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François Devienne (1759-1803) was a French flutist, bassoonist, composer and teacher. Devienne 's first known solo appearance was with the Orchestra of the Concert Spirituel on 7 April 1789. The following year he joined the military band of the Paris National Guard . In 1792 this organisation officially became the École Libre de Musique de la Guard Nationale , the Institut National de Musique in 1793 and the Paris Conservatoire in 1795. He was a prolific composer with over 500 works including concertante symphonies, songs and eleven operas, as well as a wide variety of instrumental combinations: sonatas for flute and bass, flute duets (with or without keyboard accompaniment), trios, quartets...

The Concerto is a musical form written for one or more solo instruments accompanied by an instrumental ensemble. It was Vivaldi who established the fundamental bases of its structure in three movements ( I fast-II slow-III fast ) and presented as a dialogue between the soloists and the instrumental ensemble. Starting from classicism, especially from the bases created by CPE Bach , the first movement is built following the patterns of the sonata form (exposition, development and reexposition) , while the second and third movements adopt free and punctual forms.

Today we offer the Third Movement of his Flute Concerto No. 7 with Philippe Bernold as soloist and conductor of the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra .

Richard Galliano (Cannes 1950) is a French-Italian jazz composer and accordionist. He began playing piano and accordion with his father, Lucien Galliano , an Italian settled in Nice . He then furthered his studies with Professor Claude Noël , who introduced him to the world of jazz . He continued his musical studies at the Nice Conservatory , then directed by organist Pedro Cochereau . There he took classes in counterpoint, harmony and trombone. In 1983, Astor Piazzolla invited Richard Galliano as the first bandoneon soloist in a French comedy with music by Piazzolla himself. This was the beginning of a great friendship between the two musicians, which lasted until Piazzolla 's death in 1992.

The accordion is a wind musical instrument, consisting of a bellows, a fingerboard and two wooden sound boxes. The bellows are closed at both ends by wooden boxes. The right-hand side of the accordion also has a fingerboard with an arrangement of keys that can be like a piano ( piano accordion ) or round keys (also called buttons ); the left-hand side has buttons on both types of accordion to play the bass and accompaniment chords.

Today, the accordionist from Gipuzkoa Idoia Laburu offers us Galiano 's small composition, Fou rire.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) is considered one of the three giants of musical composition along with Bach and Beethoven . A child prodigy born in Salzburg (Austria), at the age of six he mastered the keyboard and the violin and began to compose. His father, Leopold, took him on exhausting tours of different European courts. A prolific composer (more than 600 works written from the age of five until his death), he cultivated all kinds of musical genres: piano works, chamber music, symphonies, concertante works, choral works, operas... each and every one of them, masterpieces of their genre. His operas The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, Così fan Tutte, and The Marriage of Figaro are among the 10 most performed operas in the world. He died in Vienna at the age of 35.

The catalogue of Mozart's works or Köchel Catalogue ( Köchel Verzeichnis, in German) was created by Ludwig von Köchel in 1862 and lists the musical works composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . Each of Mozart 's works is designated by a number preceded by the abbreviation K. or KV ; a number that designates the chronological order of its creation and which is actually valid for most of the works although some works by other authors appear.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467, was completed on 9 March 1785 and premiered a day later at the Imperial and Royal Court Theatre in Vienna , in a concert promoted by Mozart himself. This is one of the composer's most popular piano concertos; a concert structured in three movements: FIRST MOVEMENT (0'42'') ALLEGRO MAESTOSO with a cadenza (12'37'') at the end of it. SECOND MOVEMENT (15'08'') ANDANTE .-. THIRD MOVEMENT (22'05'') ALLEGRO VIVACE ASSAI also with its own cadenza (27'41'').

Today's version is brought to us by Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son.

Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), born in Cádiz , was a composer of Spanish nationalism and one of the most famous Spanish composers of the last century. From childhood he studied piano with his mother, while his nurse sang him songs that he would remember all his life. In his youth he considered whether to dedicate himself to journalism and literature or to music, which he decided on after attending a concert of works by Grieg . Towards the end of 1896, he settled in Madrid, where he enrolled as a private student in the Conservatory . The following year he passed, with high marks, the equivalent of three years of solfeggio and five years of piano. In 1899 he completed his official studies at the Conservatory and was unanimously awarded first prize for piano at the center. In 1901 he met Felipe Pedrell , who was a notable influence on his later career as he awakened in him an interest in flamenco and, especially, in cante jondo. The years of study in the Spanish capital culminated with the composition, in 1904, of the opera La vida breve , in collaboration with Carlos Fernández Shaw , which won first prize in a competition held by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando the following year. A few years later he moved to Paris where he began earning a living as a pianist and director of a small pantomime company and where he made friends with the leading musical figures of the time. However, after the start of the First World War , Falla had to return to Spain and took up residence again in Madrid , although after the death of his parents, he decided to travel in September 1919 to Granada with his sister María del Carmen ; there he met the poet Federico García Lorca and took up residence there. On 28 September 1939, shortly after the Spanish Civil War , he went into exile in Argentina , despite the attempts of the government of the dictator Franco , who offered him a pension if he returned to Spain . He died on November 14, 1946 after suffering a cardiorespiratory arrest.

