For much of the 20th c., Gregor Piatigorsky was regarded as the world's second-greatest virtuoso on this instrument
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March 24 - Game Show NewsNet - Jeopardy! Ultimate Tournament ...  Mar 24, 2005 ... Second place is guaranteed $500,000, while third place is guaranteed $250,000. No wild cards, no ... Clue: for much of the 20th C., Gregor Piatigorsky was regarded as the world's second-greatest virtuoso on this instrument.
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Cellist Terry King on His Mentor and Legendary Pedagogue Gregor ...  Feb 24, 2016 ... For much of the 20th century, Gregor Piatigorsky and a small group of supreme ... With unsurpassed technical command of their instruments, these ... Terry King's Gregor Piatigorsky: The Life and Career of the Virtuoso ... and then sent us out into the world to become the best we could be, and try to enjoy it.
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Gregor Piatigorsky - Wikipedia  Gregor Piatigorsky was a Russian-born American cellist. Contents. [hide]. 1 Biography ... Following the Nazi occupation in World War II, the family fled the country back to the ... Ivan Galamian once described Piatigorsky as the greatest string player of all time. .... Gregor Piatigorsky: The Life and Career of the Virtuoso Cellist.
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Six of the best cellists | Classical-Music.com  Sep 29, 2010 ... Pablo Casals revolutionised the cello as a solo instrument. ... Gregor Piatigorsky (cello); Boston Symphony Orchestra/Charles Munch ... His reputation was damaged during the Second World War when he agreed to perform ... inspiration for the great cello masterworks in the second half of the 20th century.
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The cello: An amazing musical instrument - Academic Journals  the world's most elegant and respected musical instruments today. This paper ... the early 16th century, who was the inventor of the cello. (Hillard .... two cellos a year and making a cello takes much longer ..... legendary and make him one of the greatest cellists that ... Gregor Piatigorsky .... virtuosos of the 20th century.
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Pyotr Tchaikovsky - The Kennedy Center  Tchaikovsky was a leading Russian composer of the late 19th century, whose ... He is regarded as the master composer for classical ballet, as demonstrated by...
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jeopardy/1962_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  CLASSICAL MUSICIANS | 20th century violin virtuosi include Isaac Stern & this Israel native whose name is a form of Isaac | Itzhak Perlman. right: Roxanne.
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McGraw-Hill | Woodwind Instruments  Of these, about sixteen play woodwind instruments. ... The shawm's double reed vibrates within the body of the instrument itself while the player blows into a ... Modern virtuosos include Leon Goossens (1897-1988), Heinz Holliger (b. ... the saxophone dominates jazz and plays a central role in most forms of popular music.
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press - Vladimir FELTSMAN  With the B flat major Scherzo, Allegretto of Schubert's 2 Scherzos, D.593 ... momentum to the second of these Scherzi, the D flat major, Allegro moderato. ... Feltsman played with great care for color, dynamics, and rhythm. ... In the key of F sharp major, it acts as the centre of an arc that joins Chopin's Barcarolle, Op. 60 (in the...
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Larry Adler facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  Get information, facts, and pictures about Larry Adler at Encyclopedia.com. ... the harmonica, often regarded as primarily an instrument played by enthusiastic amateurs. ... Albert Einstein and composer Sergei Rachmaninoff among his friends, and, .... Piano, and Strings by Ralph Vaughan Williams and concertos by Malcolm...
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reviews - Editions Orphee  Matteo Carcassi, 25 melodious Studies, Op. 60 ..... The Presto in B flat major is a veritable Weiss blockbuster . . . The same is true of the wonderfully fluid D major...
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Sergei Rachmaninoff - Wikipedia  Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian pianist, composer, and conductor of the late-Romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular in the classical repertoire. He is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. .... 1, the Piano Concerto No. 1. On 11 February 1892, Rachmaninoff performed...
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Vladimir Horowitz (new)  In his prime, he was considered one of the most brilliant pianists of his time. ... and is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th Century. Life and early career. Horowitz himself said that he was born in Kiev, Ukraine (then part of Russian .... Horowitz is best known for his performances of the Romantic piano...
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Full text of "Great musical composers: German, French and Italian"  The first time Mozart heard one of Bach's hymns, he said, " Thank God ! ... Even eighty years after this Mozart and Haydn were treated like lackeys and vaga- bonds, .... muttering his famous epigram 1 Some say that Signer Bononcini, Compared to ...... As a romance composer Chopin struck out his own path, and has no rival.
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Sergey Rachmaninoff | Russian musician | Britannica.com  He is especially known for his piano concerti and the piece... ... Russiadied March 28, 1943, Beverly Hills, California, U.S.) composer who was the last great...
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Read full article - Rare Violins of New York  The very greatest violins ever made all came from one small city in northern ... Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840) was the most celebrated virtuoso of his day. ... the idea that these families bought instruments solely as investments is quite unreasonable. ... owns 1 Stradivari violin and a Guarneri among their 15 or so instruments.
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COPLAND: Works for Violin and Piano (Complete) - Naxos  He was gifted at the piano, studying with Victor Wittgenstein and Clarence Adler. ... Eventually, when he was twenty, the young composer-to-be set sail for Paris and ... Under Boulanger Copland began to write his first full-fledged pieces, as well ... Works like the Third Symphony, with its Fanfare for the Common Man, Rodeo,...
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Masterworks of the Orchestral Repertoire: A Guide for Listeners on ...  WHEN this symphony was first performed (on December 5, 1830) Paris was at the ... Until the twentieth century it is doubtful if any musical composition attempted a .... of a madman, and when Schumann's imaginaryDavidsbndlerwere waging a .... of adolescence, are somewhat pretentious; for both country and symphony,...
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Geometry.Net - Violinists: Stern Isaac  Virtuoso violinist isaac stern is one of the twentieth century'smost renowned, ... Born in the Ukraine in 1920, he grew up in San Francisco, where he began playing ... (Violin playing) In the early '60s, he played a key role in saving Carnegie Hall from demolition. ... Extractions: Stern, Isaac Stern, Isaac, , American violinist, b.
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Ten Reasons Why Mozart is the Greatest - KING FM 98.1  Jan 14, 2016 ... Here are ten reasons why Mozart is one of the greatest of all time. 1. ... Mozart was one of the few composers in history to compose masterworks in ... works, but in all his music, from the piano sonatas and string quartets to his symphonies. ... melodies do you hear in the space of just the first five minutes?
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Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition  Pictures at an Exhibition, orchestrated by Maurice Ravel. ... One of Modest Mussorgsky's closest companions was Victor Hartmann, an architect and occasional painter. ... Mussorgsky's piano writing in the suite is as picturesque as can be, achieving ... The first appears to have been the Russian Toushmalov, but the greatest...