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Goethe and Schiller in front of the Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar, where many of Liszt's symphonic poems premiered. [4]According to cultural historian Hannu Salmi, classical music began to gain public prominence in Western Europe in the latter 18th century through the establishment of concerts by musical societies in cities such as Leipzig and the subsequent press coverage ...
A collection can include any number of poems, ranging from a few (e.g. the four long poems in T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets) to several hundred poems (as is often seen in collections of haiku). Typically the poems included in single volume of poetry, or a cycle of poems, are linked by their style or thematic material.
Symphonic poems are thought to bridge the gap between different modes of expression. Much research has been done on the semiotic relationship between symphonic poems and their extra-musical inspiration, such as art, literature and nature. [2] Composers used many different musical gestures to evoke a non-musical concept.
The music was composed between 1845 and 1854, and began as an overture to Liszt's choral cycle Les quatre élémens (The Four Elements), then revised as a stand-alone concert overture, with a new title referring to a poem by Alphonse de Lamartine. Its premiere was on 23 February 1854, conducted by Liszt himself.
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 ...
There is no doubt that it was an easier task for Liszt to make fantasies and transcriptions than composing large scale original works. It was this reason for which Princess Wittgenstein frequently called him "fainéant" ("lazy-bones"). [4] But, nevertheless, Liszt invested a particular kind of creativity.
The album Music Through Heartsongs is a collection of poetry by Mattie Stepanek, performed by Billy Gilman; John Denver performed "The Box" Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "Ozymandias" has been recorded by Jean-Jacques Burnel; Max Dunn's poem "I Danced Before I had Two Feet" was turned into a song ("I Danced") by the band Violent Femmes
The tone poems of Richard Strauss are noted as the high point of program music in the latter part of the 19th century, extending its boundaries and taking the concept of realism in music to an unprecedented level. In these works, he widened the expressive range of music while depicting subjects many times thought unsuitable for musical depiction.