Jean Sibelius (8 December 1865 – 20 September 1957), was a Finnish composer and violinist of the late Romantic and early-modern periods. He is widely recognized as his country's greatest composer and, through his music, is often credited with having helped Finland to develop a national identity during its struggle for independence from Russia.
The core of his oeuvre is his set of seven symphonies, which, like his other major works, are regularly performed and recorded in his home country and internationally. His other best-known compositions are Finlandia, the Karelia Suite, Valse triste, the Violin Concerto, the choral symphony Kullervo, and The Swan of Tuonela (from the Lemminkäinen Suite). Other works include pieces inspired by nature, Nordic mythology, and the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, over a hundred songs for voice and piano, incidental music for numerous plays, the opera Jungfrun i tornet (The Maiden in the Tower), chamber music, piano music, Masonic ritual music, and 21 publications of choral music.
Sibelius composed prolifically until the mid-1920s, but after completing his Seventh Symphony (1924), the incidental music for The Tempest (1926) and the tone poem Tapiola (1926), he stopped producing major works in his last thirty years, a stunning and perplexing decline commonly referred to as "The Silence of Järvenpää", the location of his home. Although he is reputed to have stopped composing, he attempted to continue writing, including abortive efforts on an eighth symphony. In later life, he wrote Masonic music and re-edited some earlier works while retaining an active but not always favourable interest in new developments in music.
The Finnish 100 mark note featured his image until 2002, when the euro was adopted. Since 2011, Finland has celebrated a Flag Day on 8 December, the composer's birthday, also known as the "Day of Finnish Music". In 2015, the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth, a number of special concerts and events were held, especially in the city of Helsinki.
Jean Sibelius
1. Allegretto
2. Andante ma rubato
3. Vivacissimo
4. Finale, Allegro moderato
5. At the Castle Gate
6. M lisande
7. By the Seashore
8. By a Spring in the Park
9. The Three Blind Sisters
10. Pastorale
11. M lisande at the Spinning Wheel
12. Entr acte
13. M lisande s Death
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Antonín Leopold Dvořák (8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech composer, one of the first to achieve worldwide recognition. Following the Romantic-era nationalist example of his predecessor Bedřich Smetana, Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák's own style has been described as "the fullest recreation of a national idiom with that of the symphonic tradition, absorbing folk influences and finding effective ways of using them".
Dvořák displayed his musical gifts at an early age, being an apt violin student from age six. The first public performances of his works were in Prague in 1872 and, with special success, in 1873, when he was aged 31. Seeking recognition beyond the Prague area, he submitted a score of his First Symphony to a prize competition in Germany, but did not win, and the unreturned manuscript was lost until rediscovered many decades later. In 1874 he made a submission to the Austrian State Prize for Composition, including scores of two further symphonies and other works. Although Dvořák was not aware of it, Johannes Brahms was the leading member of the jury and was highly impressed. The prize was awarded to Dvořák in 1874[a] and again in 1876 and in 1877, when Brahms and the prominent critic Eduard Hanslick, also a member of the jury, made themselves known to him. Brahms recommended Dvořák to his publisher, Simrock, who soon afterward commissioned what became the Slavonic Dances, Op. 46. These were highly praised by the Berlin music critic Louis Ehlert in 1878, the sheet music (of the original piano 4-hands version) had excellent sales, and Dvořák's international reputation was launched at last.
Dvořák's first piece of a religious nature, his setting of Stabat Mater, was premiered in Prague in 1880. It was very successfully performed in London in 1883, leading to many other performances in the United Kingdom and United States.[2] In his career, Dvořák made nine invited visits to England, often conducting performances of his own works. His Seventh Symphony was written for London. Visiting Russia in March 1890, he conducted concerts of his own music in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.[3] In 1891 Dvořák was appointed as a professor at the Prague Conservatory. In 1890–91, he wrote his Dumky Trio, one of his most successful chamber music pieces. In 1892, Dvořák moved to the United States and became the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America in New York City. While in the United States, Dvořák wrote his two most successful orchestral works: the Symphony From the New World, which spread his reputation worldwide,[4] and his Cello Concerto, one of the most highly regarded of all cello concerti. He also wrote his most appreciated piece of chamber music, the American String Quartet, during this time. But shortfalls in payment of his salary, along with increasing recognition in Europe and an onset of homesickness, led him to leave the United States and return to Bohemia in 1895.
