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The symphony is clearly indebted to Beethoven's predecessors, particularly his teacher Joseph Haydn as well as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but nonetheless has characteristics that mark it uniquely as Beethoven's work, notably the frequent use of sforzandi, as well as sudden shifts in tonal centers that were uncommon for traditional symphonic form (particularly in the third movement), and the ...
6 timpani (two players, 2nd player appears only in movement 4) bass drum (with a cymbal attached to be struck by the same player in movement 3) cymbals triangle tam-tam Strings harp 1st violins 2nd violins violas cellos double basses
Several well known piano pieces are played including selections from Bach's Goldberg Variations, English Suites, and The Well-Tempered Clavier; Beethoven's Sonata No. 13 in E-flat major, Op. 27/1 and Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31/2; and Schoenberg's Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19.
The music in the actual movie also includes pieces by Ludwig van Beethoven, Chopin, and Johann Sebastian Bach. In 2003, the music won the César Award for Best Music Written for a Film , [ 1 ] and was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Original Music (but lost to the music of The Hours ).
Symphony No. 1 (Prokofiev) in D major (Op. 25, Classical) by Sergei Prokofiev, 1916–17; Symphony No. 1 (Rachmaninoff) in D minor (Op. 13) by Sergei Rachmaninoff, 1895; Symphony No. 1 (Raff) in D major (Op. 96, To the Fatherland) by Joachim Raff, 1859–61; Symphony No. 1 (Rimsky-Korsakov) in E minor (Op. 1) by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, 1861–65
A Late Quartet (released in Australia as Performance) is a 2012 American drama film directed by Yaron Zilberman and co-written by Zilberman and Seth Grossman. The film stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, Mark Ivanir and Imogen Poots.
The Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61, was written by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1806. Its first performance by Franz Clement was unsuccessful and for some decades the work languished in obscurity, until revived in 1844 by the then 12-year-old violinist Joseph Joachim with the orchestra of the London Philharmonic Society conducted by Felix Mendelssohn.
The work's main key is A-flat major, rare for a symphony.It is scored for three flutes (one doubling piccolo), two oboes and cor anglais, two clarinets and bass clarinet, two bassoons and contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (including snare drum, bass drum and cymbals), two harps, and strings.