I'm glad the score gave you the start to make your own "arrangement". This is really awesome, thank you. I have a doubt.
How to play the third bar, because at the left hand D-D octave in minim is given followed by other notes in the bass section i. How to play these notes simultaneously holding the D-D minim note. I believe you are supposed to use the center pedal on a grand piano. It sustains only those notes which are pressed while you press the pedal.
Yes, the middle, "sostenuto" pedal would be a way to sustain just the D-D octave while all the other notes in the two measures are played. Yeah, when a pipe organ score is reduced down to a piano, there's bound to be places that the arranger puts in a lot of notes the organist can play easily with the help of the feet on the organ pedal but are really not possible to play for the pianist.
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The organist can simply put his foot on the D-D octave and hold it as long as required. The best I can suggest for the pianist is to hold down the piano pedal when playing the D-D octave with the left hand and keep it held down while playing the other notes as usual. Lift the pedal when playing the first notes of the second beat of the 4th measure and forget about the tied D-D half note in the bass clef. Sir thank you for your kind advice. I will follow your instructions. The original organ version is scary. Otherwise, somebody will block you. This is very helpful!
How can anyone create such beauty out of nothing!!! That is what all truly gifted artists do. Funny thing is i was looking for a different piece of music and typed in the wrong name. But this came up and turns out I like it better! Can't wait to start playing! You've done great work! Can't wait to get to print the pdf and try it on the piano. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born into a musical family, and as a child prodigy performed regularly throughout Europe as well as his native Austria.
During his short life he was prolific as a composer using many forms, and did much to shape the development of music. While the two minuets below were composed at a very young age, the Sonata in C was composed in a simple style as a piece suitable for a developing player. The Rondo Alla Turca in the Turkish style comes from another piano sonata and is also well-known. The Piano Concerto movement below was used in the film "Elvira Madigan". Belonging to the group of Russian composers known as "The Five", Modest Mussorgsky 's music gets its typical Russian sound from the use of folk music.
Pictures at an Exhibition was written following a visit to an art exhibition, the promenade theme representing a person strolling through the gallery and reacting to the pictures on display. As a piano piece full of colour and contrasts, Pictures at an Exhibition was ripe for orchestration, most famously by Ravel. Although Johann Pachelbel composed other music, to many musicians he is known for only one work, this Canon. Originally written for 3 violins and a continuo part, the Canon consists of 28 strict variations, part of his "Canon and Gigue in D", and has become quite a famous work appearing in lots of places.
Here it has been arranged as a shorter set of 11 variations, either for piano or for 4 recorders. Like many English composers in the 16th and 17th centuries, many of Henry Purcell 's works were for the church, but he also composed material for Royal occasions and the theatre. The rondeau below was used as the theme for Benjamin Britten's variations known as the Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, and the Queen Mary funeral march was used in the film "A Clockwork Orange".
The Russian born composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff often composed in a lush melodic late romantic style. As might be expected from a virtuoso pianist he wrote many works for piano either solo or with orchestra but he also composed a number of orchestral works, songs and some operas. Among his solo piano works are 24 preludes, one in each major and minor key. Among much output from the musical career of Camille Saint-Saens is the popular work Carnival of the Animals from which the movements "The Elephant" and "The Swan" are taken. Like that work, his 3rd Symphony also uses a piano with 2 players in addition to an organ.
Both instruments can be heard in the following extract which was used in the film Babe. Erik Satie was a French composer who chose his own path in terms of musical style. In some ways he was revolutionary and in others merely reactionary. However, he showed that it wasn't necessary to use big dramatic orchestral sounds to move an audience, and his output was inspirational to the French impressionists.
He composed a number of simple yet unusual piano pieces like the well-known works here. Schubert 's tragically short life was spent largely in Vienna, where is composed many songs, symphonies, and chamber works for small groups or solo instruments including many for piano. In style he follows on from the traditions of Mozart and Beethoven, yet he did introduce some unique features, such as unusual chord and key changes, and a broad sense of time.
You have by your co-operation saved what is best from the shipwreck. For all this I shall be eternally grateful to you. The full score was not published until , and all three versions are known as Beethoven's Opus The first performance outside Vienna took place in Prague on 21 November , with a revival in Vienna on 3 November Fidelio was Arturo Toscanini 's first complete opera performance to be broadcast in the USA, over the NBC radio network, in December , by the NBC Symphony Orchestra , featuring soloists from the Metropolitan Opera though a shortwave broadcast of one act, conducted by Toscanini, had earlier been relayed from a 16 August performance at Salzburg.
Fidelio was the first opera performed in Berlin after the end of the World War II, with the Deutsche Oper staging it under the baton of Robert Heger at the only undamaged theatre, the Theater des Westens , in September Now that political events in Germany have restored to the concepts of human dignity and liberty their original significance, this is the opera which, thanks to the music of Beethoven, gives us comfort and courage Certainly, Fidelio is not an opera in the sense we are used to, nor is Beethoven a musician for the theater, or a dramaturgist.
He is quite a bit more, a whole musician, and beyond that, a saint and a visionary.
That which disturbs us is not a material effect, nor the fact of the 'imprisonment'; any film could create the same effect. No, it is the music, it is Beethoven himself. It is this 'nostalgia of liberty' he feels, or better, makes us feel; this is what moves us to tears. His Fidelio has more of the Mass than of the Opera to it; the sentiments it expresses come from the sphere of the sacred, and preach a 'religion of humanity' which we never found so beautiful or necessary as we do today, after all we have lived through.
Herein lies the singular power of this unique opera Independent of any historical consideration We realize that for us Europeans, as for all men, this music will always represent an appeal to our conscience. This performance was the first live television broadcast by ORF at a time when there were about television sets in Austria.
