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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 ...
Charles Rudolf Friml [1] (December 7, 1879 – November 12, 1972) was a Czech-born composer of operettas, musicals, songs and piano pieces, as well as a pianist. After musical training and a brief performing career in his native Prague , Friml moved to the United States, where he became a composer.
Adolf Andrey [1] Schulz-Evler (12 December 1852 – 15 May 1905) was a Polish-born composer.. Born in Radom, Poland (at that time part of the Russian Empire), he studied at the Warsaw Conservatory, then under Carl Tausig in Berlin. [2]
2001: A Space Odyssey is a soundtrack album to the film of the same name, released in 1968.The soundtrack is known for its use of many classical and orchestral pieces, and credited for giving many classical pieces resurgences in popularity, such as Johann Strauss II's 1866 Blue Danube Waltz, Richard Strauss' symphonic poem Also sprach Zarathustra, and György Ligeti's Atmosphères.
Piano Trio No.3, Op.155; 2 Piano Pieces, Op.157; Piano Trio No.4, Op.158; Josef Rheinberger – Piano Trio No.1, Op.34; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – 6 Romances, Op.8; Giovanni Sgambati – Marcia-Inno, arranged for 4-hand piano; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Chorus of Flowers and Insects; Nature and Love; Romeo and Juliet overture (first version) To ...
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 ...
In addition, he wrote numerous song settings of Polish texts, and chamber pieces including a piano trio and a cello sonata. This listing uses the traditional opus numbers where they apply; other works are identified by numbers from the catalogues of Maurice J. E. Brown ( B ), Krystyna Kobylańska ( KK ), Józef Michał Chomiński ( A , C , D ...
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]