Austria

24 articles related to Austria:

Choir

Ave verum corpus: influential Mozart score for the crucial Catholic chant

Ave verum corpus is one of the best-known sacramental chants that originated in the Medieval period and has since been...
PIANO

Für Elise: 2 versions of Beethoven's best-known piano piece

Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor, commonly known as Für Elise, is undoubtedly Beethoven's best-known piano work as well as...
PIANO

Ständchen from Schwanengesang serenade as Schubert's last testament

Originating in Europe in the Middle Ages, the serenade (ger. ständchen) is a love song composed for one vocal line and a...
PIANO

Alla Turca: Janissary-music piano inspired by Mozart's best-known piece

Alla Turca, also known as the Turkish Rondo or Turkish March, is undoubtedly Mozart's most famous piano composition....
Poetry

On the Massacre of Glencoe: Walter Scott lyrics set to Beethoven's arrangement of folk melody

The Massacre of Glencoe is one of the darkest chapters in Scottish history which saw the treacherous slaughter of...
Nature Sounds

8 orchestral pieces depicting thunderstorms

Of all the meteorological phenomena, thunderstorms are perhaps one of the most imposing forces of nature, so it is not...
Classical Guitar

Innovative tremolo technique by Johann Kaspar Mertz and his contribution to terz guitar

Johann Kaspar Mertz was an Austro-Hungarian composer and outstanding guitarist of the Romantic era who is credited with...
ORCHESTRA

Grosse Fuge: Armageddon or the birth of atonality featured in Beethoven’s last major work

The Grosse Fuge is one of Beethoven’s most controversial works which he finished shortly before his death while being in... 1 comment
Music Theory

Lydian mode: famous examples throughout the music history

Major and minor modes are the most used diatonic scales in classical and popular music due to their versatile structure...
FILM

Symphonic scores by Erich Wolfgang Korngold established new standards in the film industry

Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austrian pianist and composer whose contribution to film music has actually set the...
Classical Guitar

Anton Diabelli: prolific composer and arranger excelled in publishing guitar and piano music for beginners

Anton Diabelli was an Austrian composer best known during the early Romantic period for his work as a music publisher... 1 comment
ORCHESTRA

Mozart and Tom Waits wrote music for the glass armonica which was rumored to cause mental health damage

The glass armonica is one of many curious instruments that came into use with small ensembles during the transition from... 1 comment
Music Theory

Classic examples of the Phrygian mode through the music eras

From Middle Ages to modernity, Western music has been largely based on diatonic scales that organize seven notes into... 4 comments
ORCHESTRA

The many attempts of Romantic composers to adapt Shakuntala love story from Mahabharata epic

The love story of Shakuntala is first mentioned in the oldest Sanskrit epic of the Mahābhārata which could be traced...
Nature Sounds

Why birds sing their songs: great maestros proving the musicality of nightingale, cuckoo, yellowhammer

It is no coincidence that the sounds emitted by birds are known in many languages as "songs", rather than simple animal... 1 comment
PIANO

Beethoven's famous piano trio carried the genre to the Romantic era

Compositions written for a group of three instruments where the leading piano is usually accompanied by a violin and... 2 comments
PIANO

Zawinul incited his electric piano to report the jazz weather

European jazz pianist Joe Zawinul is best known for his founding the iconic band Weather Report which is highly...
ORCHESTRA

Classic textbook by great Austrian composer eclipsed his talent

Johann Joseph Fux was an Austrian composer, music theorist, and teacher of the late Baroque era. He is most famous as...
ORCHESTRA

Modern jazz trumpet for gifted Mozart scholar

Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837) was an Austrian composer and outstanding virtuoso pianist during the transition period...
ORCHESTRA

Im Sommerwind is an atypical work of the typical modernist composer

Austrian composer Anton Webern rose to fame as a member of the Second Viennese School, a prominent movement known for...
ORCHESTRA

Comic 'Italienische Serenade' was the end of Hugo Wolf

The inspiration for the Italian Serenade came to Hugo Wolf from the novella Leben eines Taugenichts by the German...
Cello

The lost Haydn concerto was found among the Czech castle documents

Cello Concerto in C demonstrates the many facets that are unique to the cello only, from growling low chords to sweet... 1 comment
WIND ENSEMBLE

Mozart's rewritten serenade inspired by street musicians

The Serenade in E-flat major exists in two versions: a sextet of two clarinets, two bassoons, and two horns, and an...
Cello

The surviving pearl of Mademoiselle Paradis, contemporary of Mozart

Maria Theresia von Paradis was a contemporary of Mozart and Haydn. She achieved significant glory as both a composer and...