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    Viola is an unfinished romantic opera by Bedřich Smetana. The libretto was written by Eliška Krásnohorská, and is based on Shakespeare's play Twelfth...
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  • Viola or viola in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The viola is a stringed musical instrument related to the violin. Viola also may refer to: Viola is...
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    William John Viola Jr. (US: /ˈvaɪoʊlə/ VY-oh-lə, UK: /ˈviːoʊlə/ VEE-oh-lə; January 25, 1951 – July 12, 2024) was an American video artist whose artistic...
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    The viola (/viˈoʊlə/ vee-OH-lə, Italian: [ˈvjɔːla, viˈɔːla]) is a string instrument of the violin family, and is usually bowed when played. Violas are...
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    A viola concerto is a concerto contrasting a viola with another body of musical instruments such as an orchestra or chamber music ensemble. Throughout...
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    Paul Hindemith (category Composers for viola)
    song cycle Das Marienleben (1923), Der Schwanendreher for viola and orchestra (1935), the opera Mathis der Maler (1938), the Symphonic Metamorphosis of...
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    The viola d'amore (pronounced [ˈvjɔːla daˈmoːre]; Italian for "viol of love") is a 7- or 6-stringed musical instrument with additional sympathetic strings...
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    Theatre. Later she appeared in opera, variety, straight theatre and film. Tree made her London debut in 1904 as Viola in Twelfth Night, and for the next...
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    Georg Philipp Telemann (category Composers for viola)
    for Viola and String Orchestra, TWV 51:G9; the first known concerto for viola, still regularly performed today Concerto in G major for Two Violas and...
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    composed when Mozart was staying in Milan: 25  during the production of his opera Lucio Silla which was being performed there in the Teatro Regio Ducale....
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    Cantabile) for viola or cello and piano (1886) Hymne nuptial for violin, viola, cello, harp and organ Quintet for oboe, violin, viola, cello and piano...
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    Calhoun (cello), Mike Rocha (trumpet), Jacob Steuer (drums), Sarah Dabby (viola, opera vocals), Lucas Chen (cello), and Charlie Giesige (drums). Though the...
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  • company, the Viola Gillette Opera Company. In 1909 she played Nichette in The Beauty Spot at the Herald Square Theatre in New York City. Viola Gillette DeWolf...
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  • John Harbison (category American opera composers)
    works include several symphonies, string quartets, and concerti for violin, viola, and double bass. Harbison won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1987 for...
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    Cello (redirect from Shoulder viola)
    basses. Figured bass music of the Baroque era typically assumes a cello, viola da gamba or bassoon as part of the basso continuo group alongside chordal...
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  • William Alwyn (category English opera composers)
    or viola and piano (or harp) (1936) Novelette for string quartet (1938) Ballade for viola and piano (1939) Sonata Impromptu for violin and viola (1939)...
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    for viola and piano, 1950 Op. 48a, Lachrymae for viola and strings, 1976 Op. 49, Six Metamorphoses after Ovid for oboe, 1951 Op. 50, Billy Budd, opera (libretto...
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    Chemins II (1967) and Chemins III (1968) Chemins II for viola and nine instruments (1967); the viola part is Sequenza VI (1967); reused in Chemins III (1968)...
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    Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola (disguised as Cesario) falls in love with the...
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  • and viola) and Peter Hollo (cello), Lara Goodridge (violin and vocals) and Shenzo Gregorio (viola); former members include: Veren Grigorov (viola) & Chris...
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  • Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht (category Music directors (opera))
    Prélude et Saltarelle for viola and piano (1907) Impromptu in F minor for viola and piano (1922) Nocturne for cello (or violin, or viola) and piano (1922) Quintet...
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  • The Phantom of the Opera is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Charles Hart, additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe and a libretto by Lloyd Webber...
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  • The Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 147, is the last composition by Dmitri Shostakovich. It was completed on July 5, 1975, weeks before his death. It...
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    Rusalka (pronounced [ˈrusalka] ), Op. 114, is an opera ('lyric fairy tale') by Antonín Dvořák. His ninth opera (1900–1901), it became his most successful,...
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  • Viola Essen (August 11, 1925 – January 16, 1970), was an American ballet dancer. She was a student of Mikhail Mordkin, and an original member of the Ballet...
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    Quintet No. 1 in G for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos, Op. 14 (1900-1901) [2] String Quintet No. 2 in C for 2 violins, 2 violas and cello, Op. 16 (1904) Piano...
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    (two violins, a viola, and a cello), a string quintet includes a fifth string instrument, usually a second viola (a so-called "viola quintet") or a second...
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  • for viola solo (1991) Piano Sonata No. 3 (1992) Improvisation for solo cello (1993) Sonatina for piano four hands (1995) Life with an Idiot, opera in 2...
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    Giya Kancheli (category Male opera composers)
    Vesuvius". Kancheli wrote seven symphonies, and what he termed a liturgy for viola and orchestra, Mourned by the Wind. the Philadelphia Orchestra under Yuri...
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  • for clarinet, viola and piano (2007) Wasserflussen / Kirschgarten for clarinet, viola and piano (2008) Lugubre Gondola for violin, viola and cello (2009)...
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