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The violin and cello play col legno battuto; the violin plays col legno tratto in double stops; all the instruments play col legno tratto ponticello, double stops; violin and viola play col legno tratto ponticello in double stops, which are also played tremolo (Boyden 2001; Schoenberg 1950, 1–5, 14, 18–19)
Robbins began choreographing In the Night in late September 1969. [2]: 389 several months after the premiere of his last Chopin ballet, Dances at a Gathering, [7] although he went on vacation in November. [2]: 391 In the Night is a followup to Dances at a Gathering, which McBride described as "a continuation in the same vein."
John Juzek (né Janek Jůzek, aka Jan, aka Johann; 1892 – c. 1965) was a Czech merchant.He was known in North America as an exporter of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses made and labeled under his anglicized name, "John Juzek," crafted mostly by guilds and various independent makers in the Bohemia region of the Czechoslovakia and Germany border.
The compositions for violin and piano D 384, 385 and 408 were named Sonata in Schubert's autographs. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] They were named Sonatina when published posthumously as Op. 137 in 1836. [ 7 ] Since these works are modest in size—rather to be compared to Mozart's violin sonatas than to Beethoven's —the "Sonatina" diminutive stuck to them.
The celebrated violinist Joachim, who also played viola, married Amalie Schneeweiss in 1863. She appeared as a contralto singer under the stage name Amalie Weiss. Both were friends of Brahms, who composed the song "Geistliches Wiegenlied" for the occasion of their wedding; he withdrew it but sent it again a year later for the baptism of their son, named Johannes after Brahms.
Mozart's Requiem is written primarily in D minor, as are the famous Queen of the Night Aria, "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen", and the overture and the final scene of Don Giovanni. Of the two piano concertos that Mozart wrote in a minor key, one of them is in D minor: Piano Concerto No. 20 , K. 466.
The orchestral and solo violin parts both create a long crescendo as the musical line ascends and intensifies. At the climax, the violin plays a rapid descending chromatic scale, and upon reaching the bottom, the music transitions back into the opening minor theme, again in 3/4 time. At the start of the third section, the opening horn melody ...
Nocturne and Tarantella, Op. 28, is a composition for violin and piano, written in the spring and summer of 1915 by the Polish composer Karol Szymanowski.. It was first performed in Warsaw on 24 January 1920, by Paweł Kochański and Feliks Szymanowski (the composer's elder brother), and published in 1921.