All text in red are clickable links Go to Composer Index Chronology of Posts (19 total) 1. Woodwind Quintets in the Roaring Twenties – Intro 2. Woodwind Quintets of 1920 (with Prelude) 3. 1921 – Roaring 20s Woodwind Quintets 4. 1922 – Roaring 20s Woodwind Quintets 5. Towards a […]
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End of a Historic Decade 1930 News Highlights 1930 Without a doubt, the most famous woodwind quintet of 1930 was that of Jacques Ibert, his Trois Pièces Brèves. So, it might surprise many to find out it was recycled from incidental music Ibert had just completed. I’ve written an
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Ibert and the Impact of Three Tiny Theater Pieces If you are following this series chronologically, you know there were a good number of French composers of woodwind quintets through the 1920s and 1930. They include: Henri Maréchal, Raymond Charpentier, Marcel Labey, Joseph-Guy Ropartz, Henri Tomasi, and Yvonne Desportes.
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1928 News Highlights Heitor Villa-Lobos is one of the seven composers from our original series on Roaring 20s Quintets. The Quintette en forme de Choros was written in Paris in 1928. Our article on Villa-Lobos, the Brazilian Choro, and other wind works by Villa-Lobos has recently been updated and
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Brazilian Music for Parisians Villa-Lobos as a Young Man Heitor Villa-Lobos was born March 5, 1887 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and died there on November 17, 1959. In addition to being Brazil’s most famous composer (writing over 2000 works), he was also active as an educator and conductor.
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Oscar Lorenzo Fernândez and his Suite in F Major 1920s Brazil When one thinks about the Roaring 20s, one usually thinks about New York or Chicago, or Paris or Berlin, but another city where art was flourishing was Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Part of that Brazilian renaissance started
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Title image is of American Composers (L to R): Virgil Thomson, Walter Piston, Herbert Elwell and Aaron Copland at Nadia Boulanger’s Paris home in 1925. 1925 News Highlights In 1926, we have woodwind quintets written by Hermann Ambrosius, Max Butting, Jaroslav Kvapil, Kurt von Schwake, and Henri Tomasi. Hermann
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The music, life and times of Theodor Blumer, writer of many works for woodwind quintet in the Romantic style.
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