El amor brujo is a ballet with cante jondo with 13 scenes, considered one of the most important works of Spanish music. El Amor Brujo (1915-1925) was initially conceived as a ballet, Gitanería in one act and two scenes , written and dedicated to the dancer and singer Pastora Imperio ; and is possibly Manuel de Falla 's best-known work. It began to be composed in 1914 and on April 15, 1915, the world premiere of the work took place at the Teatro Lara in Madrid . From this moment on, several versions of the work were made in the following ten years until ending in 1925 with the definitive version for symphony orchestra. The libretto was written by María de la O Lejárraga García . The work has a great deal of popular character, mostly taken from Pastora Imperio 's previous repertoire. Thus presenting a work immersed in musical and literary elements originating in Andalusian gypsy music and literature. Manuel de Falla remodelled El amor Brujo a total of eleven times. The original idea of ​​this piece was disfigured, and both the music and the instrumental template were changed during the remodelling process. The work goes from being composed of a few songs to becoming a production similar to a one-act zarzuela of the "small genre". The plot is summarised as: a gypsy in love and not too well reciprocated resorts to her arts of magic, sorcery or witchcraft, whatever you want to call it, to soften the heart of the ungrateful man, and she succeeds, after a night of enchantments, spells, mysterious recitations and more or less ritual dances, at the hour of dawn when the dawn awakens love that, unaware of itself, was sleeping; when the bells proclaim its triumph exaltedly.

Today we offer the work in concert version performed by the singer and dancer Joana Jiménez Jumilla accompanied by the UCAM Symphony Orchestra under the baton of maestro Alejandro Curzio Candelas .

Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996), considered the most important and influential singer in the history of jazz and known as the Queen of Jazz , was an American jazz singer, although her repertoire included gospel songs, blues, swing, bossa nova, pop, Christmas songs , etc., etc.; She had a three-octave vocal range, a clear and precise vocalization and a formidable capacity for improvisation. In the fifties she set a standard with her conception of the melodic song, parallel to the work of Frank Sinatra , with her versions of the themes of the great composers of American popular song. She won fourteen Grammy Awards , including the Grammy for her entire career, and was awarded the USA National Medal of Arts .

Louis Armstrong (1901-1971), also known as Satchmo or Pops , was an American jazz trumpeter and singer. He is one of the most charismatic and innovative figures in the history of jazz and, probably, its most popular musician, transforming jazz from its initial status as dance music into a popular art form. Although at the beginning of his career he cemented his fame above all as a trumpeter, later it would be his status as a vocalist that would establish him as an internationally recognized figure and of enormous influence on jazz singing.

Mina, Anna Maria Mazzini, better known by her stage name Mina , is an Italian singer, actress and record producer who became a Swiss citizen. A prominent figure in Italian pop music, nicknamed "The Tigress of Cremona" , she is considered one of the greatest musical performers of the 20th century . She is known for her voice quality and for having starred in numerous television shows broadcast by RAI in the 1960s and 1970s. With more than 150 million albums sold, she is the most successful musical artist in Italian history. During her career, which began in the late 1950s, Mina has recorded more than 1,500 songs, receiving numerous awards and recognitions and influencing a multitude of artists around the world.

Argia Dantza Taldea is a Basque dance group from San Sebastian, made up of around 45 members, directed by Juan Antonio Urbeltz (1940). It has collected many dances from the Basque Country “in situ” and grouped them in cycles in which the authenticity of the choreographic, musical and instrumental versions, and even the costumes, has prevailed. At the Middlesbrough International Folklore Festival (England) in 1968, it won first prize for dance among 28 groups from 22 nations. In 1998, the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg awarded it the European Prize for Popular Art . In 2003, it presented the show Pas de Basque , anchored in Basque tradition but with a contemporary dynamic; today we offer part of this show.

Main characteristics of flamenco dancing. Flamenco dancing is characterized by being a relaxed dance with a very abstract character and three main peculiarities: 1.- Intensity : Flamenco dancing and singing are marked by the passion and strength of the singers, musicians and dancers. 2.- Improvisation : It is a style that requires that the turns, the clapping and the tapping of the feet be an alternation of fluid, soft and unexpected movements. 3.- Expressiveness : The facial expressions, the tapping of the feet and the movements of the arms, hands and legs are full of emotions, which bring out the feelings of both the artists and the spectators. (Extracted from Flamenconline...)

The Andalusian Dance Company was renamed Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía and is the highest institutional representative of the art of flamenco , acting as an ambassador of flamenco since its creation in 1994... The Ballet has become the best means of opening new markets for flamenco, it has performed on stages all over the world and has been part of the cultural agendas of countries such as the United States, Argentina, Cuba, France, Italy, Hungary, Switzerland, Mexico... international events such as the Aichi Exhibition in Japan and has participated in major festivals such as those in New York or London . ... The history of the Ballet is marked by different recognitions, not only from the public and critics, but also from specialists in the performing arts. Thus, it has received important awards. (Extracted from the commentary of this video from the Junta de Andalucía).