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Dmitri Shostakovich was one of the most prolific of chamber music composers of the 20th century, writing 15 string quartets, two piano trios, the piano quintet, and numerous other chamber works. Shostakovich's music was for a long time banned in the Soviet Union and Shostakovich himself was in personal danger of deportation to Siberia.
Chamber music by composer. Subcategories. This category has the following 55 subcategories, out of 55 total. ... Chamber music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1 C, 2 ...
Chamber music by composer (57 C) B. Bassoon sonatas (4 P) Compositions for brass ensemble (1 C, 5 P) C. Compositions for cello and piano (1 C, 16 P) Cello sonatas (3 ...
Franz Peter Schubert (German: [fʁants ˈpeːtɐ ˈʃuːbɐt]; 31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. . Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a vast oeuvre, including more than 600 secular vocal works (mainly Lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music, and a large body of piano and ...
George Henry Crumb Jr. was born in Charleston, West Virginia on 24 October 1929 to a musical family and he grew up playing chamber music with them. [10] [11] Both of Crumb's parents played in the Charleston Symphony Orchestra (CSO); [n 1] his father George Henry Crumb Sr. was a clarinetist while his mother Vivian (née Reed) was a cellist. [12]
Roman Hoffstetter (1742–1815): An Austrian monk and composer, now supposed to have composed the six string quartets known as Haydn's Op. 3, including the well-known 'Serenade Quartet'. Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805): A prolific composer in most chamber music genres, Boccherini wrote 91 string quartets—he also wrote 125 string quintets.
After leaving Juilliard in 1962, Glass moved to Pittsburgh and worked as a school-based composer-in-residence in the public school system, composing various choral, chamber, and orchestral music. [ 27 ]
During the period of his sponsorship of the chamber music competitions, Cobbett also directly commissioned a number of works from emerging and leading British composers. Eleven of his commissioned compositions, each of them in the phantasy form, were composed and published between 1910 and 1912.