ヨハン・ハルヴォルセン（1864年3月15日生～1935年12月4日没）さんは、ノルウェー・ドランメン出身のヴァイオリニストです。十代までは地元やオスロでヴァイオリンを学んでいましたが、二十代になり、ストックホルム、ライプツィヒ ...

Long gone are the days when orchestras approached Webern with trepidation, and quite right too: the Passacaglia is almost 100 years old, and clearly shows its roots in Brahms, as Richard Whitehouse ...

ボヘミアの作曲家でヴァイオリン奏者としても知られたビーバーの代表作，「ロザリオのソナタ集」と呼ばれる通奏低音付きヴァイオリン・ソナタ集の中の1曲。「ロザリオ」というのは，ドイツ語の「Rosenkranz（ローゼンクランツ，バラの花冠）」と同義語 ...

The Passacaglia: Lucie Skeaping traces the history and development of the dance-based form passacaglia, from its origins in Iberian street music to the great organ works by Bach. Show more Lucie ...

A passacaglia is a musical form that originated in Spain in the 17th century and is often based on a ground bass and written in triple metre. It was initially written to accompany a type of Spanish ...

To acquire a more comprehensive understanding of these musical terms it may be useful to step back a few centuries in musical history. Like most musical phrases, words, and conventions, their origins ...

The set of 15 Mystery Sonatas as they were discovered in Munich a hundred and thirty years ago concludes with a 16th sonata, not part of The Mysteries of the Rosary but an obvious adjunct to them.