first at the International Academy of Music in Nice, France, then at DePaul University in Chicago.
Composer, oboist, and conductor. Heinz Robert Holliger (born 21 May 1939) is a Swiss composer, virtuoso oboist, [1] and conductor. Celebrated for his versatility and technique, Holliger is among the most prominent oboists of his generation. [1] His repertoire includes Baroque and Classical pieces, but he has regularly engaged in lesser known ...
Oboe Sonata (Saint-Saëns) Camille Saint-Saëns 's Oboe Sonata in D major, Op. 166 was composed in 1921, the year of the composer's death. This sonata is the first of the three sonatas that Saint-Saëns composed for wind instruments, the other two being the Clarinet Sonata (Op. 167) and the Bassoon Sonata (Op. 168), written the same year.
Quando me'n vo'. " Quando me'n vo' ", also known as " Musetta's Waltz ", is a soprano aria, a waltz in act two of Puccini 's 1896 opera La bohème. It is sung by Musetta, in the presence of her bohemian friends, hoping to reclaim the attention of her occasional boyfriend Marcello. [1]
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 ...