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Gaspard de la Nuit (2019) for soprano and string quartet
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Thomas Oboe Lee
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Gaspard de la Nuit
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.869594 Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. 20th Century,Contemporary,Romantic Period. Score and parts. 85...
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.869594 Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. 20th Century,Contemporary,Romantic Period. Score and parts. 85 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #4335039. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.869594). I have always admired Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit for solo piano. When I found the poems by Aloysius Bertrand that inspired his work, I immediately thought instead of tone poems like Ravel's I would do the right thing and set the poems to music. My work for soprano and string quartet is also titled Gaspard de la Nuit, albeit sung ... in French, of course. I chose five from a huge collection of fantastic, macabre and bizarre scenarios.1. À Monsieur David, Statuaire2. Scarbo I3. Le Cheval Mort4. Odine5. Scarbo IIAudio link: https://thomasoboelee.bandcamp.com/album/gaspard-de-la-nuit-2019-for-soprano-and-string-quartetVideo link: https://youtu.be/QbM6HHDk-DQ
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Aveux Non Avenus (2020) for soprano and string quartet
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Chamber Orchestra
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Thomas Oboe Lee
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Aveux Non Avenus
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Thomas Oboe Lee
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.869642 Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. 20th Century,Contemporary,Romantic Period. Score and parts. 66...
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.869642 Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. 20th Century,Contemporary,Romantic Period. Score and parts. 66 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #5302511. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.869642). I saw an obituary in the New York Times entitled Overlooked No More: Claude Cahun, Whose Photographs Explored Gender and Sexuality. I was so fascinated by the article that I went and purchased a book of her poems and writings. Within it I found a series of poems under the subtile of Délectations Moroses that were truly fantastic. A year ago I wrote a work for soprano and string quartet titled Gaspard de la Nuit on a set of poems by Aloysius Bertrand. Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit is for solo piano, a set of tone poems inspired by the poems of the same A. Bertrand. I enjoyed my Gaspard so much that I wanted to write another work for soprano and string quartet, this time using these fascinating poems by Claude Cahun.The work is in seven movements.1. Allegro (de l'oubli)2. Largo (de l'oubli)3. Allegro con moto (d'un enfant difficile)4. Moderato (de l'amour)5. Moderato (de l'art)6. Allegro (Vocation)7. Adagio (Quatrième dimension)Enjoy!!!Duration: 27 minuteshttps://thomasoboelee.bandcamp.com/album/aveux-non-avenus-2020-for-soprano-and-string-quartet
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Think About That Day - a Christmas Song - Strings with piano with parts
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Chamber Orchestra
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Christmas
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Connie Boss
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Think About That Day - a Chris
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Connie Boss
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.801538 Composed by Connie Boss. Christmas,Sacred. Score and parts. 10 pages. Connie Boss #6075855....
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.801538 Composed by Connie Boss. Christmas,Sacred. Score and parts. 10 pages. Connie Boss #6075855. Published by Connie Boss (A0.801538). This is a song that makes you wonder what it would have been like to be Mary and Joseph. Think about that day - the angel came, they traveled to Bethlehem, Jesus was born......This is for a string quartet but it is available in other versions as well. Lyrics and parts are included. cdboss@cvalley.net See lyrics below:
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Bolero for Recorder and Strings
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Chamber Orchestra
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Maurice Ravel
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Hugo Wanner
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Bolero for Recorder and String
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Hugo Wanner Music
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.898170 Composed by Maurice Ravel. Arranged by Hugo Wanner. 20th Century,Concert,Standards. Score a...
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.898170 Composed by Maurice Ravel. Arranged by Hugo Wanner. 20th Century,Concert,Standards. Score and parts. 30 pages. Hugo Wanner Music #6230427. Published by Hugo Wanner Music (A0.898170). This is an arrangement for recorder, two violins or one violin and one viola, and cello.
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Bolero for Flute and Strings
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Chamber Orchestra
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Maurice Ravel
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Hugo Wanner
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Bolero for Flute and Strings
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.898169 Composed by Maurice Ravel. Arranged by Hugo Wanner. 20th Century. Score and parts. 30 pages...
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.898169 Composed by Maurice Ravel. Arranged by Hugo Wanner. 20th Century. Score and parts. 30 pages. Hugo Wanner Music #6230435. Published by Hugo Wanner Music (A0.898169). This is an arrangement for flute, two violins or one violin and one viola, and cello.
