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Concerto Grosso in G minor (Christmas Concerto), Op. 6/8 at AllMusic. Retrieved 30 September 2012. Free typeset sheet music from Cantorion.org (this is an arrangement for string quartet, not the original) on YouTube, Liverpool String Quartet; on YouTube
Violin and Playing Cards on a Table is an oil on canvas painting by Spanish cubist Juan Gris, from 1913. The work is a still life, a typical motif for the cubists. The work is a still life, a typical motif for the cubists.
The compositions for violin and piano D 384, 385 and 408 were named Sonata in Schubert's autographs. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] They were named Sonatina when published posthumously as Op. 137 in 1836. [ 7 ] Since these works are modest in size—rather to be compared to Mozart's violin sonatas than to Beethoven's —the "Sonatina" diminutive stuck to them.
Joachim had adopted the Romantic German phrase "Frei aber einsam" ("free but lonely") as his personal motto. The composition's movements are all based on the musical notes F-A-E, the motto's initials, as a musical cryptogram. Schumann assigned each movement to one of the composers. Dietrich wrote the substantial first movement in sonata form.
Thus, one violin and one viola in the orchestra tune their strings to the natural harmonics of the bass player. The second movement can be loosely described as a set of variations adapted from the third of his Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet (an arrangement of the seventh piece from Musica ricercata) but slowed down and nearly two octaves lower ...
The celebrated violinist Joachim, who also played viola, married Amalie Schneeweiss in 1863. She appeared as a contralto singer under the stage name Amalie Weiss. Both were friends of Brahms, who composed the song "Geistliches Wiegenlied" for the occasion of their wedding; he withdrew it but sent it again a year later for the baptism of their son, named Johannes after Brahms.
Tafelmusik is a collection of instrumental compositions by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767), published in 1733. The original title is Musique de table.The work is one of Telemann's most widely known compositions; it is the climax and at the same time one of the last examples of courtly table music.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Trio in A minor, Op. 50, was written in Rome between December 1881 and late January 1882. It is subtitled À la mémoire d’un grand artiste [In memory of a great artist], in reference to Nikolai Rubinstein, his close friend and mentor, who had died on 23 March 1881.