Capriccio for Harp and String Orchestra
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Walter Piston
's Capriccio for Harp and String Orchestra, was commissioned in 1963
by Broadcast Music Incorporated
on the occasion of its twentieth anniversary, and is dedicated to the harpist Nicanor Zabaleta
, who premiered it in Madrid on October 19, 1964.
The work is in one movement
and lasts for approximately 10 minutes.
Walter Piston
Walter Hamor Piston Jr., , was an American composer of classical music, music theorist and professor of music at Harvard University whose students included Leroy Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, and Elliott Carter....
's Capriccio for Harp and String Orchestra, was commissioned in 1963
1963 in music
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by Broadcast Music Incorporated
Broadcast Music Incorporated
Broadcast Music, Inc. is one of three United States performing rights organizations, along with ASCAP and SESAC. It collects license fees on behalf of songwriters, composers, and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed...
on the occasion of its twentieth anniversary, and is dedicated to the harpist Nicanor Zabaleta
Nicanor Zabaleta
Nicanor Zabaleta was a Spanish virtuoso and populariser of the harp.Zabaleta was born in San Sebastián, Spain, on January 7, 1907. In 1914 his father, an amateur musician, bought him a harp in an antique shop. He soon began taking lessons from Vincenta Tormo de Calvo and Luisa Menarguez...
, who premiered it in Madrid on October 19, 1964.
The work is in one movement
Movement (music)
A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form. While individual or selected movements from a composition are sometimes performed separately, a performance of the complete work requires all the movements to be performed in succession...
and lasts for approximately 10 minutes.