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Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) was an Italian composer; He wrote 28 operas considered as a bridge from bel canto to verismo. He was born in Le Roncole near Busetto ; as a child he belonged to the church choir where he received organ lessons and at the age of ten his parents enrolled him in the Busetto Music School ; at the age of 19 he moved to Milan where he continued his studies. He sympathized with the popular movements that demanded the unity of an Italy divided by different European dynasties. To the point that they chanted “Viva Verdi” with the double meaning of Viva V ittorio E manuele R e D ' Italia . His are the most appreciated and most performed operas, such as Aida , La Traviata and Rigoletto , and his Requiem , which we must also include among his masterpieces.

La Traviata is an opera in three acts by Verdi with a plot based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas The Lady of the Camellias ; It premiered in Venice on March 6, 1853. Today we can watch the aria Addio del passato in which Violeta , seeing her death close, deplores her perverted life and the loss of her love.

Ana Netrebko (1971), Russian singer and one of the most brilliant sopranos in history. He began as a janitor at the Mariinsky Theater until he was heard by the conductor Valery Gergiev who became his adviser, beginning to play roles of some relevance in various operas. At the age of 24 he made his debut in the USA where the successes were chained one after another after his appearance at the San Francisco opera. Claudio Abbado also played a relevant role in his dedication to the bel canto repertoire, while his technique was perfected with the Italian soprano Renata Scotto .

Beethoven's musical legacy also includes 32 piano sonatas, numerous works for chamber ensembles, concertos for piano and violin, incidental music, sacred music and, above all, nine symphonies that occupy the zenith of the History of Music . This legacy, to understand it better, we can divide it into three stages of continuous renewal and improvement: A) Until 1802 . classicism . His first ten piano sonatas, the first six string quartets, the septimino, the first two symphonies or the first two piano concertos belong to him. B) 1803-1814 . romanticism . In full artistic maturity and with absolute control of the formal structure and lyricism, he composes the symphonies from the 3rd to the 8th, his opera Fidelio , his 3rd, 4th and 5th piano concertos, the violin concerto, the triple concerto, the sonatas for piano “Moonlight”, “Appasionata” , the Kreutzer Violin Sonata ,… C) 1815 until his death . Innovation of a more intense language with more daring harmonic and structural treatments: the last five piano sonatas and the last five string quartets, Symphony No. 9 with the addition of soloists and choir, Solemn Mass ...

Beethoven's Septimimus . Within what is popularly known as classical music, the best known septet is possibly the one popularly known as Beethoven's Septimino written for violin, viola, cello, double bass, clarinet, bassoon and horn, and within it, the III Minuet Movement , which is the one that we will see today in interpretation of The Chicago Chamber Musicians , a group founded in 1996 with world-class artists.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was a German violinist, organist, conductor, and composer; born in Eisenach into the most prominent musical family in history with more than 30 famous composers in its midst. In 1703 he obtained his first job as a court musician for the Prince of Arndstat and in 1707 he moved to Mülhausen as an organist, where he married his cousin Maria Barbara with whom he had seven children. After the death of his wife in 1720, he remarried after a year and a half with María Magdalena with whom he would have another thirteen children. In 1723 he moved to Leipzig where he would reside until his death at the age of 65. A prolific composer, he is considered one of the three main geniuses in the History of Music along with Mozart and Beethoven.

Toccata (from Italian toccata, "to play") is a piece of Renaissance and Baroque music for keyboard instruments, such as the harpsichord or organ, usually with a free form that generally emphasizes the skill of the performer. Its form consists of a succession of fugal sections that alternate with others of a free style and with an improvisational character. In the more advanced phases of the development of the toccatas, these fugal sections will be the culmination and will have relative independence; so that in the eighteenth century the association of toccata and fugue was common.

La Fuga is a musical genre in which musical ideas called subjects are superimposed. Several voices or instrumental lines are structured through imitation or repetition of the same that appear in different tonalities and in the structured development of the exposed themes. When this technique is used as part of a larger piece, it is said to be a fugal section or fugato ; a small fugue is called a fughetta .

Toccata and fugue in D minor , BWV 565 is a piece of organ music written by Johann Sebastian Bach . The piece opens with a toccata section (0´08´´ ) , followed by a fugue (2´55´´) that ends in a coda (7´59´´ ) . It is the most famous work in the organ repertoire. The first publication of the piece, in the era of Bach 's revival, was in 1833 , through the efforts of Felix Mendelssohn , who also performed the piece in an acclaimed concerto in 1840 ; but it was not until the 20th century that its popularity rose above that of Bach 's other organ compositions and further with its inclusion in the animated film Walt Disney's Fantasia (on orchestral transcription by Stokowski ). Today Maria Luisa Veneciano , a prominent organist, offers us this masterful piece.

