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Invitation to the Dance (Weber)

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Invitation to the Dance (Aufforderung zum Tanz), Op. [1]

58 relations: Adolf von Henselt, Alfred Cortot, Artur Schnabel, August Bournonville, Balázs Szokolay, Ballet, Ballets Russes, Ben Hecht, Benno Moiseiwitsch, Benny Goodman, Carl Maria von Weber, Carl Tausig, Carnegie Hall, D major, D-flat major, Der Freischütz, Felix Weingartner, Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, Gabrielle Krauss, George Antheil, Hamish Milne, Hector Berlioz, Holger Simon Paulli, Ignaz Friedman, Jean-François Heisser, Joseph Lanner, La valse, Léon Bakst, Le Conservatoire, Le Spectre de la rose, Leopold Godowsky, Les nuits d'été, Let's Dance (radio), Louis Lavater, Maurice Ravel, Michael Endres, Michel Fokine, Monte Carlo, Moriz Rosenthal, Musical quotation, Paris Opera, Philip Fowke, Pierre Rode, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Rondo, Royal Danish Ballet, Sergei Diaghilev, Specter of the Rose, Stephen Hough, ..., Symphonie fantastique, Tamara Karsavina, Théophile Gautier, Vaslav Nijinsky, Vaudeville, Waltz, Waltzes (Chopin), Yvonne Lefébure. Expand index (8 more) »

Adolf von Henselt

Georg Martin Adolf von Henselt (9 or 12 May 181410 October 1889) was a German composer and virtuoso pianist.

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Alfred Cortot

Alfred Denis Cortot (26 September 187715 June 1962) was a Franco-Swiss pianist and conductor who was one of the most renowned classical musicians of the 20th century.

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Artur Schnabel

Artur Schnabel (17 April 1882 – 15 August 1951) was an Austrian classical pianist, who also composed and taught.

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August Bournonville

August Bournonville (21 August 1805 – 30 November 1879) was a Danish ballet master and choreographer.

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Balázs Szokolay

Balázs Szokolay (born 1961) is a Hungarian pianist.

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Ballet

Ballet is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the 15th century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia.

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Ballets Russes

The Ballets Russes was an itinerant ballet company based in Paris that performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe and on tours to North and South America.

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Ben Hecht

Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist.

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Benno Moiseiwitsch

Benno Moiseiwitsch CBE (22 February 18909 April 1963) was a Russian/Ukrainian born British pianist.

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Benny Goodman

Benjamin David "Benny" Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing".

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Carl Maria von Weber

Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (18 or 19 November 1786 5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, and was one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school.

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Carl Tausig

Carl (or Karl) Tausig (4 November 184117 July 1871) was a Polish virtuoso pianist, arranger and composer.

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Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall (but more commonly) is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park.

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D major

D major (or the key of D) is a major scale based on D, consisting of the pitches D, E, sharp, G, A, B, and sharp.

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D-flat major

D major (or the key of D) is a major scale based on flat, consisting of the pitches D, flat, F, flat, flat, flat and C. It is enharmonically equivalent to sharp major.

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Der Freischütz

, Op. 77, J. 277, (usually translated as The Marksman or The Freeshooter) is a German opera with spoken dialogue in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber with a libretto by Friedrich Kind.

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Felix Weingartner

Paul Felix Weingartner, Edler von Münzberg (2 June 1863 – 7 May 1942) was an Austrian conductor, composer and pianist.

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Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt (Liszt Ferencz, in modern usage Liszt Ferenc;Liszt's Hungarian passport spelt his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simply "c" in all words except surnames; this has led to Liszt's given name being rendered in modern Hungarian usage as "Ferenc". From 1859 to 1867 he was officially Franz Ritter von Liszt; he was created a Ritter (knight) by Emperor Francis Joseph I in 1859, but never used this title of nobility in public. The title was necessary to marry the Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein without her losing her privileges, but after the marriage fell through, Liszt transferred the title to his uncle Eduard in 1867. Eduard's son was Franz von Liszt. 22 October 181131 July 1886) was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philanthropist, author, nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary during the Romantic era.

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Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric François Chopin (1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for solo piano.

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Gabrielle Krauss

Marie-Gabrielle Krauss (24 March 18426 January 1906) was an important 19th century Austrian-born French operatic soprano.

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George Antheil

George Antheil (July 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author, and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the modern sounds – musical, industrial, and mechanical – of the early 20th century.

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Hamish Milne

Hamish Milne (born 27 April 1939, Salisbury) is a British pianist known for his advocacy of Nikolai Medtner.

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Hector Berlioz

Louis-Hector Berlioz; 11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique, Harold en Italie, Roméo et Juliette, Grande messe des morts (Requiem), L'Enfance du Christ, Benvenuto Cellini, La Damnation de Faust, and Les Troyens. Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works, and conducted several concerts with more than 1,000 musicians. He also composed around 50 compositions for voice, accompanied by piano or orchestra. His influence was critical for the further development of Romanticism, especially in composers like Richard Wagner, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss, and Gustav Mahler.

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Holger Simon Paulli

Holger Simon Paulli (22 February 1810, Copenhagen23 December 1891, Copenhagen) was a Danish conductor and composer.