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Metamorphosis
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Chamber Orchestra
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Contemporary
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Daniel Burwasser
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Metamorphosis
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Head and Stem
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1097212 Composed by Daniel Burwasser. Classical,Contemporary. Score and Parts. 140 pages. Head and...
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1097212 Composed by Daniel Burwasser. Classical,Contemporary. Score and Parts. 140 pages. Head and Stem #701166. Published by Head and Stem (A0.1097212). The composition of Metamorphosis for chamber orchestra began in the Fall of 1985 and was completed in February of 1986 when the composer was just 26. This score represents a newly revised edition done in 2022. Every effort was made to maintain the original intention of the piece. Metamorphosis is a work that conveys the essence of transformation and change. It explores the emotional and sonic journey of a metamorphic process, capturing the stages of evolution, growth, and eventual emergence. Metamorphosis represents a brief early period in the composer’s output where a more dissonant harmonic language was used or where the tonality becomes more ambiguous. The composition begins with a sense of anticipation, using subtle and mysterious musical elements to represent the initial state before transformation. In the opening bars for instance, one hears a suggestion of the Scriabin “mystic†chord which also loosely serves as the basis of the piece.. A brief hat-tipping moment is where a few bars of the Ravel string quartet is paraphrased (listen for it!). The work then travels through various cycles and episodes and only hints at the chord along the way. For more information, go to: https://www.danielburwasser.com/To contact the composer directly, go to: danielburwasser9@gmail.comYoutube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@danielburwasser60.
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Requiem
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Chamber Orchestra
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Harald Weiss
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Requiem
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Schott Music - Digital
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Soprano, tenor, Knabensoprano, flugelhorn, mixed choir and chamber orchestra - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q7038 Teil I: Schwarz vor Augen... · Teil I...
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Soprano, tenor, Knabensoprano, flugelhorn, mixed choir and chamber orchestra - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q7038 Teil I: Schwarz vor Augen... · Teil II: ...und es ward Licht!. Composed by Harald Weiss. This edition: study score. Music Of Our Time. Downloadable, Study score. Duration 100' 0. Schott Music - Digital #Q7038. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q7038). Latin • German.On letting go(Concerning the selection of the texts) In the selection of the texts, I have allowed myself to be motivated and inspired by the concept of “letting goâ€. This appears to me to be one of the essential aspects of dying, but also of life itself. We humans cling far too strongly to successful achievements, whether they have to do with material or ideal values, or relationships of all kinds. We cannot and do not want to let go, almost as if our life depended on it. As we will have to practise the art of letting go at the latest during our hour of death, perhaps we could already make a start on this while we are still alive. Tagore describes this farewell with very simple but strikingly vivid imagery: “I will return the key of my doorâ€. I have set this text for tenor solo. Here I imagine, and have correspondingly noted in a certain passage of the score, that the protagonist finds himself as though “in an ocean†of voices in which he is however not drowning, but immersing himself in complete relaxation. The phenomenon of letting go is described even more simply and tersely in Psalm 90, verse 12: “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdomâ€. This cannot be expressed more plainly.I have begun the requiem with a solo boy’s voice singing the beginning of this psalm on a single note, the note A. This in effect says it all. The work comes full circle at the culmination with a repeat of the psalm which subsequently leads into a resplendent “lux aeternaâ€. The intermediate texts of the Requiem which highlight the phenomenon of letting go in the widest spectrum of colours originate on the one hand from the Latin liturgy of the Messa da Requiem (In Paradisum, Libera me, Requiem aeternam, Mors stupebit) and on the other hand from poems by Joseph von Eichendorff, Hermann Hesse, Rabindranath Tagore and Rainer Maria Rilke.All texts have a distinctive positive element in common and view death as being an organic process within the great system of the universe, for example when Hermann Hesse writes: “Entreiß dich, Seele, nun der Zeit, entreiß dich deinen Sorgen und mache dich zum Flug bereit in den ersehnten Morgen†[“Tear yourself way , o soul, from time, tear yourself away from your sorrows and prepare yourself to fly away into the long-awaited morningâ€] and later: “Und die Seele unbewacht will in freien Flügen schweben, um im Zauberkreis der Nacht tief und tausendfach zu leben†[“And the unfettered soul strives to soar in free flight to live in the magic sphere of the night, deep and thousandfoldâ€]. Or Joseph von Eichendorff whose text evokes a distant song in his lines: “Und meine Seele spannte weit ihre Flügel aus. Flog durch die stillen Lande, als flöge sie nach Haus†[“And my soul spread its wings wide. Flew through the still country as if homeward bound.