The Daily Telegraph commented that the piece illustrated the composer's " great capacity for dramatic writing of the lighter class ", and other reviews emphasised the felicitous combination of Gilbert's words and Sullivan's music.

Claude Debussy's Prélude à l ' après-midi d ' un faune ( 1892-4 ), intended initially as part of a triptych, is, in the composer's words, " a very free ... succession of settings through which the Faun's desires and dreams move in the afternoon heat.

Many of the orchestra and cast were hostile to Debussy's innovative work and, in the words of Roger Nichols, " may not have taken altogether kindly to the composer's injunction, reported by Mary Garden, to ' forget, please, that you are singers '.

The debut on 2 May 1936 was, in the composer's words, inauspicious at best: "... was poor and failed to attract much attention ".

Set to the words, " I'll go and see Maxim ," it was reportedly sung jokingly in the Shostakovich household to the composer's son.

They were in some ways a complete about-face from the comments the West had received over the years, many times in the composer's words.

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.

It includes a quotation from the composer's song " Rebirth ", accompanying the words " A barbarian painter " who " blackens the genius's painting ".

He told CBS that Shostakovich had written a " hidden message " in the symphony, which is supported by the composer's words in Testimony.

Brown had first sung Dies natalis in 1952 under the composer's baton, and his interpretation in the recording is described by Finzi's biographer, Diana McVeagh, as " among his finest: intelligent, poetic, and informed with his acute but gentle feeling for words.

The full score and vocal score in the British Library are both in the composer's hand – the full score is unbound but complete ( save that the vocal parts do not have the words after the first few folios ) but the vocal score is bound ( in three volumes ) and complete with words.

To make the situation worse, during the 1890s, the directors of the Bayreuth Festival began propagating a particularly forceful style of Wagnerian singing that placed such an undue emphasis on the articulation of the individual words of the composer's libretti, the all-important musical component of his operas was compromised.

This work, in the composer's own words, is affectionately inscribed to the children of John and Jean Maud: Humphrey, Pamela, Caroline and Virginia, for their edification and entertainment.

"... the primary form of mathematical communication is not description but injunction ... Music is a similar art form, the composer does not even attempt to describe the set of sounds he has in mind, much less the set of feelings occasioned through them, but writes down a set of commands which, if they are obeyed by the performer, can result in a reproduction, to the listener, of the composer's original experience.

The great danger — not at all hypothetical — is that an interestingly eccentric or even inspired choice on the composer's part will be obliterated by an overzealous editor.

In essence, it is the belief that a " ninth symphony " is destined to be a composer's last ; i. e. that he or she will be " fated " to die after writing it, or before completing a " tenth ".

These were constructed freely, based upon the subconscious will, unmediated by the conscious, anticipating the main shared ideal of the composer's relationship with the painter Wassily Kandinsky.

A differentiation is made between a simple " last " ( which includes the last time something happened that will likely happen again — such as the last time there was an unassisted triple play in baseball or the last time it snowed in September in New York City ) and a " notable last " ( which are limited to concrete endings ; thus not possible or highly improbable to ever happen again — such as a deceased composer's last work or the last act in a specific war that has ended ).

He philosophically resigned himself to being a victim of his own success: his extensive diaries and correspondence — which survived the turmoil of 20th century Europe and have now been published in eight volumes — are an invaluable source for the history of music and theatre in the composer's time.

The King of Prussia was also present at a performance of one of Hasse's Te Deums, and himself ordered a performance of the composer's opera Arminio.

Richard Adeney was closely associated with Benjamin Britten, and performed in many performances and recordings of the composer's works, notably in 1962 with the Melos Ensemble in the premiere and recording of the War Requiem that Britten conducted himself.

Possibly the most adept at musical depiction in his program music was the German composer Richard Strauss, whose symphonic poems include Death and Transfiguration ( portraying a dying man and his entry into heaven ), Don Juan ( based on the ancient legend of Don Juan ), Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks ( based on episodes in the career of the legendary German figure Till Eulenspiegel ), Don Quixote ( portraying episodes in the life of Miguel de Cervantes ' character, Don Quixote ), A Hero's Life ( which depicts episodes in the life of an unnamed hero often taken to be Strauss himself ) and Symphonia Domestica ( which portrays episodes in the composer's own married life, including putting the baby to bed ).

