Homage to Paderewski is an album of piano pieces by 17 composers, published in 1942 in honour of the Polish pianist, composer and statesman Ignacy Jan...

Ignacy Jan Paderewski (Polish: [iɡˈnatsɨ ˈjan padɛˈrɛfskʲi] ; 6 November [O.S. 25 October] 1860 [or 1859] – 29 June 1941) was a Polish pianist, composer...

festschrift dedicated to him. In music, homage can take the form of a composition (Homage to Paderewski), a tribute album (Homage to Charles Parker) or a...

least to the 15th century. On his father's side, Milhaud's Jewish lineage was thus neither Ashkenazi nor Sephardi, but specifically Provençal—dating to Jewish...

work dedicated to Geyer and suppressed by Bartók for many years. The intense contrapuntal writing of this movement is often compared to Ludwig van Beethoven's...

suit his music best. Martinů would have preferred to compose it to a text in Czech and, according to his biographer Miloš Šafránek, he regretted hearing...

O'Neill (voice, dubbed version) Buñuel claimed: "I was able to film Las Hurdes thanks to Ramón Acín, an anarchist from Huesca,...who one day at a cafe...

Bartók was written from July to September 1928 in Budapest. It is one of six string quartets by Bartok. The work is dedicated to the Pro Arte Quartet but...

connection to the nativity of Jesus and are believed to have pre-Christian origins. The story concerns a father who has taught his nine sons only how to hunt;...

respected violist who knew that Bartók could provide a challenging piece for him to perform. He said that Bartók should not "feel in any way proscribed by the...

(dedicated to Madame Regis de Oliveira) Botafogo (dedicated to Oswald Guerra) Leme (dedicated to Nininha Velloso-Guerra) Copacabana (dedicated to Godofredo...

in March 1944. He wrote letters to Menuhin in April and June 1944 to agree on minor changes to make the Sonata easier to play. The Sonata consists of four...

23/2, for two pianos (written as part of the collaborative album Homage to Paderewski; 1941) Prelude and Fugue on a Theme of Vittoria for organ (1946)...

composed in 1911, but the first performance didn't occur until 1921. According to Maurice Hinson, editor, Bartók premiered the piece in February 1913 in Kecskemet...

written in response to a commission from the Koussevitzky Foundation (run by the conductor Serge Koussevitzky) following Bartók's move to the United States...

close as possible to the bridge), col legno (playing with the wood rather than the hair of the bow), and glissandi (sliding from one note to another). It has...

Mandarin falls to the floor After an orchestral introduction depicting the chaos of the big city, the action begins in a room belonging to three tramps...

letter to André Gertier, Bartók described the first movement as being in sonata form, the second as "a kind of rondo" and the third as "difficult to define"...

Natural Beauty and is a tribute to composer Benjamin Britten. Hambling commissioned local business J. T. Pegg & Sons LTD to create the sculpture. It is made...

had come to an agreement with Kurt Weill to base a musical comedy on his play, but on hearing some of Martinů's music, passed his favour to the Czech...

Martinů wrote the original version from 1954 to 1957. He offered this original version of the opera in 1957 to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where...

Hungary following the outbreak of World War II. Bartók's migration from Europe to America preceded that of his music. Lack of local interest, combined with...

The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34, is a 1945 musical composition by Benjamin Britten with a subtitle Variations and Fugue on a Theme of...

with a combined duration of 17–20 minutes. Bartók wrote the work in response to a letter from violinist Joseph Szigeti, although it was officially commissioned...

in 1951. The piece was inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses. It is dedicated to oboist Joy Boughton, daughter of Benjamin Britten's friend and fellow composer...

trying to regain his memories. Although he's claimed as a son by various families, a rich Duchess believes the true family Gaston belongs to is the Renauds...

refrains or songs in a style which might be considered popular. The melodies to which these are set have the character of folk music, and seem more spontaneous...

illness, Bartók returned to Budapest, where the quartet was finished in November. After his mother's death, Bartók decided to leave with his family for...

pantomime ballet composed by Béla Bartók in 1914–1916 (orchestrated 1916–1917) to a scenario by Béla Balázs. It was first performed at the Budapest Opera on...

ballet was premiered in January 1930, in Paris. In response to a commission by Božena Neběská and to a scenario by Jarmila Kröschlová, Martinů wrote a witty...