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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 ]
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]
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 .
Kogosowski put these together as a three-movement work and performed it under the misleading title of "Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 3 in A major" on 8 October 1999, with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under Neeme Järvi. Austrian pianist Ingolf Wunder orchestrated and recorded it with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra in 2015 for Deutsche ...
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
Ruth Dorothy Louisa ("Wid") Gipps MBE [1] (20 February 1921 – 23 February 1999) was an English composer, oboist, pianist, conductor and educator.She composed music in a wide range of genres, including five symphonies, seven concertos and many chamber and choral works. [2]
Sergei Rachmaninoff composed his Piano Concerto No. 1 in F ♯ minor, Op. 1, in 1891, at age 17–18 (the first two movements were completed while he was still 17; the third movement and the orchestration were completed shortly after he had turned 18). He dedicated the work to Alexander Siloti. He revised the work thoroughly in 1917.
The concerto is scored for solo oboe and a small orchestra divided into two groups. The concertino group consists of the oboe, violas, and a percussionist.The larger group comprises flute (doubling piccolo, alto flute), clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), horn, trombone, one additional percussionist, and strings (violins I & II, violoncellos, and double basses).