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contrabassoon
contrabassoon large, deep-toned instrument of the oboe family, also called double bassoon. Its tube, over 16 ft (5 m) long, is doubled upon itself four times. It was first made by Hans Schreiber of Berlin in 1620. Handel, Haydn, and Beethoven used it for special effects, but it was characterized by... Read more |
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bassoon
bassoon , double-reed woodwind instrument that plays in the bass and tenor registers. Its 8-ft (2.4-m) conical tube is bent double, the instrument thus being about 4 ft (1.2 m) high. It evolved from earlier double-reed instruments in the 16th cent. and by 1600 was common throughout Europe. When the... Read more |
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piano
piano or pianoforte, musical instrument whose sound is produced by vibrating strings struck by felt hammers that are controlled from a keyboard. The piano's earliest predecessor was the dulcimer . The first piano was made c.1709 by Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-1731), a Florentine maker of... Read more |
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instrumental
instrumental in the grammar of certain languages (e.g., Russian), the case referring to means or instrument. The Latin ablative may in some instances be termed instrumental.... Read more |
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , 1714-88, German composer; second son of J. S. Bach, his only teacher. While harpsichordist at the court of Frederick the Great, where his chief duty for 28 years (1738-67) was to accompany the monarch's performances on the flute, he wrote an important work on technique, ... Read more |
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Antonio Salieri
Antonio Salieri , 1750-1825, Italian composer and conductor. He received his first training in Italy, going afterward (1766) to Vienna, where he remained as conductor of the opera and later (1788-1824) as court conductor. He was a friend of Haydn, and he taught Beethoven, Schubert, and Liszt.... Read more |
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baritone
baritone or barytone , male voice , in a lighter and higher range than a bass but lower than a tenor. The term also designates a bass stringed instrument, fretted, with six or seven bowed strings, and up to 20 sympathetic (i.e., unplayed but freely vibrating) strings. Haydn wrote many works for... Read more |
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Handel and Haydn Society Presents Beethoven by Levin, Haydn by Labadie...
...stage to tackle Beethoven's Piano Concerto...improvisational charm. This Beethoven work is also surprising...like so many of Beethoven's works), beginning...ticket Handel and Haydn's young professionals...chorus and period instrument ... |
 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Arts: A night to remember What happens if you combine Ely Cathedral, Simon...
...idea of combining old and new, to demonstrate...juxtaposing works by Beethoven and Turnage or Haydn and Oliver Knussen...composers such as Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven would have recognised...ensembles playing instruments of ... |
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HAYDN: Piano Sonatas: in F, Hob. XVI:23; in C, Hob. XVI:48; in e, Hob....
...that makes, as the instrument "has just been...extraordinarily successful with Haydn's slow music...every dynamic is Haydn's, not Cerasi...They feel more like Beethoven than Haydn. The slow Andante...the 250-year-old ... |
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FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN AND THE FIVE-OCTAVE CLASSICAL KEYBOARD: REGISTRAL...
...affected the way Haydn and his contemporaries...period. Unlike Beethoven, whose early...509), Haydn's keyboard...his keyboard instruments' registrai...Classical keyboard instrument] is that...appreciate the way Haydn ... ... |
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M. HAYDN: Symphonies: in F1; Nos. 14(1), 17(1), 19(1), 24(1), 29(1), 33(1),...
M. HAYDN Symphonies: in...Mozart, F. J. Haydn, and Beethoven. We can therefore...symphonies by Michael Haydn. While he was not...but four years old, the influence...initially from the elder man to the younger...symphonies ... |
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BACH: 6 Cello Suites
...in Baroque style in ensemble contexts, the "old way" is still pervasive among string players...from what one might expect in performances of Haydn and Beethoven on modern instruments in large concert venues. Her sound is deep and... |
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The Beethoven Experience. (Pepsico Summerfare, Purchase, New York)
...its ten-year-old Summerfare series...concerts billed as The Beethoven Experience...participation of Beethoven, then the next...scrupulous attention to Beethoven's own directions...performance on period instruments do very well...to require ... |
 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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FOR COMPARONE, THE HARPSICHORD IS INSTRUMENTAL.(PREVIEW)
...will play duos and trios by Beethoven, Haydn and Mozart with violinist...of resistance to the new instrument remained. ``Haydn and Beethoven scored for pianoforte or...The center is only 2 years old,'' Pleshakov said... |
 "The Economist (US)")
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Cleansing Bach and Beethoven. (authentic music movement matures)
...manner of playing old music. The movement...replicating old instruments, such groups as...rolled down through Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven and moved on...work with modern instruments, while luminaries...with historical ... |
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IT'S A GREAT YEAR FOR GIFTS OF MUSIC--LIVE AND ON DISC.(Lifestyle)
...sound on a modern instrument -- it's a no...taste runs to older classics, try...recordings of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. In the past...ll hear that in Haydn's late Op...has redefined Beethoven with its period... |
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