Symphony . The word symphony derives from the Latin symphonĭa and this in turn from the Greek συμφωνία (symphōnía), which means "consonance" as opposed to διαφωνία (diaphōnia), which means "dissonance". In the Middle Ages and later, the word symphony was used to describe various instruments, especially those capable of producing more than one sound simultaneously; in the sense of "sounding together", the word began to appear in the titles of some works by composers of the 16th and 17th centuries, and by the end of the 18th century the word had already acquired the common meaning currently assigned to it: a work that generally consists of four different sections or movements and composed most of the time for orchestra.

The symphony from Romanticism . Beethoven 's symphonies typically had a first movement “Allegro” in sonata form , a slow second movement (sometimes in theme and variations form), a third movement in ternary rhythm (usually a scherzo ; although prior to Beethoven a minuet and trio ), ending with the rapid fourth movement ( rondo ); although there are symphonies with a last movement also written in sonata form .

Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony , also known as "Choral", is one of the most important musical compositions in history. The last movement caused astonishment in its time due to the incorporation of a vocal quartet of soloists and a mixed choir, something unprecedented at that time; movement, on the other hand, which has become a symbol of freedom. In our days it has had innumerable arrangements and adaptations from the Hymn to Joy by Miguel Ríos until arrangement by Herbert von Karajan to make it the Anthem of the European Community ; the text he uses is a reduction of the Ode to Joy by the German poet Friedrich Schiller . The symphony consists of four movements and its premiere took place in Vienna on May 7, 1824 with a resounding success with Beethoven present. On January 12, 2003, Unesco declared the Symphony a World Heritage Site.

Today it is offered to us by soprano Erin Wall , mezzo-soprano Sonia Prina , tenor Simon O'Neill and bass Alexander Vinogradov with the CBSO Choir, the BBC National Choir of Wales and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales , all @ They are led by the Chinese teacher Xian Zhang .

Zea Mays is a rock band that emerged in Bilbao in 1997, made up of Asier Basabe (drums), Rubén González (bass), Iñaki Imaz (guitar) and Aiora Renteria (singer). In 1997 they recorded a demo, with which they won the Youth Model Contest of the Basque Country . The award gave them a great boost and thanks to it they programmed several concerts throughout the Basque Country . In 1998, they were considered the best Basque band in the Bilbao pop-rock contest. In 1998 they recorded their first album, the self-titled Zea Mays , which would be followed in successive years by Elektrizitatea , Harrobian , Sortuz, grabitatearen aurka while on various tours of Germany and the Netherlands . In 2007, already with ten years of experience, they launched the new work Morphina ; then Era Da and Harro would come, which we offer today.

Salsa is a danceable musical genre resulting from the synthesis of the Cuban son and other Caribbean and American music genres such as jazz and blues . Salsa was consolidated as a commercial success by musicians of Puerto Rican origin in New York in the 1960s, and by the work of who was its main creator, the Dominican Johnny Pacheco , although its roots go back decades earlier in countries of the Caribbean basin. Eventually, the salsa spread throughout Latin America , giving rise to abundant regional variants. Despite everything, although the Cuban son is the backbone of salsa, the fundamental element in the emergence of salsa is the role of Puerto Rican musicians and their culture, both on the island of Puerto Rico and in its New York diaspora.

In this video Kyle Johnson offers us an arrangement, salsa version, of Beethoven 's First Movement of the Fifth .

Sensemayá (song to kill a snake) is a symphonic poem based on the homonymous poem by Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén (10-11-21). With Sensemayá, Revueltas managed to reach one of the highest points in his musical production, in a rhythmically complex score full of rough and direct textures. It all begins with an undulating, mysterious environment, like entering the same ritual to kill the snake. The tuba rises vigorously with the central melody in a rhythmic time of 7/8. Later on, muted trumpets and some woodwinds take up the tuba's discourse and transport it to different ranges of dynamic and rhythmic expression.

Today it is offered to us by the Escuela Ballet Arte acompañad@s by the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of the Venezuelan Youth with its director, the teacher Gustavo Dudamel.

The Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor « Quasi una fantasia », Op. 27, No. 2, popularly known as Moonlight (in German, Mondscheinsonate ), was written by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1801 and published in 1802. It is one of the author's most famous works, along with the first movement of the Fifth Symphony , the piano Bagatelle for Elise , and the Ninth Symphony . Today we offer a choreographed arrangement of the first movement, Adagio sostenuto ; a melody that Hector Berlioz called "lamento"; Berlioz added that "the adagio is one of those poems that human language fails to qualify"; while Beethoven 's student Carl Czerny called it "a night scene, in which a mournful ghostly voice sounds in the distance".