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Three Concert Études (Trois études de concert), S.144, is a set of three piano études by Franz Liszt, composed between 1845–49 and published in Paris as Trois caprices poétiques with the three individual titles as they are known today.
Bolet was born in Havana and studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he himself taught from 1939 to 1942.His teachers included Leopold Godowsky, Josef Hofmann, David Saperton, Moriz Rosenthal and Fritz Reiner.
Sospiri, Op. 70, is an adagio for string orchestra, harp (or piano), and organ (or harmonium) [1] composed by Edward Elgar just before and performed just after the beginning of World War I.
The sense of dum spiro spero can be found in the work of Greek poet Theocritus (3rd Century BC), who wrote: "While there's life there's hope, and only the dead have none." [2] That sentiment seems to have become common by the time of Roman statesman Cicero (106 – 43 BC), who wrote to Atticus: "As in the case of a sick man one says, 'While there is life there is hope' [dum anima est, spes ...
As of March 20, 2011, the live feed of the concert was the 21st most viewed event in the Musicians Channel on YouTube. [10] [11] The live stream of the Grand Finale concert at the Sydney Opera House was the largest live stream YouTube ever made, connecting 30.7 million streams on computers and a further 2.8 million streams on mobile devices ...
In some performances (e.g. Gardiner 1993), [6] it precedes the sextet and follows the Count's aria "Vedro mentr'io sospiro". Moberly and Raeburn argued in 1965 that this is a more logical order, and that the order in the score was necessary so that the singer who doubled in the roles of Bartolo and Antonio in the premiere, Francesco Bussani ...
Part of Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 was borrowed by Belgian singer and songwriter Jacques Brel in his 1959 song "Ne me quitte pas" (English version "If You Go Away"). The lyrics " Moi, je t'offrirai des perles de pluie venues de pays où il ne pleut pas " ("I'll offer you rain pearls from lands where it does not rain") are sung to a theme borrowed ...
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