All of Dvořák's nine operas but his first have librettos in Czech and were intended to convey Czech national spirit, as were some of his choral works. By far the most successful of the operas is Rusalka. Among his smaller works, the seventh Humoresque and the song "Songs My Mother Taught Me" are also widely performed and recorded. He has been described as "arguably the most versatile... composer of his time".
Antonín Dvorak
Tracklist:
1. Rapsódia
2. Abertura Dramática
3. Wanda-Abertura, Op. 25
Suite em La maior op. 98b
4. Andante con moto
5. Allegro
6. Moderato (alla pollacca)
7. Andante
8. Allegro
9. Otelo, Abertura de concerto em fa sustenido menor op. 93
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Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art"), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama. He described this vision in a series of essays published between 1849 and 1852. Wagner realised these ideas most fully in the first half of the four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung).
His compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their complex textures, rich harmonies and orchestration, and the elaborate use of leitmotifs—musical phrases associated with individual characters, places, ideas, or plot elements. His advances in musical language, such as extreme chromaticism and quickly shifting tonal centres, greatly influenced the development of classical music. His Tristan und Isolde is sometimes described as marking the start of modern music.
Wagner had his own opera house built, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, which embodied many novel design features. The Ring and Parsifal were premiered here and his most important stage works continue to be performed at the annual Bayreuth Festival, run by his descendants. His thoughts on the relative contributions of music and drama in opera were to change again, and he reintroduced some traditional forms into his last few stage works, including Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg).
Until his final years, Wagner's life was characterised by political exile, turbulent love affairs, poverty and repeated flight from his creditors. His controversial writings on music, drama and politics have attracted extensive comment, notably, since the late 20th century, where they express antisemitic sentiments. The effect of his ideas can be traced in many of the arts throughout the 20th century; his influence spread beyond composition into conducting, philosophy, literature, the visual arts and theatre.
Richard Wagner
Tracklist
1. A Valquíria:
Cavalgada das Valquírias
2. Rienzi
Abertura em ré maior
3. Lohengrin
Prelúdio do Terceiro At
4. O Idílio de Siegfried
5. Abertura de O Navio Fantasma
6. Abertura de Tannhäuser
7. Os Mestres Cantores de Nuremberg
Abertura
8. Tristão e Isolda
Prelúdio
9. Tannhäuser
Bacanal
10. Lohengrin
Prelúdio
11. O Ouro de Reno
Entrada dos Deuses no Valhalla
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Baroque music is a period or style of Western art music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750.[1] This era followed the Renaissance music era, and was followed in turn by the Classical era. Baroque music forms a major portion of the "classical music" canon, and is now widely studied, performed, and listened to. Key composers of the Baroque era include Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, George Frideric Handel, Claudio Monteverdi, Domenico Scarlatti, Alessandro Scarlatti, Henry Purcell, Georg Philipp Telemann, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Arcangelo Corelli, Tomaso Albinoni, François Couperin, Giuseppe Tartini, Heinrich Schütz, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Dieterich Buxtehude, and Johann Pachelbel.
The Baroque period saw the creation of common-practice tonality, an approach to writing music in which a song or piece is written in a particular key; this kind of arrangement has continued to be used in almost all Western popular music. During the Baroque era, professional musicians were expected to be accomplished improvisers of both solo melodic lines and accompaniment parts. Baroque concerts were typically accompanied by a basso continuo group (comprising chord-playing instrumentalists such as harpsichordists and lute players improvising chords from a figured bass part) while a group of bass instruments—viol, cello, double bass—played the bassline. A characteristic Baroque form was the dance suite. While the pieces in a dance suite were inspired by actual dance music, dance suites were designed purely for listening, not for accompanying dancers.
