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Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major, was composed between 1929 and 1931. The piano concerto is in three movements, with a total playing time of a little over 20 minutes. Ravel said that in this piece he was not aiming to be profound but to entertain, in the manner of Mozart and Saint-Saëns. Among its other influences are jazz and Basque ...
Jazz Sonata, for piano A Jazz Symphony Piano Sonata No. 4 "Jazz" Malcolm Arnold: 1954 1959 1974 Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra, Op. 46 Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra, Op. 67 Concerto No. 2 for Clarinet and Orchestra, Op. 115 Larry Austin: 1960 1961 1971 Fantasy on a Theme by Berg, for jazz orchestra: 5 saxs, 5 tpts, 4 trbns, perc set ...
Piano Sonata (1928–1929) Suite in 3 Movements (1925) Elegiac Blues (1927) Ernesto Lecuona: 1895: 1963: Cuban: André Mathieu: 1929: 1968: Canadian: Concerto Romantique (Concerto de Québec, 1943) Piano Concerto No. 4 (1947) Romantic: Nikolai Medtner: 1880: 1951: Russian: Erkki Melartin: 1875: 1937: Finnish: Olivier Messiaen: 1908: 1992 ...
Piano Concerto No. 9 in G minor, Op. 177 (c. 1833) Introduction et Rondeau brilant, WoO54 (1835) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor, Op. 30 (1882) Leroy Robertson. Piano Concerto (1966) Joaquín Rodrigo. Concierto heroico (1942) Julius Röntgen. Piano Concerto in G minor (1873) Piano Concerto in D major, Op. 18 (1879)
Ferde's father died in 1899, after which his mother took him abroad to study piano, viola, and composition in Leipzig, Germany.Ferde became proficient on a wide range of instruments including piano (his favored instrument), violin, viola (he became a violist in the LA Symphony), baritone horn, alto horn, cornet and drums.
In G Major is set to Ravel's Piano Concerto in G Major, which the composer said "uses certain effects borrowed from jazz, but only in moderation." [1]: 450 The ballet is performed by two soloists, who dance the central pas de deux that takes place in the second movement, and a corps de ballet consisting of six men and six women.
After the war, he earned a living playing in Budapest bars and clubs, [3] [6] touring with a European jazz band from 1947 to 1950 and earning recognition as a superb jazz pianist and virtuoso. [7] [8] After attempting to escape Hungary in 1950, Cziffra was again imprisoned and subject to hard labour in the period 1950–1953.
Len Lyons depicts Lewis's piano, composition and personal style when he introduces Lewis in Lyons' book The Great Jazz Pianists: "Sitting straight-backed, jaw rigid, presiding over the glistening white keyboard of the grand piano, John Lewis clearly brooks no nonsense in his playing, indulges in no improvisational frivolity, and exhibits no ...