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Again, this is something I originally posted somewhere else. I wait your additions most impatiently - just nothing too modern please - these days every idiot can beat two tin cans together and call it music. I post it in General discussion because I really don't think it fits anywhere else.
Sometimes composers write music for rather unusual instruments.
Or go completly mad, the picture used by the uploader represents my reaction pretty well Leopold Mozart's symphony Peasant Wedding, scored for bagpipes and pistol shots among other things...
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I had wondered about Haydn's lira organizzate concerti for quite a while now! That was the first thing that popped into my mind when I saw the topic title. Have not been able to find recordings of these works for this strange instrument... Thanks for this, Antonio!
I had wondered about Haydn's lira organizzate concerti for quite a while now! That was the first thing that popped into my mind when I saw the topic title. Have not been able to find recordings of these works for this strange instrument... Thanks for this, Antonio!
What a strange contraption.
Haydn can make anything sound good. And it looks like at times he had to.
Again, this is something I originally posted somewhere else. I wait your additions most impatiently - just nothing too modern please - these days every idiot can beat two tin cans together and call it music. I post it in General discussion because I really don't think it fits anywhere else.
Sometimes composers write music for rather unusual instruments.
For this
So that's what a glass harmonica looks like. I don't think I'm going to run into one of those at Sam Ash.
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Brian wrote:
Antonio Salieri wrote:
So that's what a glass harmonica looks like. I don't think I'm going to run into one of those at Sam Ash.
Beethoven also implemented it in his incidental music for Leonore Prohaska. An other-worldly sounding instrument, it quickly declined in popularity due to rumours it inspired insanity and demonic activity!
Can anyone recommend a recording for Haydn's lire organizzate concerti? I hear he's also got some great concerti out there for other instruments, such as the hurdy-gurdy; it's very frustrating that these are seldom performed simply because these instruments are 'outdated.' Again, any recording recommendations for these are more than welcome.
Joined: Fri Jun 06, 2008 7:08 am Posts: 83 Location: Beethoven's Heiligenstadt
The Glass Harmonica is one of my favorite musical instruments. I have a cd of music performed on this instrument from Naxos with works from Beethoven, Mozart and others, performed by Thomas Bloch. Here are two websites about the glass harmonica (or armonica). You can even play a virtual glass harmonica on the Benjamin Franklin site:
In the world of "strange instruments", the hurdy-gurdy figured in some interesting works. The hammered dulcimer and alphorn are used in some compositions by Huber, and other Swiss composers, and the Russians and Azerbaijan composers did some nice stuff with accordians and bizarre folk instruments. Theramins have also been used in some classical compositions to an eerie degree. Somebody did a symphony for toy instruments some years ago, but I can't recall who. A bit weird, but not a bad piece. Kids probably got a blast out of it.
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Slezak wrote:
In the world of "strange instruments", the hurdy-gurdy figured in some interesting works. The hammered dulcimer and alphorn are used in some compositions by Huber, and other Swiss composers, and the Russians and Azerbaijan composers did some nice stuff with accordians and bizarre folk instruments. Theramins have also been used in some classical compositions to an eerie degree. Somebody did a symphony for toy instruments some years ago, but I can't recall who. A bit weird, but not a bad piece. Kids probably got a blast out of it.
Wikipedia says of the 'Toy Symphony'...
It was long reputed to be the work of Joseph Haydn, but later scholarship suggested that it was actually written by Leopold Mozart. Its authorship is still disputed, however, and other composers have been proposed as the symphony's true author. Recent research on a newly found manuscript suggests the Austrian benedictine monk Edmund Angerer (1740–1794) to be the author, but these findings are disputed among scholars.
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Rod Corkin wrote:
Wikipedia says of the 'Toy Symphony'... It was long reputed to be the work of Joseph Haydn, but later scholarship suggested that it was actually written by Leopold Mozart. Its authorship is still disputed, however, and other composers have been proposed as the symphony's true author. Recent research on a newly found manuscript suggests the Austrian benedictine monk Edmund Angerer (1740–1794) to be the author, but these findings are disputed among scholars.
I remember the first time I ever heard this "Toy Symphony" was back when I was a kid in the mid 1960s. In those days this piece was still attributed to good old Papa Haydn. I really enjoy this work with all of its wonderful quirkiness and I still "get a blast out" of hearing it today.
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wrote for the Jew's Harp?
