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The entire handwritten score for the Monotone-Silence Symphony, showing the extreme sparsity of the work. The Monotone-Silence Symphony (French: Symphonie Monoton-Silence) is a piece of minimalist music by the French artist Yves Klein. It consists of 20 minutes of an orchestra performing the chord of D major, followed by a 20 minute silence. [1 ...
Monotone-Silence Symphony (1949), by Yves Klein; in two movements, a single 20-minute sustained chord followed by a 20-minute silence [7] 4′33″ (1952) by John Cage (1912–1992) silent; in three movements lasting a total of four minutes and 33 seconds, for any instrument or combination of instruments. 4'33" No. 2 (1962) by John Cage
Between 1947 and 1948, [6] Klein conceived his Monotone Symphony (1949, formally Monotone Silence Symphony) that consisted of a single 20-minute sustained D major chord followed by a 20-minute silence [7] [8] – a precedent to Klein's later monochrome paintings and to the work of minimal musicians, particularly La Monte Young's drone music and ...
The Piano form of the symphony was published, in fact being the only symphony part of Vanjura's Trois Sinfonies Nationales to be published during the composer's lifetime. From this, the orchestration was done by Mykhailo Verykivsky , however Margarita Pavlovna Prâšnikova rediscovered the original score of all 3.
Around the modest entrance of the Iris Clert Gallery was a large blue drapery, and on "guard" were two Republican Guards in full regalia, whose presence Iris Clert had gained through one of her many connections, and two additional "bodyguards," in reality a couple of Klein's judo friends, ironically meant to guard the guards.
January 6 – Rodolphe Kreutzer, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1766); January 8 – Franz Krommer, composer (b. 1759); January 21 – Achim von Arnim, publisher and lyricist (born 1781)
Symphony No. 1, Op. 2 (1831–33) [6] Antonio Casimir Cartellieri: Symphony No. 1 (1795) Alfredo Casella: Symphony No. 2, Op. 12 (1908–09) Frederic Cliffe: Symphony No. 1 (1889) [7] Frederic Hymen Cowen: Symphony No. 1 (1869) Symphony No. 3 "Scandinavian" (1880) Carl Czerny: Symphony No. 1 "Grand Symphony", Op. 781 Antonín Dvořák
Ignaz (Ignace) Joseph Pleyel (French:; German:; 18 June 1757 – 14 November 1831) was an Austrian composer, music publisher [1] and piano builder of the Classical period. [2] He grew up in Austria (then part of the Holy Roman Empire ), and was educated there; in his mid-twenties he moved to France, and was based in France for the rest of his life.