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It was the last music Elgar conducted: his health was declining and he died the following February. That recording was issued by HMV shortly after his death. It was not, though, the first recording made of the piece: the composer had recorded it on 11 April 1933 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at EMI's Abbey Road studios.
After the death of his wife in 1920, Elgar retreated into semi-retirement, producing no large-scale works. His friend and champion Bernard Shaw held that the BBC should commission a new Elgar symphony, and with the aid of the conductor Landon Ronald he persuaded the BBC to do so. Elgar worked on the new piece during the last year of his life ...
Others tie the work to Elgar's grief over the death of his close friend Alfred E. Rodewald in 1903, as shortly thereafter, Elgar started sketching the Larghetto movement of the symphony. Elgar told close friends that the symphony represented everything that had happened to him from April 1909 to February 1911, from the people he was with and ...
Nänie (the German form of Latin naenia, meaning "a funeral song" [1] named after the Roman goddess Nenia) is a composition for SATB chorus and orchestra, Op. 82 by Johannes Brahms, which sets to music the poem "Nänie" by Friedrich Schiller. Brahms composed the piece in 1881, in memory of his deceased friend Anselm Feuerbach.
This work was the Symphony in E ♭, the first movement of which Tchaikovsky later converted into the one-movement 3rd Piano Concerto (his final composition), and the latter two movements of which Sergei Taneyev reworked after Tchaikovsky's death as the Andante and Finale.
Stevie Nicks is mourning the loss of her best friend and Fleetwood Mac bandmate, Christine McVie -- with song. McVie died at the age of 79 on Wednesday after a short illness. Following the news of ...
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Symphony No. 7, antonin-dvorak.cz; About the Composition, Symphony No 7 in D minor, from the Kennedy Center; Symphony No. 7: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project; The original (longer) 2nd movement of 1885 can be heard here; Conductor score and parts on espace-midi.com, free scores engraved with LilyPond