Britten wrote this role with Deller specifically in mind, although he was dropped from staged revivals of the work against the composer's wishes, probably because of poor acting technique.

Subsequently, Paul Franz replaced Fontaine in the protagonist's role, earning the composer's praise for both the quality of his voice and his interpretation.

Questions also arose over Solomon Volkov's role — to what degree he was a compiler of previously written material, a transcriber of the composer's actual words from interviews, or an author essentially putting words into the composer's mouth.

Despite Giovanni Battista Mancini's claim that Hasse was the padre della musica, and despite the composer's massive popularity as a figure at the very forefront of 18th-century serious Italian opera, after his death Hasse's reputation vastly declined and his music lay mostly unperformed ( with the exception of some of his sacred works, which were revived now and again in Germany ).

Philip then used the connection to obtain the composer's autograph for Stone House's music teacher, W. E.

In a 1970's interview on Leningrad Television, when asked how he chooses a particular interpretation of the music he conducts, Mravinsky explained that he tries to understand what the composer's intention was by immersing himself into the " atmosphere " of the music ( Mravinsky used a term " atmospherization ").

Following the composer's wishes, local wind instrument producer Wilhelm Heckel invented the so-called " Heckelphone " ( a basso-oboe, used by Richard Strauss, Paul Hindemith and others ).

In 2004 the company became embroiled in a legal dispute with Lionel Sawkins, a music editor whose editions of works by Michel-Richard de Lalande had been used in Hyperion's recording of the composer's music.

Instrumentation is sometimes used as a synonym for orchestration, which more properly refers to an orchestrator's, composer's or arranger's craft of employing instruments in varying combinations.

The symphony is sometimes referred to as the " Lyric ", though the appellation is not the composer's own, and is seldom used.

Compositions from the same period with similar traits, particularly works by his pupils Alban Berg and Anton Webern, are often also included under this rubric, and the term has also been used pejoratively by musical journalists to describe any music in which the composer's attempts at personal expression overcome coherence or are merely used in opposition to traditional forms and practices ( Fanning 2001 ).

The composer's birthplace, the " Casa Natale del Maestro ", can be visited, as can the organ used by the young Verdi in the church a few kilometers away.

In 1924, the piece was arranged for full orchestra and later for by Vaughan Williams ' student Gordon Jacob, when the longer title was used, presumably with the composer's approval.

* Juan Maria Solare's piano ballad " Jura ser anomalía " ( literally " he / she swears to be an anomaly ") is an anagram of the composer's full name.

The composer's name was given as ' Gustav von Holst ' — by the time he wrote " Mercury " in 1916 he had dropped the ' von ', for he signed the score of that movement separately as ' Gustav Holst '.

The spelling and pronunciation of the composer's name has been a matter of some controversy.

According to his baptismal record the composer's name is ' Musersky '.

The addition of the ' g ' to the name was likely initiated by the composer's elder brother Filaret to obscure the resemblance of the name's root to an unsavory Russian word:

The first syllable of the name originally received the stress ( i. e. ' MÚS-ər-ski '), and does so to this day in Russia and in the composer's home district.

Their example was followed by many influential Russians, such as Fyodor Shalyapin, Nikolay Golovanov, and Tikhon Khrennikov, who, perhaps dismayed that the great composer's name was " reminiscent of garbage ", supported the erroneous second-syllable stress that has also become entrenched in the West.

It was his Symphony No. 3, however, first performed by Koussevitsky in 1939, which proved to be the composer's biggest breakthrough and made him practically a household name.

Here it is entitled (" March of the Grenadiers "), although no composer's name is given.

While the composer's name is pronounced ), with the ř roughly as a simultaneous trilled and, August Dvorak's family in the U. S. pronounces it, with an English r.

During the penal law era of Ireland's history, songs sung in Irish were outlawed, and it is believed that the use of the phrase " Planxty ", followed by the name of the composer, was to disguise the composer's true identity (" Planxty " being logically assumed to be the first name of the composer ), while still giving them credit for the song.

His name was brought back to public notice by the English poet Robert Browning's 1855 poem " A Toccata of Galuppi's ", but this did not restore the composer's work to the general repertoire.

Another score, that of Arminio in the same collection, dated Düsseldorf, 1707, and evidently the work of Steffani, bears no composer's name.

" Wolfgang " was the name of the composer's maternal grandfather.

68 (, Pikovaya dama, ) is an opera in 3 acts ( 7 scenes ) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to a Russian libretto by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, based on a short story of the same name by Alexander Pushkin.

About 1650 / 51 Louis Couperin and his brothers gave a small private concert at Chambonnières's Le Plessis-Feu-Aussoux manor, to celebrate the older composer's name day.

