Description:Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 133. Chapters: Edward Elgar, Pierre Monteux, Leonard Bernstein, Thomas Beecham, Frederick Delius, Olivier Messiaen, Dmitri Shostakovich, Arturo Toscanini, Igor Stravinsky, Henry Wood, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Daniel Barenboim, Georg Solti, Joan Sutherland, William Walton, Sergei Prokofiev. Excerpt: Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (2 June 1857 - 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed choral works, including The Dream of Gerontius, chamber music and songs. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924. Although Elgar is often regarded as a typically English composer, most of his musical influences were not from England but from continental Europe. He felt himself to be an outsider, not only musically, but socially. In musical circles dominated by academics, he was a self-taught composer; in Protestant Britain, his Catholicism was regarded with suspicion in some quarters; and in the class-conscious society of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, he was acutely sensitive about his humble origins even after he achieved recognition. He nevertheless married the daughter of a senior British army officer. She inspired him both musically and socially, but he struggled to achieve success until his forties, when after a series of moderately successful works his Enigma Variations (1899) became immediately popular in Britain and overseas. He followed the Variations with a choral work, The Dream of Gerontius (1900), based on a Catholic text that caused some disquiet in the Anglican establishment in Britain, but it became, and has remained, a core repertory work in Britain and elsewhere. His later full-length religious choral works were well received but have not entered the regular repertory. The first of his Pomp and Circumstance Marches (1901) is well known in the English-speaking world. In his fifties, Elgar composed a symphony and a violin concerto that were immensely successful. His second symphony and his cello concerto did not gain immediate public popularity and toWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists: Johannes Brahms, Leonard Bernstein, Igor Stravinsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Isaac Stern, Edward Elgar. To get started finding Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists: Johannes Brahms, Leonard Bernstein, Igor Stravinsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Isaac Stern, Edward Elgar, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists: Johannes Brahms, Leonard Bernstein, Igor Stravinsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Isaac Stern, Edward Elgar
Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 133. Chapters: Edward Elgar, Pierre Monteux, Leonard Bernstein, Thomas Beecham, Frederick Delius, Olivier Messiaen, Dmitri Shostakovich, Arturo Toscanini, Igor Stravinsky, Henry Wood, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Daniel Barenboim, Georg Solti, Joan Sutherland, William Walton, Sergei Prokofiev. Excerpt: Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (2 June 1857 - 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed choral works, including The Dream of Gerontius, chamber music and songs. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924. Although Elgar is often regarded as a typically English composer, most of his musical influences were not from England but from continental Europe. He felt himself to be an outsider, not only musically, but socially. In musical circles dominated by academics, he was a self-taught composer; in Protestant Britain, his Catholicism was regarded with suspicion in some quarters; and in the class-conscious society of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, he was acutely sensitive about his humble origins even after he achieved recognition. He nevertheless married the daughter of a senior British army officer. She inspired him both musically and socially, but he struggled to achieve success until his forties, when after a series of moderately successful works his Enigma Variations (1899) became immediately popular in Britain and overseas. He followed the Variations with a choral work, The Dream of Gerontius (1900), based on a Catholic text that caused some disquiet in the Anglican establishment in Britain, but it became, and has remained, a core repertory work in Britain and elsewhere. His later full-length religious choral works were well received but have not entered the regular repertory. The first of his Pomp and Circumstance Marches (1901) is well known in the English-speaking world. In his fifties, Elgar composed a symphony and a violin concerto that were immensely successful. His second symphony and his cello concerto did not gain immediate public popularity and toWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists: Johannes Brahms, Leonard Bernstein, Igor Stravinsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Isaac Stern, Edward Elgar. To get started finding Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists: Johannes Brahms, Leonard Bernstein, Igor Stravinsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Isaac Stern, Edward Elgar, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.