81 relations: Alfred Edwin Brain Jr., Antonín Dvořák, Aubrey Brain, Austria, Autocar (magazine), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten, Brandenburg Concertos, Cadenza, Capriccio (opera), Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Cavalleria rusticana, Chamber music, Elisabeth Lutyens, Embouchure, Ernest Tomlinson, Eugene Ormandy, Flanders and Swann, Francis Poulenc, French horn, G. D. Cunningham, Gebr. Alexander, George Frideric Handel, Gerard Hoffnung, Giovanni Punto, Gordon Jacob, Gwydion Brooke, Hampstead Cemetery, Hatfield Aerodrome, Herbert von Karajan, Horn Concerto (Jacob), Horn Concerto No. 2 (Strauss), Humphrey Searle, Jack Brymer, James Galway, Jean Pougnet, Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph Haydn, Joseph Leutgeb, Karl Haas (conductor), Léner Quartet, Lennox Berkeley, Leopold Mozart, Leopold Stokowski, List of Edinburgh festivals, Malcolm Arnold, Mátyás Seiber, Michael Thompson (horn player), Michael Tippett, Natural horn, ..., Neill Sanders, New York Philharmonic, Oboe, Paul Hindemith, Peter Maxwell Davies, Peter Pears, Peter Racine Fricker, Philadelphia Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Pietro Mascagni, Pound sterling, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Queen's Hall, Richard Strauss, Royal Academy of Music, Royal Air Force, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Scotland, Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, St Paul's School, London, Symphony No. 6 (Tchaikovsky), Terence MacDonagh, Thomas Beecham, Trio for horn, violin, and piano (Berkeley), Triumph TR2, Walter Legge, Wind quintet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Wolfgang Sawallisch, World War II, York Bowen. Expand index (31 more) »
Alfred Edwin Brain Jr.
Alfred Edwin Brain Jr. (born London, 24 October 1885; died Los Angeles, 29 March 1966) was an English player of the French horn.
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Antonín Dvořák
Antonín Leopold Dvořák (8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech composer.
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Aubrey Brain
Aubrey Brain (12 July 189321 September 1955) was a British horn player and teacher.
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Austria
Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.
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Autocar (magazine)
Autocar is a weekly British automobile magazine published by Haymarket Motoring Publications Ltd.
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BBC Symphony Orchestra
The BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO) is a British orchestra based in London.
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Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist.
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Brandenburg Concertos
The Brandenburg Concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 1046–1051, original title: Six Concerts à plusieurs instruments)Johann Sebastian Bach's Werke, vol.
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Cadenza
In music, a cadenza (from cadenza, meaning cadence; plural, cadenze) is, generically, an improvised or written-out ornamental passage played or sung by a soloist or soloists, usually in a "free" rhythmic style, and often allowing virtuosic display.
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Capriccio (opera)
Capriccio, Op.
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Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (2 November 1739 – 24 October 1799) was an Austrian composer, violinist and silvologist.
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Cavalleria rusticana
Cavalleria rusticana (Italian for "rustic chivalry") is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 and subsequent play by Giovanni Verga.
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Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room.
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Elisabeth Lutyens
Agnes Elisabeth Lutyens, CBE (9 July 190614 April 1983) was an English composer.
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Embouchure
Embouchure or lipping is the use of the lips, facial muscles, tongue, and teeth in playing a wind instrument.
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Ernest Tomlinson
Ernest Tomlinson MBE (19 September 1924 – 12 June 2015) was an English composer, particularly noted for his light music compositions.
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Eugene Ormandy
Eugene Ormandy (born Jenő Blau; November 18, 1899 – March 12, 1985) was an Hungarian-American conductor and violinist, best known for his association with the Philadelphia Orchestra, as its music director.
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Flanders and Swann
Flanders and Swann were a British comedy duo.
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Francis Poulenc
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (7 January 189930 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist.
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French horn
The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the "horn" in some professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.
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G. D. Cunningham
George Dorrington Cunningham (October 2, 1878 - August 4, 1948) was an important concert organist.
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Gebr. Alexander
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George Frideric Handel
George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (born italic; 23 February 1685 (O.S.) – 14 April 1759) was a German, later British, Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos.
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Gerard Hoffnung
Gerard Hoffnung (22 March 192528 September 1959) was an artist and musician, best known for his humorous works.
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Giovanni Punto
Jan Václav Stich, better known as Giovanni Punto (28 September 1746 in Žehušice, Bohemia – 16 February 1803 in Prague, Bohemia) was a Czech horn player and a pioneer of the hand-stopping technique which allows natural horns to play a greater number of notes.
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Gordon Jacob
Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob CBE (5 July 18958 June 1984) was an English composer.
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Gwydion Brooke
Gwydion Brooke (16 February 191227 March 2005) was the principal bassoonist of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and a member of its "Royal Family" of wind instrumentalists, along with Jack Brymer (clarinet), Terence MacDonagh (oboe), and Gerald Jackson (flute).
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Hampstead Cemetery
Hampstead Cemetery is a historic cemetery in West Hampstead, London, located at the upper extremity of the NW6 district.
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Hatfield Aerodrome
Hatfield Aerodrome,, was a private airfield and aircraft factory located in the town of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England from 1930 until its closure and redevelopment in the 1990s.
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Herbert von Karajan
Herbert von Karajan (born Heribert Ritter von Karajan; 5 April 1908 – 16 July 1989) was an Austrian conductor.
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Horn Concerto (Jacob)
The Concerto for Horn and Strings is a concerto for horn and string orchestra in three movements by the English composer Gordon Jacob.