During the period, composers and performers used more elaborate[clarification needed] musical ornamentation (typically improvised by performers), made changes in musical notation (the development of figured bass as a quick way to notate the chord progression of a song or piece), and developed new instrumental playing techniques. Baroque music expanded the size, range, and complexity of instrumental performance, and also established the mixed vocal/instrumental forms of opera, cantata and oratorio and the instrumental forms of the solo concerto and sonata as musical genres. Many musical terms and concepts from this era, such as toccata, fugue and concerto grosso are still in use in the 2010s. Dense, complex polyphonic music, in which multiple independent melody lines were performed simultaneously (a popular example of this is the fugue), was an important part of many Baroque choral and instrumental works.
The term "baroque" comes from the Portuguese word barroco, meaning "misshapen pearl".[2] Negative connotations of the term first occurred in 1734, in a criticism of an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau, and later (1750) in a description by Charles de Brosses of the ornate and heavily ornamented architecture of the Pamphili Palace in Rome; and from Jean Jacques Rousseau in 1768 in the Encyclopédie in his criticism of music that was overly complex and unnatural. Although the term continued to be applied to architecture and art criticism through the 19th century, it was not until the 20th century that the term "baroque" was adopted from Heinrich Wölfflin's art-history vocabulary to designate a historical period in music.
CD 1 - An Excess Of Pleasure
CD 2 - The Winged Lion
An Excess Of Pleasure (CD 1)
Marco Uccellini (1603-1680)
Aria Sopra La Bergamasca
Nicola Matteis (fl. 1670)
Ayres for the Violin: Aria Sagnuola A Due Corde · Diverse Bizzarie Sopra La Vecchia Sarabanda o pur Ciaconna
Matthew Locke (1621/2-1677)
Broken Consort In D: Pavan · Ayre · Galliard · Ayre · Saraband
Christopher Simpson (c.1605-1669)
Divisions Of John Come Kiss Me Now
John Blow (1649-1708)
Sonata In A: Slow · Untitled · Brisk
Biagio Marini (c.1587-1663)
Sonata
Anon (c.1660)
Ciaconna
Franceso Geminiani (1687-1762)
Scots Airs: Auld Bob Morrice · Lady Ann Bothwell's Lament · Sleepy Body
Nicolas Matteis
Ayres For The Violin: · Andamento Con Divisione · Aria · Grave · Ground In D, La Sol Re Per Fa La Mano
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Two In One Upon A Ground
Nicola Matteis
Bizzarie All'imor Scozzeze
The Winged Lion (CD2)
Dario Castello (fl. 1620)
Sonata Duodecima
Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632-1692)
Ciaconnna
Marcelo Uccelini (1603-1680)
Sonata Quarto
Antoni Vivaldi (1676-1741)
Concerto in F major RV 100 · Allegro · Untitled · Allegro
Giovanni Battista Buonamente (d.1642)
Suite (Book III 1626)
Gagliarda Seconda · Corrente terza e quarta · Brando terza · Avanti il Brando · Brando Quarto
Franceso Cavalli (1607-1676)
Canzon
Santiago De Murcia (fl..1700)
El Amor · La Jota
Franceso Turini (1589-1656)
Sonata a tre
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in D major RV.84: Untitled · Largo · Allegro
Marco Uccelini
Aria undecima detta 'Il Caporal Simon' · Aria decimaquarta 'la mia pedrina' · Aira decimaquinta sopra 'le scatola da gli ogghi'
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Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Art of Fugue, the Brandenburg Concertos, and the Goldberg Variations as well as for vocal music such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach Revival he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Western musical canon.
