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Sergei Prokofiev set about composing his Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat major, Op. 10, in 1911, and finished it the next year. The shortest of all his concertos, it is in one movement, about 15 minutes in duration, and dedicated to the “dreaded Tcherepnin .” [ 1 ]
The Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 23 by Edward MacDowell was completed in late 1885. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Although some obvious similarities with Edvard Grieg 's, Camille Saint-Saëns 's and Franz Liszt 's concertos have often been stated, MacDowell’s composition proves to be quite original, at least compared to his First Concerto .
Piano Concerto No. 1 refers to the first piano concerto published by one of a number of composers: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Bartók) (Sz. 83), by Béla Bartók; Piano Concerto No. 1 (Beethoven) (Op. 15), by Ludwig van Beethoven; Piano Concerto No. 1 (Brahms) (Op. 15), by Johannes Brahms; Piano Concerto No. 1 (Chopin) (Op. 11), by Frédéric Chopin
The best known left-hand concerto is the Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D by Maurice Ravel, which was written for Paul Wittgenstein between 1929 and 1930. Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm in World War I, commissioned a number of such works around that time, as did Otakar Hollmann .
A concert piece (German: Konzertstück; French: pièce de concert, also morceau de concert) is a musical composition, in most cases in one movement, intended for performance in a concert. Usually it is written for one or more virtuoso instrumental soloists and orchestral or piano accompaniment. [1]
This movement is in sonata rondo form, in which the development is a lengthy section in E-flat major. A maestoso reemergence of the concerto's main theme was eliminated. In the original version he had attempted to use this theme in an upward sequential treatment similar to what he would do later in the Second and Third Concertos.
Edward Alexander MacDowell (December 18, 1860 [1] – January 23, 1908) was an American composer and pianist of the late Romantic period.He was best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites Woodland Sketches, Sea Pieces and New England Idylls.
The Allegro de concert includes certain devices which reflect a more virtuosic technique than that required by most of his other works. [6] Technical difficulties include dense musical textures, complex and light finger work, massive leaps of left hand chords, trills and scales in double notes, and difficult octaves.