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Marc-André Hamelin, OC, OQ (born September 5, 1961) is a Canadian virtuoso pianist and composer [1] who has received 11 Grammy Award nominations. [2] He is on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music .
Grainger: Piano Music. British Folk-Music Settings; No. 4 Shepherd's Hey No. 6 Londonderry Air No. 19 Molly on the Shore (1907) No. 22 Country Gardens (1918) No. 37 Scotch Strathspey and Reel No. 38 The Merry King. Colonial Song, No. 1 from Sentimentals (1911) Harvest Hymn; The Hunter in His Career, No. 4 from Old-English Popular Music; In ...
[2] The set is "new" relative to Bolcom's first set of Twelve Etudes for Piano (1959–1966; released on Advance FGR-14S in 1971 [3]), and was intended for and dedicated to Paul Jacobs, who died before the composition was complete, and thus the finished set is dedicated to Jacobs, John Musto, and Marc-André Hamelin. [4]
Circus Galop is a piece written for player pianos by Marc-André Hamelin. It was composed between the years 1991 and 1994 and is dedicated to Beatrix and Jürgen Hocker, piano roll makers. Its duration is approximately 4–5 minutes. [ 1 ]
Judd Palmer, The Maestro (children's book, 2002): the second volume in Palmer's Preposterous Fables for Unusual Children; set in Hamelin 30 years after the Piper has stolen the children, a girl who arrives in the village to live with her aunt and uncle commits the sin of singing and is exiled from Hamelin, beginning a journey that leads her to ...
"The Piper" is a track from the 1980 album Super Trouper, by Swedish pop group ABBA. The song is loosely based on the famous story of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, but lyricist Björn Ulvaeus cites the novel The Stand by Stephen King as a source of inspiration. [2]
Corigliano partially based the form of the work on Robert Browning's narrative poem "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," arguably the most famous version of the tale. However, the composer altered the narrative to better fit a musical setting, explaining, "The biggest problem was that the legend per se had no elements of virtuosity in it; the Pied ...
It went to #4 in the United States, #5 in the United Kingdom, and #1 in Canada. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The song's title refers to a fairy tale from German folklore, the titular character of which is The Pied Piper of Hamelin .