Stocken's father is British but his mother was a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany.

Stocken's best-known composition is his Lament for Bosnia, which was released on CD ( becoming the number one best-selling classical CD in Tower Records ' London store during early 1994 ).

As the sleeve-notes to the CD explain, the work was also dedicated to Stocken's maternal grandmother, Rosa Bechhofer, who had died in Auschwitz.

Stocken's Bagatelle ( for piano ) was featured on the 2009 album Haflidi ’ s Pictures ( a compilation of 20th / 21st century piano music ).

Brahms wrote to Clara Schumann that the inspiration for the dramatic entry of the horn in the introduction to the last movement of his First Symphony was an alphorn melody he heard while vacationing in the Rigi area of Switzerland.

* 1800 – Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna.

In another instance of devotion to detail, he laboured over the official First Symphony for almost fifteen years, from about 1861 to 1876.

This prediction hardly added to the composer's self-confidence, and may have contributed to the delay in producing the First Symphony.

However, Clara Schumann noted before that Brahms's First Symphony was a product that was not reflective of Brahms's real nature.

Brahms's First Symphony bears strongly the influence of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, as the two works are both in C minor, and end in the struggle towards a C major triumph.

The main theme of the finale of the First Symphony is also reminiscent of the main theme of the finale of Beethoven's Ninth, and when this resemblance was pointed out to Brahms, he replied that any ass – jeder Esel – could see that.

The first movement of this abandoned Symphony was re-worked as the first movement of the First Piano Concerto.

* November 4 – The long-awaited First Symphony of Johannes Brahms is premiered at Karlsruhe under the baton of Otto Dessoff.

Bruckner's symphonies are all in four movements ( though he was unable to complete the finale of the Ninth ), starting with a modified sonata allegro form, a slow movement in ABA ’ B ’ A ’’ form ( except in the Study Symphony, the First and the Sixth ), a scherzo in 3 / 4 time, and a modified sonata allegro form finale.

Holst's ' retirement ' was immediately productive, with the First Choral Symphony to words by Keats ( a Second Choral Symphony to words by George Meredith exists only in fragments ).

# Symphony No. 6 ( Devil Choirs At The Gates Of Heaven ) ( Blast First / Atavistic, 1989 )

*( First ) Symphony in One Movement ( Op.

Samuel Barber: Symphony No. 2 ; Music for a Scene from Shelley ; Overture to The School for Scandal ; First Essay ; Adagio for Strings.

From his manifestation of personal strength in the First Symphony, in the Second Nielsen embarks on the development of human character.

Symphony No. 4, " The Inextinguishable ", written during the First World War is perhaps the most popular.

:: 1930: H 75 First Symphony in C

As a composer, Balakirev finished major works many years after he had started them ; he began his First Symphony in 1864 but completed it in 1897.

Balakirev began his First Symphony after completing the Second Overture but cut work short to concentrate on the Overture on Czech Themes, recommencing on the symphony only 30 years later and not finishing it until 1897. Letters from Balakirev to Stasov and Cui indicate that the first movement was two-thirds completed and the final movement sketched out, though he would supply a new theme for the finale many years later.

Bax's works from this time reflect deep psychological conflicts that point forward to the passionate yet deeply troubled First Symphony in E flat, completed in 1922.

The First Symphony was given its first performance in 1945, conducted by Sargent, while the Third Quartet was premiered in 1946 by the Zorian Quartet.

The first period ( 1935 – 47 ) includes the first three quartets, the Concerto for Double String Orchestra, the oratorio A Child of Our Time and the First Symphony.

After the First Symphony, his style became less severely linear, but his continuing love of fugue can be seen in works such as the Third String Quartet, where three out of the five movements are fugal, and the Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli.

First it was the Nations against themselves, then it was them against the whites.

First, Wright said, he was choked by the smoke, which fortunately kept him from seeing the dreadful town.

The President was even more generous with the First Lady than he had been before the tragedy.

Among the dolls was one that meant very much to the First Lady, who would pick it up and look at it often.

But she was afraid the First Lady would not understand, because Rob Roy was a perfect angel with the First Family.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

Lieutenant Colonel James P. Brownlow, who commanded the First Brigade of Thomas' First Cavalry Division, was ordered across one of these fords.

Beloved Dr. R. F. Campbell, our First Presbyterian Church pastor, was in charge.

When the United States entered the First World War Baker made certain that the Draft Act of 1917 prohibited the sale of liquor to men in uniform and that it provided for broad zones around the camps in which prostitution was outlawed.

Perhaps Patchen was once involved in a train accident, and this passage from First Will And Testament may have been how the accident appeared to the poet when he first saw it -- if he did: ``

First of all there was the parsonage, an utterly impossible place for civilized people to live in, originally poorly conceived, apparently not repaired for years, with no plumbing or sewage, with rat-holes and rot.

First thing I knew he was in the kitchenette cooking up the breakfast and I was handing Eileen her coffeecup and she was lying there handsome as a queen among her courtiers.

When that was broken up after the First World War, its name was changed once more.

First was a 1958 cut of more than 50% on that portion of the load in excess of 40,000 lb ; ;

First, and most obvious, was the growing nationalism and the tendency to regard the state, and the individual's identification with the state, as transcending other ties of social solidarity.

First was the period of codification of existing law: the Code Napoleon in France and the peculiar codification that, in fact, resulted from Austin's restatement and ordering of the Common Law in England.

First of all, what is their evidence that the tactual apparatus was fundamentally undamaged??