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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed his Orchestral Suite No. 3 in G, Op. 55 in 1884, writing it concurrently with his Concert Fantasia in G, Op. 56, for piano and orchestra. The originally intended opening movement of the suite, Contrastes, instead became the closing movement of the fantasia. Both works were also intended initially as more ...
The Symphony is scored for an orchestra comprising piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (in A, B-flat), 2 bassoons, 4 horns (in F), 2 trumpets (in F), 3 trombones, tuba, 3 timpani and strings (violins I, violins II, violas, cellos, and double basses).
The Symphony No. 3 in C minor is a symphony for orchestra composed by Florence Price in 1938. The work was commissioned by the Works Progress Administration 's Federal Music Project during the height of the Great Depression .
The symphony is scored for large orchestra comprising 3 flutes (1 doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, cor anglais, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, triangle, cymbals, bass drum, piano (two and four hands), organ, and strings.
Unlike Villa-Lobos's two preceding symphonies and the following one, the Third Symphony does not use cyclic techniques internally, though there is a neighbour-note motive found in all four movements. [6] More unusually, several themes from this symphony recur in the Fourth Symphony, creating cyclic relationships between these two independent ...
Both Taneyev and Modest questioned how they should be published—as two orchestral movements for a symphony or as a piece for piano and orchestra. [13] After a letter from pianist Alexander Siloti to Modest in April 1895, he and Taneyev took the piano-and-orchestra route. The first performance took place on February 8, 1897 in St. Petersburg ...
The garklein recorder in C, also known as the sopranissimo recorder or piccolo recorder, is the smallest size of the recorder family. Its range is C 6 –A 7 (C 8). [citation needed] The name garklein is German for "quite small", and is also sometimes used to describe the sopranino in G. [1] Although some modern German makers use the single-word form Garkleinflötlein, this is without ...
The symphony is scored for full orchestra with 3 flutes (the 3rd doubling piccolo), 3 oboes (the 3rd doubling cor anglais), 2 clarinets in A and B ♭, bass clarinet in A and B ♭, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 2 trumpets in A and B ♭, 1 contralto trumpet in F, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, cymbals, bass drum, snare drum, triangle ...