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George Frideric Handel was the house composer at Cannons from August 1717 until February 1719. [1] The Chandos Anthems and other important works by Handel were conceived, written or first performed at Cannons. Cannons was a large house in Middlesex, the seat of James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos who was a patron of Handel.
For a period of twenty years, Pepusch also directed the musical establishment at Cannons, a large stately home at Edgware, Middlesex, northwest of London. He was employed there by James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos. For a few years, he worked alongside George Frideric Handel, who had a role described as composer in residence. Both men were at ...
Arseny Mikhailovich Avraamov (Russian: Арсений Михайлович Авраамов) (1884, Novocherkassk, Russian Empire - 1944, Moscow, USSR) was an avant-garde Russian composer and music theorist. He studied at the music school of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, with private composition lessons from Sergey Taneyev.
Also, cannon shots are heard at the end of Rush's "Overture". [50] "The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim" (Episode 5, Series 2, of the British drama series, Agatha Christie's Poirot (1990)), the title character plays a record of the 1812 Overture so that the cannon fire will mask the sound of him breaking into his own safe. [51]
Johann Pachelbel [n 1] (also Bachelbel; baptised 11 September [O.S. 1 September] 1653 [n 2] – buried 9 March 1706) was a German composer, organist, and teacher who brought the south German organ schools to their peak.
For 80 years, the haunting melodies of Auschwitz lay buried in silence, hidden among the archives of one of history’s darkest chapters.. Now, for the first time, this lost music – composed by ...
Pachelbel's Canon (also known as the Canon in D, P 37) is an accompanied canon by the German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel. The canon was originally scored for three violins and basso continuo and paired with a gigue, known as Canon and Gigue for 3 violins and basso continuo. Both movements are in the key of D major.
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