354 waltz till the time of the composer's death that his work would be chosen as the name of the operetta with libretto by Victor Léon and Leo Stein set around the Vienna Congress of 1814 to 1815.

It also encodes a version of the composer's name, Robert Alexander Schumann.

The grouping S-C-H-A encodes the composer's name again with the musical letters appearing in Schumann, in their correct order.

Not all composers have mudras, and they do not necessarily relate to the composer's name.

The original scores, which dated from 1804 when the composer was twelve, were found in the Library of Congress in Washington D. C. Often transcribed for string orchestra, these sonatas reveal the young composer's affinity for Haydn and Mozart, already showing signs of operatic tendencies, punctuated by frequent rhythmic changes and dominated by clear, songlike melodies.

Stravinsky's misfortunes apart, the Symphony in C had been infrequently performed in the composer's lifetime ; Stravinsky noted that for several years he was the only person conducting the work.

A fifth opera, The Golden Web ( libretto by Frederick Corder and B. C. Stephenson ), an opera bouffe slighter than its predecessors, was produced ( after the composer's death ) by the Carl Rosa Opera Company at Liverpool on 15 February, and at the Lyric Theatre, London on 11 March 1893.

Everett states this " A / C duality " fits well " with the composer's main concern in the poetic text " (" I want a love that's right but right is only half of what's wrong ").

In a sense, he is offering Bonn what its famous son ( who left as a youth ) never did -- the sound of the composer's mature style.

It was Diabelli who first recognized the composer's potential, become the very first to publish Schubert's work with Der Erlkönig in 1821.

Following Schubert's early death in 1828, Diabelli purchased a large portion of the composer's massive musical estate from Schubert's brother Ferdinand.

As Schubert's total compositions number nearly 1000, Diabelli's firm was able to publish " new " Schubert works for more than 30 years after the composer's death.

In addition he was a patron of the young Ludwig van Beethoven, who was born in Bonn in 1770 ; the elector financed the composer's first journey to Vienna.

This was the composer's first on-stage appearance in 12 years ; the hall was packed.

However, two years earlier, Umlauf had watched as the composer's attempt to conduct a dress rehearsal of his opera Fidelio ended in disaster.

In 1982 / 83 as part of the French national celebration of Jean Philippe Rameau's 300th birthday, Turocy choreographed the first production of Jean-Philippe Rameau's Les Boréades-it was never performed during the composer's lifetime.

Probably the most ambitious and perhaps significant work to date is Ingwe ( 2003 – 2009 ) by Georges Lentz ( written for Australian guitarist Zane Banks ), a 60-minute work for solo electric guitar, exploring that composer's existential struggles and taking the instrument into realms previously unknown in a concert music setting.

He learned to play the cello with ease, but the pedantic severity of Mattei's views on counterpoint only served to drive the young composer's views toward a freer school of composition.

Some older composers in Naples, notably Zingarelli and Paisiello, were inclined to intrigue against the success of the youthful composer, but all hostility was rendered futile by the enthusiasm that greeted the court performance of his Elisabetta, regina d ' Inghilterra, in which Isabella Colbran, who subsequently became the composer's wife, took a leading part.

The success of the work bears comparison with his achievements in opera, but his comparative silence during the period from 1832 to his death in 1868 makes his biography appear almost like the narrative of two lives — the life of swift triumph and the long life of seclusion, of which biographers give us pictures in stories of the composer's cynical wit, his speculations in fish culture, his mask of humility and indifference.

Often whimsical, these pieces display Rossini's natural ease of composition and gift for melody, showing obvious influences of Beethoven and Chopin, with many flashes of the composer's long buried desire for serious, academic composition.

According to Herbert Weinstock's 1968 biography ( see below ), the composer's estate was valued at 2. 5 million francs upon his death in 1868, the equivalent of about 1. 4 million US dollars.

Turandot, Puccini's final opera, was left unfinished, and the last two scenes were completed by Franco Alfano based on the composer's sketches.

In the USA, the American Center for Puccini Studies specializes in the presentation of unusual performing editions of composer's works and introduces neglected or unknown Puccini pieces.

When he was still a child, Verdi's parents moved from Piacenza to Busseto, where the future composer's education was greatly facilitated by visits to the large library belonging to the local Jesuit school.

Sullivan had one installed as well, and on 13 May 1883, at a party to celebrate the composer's 41st birthday, the guests, including the Prince of Wales ( later Edward VII ), heard a direct relay of parts of Iolanthe from the Savoy.

Telemann's friends in Hamburg organized a collection to save the composer's finances, and eventually he was saved from bankruptcy ; by 1736 Maria had left Telemann's home.