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Lanner (c. 1825) Joseph Lanner (12 April 1801 – 14 April 1843) was an Austrian dance music composer and dance orchestra conductor. [1] [2] He is best remembered as one of the earliest Viennese composers to reform the waltz from a simple peasant dance to something that even the highest society could enjoy, either as an accompaniment to the dance, or for the music's own sake.
While there are some songs in the ballad style and some solo piano pieces, Curzon's light music for the concert hall was mostly orchestral. Examples include The Spanish Suite: In Malaga (1935) and the Robin Hood Suite (1937), as well as single movement overtures and waltzes such as The Boulevardier (1941, perhaps his best known piece), [7] the Cascade Waltz (1946), Dance of an Ostracised Imp ...
Ziehrer-ish Waltzes: waltz First performed by Ziehrer at one of his regular concerts at the Ronacher in November 1897. The melodies of the waltz are taken from several of his previous compositions, including Echt Wienerisch, op. 381, Jérôme-Quadrille, op. 320, Militär Marsch, op. 321 and Verliebt, Op. 319. 498 Seculo nuovo, vita nuova
Doga was born on 1 March 1937 in the village of Mocra in the Rîbniţa District (then in Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic), in a Romanian family.. The childhood of the composer coincided with a period of historical cataclysms – the war, repressions, hunger, poverty, exhausting hard work (the composer's memories of his childhood [10]).
Archibald Joyce (25 May 1873 – 22 March 1963), born Arthur Joyce, [1] was an English light music composer and bandleader of the early 20th century. He is known for his popular short waltzes for dancing, such as Dreaming, Songe d'Automne (Dream of Autumn) and Vision of Salome.
Charles William Ancliffe (1880 – 20 December 1952) was an Irish born composer of light music, chiefly remembered for his salon piano music, genre dance pieces, light character pieces and his Nights of Gladness waltz.
Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Last Waltz’ Returns to Theaters for 45th Anniversary, Revisiting One of the Most Famous Concerts in Rock and Roll History Steven Gaydos October 9, 2023 at 2:30 PM
Sergei Prokofiev composed and compiled his Waltz Suite, Op. 110, during the Soviet Union's post-Great Patriotic War period of 1946–1947.. In creating this work for the concert hall, the composer drew upon waltzes previously written for three of his most recent works for the stage and screen: the opera War and Peace (completed circa 1943–1944 but not yet premiered at that time); the ballet ...