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Humoresques. (Dvořák) Humoresques (Czech: Humoresky), Op. 101 (B. 187), is a piano cycle by the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák, written during the summer of 1894. Music critic David Hurwitz says "the seventh Humoresque is probably the most famous small piano work ever written after Beethoven's Für Elise." [1]
8 pieces; nos. 1 and 4 arranged for string quartet in 1880, B. 105; orchestrated by Jarmil Burghauser. 102. 30. 1880. Dědicové bílé hory. The Heirs of the White Mountain. chorus and orchestra. secular cantata after a poem by Vítězslav Hálek; 1st revision of B. 27. 103.
Antonín Dvořák composed over 200 works, most of which have survived. They include nine symphonies, ten operas, four concertos and numerous vocal, chamber and keyboard works. His most famous pieces of music include the Ninth Symphony (From the New World), the Cello Concerto, the American String Quartet, the Slavonic Dances, and the opera Rusalka.
The Six Humoresques, Opp. 87 and 89, [a] are concertante compositions for violin and orchestra written from 1917 to 1918 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.Despite spanning two opus numbers (due to publishing technicalities), the composer—who originally considered calling the humoresques Impromptus or Lyrical Dances—intended them as a suite.
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Humoresque in G major, No. 5 from his Morceaux de salon, Op. 10, 1894; Jean Sibelius: Six Humoresques, Opp. 87 & 89, 1917 to 1918; Noel Rawsthorne: Hornpipe Humoresque for organ, based on The Sailor's Hornpipe and including parts of "Rule, Britannia!" and the Toccata from Widor's Symphony for Organ No. 5 [citation needed]
Crossword-like puzzles, for example Double Diamond Puzzles, appeared in the magazine St. Nicholas, published since 1873. [30] Another crossword puzzle appeared on September 14, 1890, in the Italian magazine Il Secolo Illustrato della Domenica. It was designed by Giuseppe Airoldi and titled "Per passare il tempo" ("To pass the time"). Airoldi's ...
7 Two Poems, for female choir and orchestra 1909–10 8 Autumnal, for orchestra 1910, rev. 1915, 1934 9 Two Poems, for voice and piano 1910–11 10 Piano Concerto No. 1 in D ♭ major 1911–12 11 Toccata in D minor, for piano 1912 12 Ten Pieces for Piano 1906–13 12bis Humoresque scherzo, for four bassoons 1915 13 Maddalena (opera) 1911–13 14
Reinhold Glière. Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (Russian: Рейнгольд Морицевич Глиэр; [a] 11 January 1875 [O.S. 30 December 1874] – 23 June 1956), born Reinhold Ernest Glier, was a Russian and Soviet composer of German and Polish descent. [1][2][3] He was awarded the title of People's Artist of RSFSR (1935) and People's ...