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Humoresques. (Dvořák) Humoresques (Czech: Humoresky), Op. 101 (B. 187), is a piano cycle by the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák, written during the summer of 1894. Music critic David Hurwitz says "the seventh Humoresque is probably the most famous small piano work ever written after Beethoven's Für Elise." [1]
7 Two Poems, for female choir and orchestra 1909–10 8 Autumnal, for orchestra 1910, rev. 1915, 1934 9 Two Poems, for voice and piano 1910–11 10 Piano Concerto No. 1 in D ♭ major 1911–12 11 Toccata in D minor, for piano 1912 12 Ten Pieces for Piano 1906–13 12bis Humoresque scherzo, for four bassoons 1915 13 Maddalena (opera) 1911–13 14
The Six Humoresques, Opp. 87 and 89, [a] are concertante compositions for violin and orchestra written from 1917 to 1918 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.Despite spanning two opus numbers (due to publishing technicalities), the composer—who originally considered calling the humoresques Impromptus or Lyrical Dances—intended them as a suite.
Notable examples of the humoresque style are: Robert Schumann: Humoreske in B-flat major, Op. 20, 1839; Antonín Dvořák: set of eight Humoresques, Op. 101, 1894, of which No. 7 in G-flat major is well known. [1] Sergei Rachmaninoff: Humoresque in G major, No. 5 from his Morceaux de salon, Op. 10, 1894
Schickele wrote a humorous fictional biography of the composer [5] according to which P. D. Q. Bach was born in Leipzig on April 1, 1742, [6] the son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Anna Magdalena Bach; the twenty-first of Johann's twenty children. [5] He is also referred to as "the youngest and oddest of Johann Sebastian’s 20-odd children". [7]
Antonín Dvořák composed over 200 works, most of which have survived. They include nine symphonies, ten operas, four concertos and numerous vocal, chamber and keyboard works. His most famous pieces of music include the Ninth Symphony (From the New World), the Cello Concerto, the American String Quartet, the Slavonic Dances, and the opera Rusalka.
8 pieces; nos. 1 and 4 arranged for string quartet in 1880, B. 105; orchestrated by Jarmil Burghauser. 102. 30. 1880. Dědicové bílé hory. The Heirs of the White Mountain. chorus and orchestra. secular cantata after a poem by Vítězslav Hálek; 1st revision of B. 27. 103.
Helene Liebmann. Hélène Liebmann née Riese (16 December 1795 – 2 December 1869 [1]) was a German pianist and composer. She was born in Berlin and studied music with Franz Lauska and Ferdinand Ries. [2] A child prodigy, she made her debut before age 13 and published her Piano Sonata when she was 15.