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This is a list of notable performers who appeared as piano duos in classical music. Most of these pianists performed works for piano four-hands (two pianists at one piano; also known as piano duet) as well as works for two pianos, often with orchestras or chamber ensembles. Some of these teams focussed exclusively or predominantly on this ...
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra op.38 (1962) Nocturne for Piano (Homage to John Field), Op. 33; Sonata for Piano (Op. 26, 1949) Béla Bartók: 1881: 1945: Hungarian:
In 2006, the orchestra announced it would investigate its role during the Nazi regime. [20] In 2007, Misha Aster published The Reich's Orchestra, his study of the relationship of the Berlin Philharmonic to the rulers of the Third Reich. [21] Also in 2007, the documentary film The Reichsorchester by Enrique Sánchez Lansch was released. [22]
Henry Mancini was born Enrico Nicola Mancini in Maple Heights, Ohio, and raised in West Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. [4] [5] Both his parents were Italian immigrants.Originally from Scanno, Abruzzo, his father Quintiliano "Quinto" Mancini was a laborer at the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company and amateur musician who first came to the U.S. as a teenager around 1910.
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, No. 3 in A major; Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, No. 4 in G minor; Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, No. 5 in D major; Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, No. 6 in B-flat major; Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, No. 7 in A major; Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, No. 8 in C major; Selim Palmgren
His earliest known recordings and performances were with the Edwin J. McEnelly Orchestra from 1924-1929. He wrote many of the arrangements for McEnelly as well as played piano. In 1934, he joined Mal Hallett and his orchestra. [2] In 1935, he had his own orchestra and was billed in an ad for one night club as "America's Greatest Pianist." [3]
The first Cab Calloway Orchestra comprised Earres Prince on piano; Walter "Foots" Thomas and Thornton Blue on alto saxes; Andrew Brown on tenor sax; Morris White on banjo; Jimmy Smith on tuba; and DePriest Wheeler on trombone; Leroy Maxey on drums; R.Q. Dickerson and Lammar Wright on trumpets.
The first is a Baroque orchestra (i.e., J.S. Bach, Handel, Vivaldi), which generally had a smaller number of performers, and in which one or more chord-playing instruments, the basso continuo group (e.g., harpsichord or pipe organ and assorted bass instruments to perform the bassline), played an important role; the second is a typical classical ...