The Bach family already counted several composers when Johann Sebastian was born as the last child of a city musician in Eisenach. After becoming an orphan at age 10, he lived for five years with his eldest brother Johann Christoph Bach, after which he continued his musical development in Lüneburg. From 1703 he was back in Thuringia, working as a musician for Protestant churches in Arnstadt and Mühlhausen and, for longer stretches of time, at courts in Weimar—where he expanded his repertoire for the organ—and Köthen—where he was mostly engaged with chamber music. From 1723 he was employed as Thomaskantor (cantor at St. Thomas) in Leipzig. He composed music for the principal Lutheran churches of the city, and for its university's student ensemble Collegium Musicum. From 1726 he published some of his keyboard and organ music. In Leipzig, as had happened in some of his earlier positions, he had a difficult relation with his employer, a situation that was little remedied when he was granted the title of court composer by his sovereign, Augustus, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, in 1736. In the last decades of his life he reworked and extended many of his earlier compositions. He died of complications after eye surgery in 1750 at the age of 65.
Bach enriched established German styles through his mastery of counterpoint, harmonic and motivic organisation, and his adaptation of rhythms, forms, and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France. Bach's compositions include hundreds of cantatas, both sacred and secular.[4] He composed Latin church music, Passions, oratorios, and motets. He often adopted Lutheran hymns, not only in his larger vocal works, but for instance also in his four-part chorales and his sacred songs. He wrote extensively for organ and for other keyboard instruments. He composed concertos, for instance for violin and for harpsichord, and suites, as chamber music as well as for orchestra. Many of his works employ the genres of canon and fugue.
Throughout the 18th century Bach was mostly renowned as an organist,[5] while his keyboard music, such as The Well-Tempered Clavier, was appreciated for its didactic qualities.[6] The 19th century saw the publication of some major Bach biographies, and by the end of that century all of his known music had been printed. Dissemination of scholarship on the composer continued through periodicals and websites exclusively devoted to him, and other publications such as the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV, a numbered catalogue of his works) and new critical editions of his compositions. His music was further popularised through a multitude of arrangements, including for instance the Air on the G String, and of recordings, for instance three different box sets with complete performances of the composer's works marking the 250th anniversary of his death.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Tracklist:
1. Tocata e Fuga em Ré Menor, BWV 565
2. Cantata nº 51, "Jauchzet Gott In Allen Landen", BWV 51
3. Cantata nº 140, "Wachet Auf", BWV 140
4. Concerto de Brandenburgo nº 4, BWV 1049 (I. Allegro)
5. Ária na Corda Sol da Suíte nº 3, BWV 1068
6. Concerto para Cravo nº 1 em Ré Menor, BWV 1052 (I. Allegro)
7. Cantata nº 208, "Sheep May Safely Graze", BWV 208
Suíte nº 2 em Si Menor para Flauta, BWV 1067
8. Polonaise
9. Minueto
10. Badinerie
11. Cantata nº 147, "Jesus Alegria dos Homens", BWV 147
12. Concerto de Brandenburgo nº 2, BWV 1047(III. Allegro Assai)
CONCERTO DE BRANDEMBURGO N° 3, EM SOL MAIOR, BWV 1048
13. Allegro
14. Cadenza
15. Allegro
CONCERTO DE BRANDEMBURGO N° 5, EM RÉ MAIOR, BWV 1050
16. Allegro
17. Affettuoso
18. Allegro
CONCERTO EM RÉ MENOR PARA CRAVO E ORQUESTRA, BWV 1052
19. Allegro
20. Adagio
21. Allegro
CONCERTO EM DÓ MENOR PARA OBOÉ, VIOLINO E ORQUESTRA, BWV 1060
22. Allegro
23. Adagio
24. Allegro
25. TOCATA E FUGA EM RÉ MENOR PARA ÓRGÃO, BWV 565
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Frédéric François Chopin (1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation."
