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The Blue Danube (Vienna Philharnonic Orchestra) Uploaded on Sep 17, 2011. The Blue Danube is a waltz by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, composed in 1866. It has been one of the most consistently popular pieces of music in the classical repertoire. The sentimental Viennese connotations of the piece have made it into a sort of unofficial Austrian national anthem. It is a traditional encore piece at the annual Vienna New Year's Concert. The Vienna Philharmonic (in German: Wiener Philharmoniker) is an orchestra in Austria, regularly considered one of the finest in the world. Its home base is the Musikverein.
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Mazurkas (Chopin) Over the years 1825–1849, Frédéric Chopin wrote at least 59 mazurkas for piano, based on the traditional Polish dance: 1  58 have been published. 2  45 during Chopin's lifetime, of which 41 have opus numbers.  13 posthumously, of which 8 have posthumous opus numbers.
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- The 10 best waltzes. An all-time favourite, the Blue Danube (1866), written by “waltz king” Johann Strauss II, is broadcast at midnight on New Year’s Eve on Austrian TV and radio, then played live by the Vienna Philharmonic the next morning in the gilded Musikverein to a global audience.
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Vangelis In 1983 Vangelis wrote the music for Michael Cacoyannis ' staging of the Greek tragedy Elektra which was performed with Irene Papas at the open-air amphitheater at Epidavros in Greece. The same year Vangelis composed his first score for a ballet by Wayne Eagling.uring 1980, six years after Vangelis decided against joining Yes, he and Jon Anderson, the lead singer of Yes, released their first album together, Short Stories, under the band name of Jon & Vangelis.
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Leroy Anderson Anderson became a reserve officer and was recalled to active duty for the Korean War. In 1951 Anderson wrote his first hit, Blue Tango, earning a Golden Disc and the No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts. His pieces and his recordings during the fifties conducting a studio orchestra were immense commercial successes. Blue Tango was the first instrumental recording ever to sell one million copies.
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Biography As a boy he could play popular and classical works on his brother Ira's piano by ear. In less than three weeks in 1924 he composed Rhapsody in Blue, originally for Paul Whiteman's relatively small swing band and later orchestrated by Ferde Grofé.
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- German: composer and pianist. Ferdinand Praeger: 1815: 1891: German: composer and pianist. Robert Volkmann: 1815: 1883: German: composer, companion of Johannes Brahms. Józef Władysław Krogulski: 1815: 1842: Polish: composer and pianist. William Sterndale Bennett: 1816: 1875: English: composer, conductor and editor. Charles Dancla: 1817: 1907: French: violinist, composer and teacher.
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Celesta Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Tchaikowsky's Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from the Nutcracker (1892). Originally composed for celesta (a keyboard bell-like instrument), William Zeitler plays it on the glass armonica.
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Rhapsody Brillante Rhapsody Brillante Composed by Melody Bober. For Piano Solo. Published by Alfred Publishing Co Inc. (Catalog # 29138, UPC: 038081320014) The romance and passion of a rhapsody are found in this expressive solo. Two k eys, D minor and D major, are used in contrasting sections.
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- Riverdance is a theatrical show consisting mainly of traditional Irish music and dance. Featuring Irish dancing champions Jean Butler and Michael Flatley, and with a score composed by Bill Whelan, it originated as an interval performance act during the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest.
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- For two Piccolos and Piano. Tarantella was inspired by an old movie seen by the composer during his childhood, and by the dance from one of the Russian ballets. Fast and furious, this lively piece is a great concert item.cherzo-Tarantella is as if Wieniawski could not decide whether to write a. 11.95 GBP-Sold by Musicroom UK. Henryk Wieniawski was not only one of the most important Violin virtuosos in the 19th century but also wrote tailor made show pieces for his instrument.
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- This song was not originally written for Barbra. It was written for the Broadway musical Cats. Barbra just sang the song for her album. It was composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber …the same man who wrote the music for many other Broadway musicals, he is probably most known for writing the score for the Phantom of the Opera.
