Concerto Essays

Piano concerto K.488 was written during 1785-1786, it was one of the three piano concertos wrote by Mozart. The first movement is set in a sonata form. It used 2 flutes, 2 clarinets in A, 2 bassoons, 2 horns in A, 2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello, 1 double bass and piano. The structure of classical concerto The opening movement of the classical concerto No.23 is the most musically substantial. It is the longest movement and a fast-paced variation of sonata principle; sonata-allegro. Begins in home key;

performance featured all twelve movement broken up into four concertos. The concert featured mainly instruments from the stringed family and one harpsichord. The performance exhibited the various musical concepts envisioned by Vivaldi. Ultimately, the angelic talent of Janine Jansen gifted the audience with a breathtaking rendition. Janine Jansen’s performance included all 12 movements of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. The first concerto “La primavera” or Spring which featured 3 movements Allegro

Mozart Piano Concerto K.450 and K.595 Yibo Wang In Mozart’s music, we can experience and feel complete enjoyment without any boredom especially in his most classic piano concertos especially in the piano concerto K.450 and K.595. Although both concertos were completed under a different background, does that mean these two pieces have different technique, mood, musical sensibilities or even textures? In this paper, I will compare the first movement of both Mozart’s piano concerto K.450 and his last

literary ideas and emotions reached its apogee. Weber was a composer, conductor and an expert pianist and was renowned for his works in opera, compositions for piano and compositions for woodwind instruments. His clarinet compositions which include two concertos, a concertino, a quintet, variations on a theme and a duo concertante, are performed even today. The clarinet developed in Weber’s time to play more notes and to play scale passages more smoothly, and also developed from a band instrument into a

This concerto adopts many themes from his various film scores. The concerto begins with a theme extracted from his score to the 1937 film Another Dawn. While in the soundtrack, it is valiant, the concerto transforms the impression. Played by the solo violin, it's timbre becomes more intimate yet spacious, as if soaring euphorically through the open air. Later in the movement, 1939 film Juarez's love theme emerges as the concerto's second subject. In the film score, the theme is unveiled through an

Ravel’s Concerto in G Major for Piano and Orchestra invoked a much wider range of musical variation than “Selections from the Gershwin Songbook.” For example, the use of dynamics in Ravel’s piece was very contrasting. There were moments of very soft, excited playing. This would then explode into a very loud portion of the song. The second movement, adagio assai, was much more controlled and reflective than the first and third movement. It presented varied musical theme. The manner in which

Musical forms and terms of the baroque era : Many of the forms associated with the baroque era are the opera, the oratorio, the cantata, the concerto, the sonata and the suite. The opera is a drama primarily sang accompanied by instruments and presented on stage. It typically alternates between recitative, speech like song that advances the plot, and aries, songs in which characters express feelings at particular points in their action. The oratorio is an extended musical drama with a text

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria, and died on December 5, 1791, in Vienna. He had composed numerous piano concertos, however, this essay would be discussing the social and historical factors that has influenced Mozart to compose one of his famous piano concertos in C Major, K.467. Mozart had arrived in Vienna in 1781 in search of a better musical platform. The musical life in Vienna during the 1780s was one of the world’s greatest then. Mozart was greatly

I was able to engage in the musical performance of The Bradenburg Concerto No. 2 writing by Johann Sebastian Bach. The conductor of the performance is John Butt. The Bradenburg Concerto No. 2 is one of the six concertos written by Bach. It is also the most popular one. This style of music was popular in the Baroque period. This orchestral genre is known as the concerto grosso. A concerto grosso uses two ensembles, one large and one small. The large one has an odd name called the ripieno. There is

Bach was born on March 21st, 1685 and died on July 28th, 1750 at the age of 61. He is one of the most well-known and greatest composers in history that took place in the Baroque period. Bach has had multiple famous compositions such as: Bradenburg Concertos, Goldberg Variations, Mass in B minor, two Passions and along with over three hundred other cantatas. Johann was also very talented with multiple keyboard instruments including the organ, a two keyboard instrument that produced sound by driving pressurized