â€]Here a strong romantically tinged occidental resonance can be detected which is however also accompanied by a universal spirit going far beyond all cultures and religions. In the beginning was the sound Long before any sort of word or meaningful phrase was uttered by vocal chords, sounds, vibrations and tones already existed. This brings us back to the music. Both during my years of study and at subsequent periods, I had been an active participant in the world of contemporary music, both as percussionist and also as conductor and composer. My early scores had a somewhat adventurous appearance, filled with an abundance of small black dots: no rhythm could be too complicated, no register too extreme and no harmony too dissonant. I devoted myself intensely to the handling of different parameters which in serial music coexist in total equality: I also studied aleatory principles and so-called minimal music.I subsequently emigrated and took up residence in Spain from where I embarked on numerous travels over the years to India, Africa and South America. I spent repeated periods during this time as a resident in non-European countries. This meant that the currents of contemporary music swept past me vaguely and at a great distance. What I instead absorbed during this period were other completely new cultures in which I attempted to immerse myself as intensively as possible.I learned foreign languages and came into contact with musicians of all classes and styles who had a different cultural heritage than my own: I was intoxicated with the diversity of artistic potential.Nevertheless, the further I distanced myself from my own Western musical heritage, the more this returned insistently in my consciousness.The scene can be imagined of sitting somewhere in the middle of the Brazilian jungle surrounded by the wailing of Indians and out of the blue being provided with the opportunity to hear Beethoven’s late string quartets: this can be a heart-wrenching experience, akin to an identity crisis. This type of experience can also be described as cathartic. Whatever the circumstances, my “renewed†occupation with the “old†country would not permit me to return to the point at which I as an audacious young student had maltreated the musical parameters of so-called contemporary music. A completely different approach would be necessary: an extremely careful approach, inching my way gradually back into the Western world: an approach which would welcome tradition back into the fold, attempt to unfurl the petals and gently infuse this tradition with a breath of contemporary life.Although I am aware that I will not unleash a revolution or scandal with this approach, I am nevertheless confident as, with the musical vocabulary of this Requiem, I am travelling in an orbit in which no ballast or complex structures will be transported or intimated: on the contrary, I have attempted to form the message of the texts in music with the naivety of a “homecomerâ€. Harald WeissColonia de San PedroMarch 20091 (auch Altfl.) · 2 (2. auch Engl. Hr.) · 1 (auch Bassklar.) · 0 - 2 · Flhr. · 0 · 0 - P. S. (Glsp. · Röhrengl. · Gongs · Trgl. · Beck. · Tamt. · 2 Holzschlitztr. (oder Woodbl.) · Woodbl. · gr. Tr.) (3 Spieler) - Org. (Positiv) - Str. (4 · 4 · 4 · 4 · 2).
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Clarinet in the Ages - Score Only
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Chamber Orchestra
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Karol Niklas
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Karol Niklas
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1082630 Composed by Karol Niklas. 20th Century,Baroque,Classical,New Age,Romantic Period. Score an...
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1082630 Composed by Karol Niklas. 20th Century,Baroque,Classical,New Age,Romantic Period. Score and parts. 20 pages. Karol Niklas #686841. Published by Karol Niklas (A0.1082630). It is a piece for clarinet and string orchestra with timpani using various instrumental techniques. It travels through various ages of the music history beginning with impressionism and going as far back as baroque.
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Bolero
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Chamber Orchestra
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Maurice Ravel
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Dico
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Bolero
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Dico Ferreira
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.506764 Composed by Maurice Ravel. Arranged by Dico. Romantic Period,Wedding. Score and parts. 87 p...
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.506764 Composed by Maurice Ravel. Arranged by Dico. Romantic Period,Wedding. Score and parts. 87 pages. Dico Ferreira #118193. Published by Dico Ferreira (A0.506764). WEDDING SERIES - a set of popular songs and wedding standards that I have arranged for years. The formations are varied, from duos to orchestras with choir. The majority are mixed/flexible sextets in which some instruments can be replaced and the ensembles can be totally changed. Some arrangements have shortened versions. These options are provided in my catalogue.BOLERO (excerpts) - as this arrangement was commissioned for a wedding ceremony, the group was reduced so that the string section was a quartet, without the violas.INSTRUMENTATION:Flute (piccolo) | Oboe | Horn | Trumpet 1, 2 | Trombone 1, 2 | Timpani | Percussion | Piano | Strings (-viola)
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Bolero (excerpts)
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Dico
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Dico
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.843113 Composed by Maurice Ravel. Arranged by Dico. 20th Century,Romantic Period,Wedding. Score an...
