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Piano Concerto in C minor, Op. 185I. AllegroII. Andante quasi larghettoIII. Finale: AllegroComposer: Joseph Joachim Raff (1822-1882)Performer: Michael Ponti (piano) & Hamburg Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Richard KappRaff was born in Lachen in Switzerland. He was largely self-taught in music, studying the subject while working as a schoolmaster. He sent some of his piano compositions to Felix Mendelssohn who recommended them to Breitkopf and Härtel for publication. They were published in 1844 and received a favourable review in Robert Schumann's journal, the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, which prompted Raff to go to Zürich and take up composition full time.In 1845, Raff walked to Basel to hear Franz Liszt play the piano. After a period in Stuttgart where he became friends with the conductor Hans von Bülow, he worked as Liszt's assistant at Weimar from 1850 to 1853. During this time he helped Liszt in the orchestration of several of his works, claiming to have had a particularly big part in orchestrating the symphonic poem Tasso. In 1851, Raff's opera König Alfred was staged in Weimar, and five years later he moved to Wiesbaden where he largely devoted himself to composition. From 1877 he was the first Director of, and a teacher at, the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main. There he employed Clara Schumann and a number of other eminent musicians as teachers, and established a class specifically for female composers (this was at a time when women composers were not taken very seriously). His pupils there included Edward MacDowell and Alexander Ritter. He died in Frankfurt am Main.Raff was very prolific, and by the end of his life was one of the best known German composers, though his work is largely forgotten today (only one of his pieces, a cavatina for violin and piano, is performed with any regularity today, sometimes as an encore). He drew influence from a variety of sources - his eleven symphonies, for example, combine the Classical symphonic form, with the Romantic penchant for program music and contrapuntal orchestral writing which harks back to the Baroque. Most of these symphonies carry descriptive titles including In the Forest (number three), Lenore (No. 5) and To the Fatherland (No. 1), a very large-scale work lasting around seventy minutes. His last four symphonies make up a quartet of works based on the four seasons.The Lenore symphony, famous in its time, was inspired by a ballad by Gottfried August Bürger that also inspired works by several other composers, including Maria Theresa von Paradis (1789), Henri Duparc, Franz Liszt (late 1850s, mentioned by Alan Walker in his Liszt biography vol. 2), for example.Raff also composed in most other genres, including concertos, opera, chamber music and works for solo piano. His chamber works include two piano sonatas, five violin sonatas, a cello sonata, a piano quintet, two piano quartets, a string sextet and four piano trios. Many of these works are now commercially recorded. He also wrote numerous suites, some for smaller groups (there are suites for piano solo and suites for string quartet), some for orchestra and one each for piano and orchestra and violin and orchestra.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Raff
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Keywords: Joachim Raff Piano Concerto
Added: November 6, 2008
Piano Concerto in C minor, Op. 185I. AllegroII. Andante quasi larghettoIII. Finale: AllegroComposer: Joseph Joachim Raff (1822-1882)Performer: Michael Ponti (piano) & Hamburg Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Richard KappRaff was born in Lachen in Switzerland. He was largely self-taught in music, studying the subject while working as a schoolmaster. He sent some of his piano compositions to Felix Mendelssohn who recommended them to Breitkopf and Härtel for publication. They were published in 1844 and received a favourable review in Robert Schumann's journal, the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, which prompted Raff to go to Zürich and take up composition full time.In 1845, Raff walked to Basel to hear Franz Liszt play the piano. After a period in Stuttgart where he became friends with the conductor Hans von Bülow, he worked as Liszt's assistant at Weimar from 1850 to 1853. During this time he helped Liszt in the orchestration of several of his works, claiming to have had a particularly big part in orchestrating the symphonic poem Tasso. In 1851, Raff's opera König Alfred was staged in Weimar, and five years later he moved to Wiesbaden where he largely devoted himself to composition. From 1877 he was the first Director of, and a teacher at, the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main. There he employed Clara Schumann and a number of other eminent musicians as teachers, and established a class specifically for female composers (this was at a time when women composers were not taken very seriously). His pupils there included Edward MacDowell and Alexander Ritter. He died in Frankfurt am Main.Raff was very prolific, and by the end of his life was one of the best known German composers, though his work is largely forgotten today (only one of his pieces, a cavatina for violin and piano, is performed with any regularity today, sometimes as an encore). He drew influence from a variety of sources - his eleven symphonies, for example, combine the Classical symphonic form, with the Romantic penchant for program music and contrapuntal orchestral writing which harks back to the Baroque. Most of these symphonies carry descriptive titles including In the Forest (number three), Lenore (No. 5) and To the Fatherland (No. 1), a very large-scale work lasting around seventy minutes. His last four symphonies make up a quartet of works based on the four seasons.The Lenore symphony, famous in its time, was inspired by a ballad by Gottfried August Bürger that also inspired works by several other composers, including Maria Theresa von Paradis (1789), Henri Duparc, Franz Liszt (late 1850s, mentioned by Alan Walker in his Liszt biography vol. 2), for example.Raff also composed in most other genres, including concertos, opera, chamber music and works for solo piano. His chamber works include two piano sonatas, five violin sonatas, a cello sonata, a piano quintet, two piano quartets, a string sextet and four piano trios. Many of these works are now commercially recorded. He also wrote numerous suites, some for smaller groups (there are suites for piano solo and suites for string quartet), some for orchestra and one each for piano and orchestra and violin and orchestra.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Raff