The first night of Fidelio at the Semperoper in Dresden on 7 October on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the DDR East Germany coincided with violent demonstrations at the city's main train station. Beethoven struggled to produce an appropriate overture for Fidelio , and ultimately went through four versions. His first attempt, for the premiere, is believed to have been the overture now known as "Leonore No. Beethoven then focused this version for the performances of , creating "Leonore No. The latter is considered by many listeners as the greatest of the four overtures, but as an intensely dramatic, full-scale symphonic movement it had the effect of overwhelming the rather light initial scenes of the opera.
Beethoven accordingly experimented with cutting it back somewhat, for a planned performance in Prague; this is believed to be the version now called "Leonore No. Finally, for the revival Beethoven began anew, and with fresh musical material wrote what we now know as the Fidelio overture. As this somewhat lighter overture seems to work best of the four as a start to the opera, Beethoven's final intentions are generally respected in contemporary productions.
While some believe that Gustav Mahler introduced the practice of performing "Leonore No.
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A new, modern-styled production that premiered in Budapest in October , for example, features the "Leonore No. Two years prior to the opening scene, the Spanish nobleman Florestan has exposed or attempted to expose certain crimes of a rival nobleman, Pizarro. In revenge, Pizarro has secretly imprisoned Florestan in the prison over which he is governor. Simultaneously, Pizarro has spread false rumors about Florestan's death. The warden of the prison, Rocco, has a daughter, Marzelline, and an assistant, Jaquino, who is in love with Marzelline.
The faithful wife of Florestan, Leonore, suspects that her husband is still alive.
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Disguised as a boy, under the alias "Fidelio", she gains employment working for Rocco. As the boy Fidelio, she earns the favor of her employer, Rocco, and also the affections of his daughter Marzelline, much to Jaquino's chagrin. On orders, Rocco has been giving the imprisoned Florestan diminishing rations until he is nearly starved to death. Jaquino and Marzelline are alone in Rocco's house. Rocco enters, looking for Fidelio, who then enters carrying a heavy load of newly-repaired chains.
Rocco compliments Fidelio, and misinterprets her modest reply as hidden attraction to his daughter.
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Marzelline, Fidelio, Rocco, and Jaquino sing a quartet about the love Marzelline has for Fidelio Mir ist so wunderbar —"A wondrous feeling fills me", also known as the Canon Quartet. Rocco tells Fidelio that as soon as the governor has left for Seville, Marzelline and Fidelio can be married. He tells them, however, that unless they have money, they will not be happy. Hat man nicht auch Gold beineben —"If you don't have any money". Fidelio demands to know why Rocco will not allow for help in the dungeons, especially as he always seems to return short of breath.
Rocco says that there is a dungeon down there where he can never take Fidelio, which houses a man who has been wasting away for two years. Marzelline begs her father to keep Leonore away from such a terrible sight, but Leonore claims courage sufficient to cope with it.
All but Rocco leave. A march is played as Pizarro enters with his guards. Rocco warns Pizarro that the minister plans a surprise visit tomorrow to investigate accusations of Pizarro's cruelty. Pizarro exclaims that he cannot let the minister discover the imprisoned Florestan, who has been thought dead. As a signal, Pizarro orders that a trumpet be sounded at the minister's arrival. Pizarro says he will kill Florestan himself instead, and orders Rocco to dig a grave for him in the floor of the dungeon. Once the grave is ready, Rocco is to sound the alarm, upon which Pizarro will come into the dungeon and kill Florestan.
Fidelio, hearing Pizarro's plot, is agitated, but hopes to rescue Florestan Abscheulicher! Wo eilst du hin? Where are you off to so fast? Jaquino once again begs Marzelline to marry him, but she continues to refuse. Fidelio, hoping to discover Florestan, asks Rocco to let the poor prisoners roam in the garden and enjoy the beautiful weather. Marzelline similarly begs him, and Rocco agrees to distract Pizarro while the prisoners are set free. The prisoners, ecstatic at their temporary freedom, sing joyfully O welche Lust —"O what a joy" , but remembering that they might be caught by the prison's governor Pizarro, are soon quiet.
After meeting with Pizarro, Rocco reenters and tells Fidelio that Pizarro will allow the marriage, and Fidelio will also be permitted to join Rocco on his rounds in the dungeon Nun sprecht, wie ging's? Rocco and Fidelio prepare to go to Florestan's cell, with the knowledge that he must be killed and buried within the hour. Fidelio is shaken; Rocco tries to discourage Fidelio from coming, but Fidelio insists. As they prepare to leave, Jaquino and Marzelline rush in and tell Rocco to run, as Pizarro has learned that the prisoners were allowed to roam, and is furious Ach, Vater, Vater, eilt!
Before they can leave, Pizarro enters and demands an explanation. Rocco, thinking quickly, answers that the prisoners were given a little freedom in honor of the Spanish king's name day , and quietly suggests that Pizarro should save his anger for the prisoner in the dungeon below. Pizarro tells him to hurry and dig the grave, and then announces that the prisoners will be locked up again.
Rocco, Leonore, Jacquino, and Marzelline reluctantly usher the prisoners back to their cells. Leb wohl, du warmes Sonnenlicht —"Farewell, you warm sunshine". Florestan is alone in his cell, deep inside the dungeons. He sings first of his trust in God, and then has a vision of his wife Leonore coming to save him Gott!
Florestan collapses and falls asleep, while Rocco and Fidelio come to dig his grave. Florestan awakes and Fidelio recognizes him. When Florestan learns that the prison he is in belongs to Pizarro, he asks that a message be sent to his wife, Leonore, but Rocco says that it is impossible.