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The William Tell Overture is the overture to the opera William Tell (original French title Guillaume Tell), composed by Gioachino Rossini. William Tell premiered in 1829 and was the last of Rossini's 39 operas, after which he went into semi-retirement (he continued to compose cantatas, sacred music and secular vocal music).
Hamlet, Op. 67b (1891), incidental music for Shakespeare's play. The score uses music borrowed from Tchaikovsky's overture of the same name, as well as from his Symphony No. 3, and from The Snow Maiden, in addition to original music that he wrote specifically for a stage production of Hamlet.
The Coriolan Overture (German: Coriolan-Ouvertüre or Ouvertüre zu Coriolan), Op. 62, is a composition written by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1807 for Heinrich Joseph von Collin's 1804 tragedy Coriolan. [a] The overture was premiered in March 1807 at a private concert in the home of Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz.
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. Next to the actual, finalized Fidelio overture, this is the most commonly performed version, and still sometimes replaces the Fidelio overture in some productions.
The overture to the opera is one of Hérold's most famous works and is a staple of orchestral repertoire. ... p. 214, in A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 4 ...
Piano Concerto No. 17 (Mozart) Piano Quartet No. 2 (Oswald) Piano Sonata in G major (Tchaikovsky) Piano Sonata in G major, D 894 (Schubert) Piano Sonata No. 2 (Hindemith) Piano Sonata No. 5 (Mozart) Piano Sonata No. 10 (Beethoven) Piano Sonata No. 16 (Beethoven) Piano Sonata No. 25 (Beethoven) Piano Sonatas Nos. 19 and 20 (Beethoven) Piano Trio ...
The music moves to the minor mediant key, B minor, while its dynamic is reduced to pianissimo, at which point material from the opening theme returns. Through a rising bass line and sequential harmonies, the music regains the tonic key (on a dominant pedal) with a new theme derived from bars 3, 4, and 5
Notes Overture Les francs-juges, Op. 3 (1826) Ouverture des Francs-Juges: piano 1833 S.471 Overture Le carnaval romain, Op. 9 (1843) Transcription ? S.741 This was part of Liszt's performing repertoire, but is now lost [11] Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 (1830) Episode de la vie d'un artiste. Grande Symphonie fantastique. Partition de Piano: c. 1833