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Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 126, in 1966 in the Crimea. Like the first concerto, it was written for Mstislav Rostropovich, who gave the premiere in Moscow under Yevgeny Svetlanov on 25 September 1966 at the composer's 60th birthday concert. The concerto is sometimes listed as in the key of G, but the score gives no ...
For the least often used keys in orchestral music, the piano concerto listed might be famous only for being in that key. Technically, the piano can play in any key, and the unaccompanied solo piano repertoire abounds in keys that are used less frequently in orchestral music. Even so, some preferences manifest themselves.
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In Baroque music, G major was regarded as the "key of benediction". [1] Of Domenico Scarlatti's 555 keyboard sonatas, G major is the home key for 69, or about 12.4%, sonatas. In the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, "G major is often a key of 6 8 chain rhythms", according to Alfred Einstein, [2] although Bach also used the key for some 4
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op. 44, was written in 1879–1880 and dedicated to Nikolai Rubinstein, who had insisted he perform it at the premiere as a way of making up for his harsh criticism of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto. But Rubinstein never played it, as he died in March 1881, and the work has never ...
The first movement, in G major, is in 2 2 time. It opens with a single sharp whip-crack, followed by an exposition that contains five distinct themes. Orenstein says of them that the first suggests a Basque folk melody, the second the influence of Spain, and the other three derive from the idiom of jazz. [16]
A filmed version of Usher’s latest concert tour is moving and grooving to the big screen in the fall. “Usher: Rendezvous in Paris” will arrive in movie theaters on Sept. 12 for a limited ...
Sonata in G major (HWV 358) Sonata in G major for two flutes and basso continuo, BWV 1039; Sonatina in G major (attributed to Beethoven) St. Cecilia Mass; Stand and Sing of Zambia, Proud and Free; Ständchen, WAB 84.2; State Anthem of Uzbekistan; String Duo No. 1 (Mozart) String Quartet No. 3 (Britten) String Quartet No. 1 (Mozart)