On Saturday, November 19, 2016; from 7:30 to 9:30pm; the Shostakovich-Cello Concerto No1 was performed by Colorado Symphony at the Boettcher Concert Hall and it was conducted by Silver Ainomäe. This Shostakovich-Cello Concerto was characterized by the classical music which was manifested itself by the music in careful controlled instrumental version. This Cello Concerto No.1 was a major key work in minor keys divided into four movements such that Allegretto; Moderato; Cadenza and Allegro Con moto

would be Concerto Grossi, Christmas Concerto, and Sonata de camera in D minor. George Philipp Telemann who was born in 1681 and died in 1767 was a distinguished musician and composer who appeared later in the baroque period. One thing that made him unique would be his incorporation of unusual instrumentation in his concertos. He was also known for gathering students and putting on concerts for the public. His church music was also well known with his most popular works being Viola Concerto in G,

The Houston Symphony presented “A Mozart Thanksgiving” with Jeffrey Kahane in duo roles as pianist and conductor Friday night. A superb pianist as well as a gifted conductor, Kahane performed a pair of Mozart piano concertos and conducted the orchestra in the “Prague” Symphony (No. 38). The piano was center stage, sans lid, with the keyboard facing the audience. This setup allowed Kahane to perform while simultaneously conducting the orchestra. He stood during the orchestral parts and sat and gestured

teacher in his lifetime, Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, who he was able to surpass in talent by the age of 11. Some of his most famous works include Messiah, Water Music, and Royal Fireworks Music, as well as many concertos, and operas. In fact Handel is considered the father of the organ concerto. Although he was born in Germany, and trained in Italy, he is known as an English composer. Many people who didn’t appreciate his sense of musical style, portrayed him as a greedy gorger and

lunch, though never on foot … My travels were always very expensive because I always took along four or five persons to assist me.” Musical Works Vivaldi himself has been criticized because many of 400+ concertos were predictable in style, but some of these concertos clearly demonstrated his willingness to indulge in experimentation and innovation. His “Four Seasons” is contains storms, bird calls, and other evocative

group of four violin concertos, each representing a season of the year. Photographs of North Carolina’s state parks accompanied the piece. The poems that Vivaldi wrote to exemplify what the music intended to evoke was also shown. This is an example of program music. Program music is instrumental music where the composer wants you to hear a story. Form is how a piece begins, develops, and ends. The form of The Four Seasons would be a multi-movement form called a concerto. A concerto is an instrumental

part of a 12-concerto opus, Op. 8, entitled Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (The Contest Between Harmony and Invention). “Four Seasons” embodies the first 4 violin concertos, one for each Season (Spring, Fall, Winter, Summer), each with 3 movements (first fast, second slow, and third fast). Vivaldi's first four concertos in Op. 8 had been circulating in manuscript for a time, becoming a favorite of Count Václav Morzin. When Vivaldi finished Op. 8 with the other 8 concertos, he added sonnets

polyphonic writing elevated Baroque music and paved the way for advancements of the Classic era. He had a wide array of compositional styles, and Bach is credited with development of the modern concerto for a solo instrument, based on the concerto grosso through his series of works, the Bradenburg concertos. As a church organist at a young age, he found opportunities to write for the keyboard. His compositional understanding helped him contribute to the creation of other forms,

Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) “I see no conflict in being both serious and comic in the same piece. In fact, I cannot have one without the other.” - Alfred Schnittke Soviet and Jewish born composer Alfred Schnittke was born in 1934 to German parents. In addition to composing for concert hall repertory, he also scored for films, more specifically cartoons. Although Schnittke studied and later taught at the Moscow Conservatory, his approach in composing still held influences of his education in Vienna

Johann Sebastian Bach made Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 almost 300 years ago. He wrote the piece during the Baroque period. The Baroque period covered over 150 years. It The Baroque period was influenced greatly by the Renaissance.This lead to more musicians making their own styles of music.The Freiburger Barock Hester Orchestra performed Concerto No. 2, but they added their own style. The Freiburger Barock Hester Orchestra's motto is “ to enliven the world of Baroque music with new sounds". The purpose