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This version is sometimes erroneously attributed to Frédéric Chopin as "Spring Waltz" because of an upload on YouTube with the wrong title, which reached over 34 million views before being removed. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] As of August 2021, several new copies with that erroneous title are available on YouTube, and one of them has reached over 160 million ...
Vivaldi took great pains to relate his music to the texts of the poems, translating the poetic lines themselves directly into the music on the page. For example, in the middle section of "Spring", when the goatherd sleeps, his barking dog can be heard in the viola section. The music is elsewhere similarly evocative of other natural sounds.
The audience was encouraged to keep quiet when McIntyre was singing the 'Voices of Spring' number. Musical films with the name Frühlingsstimmen were made in Austria in 1933 (with music by Oscar Straus) [6] and in 1952 (with music by Alfred Uhl). [7] The waltz was choreographed as a ballet by Sir Frederick Ashton, under the name Voices of Spring.
The first waltz theme is a familiar gently rising triad motif played by cellos and horns in the tonic (D major), accompanied by the harp; the Viennese waltz beat is accentuated at the end of each 3-note phrase. The Waltz 1A triumphantly ends its rounds of the motif, and waltz 1B follows in the same key; the genial mood is still apparent.
Roger Quilter ca. 1922. Roger Cuthbert Quilter (1 November 1877 – 21 September 1953) was a British composer, known particularly for his art songs.His songs, which number over a hundred, often set music to text by William Shakespeare and are a mainstay of the English art song tradition.
Spring and All is a hybrid work consisting of alternating sections of prose and free verse.It might best be understood as a manifesto of the imagination. The prose passages are a dramatic, energetic and often cryptic series of statements about the ways in which language can be renewed in such a way that it does not describe the world but recreates it.
Franz Liszt. The symphonic poems of the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt are a series of 13 orchestral works, numbered S.95–107. [1] The first 12 were composed between 1848 and 1858 (though some use material conceived earlier); the last, Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe (From the Cradle to the Grave), followed in 1882.
The eight volumes of Songs Without Words, each consisting of six songs (), were written at various points throughout Mendelssohn's life and published separately.The piano became increasingly popular in Europe during the early nineteenth century, when it became a standard item in many middle-class households.