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Octets in classical music are one of the largest groupings of chamber music.Although eight-part scoring was fairly common for serenades and divertimenti in the 18th century, the word "octet" only first appeared at the beginning of the 19th century, as the title of a composition by Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, whose Octet Op. 12 (published posthumously in 1808) features the piano ...
This category is for musical groups that consist of eight members total at some point, long enough for critics to describe them as octets. For compositions, see Category:Compositions for octet . Subcategories
Reich rescored it in 1983 to make performance easier, by adding a second string quartet, and retitling the work Eight Lines. The additional two violins solve "the difficulty of playing rather awkward double stops in tune," and the additional viola and cello "allow the rapid eighth-note patterns to be broken up between ... two players" to ...
In response to a reported request by Troyer for a work similar to Beethoven's Septet, Op. 20, Schubert composed the Octet in early 1824.The work was first performed at the home of Troyer's employer, the Archduke Rudolf (to whom Beethoven's Archduke Trio is dedicated) and included many of the musicians who premiered the Septet.
Octet is a chamber choir musical written and composed by Dave Malloy and directed by Annie Tippe. The show "explores addiction and nihilism within the messy context of 21st century technology." The show "explores addiction and nihilism within the messy context of 21st century technology."
The Octet for strings in C major, Op. 7, is an octet composition for string instruments by the Romanian composer George Enescu, completed in 1900. Together with the Octet in F major, Op. 17 (1849) by Niels Gade , it is regarded as amongst the most notable successors to Felix Mendelssohn 's celebrated Octet, Op. 20 .
A string octet is a piece of music written for eight string instruments, or sometimes the group of eight players. [1] It usually consists of four violins , two violas and two cellos , or four violins, two violas, a cello and a double bass .
Mendelssohn wrote his octet and gave a signed score to his friend and violin teacher Eduard Rietz as a birthday present. Rietz copied parts from the score to use for the premiere. The string octet was a fairly new genre of chamber music at the time, the most widely known genre of chamber music still being the string quartet. The genre was ...