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Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was a French composer, an eminent figure in programmatic music and romanticism in general. He studied in Paris and Rome , where he received a scholarship, focusing on the hymns of his teacher, Jean-François Lesueur , and imitating Beethoven a lot, then unknown in France ; also to Gluck, Mozart, Étienne Méhul and Carl Maria von Weber. In 1844 he composed the first known work for saxophone, the Canto Sagrado sextet, which was premiered under the baton of Berlioz himself and with Adolphe Sax on saxophone. He also wrote several symphonies (among which his best-known work, the Symphonie Fantastique , stands out), opertures, operas, cantatas, sacred music, non-theatrical dramatic works, choral works and numerous songs.

The Symphonie Fantastique , op.14, subtitled Episode in the Life of an Artist , premiered on December 5, 1830 at the Paris Conservatory . Performed under the direction of François-Antoine Habeneck , it enjoyed immense success in its reception. The symphony, considered the first example of programmatic music (music that aims to evoke ideas and images in the listener's mind, musically representing a scene, image or mood). In the 2nd movement, which we offer today, A Dance , the reunion with the beloved after rejection occurs, as its name indicates, in a dance. The music then adopts the tempo of a waltz, thus describing the restlessness of the protagonist.

Today it is offered to us by the Symphony Orchestra of the Feliks Nowowiejski School of Music in Gdańsk, Poland under the baton of teacher Sylwia Anna Janiak

André Rieu (1949) is a Dutch violinist, composer and conductor; He has belonged to different orchestras until he founded the Johann Strauss Orkest in 1987, with which he has followed a resounding journey brimming with popularity; orchestra that started with 12 musicians and currently has between 80 and 150 members depending on the program it offers; With it he has toured all of Europe, North and South America, Japan and Australia . The music he usually offers is a florilege of classical, popular and folk music and soundtracks, both in live performances and in recordings made in his own studio in Maastricht , with which he has won various gold and platinum records in various countries.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) together with Bach and Mozart is part of the trio of giants of Western music. Born in Bonn , his father, of Flemish origin, tried to showcase him as a second Mozart , although it was a notable failure. Despite this, from the age of nine the organist Christian Gottlob Neefe captivated him with the study of Bach , whom he would always keep in mind. In 1787 he moved to Vienna with the intention of taking Mozart classes, but the death of his mother returned him to Bonn a few days later. And so after five years, he returned to Vienna where he was able to study with Haydn and Salieri . However, his profession as an excellent pianist could not be carried out due to deafness that attacked him the following year, leaving him completely incapable of this faculty.

The piano sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57, known as "Appassionata", was composed by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1804 and 1806 and is considered one of the three most notable piano sonatas of his middle period, along with the Waldstein Sonata and Les adieux , Op. 81a. The composition of the piece took place in Döbling , a town near Vienna . He began work in the summer of 1804 and continued for the next two years. It is music that heralds and announces the arrival of what is commonly identified as the "second" period of his creative work. Apparently, the composer had withdrawn into himself and had begun to produce music that only he could understand.

Structure of the sonata: I (0´36´´) ALLEGRO ASSAI. It is written in the key of F minor, in 12/8 time and follows sonata form . The main theme, dark and enigmatic, erupts abruptly with what some have called screams of rage, at times prefiguring the short-short-short-long motif of the Fifth Symphony among its rhythmic materials. The movement advances with a demonic intensity and a bold sense of harmony. The second theme makes clear reference to the first; Although the genesis of its rhythm and contour is obvious, Beethoven transforms it here into a moment of lyrical and longing respite, albeit brief.-. II (11'07'') WALKING WITH A MOTORCYCLE. It is in D flat major, in 2/4 time and follows the theme form with three variations . The opening theme is a simple, calm melody, almost hymn-like, that retains a nuance of the dotted rhythms of the first movement. The variations make use of a resource called "rhythmic crescendo", which consists of including increasingly shorter figures in each new variation. The final cadence, instead of ending calmly, presents a diminished seventh chord marked first in pianissimo and then fortissimo like a thunderclap that takes us without pause to the third movement.-. III (18'04'') ALLEGRO MA NON TROPPO. It is in the initial key, in 2/4 time and adopts the sonata-allegro form with coda, with the unusual indication of repeating only the second part; That is, the development and re-exposure are repeated but not the exposure. The exhibition makes use of sixteenth notes, like a perpetuum mobile , so incessant that it gives the impression of being monothematic. The sixteenth notes are only interrupted in the development and in the coda . The coda , marked Presto , is an explosion of fury that is followed by a reiteration of the initial theme that brings a dramatic conclusion.

Claudio Arrau León (1903-1991) was a Chilean pianist known worldwide for his profound interpretations of a repertoire that ranged from baroque music to contemporary music works. He is considered one of the most outstanding pianists of the 20th century , thanks to his performances praised by the public and critics of the time.

Havergal Brian (1876-1972) was a British composer and music critic. His first musical training was as a choir boy; He sang in the choir of St James's Church, Longton . At age 12, he left primary school and started working. In his free time, he continued to study music, including the organ, for which he demonstrated a talent for from a young age; As a composer he was practically self-taught. From 1896 he was organist at All Saints , a Gothic style church just across the Cheshire county border. At the beginning of the 20th century , a wealthy local businessman, Herbert Minton Robinson , offered him an annual income of £500 so that he could devote all his time to composition. In addition to chamber and voice music works, he is the author of 32 symphonies.

