Search results for "Violinist" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Arcangelo Corelli (February 17, 1653 – January 8, 1713) was an influential Italian violinist and composer of Baroque music who was known as ...7 KB (994 words) - 06:13, 12 August 2023
- ) (July 16, 1858 - May 12, 1931) was a Belgian violinist, composer ... was practicing in a cellar, the legendary violinist Henri Vieuxtemps walked ...14 KB (2,096 words) - 18:51, 11 September 2023
- Jascha Heifetz (February 2, 1901 – December 10, 1987) was a Jewish-Lithuanian violin virtuoso often hailed as the greatest violinist of the ...17 KB (2,485 words) - 09:58, 1 April 2024
- Fritz Kreisler (February 2, 1875 - January 29, 1962) was an Austria-born American violinist and composer. Noted for his sweet tone and expressive ...12 KB (1,707 words) - 07:05, 15 April 2024
- and Paris. The work was premiered by violinist Albert Spalding with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy on February 11, 1941 ...10 KB (1,559 words) - 02:18, 23 December 2022
- He was the eldest son of Robert Field, who was a violinist. He made his debut at the age of nine, a performance that was well-received. His family moved ...5 KB (734 words) - 06:35, 8 April 2024
- in Carnegie Hall. It was named for the violinist Isaac Stern in 1997. ... Under pressure from a group led by violinist Isaac Stern, special legislation ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 00:35, 29 November 2023
- [[Image:Violinist-Bleu.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Chagall's painting ... * The Violinist, 1911–1914, Düsseldorf, Germany, Kunstsammlung NRW ...14 KB (2,115 words) - 03:04, 6 November 2022
- Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (October 27, 1782 – May 27, 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He is one of the ...18 KB (2,716 words) - 23:29, 14 November 2022
- |Occupation = Composer, Conductor, Violinist, Cellist ... family names. A part-time itinerant violinist, he adopted the name Offenbach ...11 KB (1,730 words) - 08:34, 18 March 2024
- Practically speaking, if a violist and violinist are playing together, the ... " which was a present for the famous violinist Joseph Joachim and his ...22 KB (3,581 words) - 20:26, 3 May 2023
- beat. This was sometimes the principal violinist, who could use his bow ... New York City Symphony conducts a young violinist and orchestra]] ...17 KB (2,649 words) - 22:58, 14 May 2020
- Lang’s duos with violinist Joe Venuti have a very similar atmosphere. Most famous is “Stringing the Blues” (1926). ==Discography== ...6 KB (912 words) - 18:06, 12 February 2024
- musicologist, pianist, violist and violinist. He is best known for ... 1908 his principal activity was as first violinist in the Mugellini Quintet ...13 KB (1,835 words) - 05:57, 18 November 2022
- gradually developed into an accomplished violinist and violist. Throughout ... and orchestrated. He had met the great violinist Joseph Joachim in 1878 ...18 KB (2,917 words) - 12:12, 30 October 2021
- In many ways, his years as a young Worcestershire violinist were his ... was commissioned by the world-renowned violinist Fritz Kreisler, and in ...21 KB (3,203 words) - 18:23, 12 February 2024
- 4, 1955, Paris) was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, and ... Enescu's recordings as a performer (violinist, conductor & pianist ...17 KB (2,378 words) - 12:09, 11 August 2021
- Whiteman’s pianist Frank Signorelli and violinist Joe Venuti are early examples. The chamber music approach was quite naturally practiced by ...8 KB (1,251 words) - 19:25, 9 November 2022
- is at the piano, with Snoopy as the violinist. ;Piano quintet in f minor * Curzon: Vienna Philharmonic Quartet (Decca 421 153-2 with Dvořák ...9 KB (1,338 words) - 00:07, 4 December 2023
- A person who plays the violin is called a violinist or fiddler, and a person ... Through practice and ear training, the violinist's left hand finds ...45 KB (7,281 words) - 20:27, 3 May 2023
- In 1954, the cha-cha-cha, a kind of mambo created by the Cuban violinist Enriqué Jorrin, a member of the Orquesta America Charanga, swept through ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- musician. Their son Paul Zukofsky became a noted violinist and conductor. ==Shorter poems and other writings== In tandem with "A," Zukofsky ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 04:11, 4 November 2022
- 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist, and impresario of Baroque ... a barber before becoming a professional violinist. He was one of the founders ...38 KB (5,736 words) - 05:45, 11 August 2023
- In the summer of 1858, Grieg met the eminent Norwegian violinist Ole Bull, who was a friend of the family, and whose brother was married to Grieg ...11 KB (1,752 words) - 18:19, 12 February 2024
- and the arts, and was also an accomplished violinist. At age 18, having passed his comprehensive exams at the Prague Gymnasium, Wertheimer entered ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 01:04, 9 November 2022
