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Jean Sibelius was born in Hämeenlinna, Finland, on December 8, 1865, and died at Järvenpää, near Helsinki, on September 20, 1957. Sibelius began work on his Violin Concerto in 1902, completed it in short score in the fall of 1903, and finished the full score about New Year 1904. After the first performance, in Helsinki on February 8, 1904, with Viktor Nováček as soloist and with the composer conducting, Sibelius withdrew the work for revision. In its present form it had its premiere in Berlin on October 19, 1905, with Karl Halíř as soloist and Richard Strauss on the podium.
2019-07-30 06:35:59
The Romantic Violin Concerto - Linus Roth in Lassen, Scharwenka, Langgaard
[…] recommended Lassen to succeed him in Weimar in 1858 where Lassen was responsible for the opera house and court orchestra until he retired in 1895. From 1889 to 1894 his assistant was the young Richard Strauss. Though he had some success with his music for Goethe's Faust, his operas had only moderate success and only his songs have had much modern currency. His violin concerto was written in 1888, premiered by the Czech violinist Karel Halíř (who would be the soloist in the premiere of the revised version of Sibelius' Violin Concerto in 1905.To put him into context, Lassen was 3 years older than Brahms and his concerto came ten years after that of Brahms. The introduction to the Allegro Moderato first movement is positively Brahmsian but when the solo violin comes in one immediately thinks of Mendelssohn. A very lyrical work, Linus Roth sings the solo line beautifully and […]
2018-10-19 19:29:02
Jean Sibelius’ Violin Concerto in D Minor Op. 47 premiered on this day in 1905. The first performance was given by Czech violinist Karel Halíř – with Richard Strauss conducting the Berlin Court Orchestra. The work’s initial version was premiered one year earlier to disastrous reviews – before Sibelius made substantial cuts and revisions. […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2015-10-19 15:11:18
In 1845 Richard Wagner’s opera “Tannhäuser” (Dresden version) was premiered in Dresden at the Hoftheater. In 1894 George Whitefield Chadwick’s Symphony No. 3 was premiered by the Boston Symphony with Emil Paur conducting. In 1901 Edward Elgar “Pomp and Circumstance” March No. 1 in D was premiered by the Liverpool Orchestral Society. Vittorio Giannini In 1903 Vittorio Giannini was born in Philadelphia, Pa. He began playing violin under the tutelage of his mother and would go on to study violin and composition at the Milan Conservatory on scholarship, and then to take his graduate degree at the Juilliard School. He would return to Juilliard to teach, moving on to the Manhattan School of Music and the Curtis Institute of Music. His students included Herbie Hancock, Nicolas Flagello, David Amram, Mark Bucci, Alfred Reed, Anthony Iannaccone, M. William Karlins, Irwin Swack, John Corigliano, Adolphus Hailstork, Thomas Pasatieri, […]
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