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 ").

One-time friend Lou Harrison dissociated himself from Ruggles after the 1949 performance of Angels because of the older composer's racism, noting specifically a luncheon at Pennsylvania Station in New York at which Ruggles shouted anti-black and anti-semitic slurs.

The Scherzo is also notable for an appearance by the DSCH motif — a motif that reoccurs in many of the composer's works representing Shostakovich himself.

The composer's situation and the official anti-Semitism of the time made a public premiere impossible until January 15, 1955, when it was performed by Shostakovich himself with Nina L ' vovna Dorliak, Zara Dolukhanova and Alec Maslennikov.

46 ) is a Polish opera in 3 acts, with music by Karol Szymanowski and the libretto by the composer himself and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, the composer's cousin.

As a result of that meeting, on the first Monday of each month from November to May, friends of the composer and members of the Society gathered in the Künstlerhaus and listened to concerts of the composer's music much of which was played by Bortkiewicz himself.

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.

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

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.

Brahms venerated Beethoven: in the composer's home, a marble bust of Beethoven looked down on the spot where he composed, and some passages in his works are reminiscent of Beethoven's style.

He looked to older music for inspiration in the art of counterpoint ; the themes of some of his works are modelled on Baroque sources such as Bach's The Art of Fugue in the fugal finale of Cello Sonata No. 1 or the same composer's Cantata No. 150 in the passacaglia theme of the Fourth Symphony's finale.

In January 1821, on his return from Naples, Paganini met Rossini again in Rome, just in time to become the composer's substitute conductor for his opera Mathilde de Sharbran, upon the sudden death of the original conductor.

Back in Frankfurt, he renewed his academic duties and, from 1952 to 1954, completed the essays “ Notes on Kafka ”, “ Valéry Proust Museum ” and an essay on Schoenberg following the composer's death, all of which were included in the 1955 essay collection Prisms.

Boris Godunov was performed 21 times during the composer's lifetime, and 5 times after his death ( in 1881 ) before being withdrawn from the repertory on 8 November 1882.

In an unprecedented first, the New York premiere was given on the same date – 25 November 1882, with the composer's assistant, Alfred Cellier, conducting.

The task of adapting a composition for musical instruments / ensembles, called arranging or orchestrating, may be undertaken by the composer or separately by an arranger based on the composer's core composition.

* Composer & musicologist Kyle Gann's Nancarrow Page Gann, author of " The Music of Conlon Nancarrow ", is one of the current authorities on the composer's work.

Balakirev also intermittently spent time editing Glinka's works for publication, on behalf of the composer's sister, Lyudmilla Shestakova.

The therapy had worked ..." A final collection of the composer's writings was published in 1995 under the title Tippett on Music.

Macdonald calls Modest Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain and Alexander Borodin's In the Steppes of Central Asia " powerful orchestral pictures, each unique in its composer's output ".

In early years of the 20th century, Delius composed some of his most popular works, including Brigg Fair ( 1907 ), In a Summer Garden ( 1908, revised 1911 ), Summer Night on the River ( 1911 ), and On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring ( 1912 ), of which McVeagh comments, " These exquisite idylls, for all their composer's German descent and French domicile, spell ' England ' for most listeners.

He describes the wreck of the composer's physique, yet " there was nothing pitiable about him ... his face was strong and disdainful, every line graven on it by intrepid living ".

Tommaso Traetta produced two operas setting translations of Rameau libretti that show the French composer's influence, Ippolito ed Aricia ( 1759 ) and I Tintaridi ( based on Castor et Pollux, 1760 ).

* January 13-Stephen Foster Memorial Day is observed for the first time in the United States ( on the 103rd anniversary of the composer's death ).

The work was premiered after the composer's death, with Krasner playing the solo part, on April 19, 1936, in Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona.

This is because we must rely on literary, interpretative accounts of performance practice in those days before such time as audio recording was implemented, and even then, only a composer's personal or sanctioned recording could directly document usage.

In 1973, when the company decided to release all of Rachmaninoff's recordings on LPs ( to celebrate the centennial of the composer's birth ), RCA was forced to go to record collectors for materials, as documented by Time.

In a hole on the front of the mute, there is a cup on a tube that can be slid in or out, or removed completely, depending on the composer's direction or the player's preference.