Author: imusiciki
Keywords: Joachim Raff Piano Concerto
Added: November 6, 2008
Piano Concerto in C minor, Op. 185I. AllegroII. Andante quasi larghettoIII. Finale: AllegroComposer: Joseph Joachim Raff (1822-1882)Performer: Michael Ponti (piano) & Hamburg Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Richard KappRaff was born in Lachen in Switzerland. He was largely self-taught in music, studying the subject while working as a schoolmaster. He sent some of his piano compositions to Felix Mendelssohn who recommended them to Breitkopf and Härtel for publication. They were published in 1844 and received a favourable review in Robert Schumann's journal, the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, which prompted Raff to go to Zürich and take up composition full time.In 1845, Raff walked to Basel to hear Franz Liszt play the piano. After a period in Stuttgart where he became friends with the conductor Hans von Bülow, he worked as Liszt's assistant at Weimar from 1850 to 1853. During this time he helped Liszt in the orchestration of several of his works, claiming to have had a particularly big part in orchestrating the symphonic poem Tasso. In 1851, Raff's opera König Alfred was staged in Weimar, and five years later he moved to Wiesbaden where he largely devoted himself to composition. From 1877 he was the first Director of, and a teacher at, the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main. There he employed Clara Schumann and a number of other eminent musicians as teachers, and established a class specifically for female composers (this was at a time when women composers were not taken very seriously). His pupils there included Edward MacDowell and Alexander Ritter. He died in Frankfurt am Main.Raff was very prolific, and by the end of his life was one of the best known German composers, though his work is largely forgotten today (only one of his pieces, a cavatina for violin and piano, is performed with any regularity today, sometimes as an encore). He drew influence from a variety of sources - his eleven symphonies, for example, combine the Classical symphonic form, with the Romantic penchant for program music and contrapuntal orchestral writing which harks back to the Baroque. Most of these symphonies carry descriptive titles including In the Forest (number three), Lenore (No. 5) and To the Fatherland (No. 1), a very large-scale work lasting around seventy minutes. His last four symphonies make up a quartet of works based on the four seasons.The Lenore symphony, famous in its time, was inspired by a ballad by Gottfried August Bürger that also inspired works by several other composers, including Maria Theresa von Paradis (1789), Henri Duparc, Franz Liszt (late 1850s, mentioned by Alan Walker in his Liszt biography vol. 2), for example.Raff also composed in most other genres, including concertos, opera, chamber music and works for solo piano. His chamber works include two piano sonatas, five violin sonatas, a cello sonata, a piano quintet, two piano quartets, a string sextet and four piano trios. Many of these works are now commercially recorded. He also wrote numerous suites, some for smaller groups (there are suites for piano solo and suites for string quartet), some for orchestra and one each for piano and orchestra and violin and orchestra.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Raff
Author: imusiciki
Keywords: Joachim Raff Piano Concerto
Added: November 6, 2008
Duo Vela play Clara WIECK SCHUMANN (1819-1896) last composition, Mach in E flat Major (1879) original for piano four hands. An "occasional work" for her friends Julius and Pauline Hübner golden wedding anniversary.AUDITORI CULLELL I FABRA DE BARCELONA.For more information, please visit our web page:http://www.duovela.com/
Author: duovela
Keywords: classical Clara WIECK SCHUMANN March duo Vela piano four hands duet women composers romantic
Added: October 3, 2008
Duo Vela play Clara WIECK SCHUMANN (1819-1896) last composition, Mach in E flat Major (1879) original for piano four hands. An "occasional work" for her friends Julius and Pauline Hübner golden wedding anniversary.AUDITORI CULLELL I FABRA DE BARCELONA.For more information, please visit our web page:http://www.duovela.com/
Author: duovela
Keywords: classical Clara WIECK SCHUMANN March duo Vela piano four hands duet women composers romantic
Added: October 3, 2008
Duo Vela play Clara WIECK SCHUMANN (1819-1896) last composition, Mach in E flat Major (1879) original for piano four hands. An "occasional work" for her friends Julius and Pauline Hübner golden wedding anniversary.AUDITORI CULLELL I FABRA DE BARCELONA.For more information, please visit our web page:http://www.duovela.com/
Author: duovela
Keywords: classical Clara WIECK SCHUMANN March duo Vela piano four hands duet women composers romantic
Added: October 3, 2008
Duo Vela play Clara WIECK SCHUMANN (1819-1896) last composition, Mach in E flat Major (1879) original for piano four hands. An "occasional work" for her friends Julius and Pauline Hübner golden wedding anniversary.AUDITORI CULLELL I FABRA DE BARCELONA.For more information, please visit our web page:http://www.duovela.com/
Author: duovela
Keywords: classical Clara WIECK SCHUMANN March duo Vela piano four hands duet women composers romantic
Added: October 3, 2008
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I have a deep interest in knowing the few women composers who make just as memorable scores for films as “those other guys”.
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