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A sinfonietta is a work for orchestra
Orchestra

An orchestra is an Musical ensemble, usually fairly large with string, brass, woodwind sections, and possibly a percussion section as well. The term orchestra derives from the name for the area in front of an theatre of ancient Greece reserved for the Greek chorus....
 that is generally considered to be smaller in scope than a full symphony. The word is sometimes also used to refer to small symphonic ensembles which are considered too large to be chamber ensembles.

There are many professional and amateur orchestras bearing the name "Sinfonietta", including:






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A sinfonietta is a work for orchestra
Orchestra

An orchestra is an Musical ensemble, usually fairly large with string, brass, woodwind sections, and possibly a percussion section as well. The term orchestra derives from the name for the area in front of an theatre of ancient Greece reserved for the Greek chorus....
 that is generally considered to be smaller in scope than a full symphony. The word is sometimes also used to refer to small symphonic ensembles which are considered too large to be chamber ensembles.

There are many professional and amateur orchestras bearing the name "Sinfonietta", including:
  • Chicago Sinfonietta
    Chicago Sinfonietta

    The Chicago Sinfonietta is an American orchestra based in Chicago, Illinois. The stated mission of the orchestra is to "serve as a national model for inclusiveness and innovation in classical music" and to "help America become a true cultural democracy, in which everyone can share fully in its cultural resources and in which all can contribu...
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A number of composers have written works under this title:
  • For the Sinfonietta of Leoš Janácek
    Leoš Janácek

    Leo? Jan?cek , was a Czech people composer, Music theory, Folkloristics, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and all Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style....
    , see Sinfonietta (Janácek)
    Sinfonietta (Janácek)

    The Sinfonietta is a very expressive and festive, late work for large orchestra by the Moravia/Czech people composer Leo? Jan?cek. It is dedicated 'To the Czechoslovak Armed Forces' and Jan?cek said it was intended to express 'contemporary free man, his spiritual beauty and joy, his strength, courage and determination to fight for victory...
  • For the Sinfonietta of Francis Poulenc
    Francis Poulenc

    Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a France composer and a member of the French group Les Six. He composed music in all major genres, including art song, chamber music, oratorio, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music....
    , see Sinfonietta (Poulenc)
    Sinfonietta (Poulenc)

    The Sinfonietta is a work for orchestra by Francis Poulenc. Composed in 1947, it was first given in London on October 24, 1948, under the baton of Roger Desormi?re....
  • For the Sinfonietta of Sergei Prokofiev
    Sergei Prokofiev

    Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century....
    , see Sinfonietta (Prokofiev)
    Sinfonietta (Prokofiev)

    Sinfonietta in A major is a composition by Sergei Prokofiev....
  • Lennox Berkeley
    Lennox Berkeley

    Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley was an England composer....
    's Sinfonietta
  • Benjamin Britten's Sinfonietta
  • Marcus Tristan Heathcock's Sinfonietta is his First Symphony
    Symphony

    A symphony is a musical composition, often extended and usually for orchestra. "Symphony" does not imply a specific form. Many symphonies are tonality works in four movement with the first in sonata form, and this is often described by music theorists as the structure of a "Classical period " symphony, although even some symphonies by the ac...
  • Bernard Herrmann
    Bernard Herrmann

    Bernard Herrmann was an United States composer noted for his work in motion pictures.An Academy Award-winner , Herrmann is particularly known for collaboration with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho , North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo ....
    's Sinfonietta for String? Orchestra
  • Paul Hindemith
    Paul Hindemith

    Paul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and Conducting....
    's Symphonietta (Little Symphony) in E-major
  • E. J. Moeran's Sinfonietta
  • José Pablo Moncayo
    José Pablo Moncayo

    Jos? Pablo Moncayo was a Mexican pianist, percussionist, music teacher, composer and Conducting. As composer, Jos? Pablo Moncayo represents one of the most important legacies of the Mexican nationalism in art music, after Silvestre Revueltas and Carlos Ch?vez....
    's "Sinfonieta"
  • Krzysztof Penderecki
    Krzysztof Penderecki

    Krzysztof Penderecki is a Poland composer and conducting of European classical music....
    's Sinfonietta No. 1, for string orchestra and Sinfonietta No. 2, for clarinet and strings
  • Max Reger
    Max Reger

    Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger was a German composer, Conducting, pianist, organist, and teacher....
    's Sinfonietta in A major, op. 90
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov , also Nikolay, Nicolai, and Rimsky-Korsakoff, was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as "The Five." Noted particularly for a predilection for folk and fairy-tale subjects as well as his extraordinary skill in orchestration, his best known orchestral compositions...
    's Sinfonietta on Russian Themes in A minor, Op. 31
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky's Sinfonietta for orchestra. op. 23