enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. List of program music - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_program_music

   Leonore No. 3 Overture, Op. 72b (1806); one of a series of overtures composed for the opera Leonore, later renamed Fidelio. Leonore No. 3 is well known for portraying some of the major events of the plot in a condensed, purely orchestral form, most notably the distant trumpet fanfares of the finale.

3. Euryanthe - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euryanthe

   In spite of this, the opera has since had several champions. Victor Hugo in Les Misérables calls the huntsman's chorus in act 3 "perhaps the most beautiful piece of music ever composed". [4] During his term as director of the Vienna State Opera, Gustav Mahler mounted a new production of Euryanthe in 1903. Despite amendments in the libretto by ...

4. Overture - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overture

   Overture (from French ouverture, lit. "opening") is a music instrumental introduction to a ballet, opera, or oratorio in the 17th century. [1] During the early Romantic era, composers such as Beethoven and Mendelssohn composed overtures which were independent, self-existing, instrumental, programmatic works that foreshadowed genres such as the symphonic poem.

5. Tragic Overture (Dvořák) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragic_Overture_(Dvořák)

   The Tragic Overture, B. 16a (also called the Dramatic Overture; Czech: Tragická ouvertura or Dramatická ouvertura) is an orchestral composition written in 1870 by the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. It is Dvořák's overture to his first opera Alfred. [1] It was first performed on 4 January 1905, almost one year after Dvořák's death. [2]

6. Othello (Dvořák) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othello_(Dvořák)

   The concert overture Othello (Czech: Othello, koncertní ouvertura), Op. 93, B. 174, was written by Antonín Dvořák in 1892 as the third part of a trilogy of overtures called "Nature, Life and Love". The first two parts of the trilogy are In Nature's Realm, Op. 91 ("Nature") and the Carnival Overture, Op. 92 ("Life"). [1]

7. Tannhäuser (opera) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tannhäuser_(opera)

   The substantial overture commences with the theme of the 'Pilgrim's Chorus' from act 3, scene 1, and also includes elements of the 'Venusberg' music from act 1, scene 1. The overture is frequently performed as a separate item in orchestral concerts, the first such performance having been given by Felix Mendelssohn conducting the Leipzig ...