Chopin was born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin in the Duchy of Warsaw and grew up in Warsaw, which in 1815 became part of Congress Poland. A child prodigy, he completed his musical education and composed his earlier works in Warsaw before leaving Poland at the age of 20, less than a month before the outbreak of the November 1830 Uprising. At 21, he settled in Paris. Thereafter—in the last 18 years of his life—he gave only 30 public performances, preferring the more intimate atmosphere of the salon. He supported himself by selling his compositions and by giving piano lessons, for which he was in high demand. Chopin formed a friendship with Franz Liszt and was admired by many of his other musical contemporaries (including Robert Schumann). In 1835, Chopin obtained French citizenship. After a failed engagement to Maria Wodzińska from 1836 to 1837, he maintained an often troubled relationship with the French writer Amantine Dupin (known by her pen name, George Sand). A brief and unhappy visit to Majorca with Sand in 1838–39 would prove one of his most productive periods of composition. In his final years, he was supported financially by his admirer Jane Stirling, who also arranged for him to visit Scotland in 1848. For most of his life, Chopin was in poor health. He died in Paris in 1849 at the age of 39, probably of pericarditis aggravated by tuberculosis.
All of Chopin's compositions include the piano. Most are for solo piano, though he also wrote two piano concertos, a few chamber pieces, and some 19 songs set to Polish lyrics. His piano writing was technically demanding and expanded the limits of the instrument: his own performances were noted for their nuance and sensitivity. Chopin invented the concept of the instrumental ballade. His major piano works also include mazurkas, waltzes, nocturnes, polonaises, études, impromptus, scherzos, preludes and sonatas, some published only posthumously. Among the influences on his style of composition were Polish folk music, the classical tradition of J.S. Bach, Mozart, and Schubert, and the atmosphere of the Paris salons of which he was a frequent guest. His innovations in style, harmony, and musical form, and his association of music with nationalism, were influential throughout and after the late Romantic period.
Chopin's music, his status as one of music's earliest superstars, his (indirect) association with political insurrection, his high-profile love-life, and his early death have made him a leading symbol of the Romantic era. His works remain popular, and he has been the subject of numerous films and biographies of varying historical fidelity.
Frédéric Chopin
Tracklist:
Concerto para piano n. 1 em mi menor op. 11
1. Allegro Maestoso
2. Romanza: Larghetto
3. Rondó: Vivace
Concerto para piano n. 2 em fá maior op. 21
4. Maestoso
5. Largheto
6. Allegro Vivace Áudio
7. POLONAISE EM FÁ# MENOR OP.44
8. NOTURNO EM SI BEMOL MENOR OP.9 Nº1
9. NOTURNO EM MI BEMOL MENOR OP.9 Nº2
10. VALSA EM MI MENOR
11. MAZURCA EM SI BEMOL MAIOR OP.7 Nº1
12. POLONAISE EM LÁ MAIOR OP.40 Nº1
13. NOTURNO EM DÓ MENOR OP.48 Nº1
14. VALSA EM MI BEMOL MAIOR OP.18
15. MAZURCA EM RÉ MAIOR OP.33 Nº 2
16. FANTASIA IMPROVISO EM DÓ# MENOR OP.66
17. BALADA Nº1 SOL MENOR OP.23
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Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian[6] Baroque musical composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher, and priest. Born in Venice, the capital of the Venetian Republic, he is regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe. He composed many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other instruments, as well as sacred choral works and more than forty operas. His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as the Four Seasons.
Many of his compositions were written for the all-female music ensemble of the Ospedale della Pietà, a home for abandoned children. Vivaldi had worked there as a Catholic priest for 1 1/2 years and was employed there from 1703 to 1715 and from 1723 to 1740. Vivaldi also had some success with expensive stagings of his operas in Venice, Mantua and Vienna. After meeting the Emperor Charles VI, Vivaldi moved to Vienna, hoping for royal support. However, the Emperor died soon after Vivaldi's arrival, and Vivaldi himself died, in poverty, less than a year later.