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Horn Concerto No. 2 (Strauss)
Richard Strauss composed his second horn concerto in E-flat major (TrV 283) whilst living in Vienna in 1942.
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Humphrey Searle
Humphrey Searle (26 August 191512 May 1982) was an English composer.
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Jack Brymer
John (Jack) Alexander Brymer OBE (27 January 191515 September 2003) was an English clarinettist.
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James Galway
Sir James Galway, (born 8 December 1939) is an Irish virtuoso flute player from Belfast, nicknamed "The Man with the Golden Flute".
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Jean Pougnet
Jean Pougnet (20 July 1907 – 14 July 1968) was a Mauritian-born concert violinist and orchestra leader, of British nationality, who was highly regarded in both the lighter and more serious classical repertoire during the first half of the twentieth century.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a composer and musician of the Baroque period, born in the Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach.
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Joseph Haydn
(Franz) Joseph HaydnSee Haydn's name.
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Joseph Leutgeb
Joseph Leutgeb (or Leitgeb) (October 6, 1732, Neulerchenfeld – February 27, 1811, Vienna) was an outstanding horn player of the classical era, a friend and musical inspiration for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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Karl Haas (conductor)
Karl Wilhelm Jacob Haas (27 December 1900 – London, 7 July 1970), musician, musicologist and conductor, was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, where he studied at the Classical College, then at the Universities of Munich and Heidelberg.
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Léner Quartet
The Léner String Quartet, sometimes written the Lehner String Quartet, was a string quartet of Hungarian origin, founded in Budapest in 1918, which for most of its pre-war career operated in or from London.
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Lennox Berkeley
Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley (12 May 190326 December 1989) was an English composer.
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Leopold Mozart
Johann Georg Leopold Mozart (November 14, 1719 – May 28, 1787) was a German composer, conductor, teacher, and violinist.
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Leopold Stokowski
Leopold Anthony Stokowski (18 April 188213 September 1977) was an English conductor of Polish and Irish descent.
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List of Edinburgh festivals
This is a list of arts and cultural festivals regularly taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Malcolm Arnold
Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold, CBE (21 October 1921 – 23 September 2006) was an English composer.
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Mátyás Seiber
Mátyás György Seiber (4 May 190524 September 1960) was a Hungarian-born composer who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1935 onwards.
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Michael Thompson (horn player)
Michael Thompson (born 4 January 1954) is a British horn player.
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Michael Tippett
Sir Michael Kemp Tippett (2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998) was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War.
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Natural horn
The natural horn is a musical instrument that is the ancestor of the modern-day horn, and is differentiated by its lack of valves.
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Neill Sanders
Neill Sanders (1923–1992) was a British horn player, principal hornist of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Melos Ensemble for 29 years.
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New York Philharmonic
The New York Philharmonic, officially the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc., globally known as New York Philharmonic Orchestra (NYPO) or New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, is a symphony orchestra based in New York City in the United States.
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Oboe
Oboes are a family of double reed woodwind instruments.
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Paul Hindemith
Paul Hindemith (16 November 1895 – 28 December 1963) was a prolific German composer, violist, violinist, teacher and conductor.
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Peter Maxwell Davies
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (8 September 1934 – 14 March 2016) was an English composer and conductor.
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Peter Pears
Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears (22 June 19103 April 1986) was an English tenor.
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Peter Racine Fricker
Peter Racine Fricker (5 September 1920, London, UK1 February 1990, Santa Barbara, CA) was an English composer who lived in the US for the last thirty years of his life.
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Philadelphia Orchestra
The Philadelphia Orchestra is an American symphony orchestra, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Philharmonia Orchestra
The Philharmonia Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London.
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Pietro Mascagni
Pietro Antonio Stefano Mascagni (7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer most noted for his operas.
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Pound sterling
The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known as the pound and less commonly referred to as Sterling, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English.
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Queen's Hall
The Queen's Hall was a concert hall in Langham Place, London, opened in 1893.
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Richard Strauss
Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras.
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Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is the oldest conservatoire in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas Bochsa.
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Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO), based in London, was formed by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1946.
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Scotland
Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.
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Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
The Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op.
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St Paul's School, London
St Paul's School is a selective independent school for boys aged 13–18, founded in 1509 by John Colet and located on a 43-acre (180,000m2) site by the River Thames, in Barnes, London.
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Symphony No. 6 (Tchaikovsky)
The Symphony No.
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Terence MacDonagh
John Alfred Terence MacDonagh (3 February 1908 – 12 September 1986) was an English oboist and cor anglais player, particularly known as one of the four members of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's so-called "Royal Family" of woodwind players.
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Thomas Beecham
Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Baronet, CH (29 April 18798 March 1961) was an English conductor and impresario best known for his association with the London Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic orchestras.
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Trio for horn, violin, and piano (Berkeley)
The Trio for horn, violin, and piano, Op.
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Triumph TR2
The Triumph TR2 is a sports car produced by the Standard Motor Company in the United Kingdom between 1953 and 1955, during which time 8,636 cars were produced.
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Walter Legge
Harry Walter Legge (1 June 1906 – 22 March 1979) was an influential English classical record producer, most notably for EMI.
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Wind quintet
A wind quintet, also known as a woodwind quintet, is a group of five wind players (most commonly flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon).
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.
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Wolfgang Sawallisch
Wolfgang Sawallisch (26 August 1923 – 22 February 2013) was a German conductor and pianist.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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York Bowen
Edwin York Bowen (22 February 1884 – 23 November 1961) was an English composer and pianist.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Brain