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The Harlot's House – Dance Poem after Oscar Wilde: chamber 1988 Free-bass accordion, timpani and percussion Donald Swann: The Poetic Image: A Victorian Song Cycle: song cycle 1991 Swann set The Harlot's House, along with extracts from The Ballad of Reading Gaol and other texts by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, and John Clare
Charles Tomlinson Griffes (US: / ˈ ɡ r ɪ f ə s / GRIFF-fiss; September 17, 1884 – April 8, 1920) was an American composer for piano, chamber ensembles and voice.His initial works are influenced by German Romanticism, but after he relinquished the German style, [2] his later works make him the most famous American representative of musical Impressionism, along with Charles Martin Loeffler.
Liszt is considered the inventor of the symphonic poem and his programmatic orchestral works set the framework for several composers of the romantic era. He composed a total of thirteen symphonic poems as well as two programmatic symphonies, drawing his inspiration from a variety of literary, mythological, historical and artistic sources.
Symphony Fantasy (Symphony No. 5) in B minor "1912" c. 1912, p. 1922 Symphonic Poem in 2 connected movements (first called "From Death to Life"), c. 1914 "An English Suite" for strings (posthumous), p. 1921
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Three Small Tone-poems, VI/7 (1890) Summer Evening; Winter Night (or, Sleigh Ride) Spring Morning; Paa Vidderne (On the Mountains), VI/10 (1890–92) Over the Hills and Far Away, VI/11 (1895–97); fantasy overture for orchestra; Paris: The Song of a Great City, VI/14 (1899-1900); nocturne for orchestra; Two Pieces for Small Orchestra, VI/19 ...
As of March 20, 2011, the live feed of the concert was the 21st most viewed event in the Musicians Channel on YouTube. [10] [11] The live stream of the Grand Finale concert at the Sydney Opera House was the largest live stream YouTube ever made, connecting 30.7 million streams on computers and a further 2.8 million streams on mobile devices.
A holograph manuscript of an early version of "The Harlot's House", dated April 1882, is preserved in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles.The final version of the poem was, according to Wilde's friend and biographer Robert Sherard, written in the spring of 1883 while the author was staying at the Hôtel Voltaire in Paris, and this account is probably accurate.