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The Prelude Op. 28, No. 20, in C minor by Frédéric Chopin has been dubbed the "Funeral March" by Hans von Bülow but is commonly known as the "Chord Prelude" due to its slow progression of quarter note chords. [1] It was written between 1831 and 1839. [2] The prelude was originally written in two sections of four measures, ending at m. 9.
A funeral march (marche funèbre in French, marcia funebre in Italian, Trauermarsch in German, marsz żałobny in Polish), as a musical genre, is a march, usually in a minor key, in a slow "simple duple" metre, imitating the solemn pace of a funeral procession.
Kleiner Trauermarsch" ("Little Funeral March") in C minor, K. 453a, is a keyboard work composed in 1784 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, written in the notebook of his student Barbara Ployer. The piece is subtitled Marche funebre del Sigr Maestro Contrappunto (Funeral March for Mr. Master Counterpoint); Mozart's grotesque exaggeration of ...
The Polish composer and piano virtuoso’s funeral march consists of the third movement of his Piano Sonata No 2. Performed alone, the movement remains one of his most popular compositions and was ...
The structure of the sonata is unconventional in that the piece opens with a relatively slow movement in the format of theme and variations (Mozart did the same in his Piano Sonata No. 11). The third movement incorporates a funeral march, clearly anticipating the watershed of the Eroica Symphony that Beethoven wrote in 1803–1804. This is the ...
for cello and piano Chamber music: 11: 1936: String Quartet in B minor: for 2 violins, viola and cello: slow movement arranged for string orchestra as Adagio for Strings (1936) Chamber music: 1941: Commemorative March: for violin, cello and piano Chamber music: 1947: String Quartet in E major, second mvt. only: for 2 violins, viola and cello
Funeral March of a Marionette (French: Marche funèbre d'une marionnette) is a short piece by Charles Gounod. It was originally written for solo piano in 1872 and orchestrated in 1879. It is perhaps best known as the theme music for the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents .
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