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.843113 Composed by Maurice Ravel. Arranged by Dico. 20th Century,Romantic Period,Wedding. Score and parts. 87 pages. Dico #6637143. Published by Dico (A0.843113). WEDDING SERIES - a set of popular songs and wedding standards that I've been arranged for years (some aren't as standard, but still). The formations are varied, from duos to orchestras with chorus. Most are mixed/flexible sextets where some instruments can be replaced and, as a result, ensembles can be completely changed. Some arrangements have abbreviated versions (excerpts) and are in several keys to adapt to a wide range of voices. These options are available in my catalog.BOLERO (excerpts) - as this arrangement was commissioned for a wedding ceremony, the group was reduced so that the string section was a quartet, without the violas.INSTRUMENTATION:Flute (piccolo) | Oboe | Horn | Trumpet 1, 2 | Trombone 1, 2 | Timpani | Percussion | Piano | Strings (-viola)
$32.00
Karl Friedrich Abel - Sinfonia Op. 7 n. 1 - Secondo Movimento - Andante
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Karl Friedrich Abel
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Guido Menestrina
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Karl Friedrich Abel - Sinfonia
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Guido Menestrina
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.828700 Composed by Karl Friedrich Abel. Arranged by Guido Menestrina. Classical. Score and parts. ...
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Chamber Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.828700 Composed by Karl Friedrich Abel. Arranged by Guido Menestrina. Classical. Score and parts. 16 pages. Guido Menestrina #122893. Published by Guido Menestrina (A0.828700). Karl Friedrich Abel - Sinfonia Op. 7 n. 1 - Secondo Movimento - Adagio Edited by Guido Menestrina - Full score and single parts for 2 oboe, 2 F Horns (originally cor de chasse, tacet on 2nd movement), 2 violins, viola and cello (originally basse de violon). Abel was born in Köthen, a small German city, where his father, Christian Ferdinand Abel, had worked for years as the principal viola da gamba and cello player in the court orchestra. In 1723 Abel senior became director of the orchestra, when the previous director, Johann Sebastian Bach moved to Leipzig. The young Abel later boarded at Leipzig's Thomasschule, where he was taught by Bach. On Bach's recommendation in 1743 he was able to join Johann Adolph Hasse's court orchestra at Dresden where he remained for fifteen years.[3][5] In 1759 (or 1758 according to Chambers),[1] he went to England and became chamber-musician to Queen Charlotte, in 1764.[3][5] He gave a concert of his own compositions in London, performing on various instruments, one of which was a five-string cello known as a pentachord, which had been recently invented by John Joseph Merlin.[6] In 1762, Johann Christian Bach, the eleventh son of J.S. Bach, joined him in London, and the friendship between him and Abel led, in 1764 or 1765, to the establishment of the famous Bach-Abel concerts, England's first subscription concerts. In those concerts, many celebrated guest artists appeared, and many works of Haydn received their first English performance. For ten years the concerts were organized by Mrs. Theresa Cornelys, a retired Venetian opera singer who owned a concert hall at Carlisle House in Soho Square, then the height of fashionable events. In 1775 the concerts became independent of her, to be continued by Abel and Bach until Bach's death in 1782. Abel still remained in great demand as a player on various instruments new and old. He traveled to Germany and France between 1782 and 1785, and upon his return to London, became a leading member of the Grand Professional Concerts at the Hanover Square Rooms in Soho. Throughout his life he had enjoyed excessive living, and his drinking probably hastened his death, which occurred in London on 20 June 1787. One of Abel's works became famous due to a misattribution: in the 19th century, a manuscript symphony in the hand of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was catalogued as his Symphony no. 3 in E flat, K. 18, and was published as such in the first complete edition of Mozart's works by Breitkopf & Härtel. Later, it was discovered that this symphony was actually the work of Abel, copied by the boy Mozart-evidently for study purposes-while he was visiting London in 1764. That symphony was originally published as the concluding work in Abel's Six Symphonies, Op. 7. Follow the score on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_urGVpH7Pls.
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