The Symphony No. 1 in D Minor , better known by the name Gothic , consists of six movements divided into two parts and is the longest symphony in history (about two hours long). The first three movements (34 minutes) are purely instrumental, while the second part is a colossal Te Deum for choir, orchestra and organ.

Structure . FIRST PART: I (0´00´´) Allegro assai .-. II (11´30´´) Slow expressive and solemn (attacca).-. III (22'08'') Vivace (attacca) .-. SECOND PART: IV (33'58'') - Te Deum laudamus . Allegro moderato always marked and with brio.-. V (51´59´´) Judex crederis esse venturus . Solemn and religious adagio .-. VI (1h 06'14'') Te ergo quaesumus . Moderate and very sustained.

Yvonne Catterfeld (1979) is a German singer and actress. At the age of 15 he began to simultaneously study piano, flute, singing and dance; After secondary education, he entered the Leipzig Music Academy to study jazz and pop music for two years. After several failed attempts, his fourth single Für Dich became a No. 1 hit in Germany, Austria and Switzerland , while his first album obtained a platinum record. Currently she alternates her profession as a singer with that of an actress.

Music in China . Its origins are a relatively barren field within Western musicological studies. Legends say that the founder of music in Chinese mythology was Ling Lun who, at the request of the Yellow Emperor , created a musical system from bamboo tubes that reproduced the sounds of birds, including the phoenix. But legends aside, the first organological vestiges that confirm the existence of a musical reality in the Asian giant place us around 2,000 BC in the Xia dynasty , precisely with the archaeological discovery of a series of instruments ranging from straight bone flutes to clay whistles, ocarinas, scratchers... Philosophers and teachers such as Kong Fuzi (Confucius) explored and investigated the meanings of music in the ethical system, concluding that a correct and well-made form of music was important for the cultivation and refinement of the individual. , taking into account that the Chinese instrument classification system divided instruments into 8 categories, according to materials used and timbres produced: Stone, Metal, Silk, Bamboo, Wood, Clay, Gourd and Leather

Under the influence of Confucianism and later Zen Buddhism , music was considered an academic art and an important form of self-expression for the educated elite. Through successive dynasties over thousands of years, Chinese musicians developed a wide variety of instruments. But we also find influences from Central Asian musical traditions. The presence of European music in China appeared as early as 1601 when the Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci presented a harpsichord to the Ming imperial court and was responsible for training a few Chinese harpsichordists at the court. At the end of this golden age, the main Chinese cultural musical genre came to maturity: Chinese opera , in the 18th century . The importance of this genre, considered the most representative of the country's artistic tradition, is explained by its combination of music, singing, poetry, acrobatics, mime and martial arts. The importance of Chinese opera is that there are more than 300 types and the most prominent variant is the Peking Opera , created at the beginning of the 19th century .

The accumulation of ancient cultural components is what has earned the Peking Opera the title of "national treasure" and that is why it was inscribed in 2010 on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity . The New Culture Movement of the 1910s and 1920s sparked a lasting interest in Western music. Chinese musicians went to study abroad to play Western classical music, and composed works based on the Western musical notation system. This is how China embraces the West and symphony orchestras emerge in major cities and perform to a wide audience in concert halls and on the radio.

Oberek , also known as obertas or ober , is a Polish dance with a lot of rhythm. The name "oberek" comes from "obracać się" which in Polish means "to turn". This dance consists of many turns and jumps and is the fastest of the five national dances of Poland ( polonaise, mazurka, kujawiak, karakowiak and oberek ). When dancing oberek , very fast steps are taken and turns are performed. constantly. The charm of the oberek depends on the dancer's abilities to spin at the fast pace of the dance, which shares some steps with the mazurka . In this choreography, a slow and elegant introduction gives way to the authentic fast dance performed by couples in different combinations.

Igor Moiseyev (1906-2007) was a Russian choreographer and dancer who studied at the Bolshoi Theater Ballet , a company with which he worked and even directed acrobatic dances in Moscow 's Red Square until the Government put him under his control in 1930. He directed a new dance company called Ballet Igor Moiseyev with which he would prepare nearly 200 choreographies. It is currently one of the great ballet companies in the world that manages to synthesize the spontaneity of Russian popular dances with the academicism of classical ballet, as we can see in the present Polish dance that we offer today.

Guedra . It is a Moroccan Dance and Folklore - Guedra represents several aspects of a dance form typical of southern Morocco, Mauritania and Algeria -. The main meaning of Guedra is a cooking pot; when this pot is covered with a stretched leather skin to create a drum, the drum is also known as Guedra . When the drummer plays a rhythm representing the heartbeat using the transformed pot, this rhythm is also called Guedra . The form of movements that dancers perform in response to that rhythm, at all times while the dancer is on their knees, is called Guedra . The dancer is also called Guedra . For the most part, the dancers are covered by a piece of thin cloth while they perform, but beneath this veil they are heavily adorned with henna, jewelry, and headdresses. The dance is usually performed in nomadic tents and as such the women remain on their knees for much of the performance. ( Extracted from Marrakech Riyadh )