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Ignaz Friedman

Ignaz Friedman (also spelled Ignace or Ignacy; full name Solomon (Salomon) Isaac Freudman(n), שְׁלֹמֹה יִצְחָק פֿרײדמאַן; February 13, 1882January 26, 1948) was a Polish pianist and composer.

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Jean-François Heisser

Jean-François Heisser (born 7 December 1950) is a French classical pianist.

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Joseph Lanner

Joseph Lanner (12 April 1801 – 14 April 1843) was an Austrian dance music composer.

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La valse

La valse, poème chorégraphique pour orchestre (a choreographic poem for orchestra), is a work written by Maurice Ravel between February 1919 and 1920; it was first performed on 12 December 1920 in Paris.

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Léon Bakst

Léon Bakst (Леон (Лев) Николаевич Бакст, Leon (Lev) Nikolaevich Bakst) – born as Leyb-Khaim Izrailevich (later Samoylovich) Rosenberg, Лейб-Хаим Израилевич (Самойлович) Розенберг (27 January (8 February) 1866 – 28 December 1924) was a Russian painter and scene and costume designer.

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Le Conservatoire

Le Conservatoire, or A Marriage by Advertisement (Konservatoriet eller et Avisfrieri) is a two-act vaudeville ballet created by the Danish choreographer and ballet master August Bournonville in 1849 for the Royal Danish Ballet.

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Le Spectre de la rose

Le Spectre de la rose (The Spirit of the Rose) is a short ballet about a young girl who dreams of dancing with the spirit of a souvenir rose from her first ball.

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Leopold Godowsky

Leopold Godowsky (13 February 1870 – 21 November 1938) was a Polish-American virtuoso pianist, composer, and teacher.

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Les nuits d'été

Les nuits d'été (Summer Nights), Op.

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Let's Dance (radio)

Let's Dance was a Saturday night radio music program broadcast by NBC in the mid-1930s.

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Louis Lavater

Louis Isidore Lavater (1867–1953) was an Australian composer and author born in Victoria, of Swedish extraction.

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Maurice Ravel

Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor.

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Michael Endres

Michael Endres (born 1961) is a German pianist.

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Michel Fokine

Michael Fokine (a French transliteration Michel Fokine; English transliteration Mikhail Fokin; Михаи́л Миха́йлович Фо́кин, Mikhaíl Mikháylovich Fokín) (– 22 August 1942) was a groundbreaking Russian choreographer and dancer.

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Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo (Monte-Carlo, or colloquially Monte-Carl; Monégasque: Monte-Carlu) officially refers to an administrative area of the Principality of Monaco, specifically the ward of Monte Carlo/Spélugues, where the Monte Carlo Casino is located.

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Moriz Rosenthal

Moriz Rosenthal (17 December 18623 September 1946) was a Polish pianist and composer.

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Musical quotation

Musical quotation is the practice of directly quoting another work in a new composition.

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Paris Opera

The Paris Opera (French) is the primary opera company of France.

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Philip Fowke

Philip Fowke (born 28 June 1950) is an English pianist.

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Pierre Rode

Jacques Pierre Joseph Rode (16 February 177425 November 1830) was a French violinist and composer.

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English.

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Rondo

Rondo and its French part-equivalent, rondeau, are words that have been used in music in a number of ways, most often in reference to a musical form but also to a character type that is distinct from the form.

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Royal Danish Ballet

The Royal Danish Ballet is an internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Danish Theatre in Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Sergei Diaghilev

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (sʲɪˈrɡʲej ˈpavɫovʲɪtɕ ˈdʲæɡʲɪlʲɪf; 19 August 1929), usually referred to outside Russia as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.

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Specter of the Rose

Specter of the Rose is a 1946 film noir thriller film written and directed by Ben Hecht and starring Judith Anderson, Ivan Kirov, Viola Essen, Michael Chekhov, and Lionel Stander, with choreography by Tamara Geva, and music by George Antheil.

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Stephen Hough

Stephen Andrew Gill Hough, CBE (born 22 November 1961) is a British-born classical pianist, composer and writer.

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Symphonie fantastique

(Fantastical Symphony: An Episode in the Life of an Artist, in Five Parts) Op. 14, is a program symphony written by the French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830.

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Tamara Karsavina

Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (Тама́ра Плато́новна Карса́вина, 10 March 1885 – 26 May 1978) was a Russian prima ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later of the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev.

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Théophile Gautier

Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.

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Vaslav Nijinsky

Vaslav Nijinsky (also Vatslav; Ва́цлав Фоми́ч Нижи́нский;; Wacław Niżyński; 12 March 1889/18908 April 1950) was a ballet dancer and choreographer cited as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century.

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Vaudeville

Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment.

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Waltz

The waltz is a ballroom and folk dance, normally in time, performed primarily in closed position.

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Waltzes (Chopin)

Frédéric Chopin’s waltzes are pieces of moderate length adhering to the traditional 3/4 waltz time, but are remarkably different from the earlier Viennese waltzes in that they were not designed for dancing but for concert performance.

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Yvonne Lefébure

Yvonne Lefébure (29 June 1898, Ermont – 23 January 1986, Paris) was a French pianist and teacher.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invitation_to_the_Dance_(Weber)

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