Antonio Vivaldi
Tracklist:
1 - As Quatro Estações, Opus 8-a Primavera-allegro
2 - As Quatro Estações, Opus 8-a Primavera-largo
3 - As Quatro Estações, Opus 8-a Primavera-allegro
4 - As Quatro Estações, Opus 8-o Verão-allegro Nom Molto
5 - As Quatro Estações, Opus 8-o Verão-adagio-presto
6 - As Quatro Estações, Opus 8-o Verão-presto
7 - As Quatro Estações, Opus 8-o Outono-allegro
8 - As Quatro Estações, Opus 8-o Outono-adagio
9 - As Quatro Estações, Opus 8-o Outono-allegro
10 - As Quatro Estações, Opus 8-o Inverno-allegro Nom Molto
11 - As Quatro Estações, Opus 8-o Inverno-largo
12 - As Quatro Estações, Opus 8-o Inverno-allegro
13 - Glória, Em Ré Maior (Rv589)-gloria Em Excelsis Deo
14 - Glória, Em Ré Maior (Rv589)-et In Terra Pax
15 - Glória, Em Ré Maior (Rv589)-laudamus Te
16 - Glória, Em Ré Maior (Rv589)-gratias Agimus Tibi
17 - Glória, Em Ré Maior (Rv589)-domine Deus, Rex Caelestis
18 - Glória, Em Ré Maior (Rv589)-domine Fili Unigenite
19 - Glória, Em Ré Maior (Rv589)-domine Deus, Agnus Dei
20 - Glória, Em Ré Maior (Rv589)-qui Tollis Peccata Mundi
21 - Glória, Em Ré Maior (Rv589)-qui Sedes Ad Dexteram Patr...
22 - Glória, Em Ré Maior (Rv589)-quoniam Tu Solus Sanctus
23 - Cum Sancto Spirito
24 - La Tempesta Di Mare (Opus 8, Nº5)-presto
25 - La Tempesta Di Mare (Opus 8, Nº5)-largo
26 - La Tempesta Di Mare (Opus 8, Nº5)-presto
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Ludwig van Beethoven (17 December 1770[1] – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the classical and romantic eras in classical music, he remains one of the most recognized and influential musicians of this period, and is considered to be one of the greatest composers of all time.
Beethoven was born in Bonn, the capital of the Electorate of Cologne, and part of the Holy Roman Empire. He displayed his musical talents at an early age and was vigorously taught by his father Johann van Beethoven, and was later taught by composer and conductor Christian Gottlob Neefe. At age 21, he moved to Vienna and studied composition with Joseph Haydn. Beethoven then gained a reputation as a virtuoso pianist, and was soon courted by Prince Lichnowsky for compositions, which resulted in Opus 1 in 1795.
The piece was a great critical and commercial success, and was followed by Symphony No. 1 in 1800. This composition was distinguished for its frequent use of sforzandi, as well as sudden shifts in tonal centers that were uncommon for traditional symphonic form, and the prominent, more independent use of wind instruments.[2] In 1801, he also gained notoriety for his six String Quartets and for the ballet The Creatures of Prometheus. During this period, his hearing began to deteriorate, but he continued to conduct, premiering his third and fifth symphonies in 1804 and 1808, respectively. His condition worsened to almost complete deafness by 1811, and he then gave up performing and appearing in public.
During this period of self exile, Beethoven composed many of his most admired works; his seventh symphony premiered in 1813, with its second movement, Allegretto, achieving widespread critical acclaim.[3] He composed the piece Missa Solemnis for a number of years until it premiered 1824, which preceded his ninth symphony, with the latter gaining fame for being among the first examples of a choral symphony.[4] In 1826, his fourteenth String Quartet was noted for having seven linked movements played without a break, and is considered the final major piece performed before his death a year later.