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Riverdance Riverdance is a theatrical show consisting mainly of traditional Irish music and dance. With a score composed by Bill Whelan, it originated as an interval performance act during the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest, featuring Irish dancing champions Jean Butler and Michael Flatley. Shortly afterwards, husband and wife production team John McColgan and Moya Doherty expanded it into a stage show, which opened in Dublin on 9 February 1995. Since then, the show has visited over 450 venues worldwide and
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Viennese Waltz Early history. The Viennese Waltz, so called to distinguish it from the Waltz and the French Waltz, is the oldest of the current ballroom dances. It emerged in the second half of the 18th century from the German dance and the Ländler in Austria and was both popular and subject to criticism.
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Johann Strauss II Johann Strauss II (October 1825 – June was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. Some of Johann Strauss's most famous works include The Blue Danube, Kaiser-Walzer and Die Fledermaus Find this Pin and more on Famous Austrians by austriatravel.
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"""Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy"" on the Glass Armonica" Find this and more at http://www.williamzeitler.com/store/C... . William Zeitler plays his arrangement of Tchaikowsky's Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from the Nutcracker (1892) on the glass armonica invented by Benjamin Franklin. (This is the song Hanna plays on Kuroshitsuji.) He is accompanied by a harp and a bass clarinet.
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- No one type hull traps more or less air than the other. Slick gel coat or rivets...smooth, bubble-free water does not exist behind any fast boat...DEEP V or Flat-bottomed Skiff makes no difference. If you have heard that it does, that is malicious advice.
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- Composition Info: Eine kleine Nachtmusik, A Little Night Music-a Serenade, was written in Vienna in 1787, shortly after the death of the composer's father, - was intended for evening entertainment. The original is written for string instruments only-violins, viola, cello and double bass.Number of Pages.ine kleine Nachtmusik, A Little Night Music-a Serenade, was written in Vienna in 1787, shortly after the death of the composer's father, - was intended for evening entertainment. The original is written for string instruments only-violins, viola, cello and double bass. Number of Pages.
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Eine kleine Nachtmusik Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major), K. 525, is a 1787 composition for a chamber ensemble by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.The German title means a little serenade , though it is often rendered more literally but less accurately as a little night music..The work is written for an ensemble of two violins, viola, and cello with optional double bass, but is often performed by string orchestras.he serenade was completed in Vienna on 10 August 1787, around the time Mozart was working on the second act of his opera Don Giovanni. It is not known why it was composed.
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- Its haunting theme music was played by a Viennese man, Anton Karas, on a stringed device called a zither, and the original instrument is one of the museum's exhibits, along with posters, cinema programmes from more than 30 countries, 90 different editions of the novella by Graham Greene on which his screenplay was based, and photographs of occupied Vienna and the making of the movie.
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Blue Moon (1934 song) Blue Moon (1934 song) For the song by Steve Holy, see Blue Moon (Steve Holy song). Blue Moon is a classic popular song written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1934, and has become a standard ballad. It may be the first instance of the familiar 50s progression in a popular song. The song was a hit twice in 1949 with successful recordings in the US by Billy Eckstine and Mel Tormé.
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- andrew lloyd webber wrote music and charles hart wrote the original english lyrics to the better known stage musical that is andrew lloyd webber s the phantom of the opera which opened in 1986 and which was inspired by the ken hill musical and also bases on gaston leroux s original novel
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Invertebrate Invertebrate is a kind of animal that does not have a spinal column or backbone. It is the opposite of vertebrate, that means if an animal is not a vertebrate (fish, reptile, amphibian, bird, or mammal), it is an invertebrate. The main phyla (groups) of invertebrate animals are: Annelida: segmented worms.
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March Composers Richard Wagner, German. Wagner wrote several long concert marches for wind band. Perhaps the best known is his Trauermusik, a funeral march based on melodies by Carl Maria von Weber, and used to escort Weber's body to his final resting place.
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Kentucky Waltz This version of Kentucky Waltz was taken from Bill Monroe's 1946 Columbia recording. I'm pretty sure that Chubby Wise is playing the fiddle. Monroe wrote the song about ten years before, but it became a hit after this recording with a new group of Bluegrass Boys.
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- Love Is Blue. (1967) Up, Up And Away is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released in the fall of 1967 and was the first LP he recorded upon returning to his first record label, Columbia Records, where he then stayed for several decades after having just completed a four-year sojourn with Mercury Records.