- a bank clerk and his wife Iku, a violinist. When Endo was three, his parents moved to Japanese-occupied Manchuria. When he was ten–years–old ...12 KB (1,864 words) - 18:33, 13 February 2024
- Adolph Waller was an accomplished violinist. Waller started his musical career at an early age. He studied classical piano and organ as a child ...12 KB (1,952 words) - 21:09, 30 April 2023
- he moved to Hamburg, accepting a position as a violinist in the orchestra of the opera-house at Hamburg. Here his first two operas, Almira and Nero, were ...12 KB (1,833 words) - 08:06, 23 January 2023
- Along with “Tram,” guitarist Eddie Lang, violinist Joe Venuti, pianist Frank Signorelli, and a few other outstanding soloists hired by Whiteman ...14 KB (2,109 words) - 18:01, 31 October 2023
- Carl August Nielsen (June 9, 1865 – October 3, 1931) was a conductor, violinist, and the most internationally known composer from Denmark. ...14 KB (2,062 words) - 19:21, 26 November 2023
- He composed for and played with classical musicians including violinist ... of AIR Delhi, introduced the Western violinist Yehudi Menuhin to Shankar ...35 KB (4,906 words) - 19:06, 16 April 2023
- but is unique in its own form. The Belgian violinist Henri Vieuxtemps contributed several works to this form. Édouard Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole ...16 KB (2,475 words) - 16:41, 14 November 2021
- Concerto for Orchestra at the behest of the violinist Joseph Szigeti and the conductor Fritz Reiner (who had been Bartók's friend and champion since ...14 KB (2,253 words) - 08:50, 27 September 2023
- Cantor with announcer Jimmy Wallington and violinist Dave Rubinoff. The show established Cantor as a leading comedian, and his scriptwriter, David Freedman ...14 KB (2,054 words) - 18:05, 12 February 2024
- Boothe, in New York City. Although her father, a violinist, deserted the family when Clare was nine, he instilled in his daughter a love of music and ...15 KB (2,324 words) - 22:31, 10 December 2023
- Juan Buitrago, a Colombian violinist who was living with the MacDowell family at the time, gave the young Edward his first piano lessons and ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 23:45, 12 February 2024
- he met Alexander Ritter, a noted composer and violinist, and the husband of one of Richard Wagner's nieces. It was Ritter who persuaded Strauss ...15 KB (2,261 words) - 01:47, 14 December 2022
- early twentieth century. After marrying violinist and composer Claire Delbos ... In 1932, Messiaen married the violinist and fellow composer Claire ...42 KB (6,502 words) - 00:25, 18 November 2022
- delayed until 1881 because Leopold Auer, the violinist to whom Tchaikovsky had intended to dedicate it, refused to perform it for its technical difficulty ...33 KB (4,939 words) - 01:34, 24 November 2022
- [[Image:Carnatic violinist.jpg|thumb|200px|A musician playing a violin ... by the lead singer. The vocalist and the violinist take turns while elaborating ...40 KB (6,040 words) - 15:47, 28 November 2023
- and could have elected to keep out." The violinist Yehudi Menuhin, on the other hand, was among those in the Jewish music community who came ...21 KB (3,095 words) - 11:58, 5 May 2023
- His father was an accomplished Carnatic music violinist who had authored several books on musicology. Chandrasekhar, also known as Chandra, was the ...20 KB (2,980 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- Claudio Monteverdi (May 15, 1567 (baptised) – November 29, 1643) was an Italian composer, violinist, and singer considered a crucial figure ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 10:59, 19 December 2023
- |Emmerich Kalman||Hungarian||Der Zigeunerprimas (The Gipsy Violinist) (1914) and Die Csárdásfürstin (The Gypsy Princess) (1917)||1908-1954 ...19 KB (2,844 words) - 00:52, 18 November 2022
- a child, ironically with his father's first violinist in the Strauss orchestra, Franz Amon. It was only when his father left the family after taking ...18 KB (2,468 words) - 14:59, 1 August 2022
- Angeles Philharmonic in a program that featured violinist Jascha Heifetz, performances of Strauss' Fan Fare, and Beethoven's Violin Concerto ...21 KB (3,188 words) - 02:46, 4 November 2022
- them to jam with his jazz ensemble, consisting of violinist Stephane Grappelli and guitarist Roger Chaput who was sometimes replaced with Pierre Ferret ...19 KB (3,034 words) - 16:27, 29 January 2024
- similar legend even surrounded the European violinist Niccolò Paganini, a century before.) A contributing factor to the legend is the fact that ...22 KB (3,598 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- [[Image:Anders Zorn - Hins Anders (1904).jpg|thumb|200px|Violinist Hins Anders displaying violin fingering technique]] [[Image:Crd G.svg|thumb ...26 KB (3,682 words) - 21:00, 26 February 2023
- Thus spoke the virtuoso violinist and composer Niccolò Paganini after hearing Berlioz's Harold in Italy. David Ewen. The Complete Book of ...23 KB (3,532 words) - 08:21, 21 January 2024
