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The march from Funeral Sentences and Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, by Henry Purcell. The funeral march for Lìu in the opera Turandot, by Giacomo Puccini. The second movement of Ferdinand Ries's Symphony No. 1: Marche funebre. The fifth movement of Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 15: Funeral march: Adagio molto.
Kleiner Trauermarsch" ("Little Funeral March") in C minor, K. 453a, is a keyboard work composed in 1784 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, written in the notebook of his student Barbara Ployer. The piece is subtitled Marche funebre del Sigr Maestro Contrappunto (Funeral March for Mr. Master Counterpoint); Mozart's grotesque exaggeration of ...
The funeral of Queen Mary II (30 April 1662 – 28 December 1694) in Westminster Abbey was not until 5 March 1695. Purcell composed a setting of the sixth of the seven sentences of the Anglican Burial Service ("Thou Knowest Lord", Z. 58C) for the occasion, together with the March and Canzona, Z. 780. [1]
The Prelude Op. 28, No. 20, in C minor by Frédéric Chopin has been dubbed the "Funeral March" by Hans von Bülow but is commonly known as the "Chord Prelude" due to its slow progression of quarter note chords. [1] It was written between 1831 and 1839. [2] The prelude was originally written in two sections of four measures, ending at m. 9.
Siegfried's Funeral March; Il Silenzio (song) Slonimsky's Earbox; Sonata for Violin and Cello (Ravel) Song for Athene; String Quartet No. 4 (Shostakovich) String Quartet No. 7 (Shostakovich) Symphonies of Wind Instruments; Symphony No. 2 (Milhaud)
The symphony's second movement has been played as a funeral march at state funerals, memorial services, and commemorations including: the funeral of German composer Felix Mendelssohn, in 1847. [47] the funeral of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, in 1944. [48] to mourn the death of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1945. [49]
Funeral March of a Marionette (French: Marche funèbre d'une marionnette) is a short piece by Charles Gounod. It was originally written for solo piano in 1872 and orchestrated in 1879. It is perhaps best known as the theme music for the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents .
This sonata was greatly admired by Chopin, who repeated its basic sequence of scherzo, funeral march with trio, and perpetuum mobile finale in his own Piano Sonata in B ♭ minor. [7] His first movement, however, is also animated and in sonata form, unlike Beethoven's Andante con variazioni. This is the only Beethoven sonata that Chopin ...