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Cziffra is known for his recordings of works of Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann, and also for his technically demanding arrangements or paraphrases of several orchestral works for the piano, including Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee and Johann Strauss II's The Blue Danube. [2]
The piece was prominently used in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. After a leap from humanity's prehistoric past to its spacefaring future, the first two-thirds of The Blue Danube are heard as a space plane approaches and docks with a space station; it concludes while another spacecraft travels from the station to the Moon ...
1911 - Dickens in Camp, recitation with piano; Chamber. 1867 - Piano Trio in Bb; 1868 - String Quartet in G; 1873 - Piano Quartet in Eb, Op. 11; 1882 - Three pieces for organ, Op.27; 1888 - Six pieces for violin and piano, Op.37; 1895 - From the North, nine pieces for violin and piano, Op.53; 1905 - Larghetto religioso for violin and piano
piano variation "Ukrainka" (1836), other piano compositions on ukrainian dance melodies such as a Kolomyika, two ukrainian dumkas and "The neighbour has a white house" [9] Semen Hulak-Artemovsky: 1813–1873 Horodyshche: The first Ukrainian-language opera "Zaporozhian Cossack beyond the Danube" [11] Vasilii Sarenko: 1814–1881 Voronezh ...
These two hexachords alternate regularly throughout the piece, but the internal order of the notes is freely permuted from one occurrence to the next. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] ) The registral disposition of the pitches is organised independently, around two "bridge piers" located ⅓ and ⅔ of the way through the piece.
The Giuoco Piano (pronounced [ˈdʒwɔːko ˈpjaːno]; Italian for 'Quiet Game') [1] is a chess opening beginning with the moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 "White aims to develop quickly – but so does Black. White can construct a pawn centre but in unfavourable conditions a centre which cannot provide a basis for further active play." [4]
Souvenir de Hapsal consists of three pieces for the piano: [3] Ruines d'un château, E minor; Scherzo, F major; Chant sans paroles, F major. The Scherzo was first performed by Nikolai Rubinstein on 27 February 1868. The conductor Max Erdmannsdörfer orchestrated Chant sans paroles, which pleased Tchaikovsky so much that he conducted it himself. [4]
Stories of the Danube is a symphony based on the river Danube by Joe Zawinul, which was commissioned by the Brucknerhaus in Linz. It was first performed as part of the Linzer Klangwolke (a large-scale open-air broadcast event), for the opening of the 1993 Bruckner Festival in Linz , on September 12.