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101French overture — The French overture is a musical form widely used in the Baroque period. It is in three parts: the first is slow, often with double dotted rhythms (a double dotted crotchet followed by a semiquaver), the second is quick and fugal, and the first… …
102Geographical Fugue — The Geographical Fugue or Fuge aus der Geographie is the most famous piece for spoken chorus by Ernst Toch.Toch was a prominent composer in 1920s Berlin, and singlehandedly invented the idiom of the Spoken Chorus .The piece was a sensation when… …
103Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck — (April or May, 1562 ndash; October 16, 1621) was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. He was among the first major keyboard composers of Europe, and his work… …
104Girolamo Frescobaldi — (baptized mid September 1583 – March 1, 1643) was an Italian musician, one of the most important composers of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. There is no evidence that the Frescobaldi of Ferrara were related to… …
105Missa Solemnis (Beethoven) — In this famous portrait of Beethoven by Joseph Karl Stieler, Beethoven can be seen working on the Missa Solemnis in D Major. The Missa solemnis in D Major, Op. 123 was composed by Ludwig van Beethoven from 1819 1823. It was first performed on… …
106Michael Praetorius — (probably February 15, 1571 – February 15, 1621) was a German composer, organist, and music theorist.[1] He was one of the most versatile composers of his age, being particularly significant in the development of musical forms based on Protestant …
107Symphony No. 11 (Shostakovich) — The Symphony No. 11 in G minor (Opus 103; subtitled The Year 1905 ) by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1957 and premiered by the USSR Symphony Orchestra under Natan Rakhlin on 30 October 1957. The symphony was conceived as a popular piece and… …
108Sonata da chiesa — (Italian: Church sonata) is an instrumental composition dating from the Baroque period, generally consisting of four movements. More than one melody was often used, and the movements were ordered slow–fast–slow–fast with respect to tempo. The… …
109German Requiem — Ein deutsches Requiem , nach Worten der heiligen Schrift, Op. 45 (English: A German Requiem, to words of the Holy Scriptures ) is a large scale work for chorus, orchestra, and soloists, composed by Johannes Brahms between 1865 and 1868. Ein… …
110Piano Sonata No. 32 (Beethoven) — The Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Opus 111, is the last of Ludwig van Beethoven s piano sonatas. Along with Beethoven s 33 Variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli , op. 120 (1823) and his two collections of bagatelles Opus 119 (1822) and Opus… …
