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Sergei Prokofiev set about composing his Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat major, Op. 10, in 1911, and finished it the next year. The shortest of all his concertos, it is in one movement, about 15 minutes in duration, and dedicated to the “dreaded Tcherepnin .” [ 1 ]
Schumann's 1841 Fantasia for piano and orchestra, in form similar to Weber's Konzertstück, was later rewritten and expanded with two further movements into his Piano Concerto Op. 54. [4] When the soloist is a vocalist , the piece rather belongs to the concert aria genre.
Piano Concerto No. 1 refers to the first piano concerto published by one of a number of composers: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Bartók) (Sz. 83), by Béla Bartók; Piano Concerto No. 1 (Beethoven) (Op. 15), by Ludwig van Beethoven; Piano Concerto No. 1 (Brahms) (Op. 15), by Johannes Brahms; Piano Concerto No. 1 (Chopin) (Op. 11), by Frédéric Chopin
Alexander Yevgenievich Lebedev (Russian: Александр Евгеньевич Лебедев, IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandr jɪvˈɡʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲebʲɪdʲɪf]; born 16 December 1959) [1] is a Russian businessman, and has been referred to as one of the Russian oligarchs.
The best known left-hand concerto is the Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D by Maurice Ravel, which was written for Paul Wittgenstein between 1929 and 1930. Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm in World War I, commissioned a number of such works around that time, as did Otakar Hollmann .
Sergei Rachmaninoff composed his Piano Concerto No. 1 in F ♯ minor, Op. 1, in 1891, at age 17–18 (the first two movements were completed while he was still 17; the third movement and the orchestration were completed shortly after he had turned 18). He dedicated the work to Alexander Siloti. He revised the work thoroughly in 1917.
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The concerto is in one movement, but is broken into seven distinct sections. Each tells a different part of the story of the Butterfly Lovers. Some of the melodies come from the Chinese Opera of the same name or from traditional Chinese folk songs. The solo violin of the concerto is symbolic of Zhu Yingtai, the story's protagonist, and the ...