His career is conventionally divided into early, middle, and late periods; the "early" period is typically seen to last until 1802, the "middle" period from 1802 to 1812, and the "late" period from 1812 to his death in 1827. During his life, he composed nine symphonies; five piano concertos; one violin concerto; thirty-two piano sonatas; sixteen string quartets; two masses; and the opera, Fidelio. Other works, like Für Elise, were discovered after his death, and are also considered historical musical achievements. Beethoven's legacy is characterized for his innovative compositions, namely through the combinations of vocals and instruments, and also for widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto, and quartet,[5] while he is also noted for his troublesome relationship with his contemporaries.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Tracklist:
1. Abertura "Egmont" op. 84
Sinfonia n. 6 em fá maior op. 68 "Pastoral"
2. Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande
3. Szene am Bach (Andante molto mosso)
4. Lustiges Zusammensein der Landleute (Allegro)
5. Gewitter, Sturm (Allegro)
6. Hirtengesang: Frohe und dankbare Gefühle nach dem Sturm (Allegretto)
SINFONIA Nº 9 EM RÉ MENOR "CORAL", OP.125
7. Allegro Ma Non Troppo-Un Poco Maestoso
8. Molto Vivace-Presto-Molto Vivace
9. Adagio Molto e Cantabile- Andante Moderato
10. Presto
11. Allegro Assai.Allegro Assai Vivace-Alla Marcia.Andante Maestoso-Allegro Energico-Prestissimo
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart(27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart,[b] was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.
Born in Salzburg, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his early death at the age of 35. The circumstances of his death have been much mythologized.
He composed more than 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers, and his influence is profound on subsequent Western art music. Ludwig van Beethoven composed his own early works in the shadow of Mozart, and Joseph Haydn wrote: "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tracklist:
1. Ato I- Abertura
2. Ato I- Dies Bildnis Ist Bezaubernd Schön (Tamin o)
3. Ato I- Bei Männern, Welche Liebe Fühlen (Pamina , Papageno)
4. Ato I- Wie Stark ist Nicht Dein Zauberton! (Tam ino)
5. Ato I: Schnelle Füsse, Rascher Mut (Pamina, Papageno, Monostatos, escravos)
6. Ato II- O Isis und Osiris (Sarastro, coro)
7. Ato II- Der Hölle Rache Kocht in Meinen Herzen ( A Rainha da Noite)
8. Ato II- Ach, Ich Fuhl's (Pamina)
9. Ato II- Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Papageno (Papageno, P apagena)
10. Abertura.mp3
11. Ato I Cena 1: Introduzione: Notte e Giorno Faticar (Leporello, Donna Anna, Con Giovanni, Il Commenda
12. Ato I Cena 5- Aria- Madamina, il Catalogo e Que sto (Leporello)
13. Ato I Cena 9- Duettino- La ci Darem la Mano (Ze rlina, Don Giovanni)
14. Ato I Cena 16- Aria- Batti, batti, o Bel Masett o (Zerlina)
15..Ato II Cena 3- Canzonetta- Deh, Vieni Alla Fine stra (Don Giovanni)
16. Ato II Cena 10- Aria- Il Mio Tesoro Intanto (Do n Ottavio)
17. Ato II Cena 15: Don Giovanni, A Cenar Teco (Il Commendatore, Don Giovanni, Leporello, coro)
18. Ato II Cena 16: Questo e il Fin (Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, Zerlina, Don Ottavio, Masetto, Leporello)
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart,[b] was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.
Born in Salzburg, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his early death at the age of 35. The circumstances of his death have been much mythologized.
He composed more than 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers, and his influence is profound on subsequent Western art music. Ludwig van Beethoven composed his own early works in the shadow of Mozart, and Joseph Haydn wrote: "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tracklist:
1. "Abertura" de As Bodas de Fígaro
Sinfonia n. 40
2. Molto Allegro
3. Andante
4. Menuetto: Allegreto Áudio
5. Allegro Assai
Sinfonia n. 41
6. Allegro Vivace
7. Andante Cantabile
8. Menuetto Allegreto
9. Finale: Molto Allegro
10. A Flauta Mágica: "Abertura"
SINFONIA Nº36 EM DÓ MAIOR K 425 "Linz"
11. Adagio -- Allegro Spiritoso
12. Poco Adagio
13. Menuetto
14. Presto
SINFONIA infonía Nº39 EM MI BEMOL MAIOR K 543
15. Adagio - Allegro
16. Andante con moto
17. Menuetto: Allegro
18. Finale: Allegro
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