Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
1812 Overture. The Year 1812, Solemn Overture, Op. 49, popularly known as the 1812 Overture, [ 1] is a concert overture in E ♭ major written in 1880 by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The piece commemorates Russia 's successful defense against the French invasion of the nation in 1812.
file. help. "God Save the Tsar! " (Russian: Боже, Царя храни!, IPA:[ˈboʐɨtsɐˈrʲaxrɐˈnʲi]) was the national anthemof the Russian Empire. The song was chosen from a competition held in 1833 and was first performed on 18 December 1833. It was composed by violinistAlexei Lvov, with lyrics written by the court poetVasily Zhukovsky.
The overture finishes with a virtuoso coda for the full orchestra. The piece is frequently paired in performance with Tchaikovsky's " 1812 Overture ," which also quotes "God Save the Tsar." In Russia, during the Soviet era , the imperial anthem was replaced in both pieces with the chorus " Glory, Glory to you, holy Rus'!
The William Tell Overture is the overture to the opera William Tell (original French title Guillaume Tell ), whose music was composed by Gioachino Rossini. William Tell premiered in 1829 and was the last of Rossini's 39 operas, after which he went into semi-retirement (he continued to compose cantatas, sacred music and secular vocal music).
La Marseillaise. " La Marseillaise " [ a] is the national anthem of France. The song was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by France against Austria, and was originally titled " Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin " [ b] ("War Song for the Army of the Rhine ").
file. help. " Slav’sya! ", (Russian: Славься!, romanized: Slavʹsya!) is the name of the final song in the epilogue of Mikhail Glinka 's first opera A Life for the Tsar (1836) and now considered as one of Russia's greatest classical and patriotic anthems of the 19th century. The original version of the song, written by Vasily Zhukovsky ...
King Stephen, Op. 117 ( König Stephan) is a commemorative work composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1811. It includes an overture in E flat major and nine vocal numbers. Only the overture is usually played today. The title refers to King Stephen I, founder of the Kingdom of Hungary in the year 1000. In 1808 Emperor Francis I of Austria ...
Sigismond Thalberg (1812–1871), Swiss composer and one of the most famous virtuoso pianists of the 19th century, wrote a fantasia on "God Save the Queen". Johan Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837) wrote Variations on God Save the King in D major, Op. 10 and quoted the tune briefly in his Freudenfest-Ouverture in D major, S 148.