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Gounod based the work on Bach's prelude, which is a study in harmony in broken chords. He used the first four measure for a prelude, repeating them for the first entry of the voice. He used Bach's composition, in the version with an inserted measure after the original 22, the so-called Schwencke-measure which was common at the time. To this ...
Meditation (on the theme: Veni Creator Spiritus [13]) Ernst-Lothar von Knorr. Partita für Violine solo in G minor (1946) [1] Fritz Kreisler. Recitative and Scherzo-Caprice Op. 6, for solo violin (1910) Study on a Choral “in the style of Johann Stamitz”, in G major, for solo violin (publ. 1930)
The Méditation is an instrumental entr'acte performed between the scenes of Act II in the opera Thaïs; a wordless chorus joins in for the last reprise. In the first scene of Act II, Athanaël, a Cenobite monk, confronts Thaïs, a beautiful and hedonistic courtesan and devotée of Venus, and attempts to persuade her to leave her life of luxury and pleasure and find salvation through God.
His company focusses on new-age and classical instrumental music. Formerly based in San Francisco, California, LiSem Enterprises Inc. is now headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, and has globally expanded. The LiSem label has produced music in various categories, such as relaxation, yoga, massage, meditation, therapy, energy and eclectic music. [3]
His oeuvre includes large-scale orchestral and/or choral works, operas and other theatrical music, chamber music, piano works, brass band arrangements and songs. This list of his compositions is mainly drawn from the list included in Alan Bush: Music, Politics and Life (Thames Publishing, London 2000), pp. 146–164.
F. 76, Prince of Wales Investiture Music (1969) F. 158, Birthday Greetings to the Croydon Symphony Orchestra (1971) F. 60, Fanfare for a Coming of Age (1973) F. 66, Fanfare for the National Fund for Crippling Diseases (1973) F. 84, Wedding of Princess Anne, Music for (1973) F. 73, Lancaster-prelude (1974)
In 1950 the Chicago Federation of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations organized a weeklong celebration of Bloch's music to mark the composer's 70th birthday. Violist Milton Preves , who had performed Bloch's Suite for Viola and Orchestra (1919) at the celebration, asked the composer to write pieces for viola similar to Baal Shem . [ 4 ]
The surviving autograph manuscript of the sonatas and partitas was made by Bach in 1720 in Köthen, where he was Kapellmeister.As Christoph Wolff comments, the paucity of sources for instrumental compositions prior to Bach's period in Leipzig makes it difficult to establish a precise chronology; nevertheless, a copy made by the Weimar organist Johann Gottfried Walther in 1714 of the Fugue in G ...