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Underwrite a ProgramTraditionally, September is the back-to-school month. The Classics a Day team decided to mark the occasion. Classical School is the theme for September 2019. To participate, just post a piece of classical music that’s somehow related to education with the appropriate hashtags.
What would count? Any classical work about school, or using themes from schools; examination pieces; composer tributes to their teachers (or students); etudes or other instructional works, just to name a few.
Below are my selections for the third week of #ClassicalSchool
This popular work was commissioned by for a 1945 educational film “Instruments of the Orchestra.” The film features the London Symphony Orchestra directed by Malcolm Sargent.
These lessons come from a four-volume publication, Kompositionen für Klavier. The first two volumes have suites, the fourth fughettas. Volume three has Leçons, Fugues, and misc. pieces.
Moscheles was a piano virtuoso, composer, and pedagogue. His pupils include Felix Mendelssohn, Evard Grieg, and Arthur Sullivan.
Holst wrote the suite for the St.Paul’s Girls’ School in London. He taught there from 1905-1934, and the work was originally intended for the school’s student orchestra.
Britten had started and abandoned this tribute to his teacher many times. A commission by the Salzburg Festival did the trick. Britten finished the work, and its success launched his career.
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