What was the nationality of the person who wrote Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky?
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Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky (Arensky) Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky, Op. 35a, a piece for string orchestra by Anton Arensky, started out as the slow movement of his String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 35, for the unusual scoring of violin, viola, and 2 cellos. It was written in 1894, the year after the death of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, in a tribute to that composer. It was based on the theme from the song "Legend: Christ in His Garden", the fifth of "Sixteen Children’s Songs", Op. 54.
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Anton Arensky Anton Stepanovich Arensky (Russian: Анто́н Степа́нович Аре́нский ; 12 July [O.S. 30 June] 1861 – 25 February [O.S. 12 February] 1906 ), was a Russian composer of Romantic classical music, a pianist and a professor of music.
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Reiner Bredemeyer Reiner Bredemeyer (2 February 1929 − 5 December 1995) was a German composer. He was born in Vélez, Santander and went to school in Breslau. In 1944 he was drafted into military service and was briefly held as a prisoner of war of the American Army in Bavaria. After the end of World War II, he met composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann who introduced him to the music of Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók, Anton Webern, Edgard Varèse, Charles Ives and Erik Satie. From 1949 to 1953 he studied composition with Karl Höller at the Munich Academy for Musical Arts. In 1954 Paul Dessau took him to East Germany, where Bredemeyer became a master student of Rudolf Wagner-Régeny at the DDR Academy of Arts, Berlin.
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Aron Nimzowitsch Aron Nimzowitsch (Latvian: "Ārons Ņimcovičs" , Russian: Аро́н Иса́евич Нимцо́вич , "Aron Isayevich Nimtsovich"; born Aron Niemzowitsch; 7 November 1886 – 16 March 1935) was a Russian-born, Danish leading chess master and a very influential chess writer. He was the foremost figure amongst the "hypermoderns".
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Piano Trio (Tchaikovsky) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Trio in A minor, Op. 50, was written in Rome between December 1881 and late January 1882. It is subtitled "In memory of a great artist," in reference to Nikolai Rubinstein, his close friend and mentor, who had died on 23 March 1881. It is scored for piano, violin, and cello.
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Variations (Andrew Lloyd Webber album) Variations is a classical and rock fusion album. The music was composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and performed by his younger brother, the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber.
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Pavel Pabst Paul Pabst Russ: Pavel (15 May 1854 - 9 June 1897) was a pianist, composer, and Professor of Piano at Moscow Conservatory.
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Boris Lyatoshinsky Boris Mykolayovych Lyatoshinsky or Lyatoshynsky (Ukrainian: Бори́с Ми́колайович Лятоши́нський , "Borys Mykolayovych Lyatoshyns′kyi"; January 3, 1895 – April 15, 1968) was a Ukrainian composer, conductor, teacher. A leading member of the new generation of twentieth-century Ukrainian composers, he was awarded a number of accolades, including the honorary title of People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR and two Stalin State Prizes.
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German Galynin German Germanovich Galynin (Russian: Герман Германович Галынин , "German Germanovich Galynin"; March 30, 1922, Tula, Russia – June 18, 1966, Moscow, Russia, USSR) was a Soviet (Russian) composer, student, and continuer of the Shostakovich and Myaskovsky line in Soviet classic music.
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Constantin Bakaleinikoff Constantin Romanovich Bakaleinikov (also spelled Bakaleynikov and Bakaleinikoff; Russian: Константин Романович Бакалейников ; 26 April 1896 – 3 September 1966) was a Russian-born composer.
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Alexander Dmitriyevich Kastalsky Alexand(e)r Dmitriyevich Kastalsky (Russian: Александр Дмитриевич Кастальский ) (28 November [O.S. 16 November] 1856 – 17 December 1926) was a Russian composer and folklorist.
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Valeri Brainin Valeri Brainin (aka "Willi Brainin" and "Brainin-Passek", Russian: Валерий Борисович Брайнин "(Valeri Borissovich Brainin)" ] ] ] ), Russian/German musicologist, music manager, composer, and poet.
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Mikhail Goldstein Mikhail Emmanuilovich Goldstein (Russian: Михаил Эммануилович Гольдштейн ; pen name: Mikhailo Mykhailovsky; 8 November [O.S. 26 October] 1917 7 September 1989), was a Soviet composer and violinist of Ukrainian-Jewish origin, brother of prominent violinist Boris Goldstein.
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Variations on an Elizabethan Theme Variations on an Elizabethan Theme (also seen as Variations on Sellinger's Round) is a set of variations for string orchestra, written collaboratively in 1952 by six English composers: Lennox Berkeley, Benjamin Britten, Arthur Oldham, Humphrey Searle, Michael Tippett and William Walton.
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Roy Douglas Richard Roy Douglas (12 December 1907 – 23 March 2015), better known as Roy Douglas, was a British composer, pianist and arranger. He worked as musical assistant to Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton, and Richard Addinsell, made well-known orchestrations of works such as "Les Sylphides" (based on piano pieces by Chopin) and Addinsell's "Warsaw Concerto", and wrote a quantity of original music.
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Eugen Haile Eugen Haile (February 21, 1873 – August 14, 1933) was a German-American composer, singer, and accompanist, primarily known for his songs. In his lifetime, it was claimed that he was one of the "truly inspired melodists, a lineal descendent of the great lyricists, Schubert, Schumann, Franz and Brahms."
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Leslie Bassett Leslie Bassett (January 22, 1923 – February 4, 2016) was an American composer of classical music, and the University of Michigan's Albert A. Stanley Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Composition. Bassett received the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his "Variations for Orchestra".
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Marche slave The Marche slave (] ) in B-flat minor, Op. 31 (published as Slavonic March) or Serbo-Russian March (, "Slovenski marsh / Srpsko-ruski marsh", Russian: Славя́нский марш / Сербско-русский марш , "Slavyanskiy marsh / Serbsko-russkiy marsh") or Slavic March is an orchestral tone poem by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky published in October 1876.
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Tchaikovsky (film) Tchaikovsky (Russian: Чайковский ) is a 1970 Soviet biopic film directed by Igor Talankin. It featured Innokenty Smoktunovsky in the role of the famous Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was nominated for the 1971 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film as well as the Academy Award for Original Song Score and Adaptation.
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Yuri Shaporin Yuri Alexandrovich Shaporin (Russian: Юрий (Георгий) Александрович Шапорин ) (November 8 [O.S. October 27] 1887 – 9 December 1966) was a Russian-Ukrainian Soviet composer. His first name is sometimes rendered as Iurii or Yury.
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Simon Barere Simon Barere (Russian: Симон Барер ; 1 September [O.S. 20 August] 1896 – 2 April 1951) was a renowned Russian pianist. His surname Барер is transliterated "Barer", however, as an adult he changed the spelling to "Barere" in order to reduce the frequency of mispronunciation.
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Thomas de Hartmann Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann (Russian: Фома́ Алекса́ндрович Га́ртман ; September 21, 1885March 28, 1956) was a Russian composer and prominent student and collaborator of George Gurdjieff.