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His work was influenced by Alois Hába, Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and particularly Leoš Janáček. He used melody from Janáček's Zápisník zmizelého as a theme in his Divertimento (1940). Recordings on Northeastern and on Koch International Classics, for example, have allowed modern listeners to evaluate the quality of his ...
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 .
This is a list of composers who have written music about the Holocaust, or who were directly influenced by the holocaust. This list is alphabetical by name. This list is alphabetical by name. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The Year 1812, Solemn Overture, Op. 49, popularly known as the 1812 Overture, [1] is a concert overture in E ♭ major written in 1880 by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The piece commemorates Russia 's successful defense against the French invasion of the nation in 1812.
Clement Harris was born on 8 July 1871 in Wimbledon, London, into a family of ship-owners.His siblings included Sir Austin Edward Harris, who became a noted banker, Frederick Leverton Harris, a British Member of Parliament, and Walter Burton Harris, a journalist, writer, traveller and socialite who achieved fame for his writings on Morocco.
Paul Wittgenstein (November 5, 1887 – March 3, 1961) was an Austrian-American concert pianist notable for commissioning new piano concerti for the left hand alone, following the amputation of his right arm during the First World War. He devised novel techniques, including pedal and hand-movement combinations, that allowed him to play chords ...
Holst was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, the elder of the two children of Adolph von Holst, a professional musician, and his wife, Clara Cox, née Lediard. She was of mostly British descent, [n 1] daughter of a respected Cirencester solicitor; [2] the Holst side of the family was of mixed Swedish, Latvian and German ancestry, with at least one professional musician in each of the ...
In 1963 his Requiem, a complete setting of the Hebrew Kaddish, [2] written in memory of the Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust, won the first International Composing Competition of the City of Milan and La Scala – then the biggest musical award in the world, after which he gave up dentistry and became a full-time composer.