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The two Romanian Rhapsodies, Op. 11, for orchestra, are George Enescu 's best-known compositions. They were written in 1901, and first performed together in 1903. The two rhapsodies, and particularly the first, have long held a permanent place in the repertory of every major orchestra. They employ elements of lăutărească music, vivid ...
Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2011. Adele 's "Rolling in the Deep" was the number 1 song of the year, topping the Hot 100 for 7 consecutive weeks. Four of Katy Perry's singles, "Firework", "E.T.", "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" and "Teenage Dream" managed to enter the list, with "Firework" and "E.T." being numbers 3 and 4 respectively.
The Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano in F minor, Op. 6, is the second violin sonata by the Romanian composer George Enescu, completed in 1899. History [ edit ] After six years of study in Vienna, where he acquired German discipline and experienced the grandiose cultural summit of the late romantic era , Enescu moved to Paris, where he ...
George Enescu(Romanian pronunciation:[ˈdʒe̯ordʒeeˈnesku]ⓘ; 19 August [O.S.7 August] 1881 – 4 May 1955), known in France as Georges Enesco, was a Romaniancomposer, violinist, pianist, conductor, and teacher and is regarded as one of the greatest musicians in Romanian history. [1] Biography. [edit]
Folk music is the oldest form of Romanian musical creation, characterised by great vitality; it is the defining source of the cultured musical creation, both religious and lay. Conservation of Romanian folk music has been aided by a large and enduring audience, also by numerous performers who helped propagate and further develop the folk sound.
In the classical period, the Latin word opus ("work", "labour"), plural opera, was used to identify, list, and catalogue a work of art. [1]By the 15th and 16th centuries, the word opus was used by Italian composers to denote a specific musical composition, and by German composers for collections of music. [2]
List of Romanian Top 100 number ones. "I Follow Rivers" by Lykke Li ( pictured in 2009) topped the Romanian Top 100 for 12 weeks in 2011 and 2012, making it the song with the most documented weeks at number one in the chart's history. Founded in 1995, the Romanian Top 100 was the national music chart of Romania.
Title page of Beethoven's symphonies from the Gesamtausgabe. The list of compositions of Ludwig van Beethoven consists of 722 works [1] written over forty-five years, from his earliest work in 1782 (variations for piano on a march by Ernst Christoph Dressler) when he was only eleven years old and still in Bonn, until his last work just before his death in Vienna in 1827.