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The Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, Sz. 110, BB 115, is a musical piece written by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók in 1937. [1] The sonata was premiered by Bartók and his second wife, Ditta Pásztory-Bartók, with the percussionists Fritz Schiesser and Philipp Rühlig at the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) anniversary concert of 16 January 1938 in Basel, Switzerland ...
Roméo et Juliette is a seven-movement symphonie dramatique for orchestra and three choruses, with vocal solos, by French composer Hector Berlioz. Émile Deschamps wrote its libretto with Shakespeare's play as his base.
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106, BB 114 is one of the best-known compositions by the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók.Commissioned by Paul Sacher to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the chamber orchestra Basler Kammerorchester, the score is dated 7 September 1936.
"The Three B s" generally refers to the supposed primacy of Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Johannes Brahms in classical music.It was derived from an expression coined by Peter Cornelius in 1854, which added Hector Berlioz as the third B to occupy the heights already occupied by Bach and Beethoven.
1954 Berlioz: La damnation de Faust with the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society and Soloists Suzanne Danco, David Poleri, Martial Singher and Donald Gramm (added to the National Recording Registry for 2005) 1954 Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique; 1954 Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21 Pianist: Alexander Brailowsky
Bartók makes extensive use of classical elements in the work; [1] for instance, the first and fifth movements are in sonata-allegro form.. The work combines elements of Western art music and eastern European folk music, especially that of Hungary, and it departs from traditional tonality, often using non-traditional modes and artificial scales. [1]
Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) Berlioz's attempts to carve out an operatic career for himself were thwarted by an unimaginative musical establishment. [28] Nevertheless, he managed to produce Benvenuto Cellini , Béatrice et Bénédict and his masterpiece, the epic Les Troyens ,. [ 29 ]
Berlioz's complete music criticism is being collected and edited by l’Association Nationale Hector Berlioz as Hector Berlioz: Critique Musicale 1823–1863. The complete edition will comprise ten volumes: Volume 1: 1823–1834, ed. by H. Robert Cohen and Yves Gérard (1996)