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German violinist, trumpeter and composer (1639-1694)
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2016-03-12 12:40:41
[…] himself to it full-time and the group commanded long commitment from many fine players including: the trumpeters Elgar Howarth, John Wilbraham, Michael Laird and James Watson; horn players Ifor James and Frank Lloyd; trombonists John Iveson and Raymond Premru; and the renowned tubist John Fletcher. They made 50 recordings and toured over 30 countries finding particular popularity in Japan. Repertoire spanned from transcriptions of early music by the likes of Monteverdi, Giovanni Gabrieli, and Johann Pezel, to new works for the medium commissioned by Jones. These included pieces by Witold Lutosławski, Hans Werner Henze and Einojuhani Rautavaara; altogether they performed 87 world premieres. The ensemble’s leader was noted for his meticulous preparations at every concert, lining up the music stands himself, his personal commitment being one of the reasons for the ensemble’s success. In 1986 he accidentally drove his car over his own trumpet case. He took this as the […]
2015-10-13 15:08:33
In 1694 Johann Christoph Pezel died at about age 55 in Bautzen, Germany. In 1855 Johannes Brahms’ Piano Trio No. 1 in B was premiered in Danzig (Germany). Alexander Grechaninov In 1864 Alexander Gretchaninov was born in Moscow (Gregorian date: Oct. 25). He started his musical studies rather late, and did not see a piano until he was 14 and began his studies at the Moscow Conservatory in 1881. His main teachers there were Sergei Taneyev and Anton Arensky. In the late 1880s, after a quarrel with Arensky, he moved to St. Petersburg where he studied composition and orchestration with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov until 1893. Out of this came an important friendship, which only ended in 1908 with Rimsky’s death. As such, it is not surprising that Rimsky’s influence can be heard in Gretchaninov’s early works, such as his String Quartet No.1, a prize-winning composition. Around 1896, He returned to […]
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