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La plus que lente, L. 121 (French pronunciation: [laplyskəˈlɑ̃t], "The more than slow"), [1] is a waltz for solo piano written by Claude Debussy in 1910, [2] shortly after his publication of the Préludes, Book I. [3]
In music theory, the scale degree is the position of a particular note on a scale [1] relative to the tonic—the first and main note of the scale from which each octave is assumed to begin.
The Fantaisie is in three movements, as in a traditional concerto, with the first movement in sonata form, a slow, calm middle movement, and an energetic finale. [2] This despite the title, a fantasia is traditionally in a single movement with several sections of vastly different character, and contains no "sonata form".
[2] [3] Musical prodigies, they began performing as a piano duo while still in school. After graduating, they joined the Juilliard faculty. After graduating, they joined the Juilliard faculty. In 1947, they launched a full-time concert career, at first playing nightclubs, then quickly moving up to playing classical music with orchestral backing.
In 1935 Poul Henningsen (PH) designed the PH Pianette and PH continued the piano design with the PH Bow Grand Piano from 1937 as well as the PH Upright Piano in 1939. Today, all piano models designed by Poul Henningsen are produced by the Danish company ToneArt A/S (PH Pianos) that holds the world wide, exclusive rights to produce, market and ...
In some ways, it resembles closely Beethoven's 5th piano concerto, especially since both concertos are in the same key, and both have an opening flourish in the piano. The second movement, in B major, is a slow, deliberate promenade featuring the piano prominently throughout. There are sweeping orchestral flourishes in the middle of this movement.
In 2015, Yang won the Fifth Prize at the 17th XVII International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, becoming the youngest-ever laureate in the history of the competition at sixteen years old. [ 6 ] Previously, he was the winner of the Thomas & Evon Cooper International Competition in 2014 [ 7 ] [ 8 ] and the Bösendorfer & Yamaha USASU ...
The Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus ("Twenty Contemplations on the Infant Jesus") are a suite of 20 pieces for solo piano by the French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992). The suite is a meditation on the infancy of Jesus .