Suite

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FLUTE

Badinerie: origins of Bach's famous flute suite

Badinerie—the final movement of Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor—is rightfully recognized as one of the...
PIANO

Estampes: the world cultures of Debussy's imagination

Estampes, conceived as a three-piece piano suite by the French Impressionist Claude Debussy, is rightfully recognized as...
PIANO

Le Tombeau de Couperin: Ravel's only wartime piece shaped by Baroque canons

The musical output of the leading French impressionist Maurice Ravel was almost completely halted by the arrival of...
PIANO

Miroirs: Ravel's piano suite that put his avant-garde friends to work

Miroirs or Mirrors is an essential piano suite by the French impressionist Maurice Ravel, each movement of which is...
PIANO

Suite bergamasque: did Debussy record his best-known piano piece?

Suite bergamasque is one of the best-known piano works of the French impressionist Claude Debussy written in 1890 and... 1 comment
ORCHESTRA

La Marcho di Rei: L'Arlesienne opening theme harks back to Provencal Christmas carol

The origin of the iconic theme in the energetic opening of Georges Bizet's L'Arlésienne is still unclear. Presumably,...
ORCHESTRA

Capriol Suite: early dances arranged for modern orchestra by Peter Warlock

The Capriol Suite is one of the most popular works by the 20th century English composer Philip Arnold Heseltine who...
Classical Guitar

Moreno Torroba as the first-ever Spanish non-guitarist who composed for solo guitar

Federico Moreno Torroba was a Spanish composer adored by his contemporaries largely for his stage works, especially the... 7 comments
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...
ORCHESTRA

Abdelazer: Purcell's suite for the failed play gained popularity thanks to Britten's arrangement for children

Abdelazer, or The Moor's Revenge, is a 1676 play by Aphra Behn who is considered to be one of the first known English...
SYNTHESIZER

The analog synthesizers of Isao Tomita programming fresh sound for all-time classics

Japanese composer Isao Tomita was one of the first to explore analog synthesizers in search for new sounds that would...
Classical Guitar

Giulio Regondi, the guitar prodigy behind early Romantic repertoire, was conned by false parent

Giulio Regondi was one of the most virtuosic guitarists of the early Romantic period who began earning flattering... 9 comments
ORCHESTRA

Traditions of 3 countries woven into the music of neglected Asian composer Chiang Wen-Yeh

The life path of the prominent Asian composer Chiang Wen-Yeh is closely connected to the three countries—Taiwan, Japan,...
FLUTE

The early collaboration of flute and viol in the court of Versailles

In one of his marvelous court paintings, André Bouys depicts four prominent composers working on a composition for... 5 comments
VIOL

Bach and Abel: a collaboration that lived in two generations of composers

The prominent German composer and multi-instrumentalist Carl Friedrich Abel was born into an extraordinary musical... 1 comment
Violin

Ma Sicong sentenced to exile after seeking Chinese harmony for his violin

One of the most gifted Chinese violinists, Ma Sicong endured a challenging fate when he was forced to flee the Cultural...
PIANO

Mussorgsky's pictures redrawn for the prog rock exhibition

Piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition written by the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874 retains its innovative...
FLUTE

Japanese traditions meet Western avant-garde in reflective tunes of Toshio Hosokawa

Japanese contemporary composer of extraordinary aerial themes, Toshio Hosokawa, draws inspiration from the ancient...
Ney

Ottoman heritage captured in music manuscripts of Bobowski

The oldest known examples of Ottoman music notation can be found in a few manuscripts compiled by composer and polyglot...
ORCHESTRA

The vital source of Lutheran music by Andreas Hammerschmidt

Andreas Hammerschmidt was a German composer and organist of Bohemian birth whose works played an important part in the...
Chalumeau

German maestro ordered all his music to be set on fire

Christoph Graupner (1683–1760) was one of the principal German composers of the period shared by J.S. Bach and Georg...
PIANO

Choosing career in music got Rameau expelled from school

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764) was one of the truly multifaceted French composers and theorists, with his theoretical...
ORCHESTRA

Things Lost In The Fire: Norwegian folk of Geirr Tveitt

The very mindful application of folk music to classical during the early 20th century became a global trend since every...
Classical Guitar

The voice that carried guitar over the barriers of Cultural Revolution

Born in Beijing following the Cultural Revolution—during which Western music and instruments were banned—Xuefei Yang ...
ORCHESTRA

Mother of film score genre learned music through BBC radio broadcasts

Doreen Mary Carwithen, also known as Mary Alwyn, was the first student to be selected from the Royal Academy to join an...
Cello

Bach's brilliant cello suites survived thanks to Anna Magdalena

The Bach collection of six suites for solo cello may have been written around 1720 as basic practice pieces intended to... 1 comment
Classical Guitar

Granada: Albéniz's tribute for the city of guitar craft

The first piano solo of Isaac Albéniz, Suite Española, is probably the first testimony of the artistic renaissance of...
ORCHESTRA

Grieg's exquisite Norwegian cocktail of mountains, forests and sea

Edvard Grieg composed the large body of his music surrounded by the scenic landscapes of the Hardanger fjord. Grieg's...
ORCHESTRA

Gustav Holst's famous folk suite was dedicated to his students

Gustavus Theodore von Holst, a highly original and inventive composer, was born in England in 1874. Holst was appointed...
Classical Guitar

What kind of music did Louis XIV like?

Robert de Visée’s music remains among some of the best examples of French Baroque guitar music to this day. Visée's...