| Composer or Artist |
Selection |
Time |
| Johann Sebastian BACH |
Concerto for 2 violins in d-minor, BWV 1043 |
16:17 |
| Johann Christian BACH |
Wind Symphony #3 in E flat major |
12;02 |
| Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART |
Symphony in B flat major, K Anh. 216 (c11.03). |
13:55 |
| Gioachino ROSSSINI |
Quartet No. 6 for flute, clarinet, horn, and bassoon |
19:51 |
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| Ludwig van BEETHOVEN |
Sympony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55, "Eroica" |
48.43 |
| MEANDER |
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| Traditional |
The Ash Grove |
4:14 |
The Meander Teaser - Double
1) Beethoven is well known for becoming deaf. At what stage did this become probably total?
ANSWER: Probably by 1818 (he died in 1827) after which the ninth symphony and the late string quartets were composed (i.e. 12-16) and piano sonatas 29 - 32 plus his great choral work the mias solemnis, Opus 123.
2) Who is credited with inventing the Glass Harmonica?
ANSWER: The Irish musician Richard Puckeridge is typically credited as the first to play an instrument composed of glass vessels by rubbing this fingers around the rims. Beginning in the 1740s, he pefromed in Londo9n on a set of upright goblets filled with varying amounts of water. During the same decade, Christoph Willibald Gluck also attracted attention playing a similiar instrument in England. The glass harmonica, also known as the glass armonica, hydrocystralophone, or simply armonica (derived from "harmonia," the Greek word for harmony), is a type of musical insturment that uses a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of fricition (instruments of this type are known as friction idiophones). Benjamin Franklin invented a radically new arrangement of the glasses in 1761 after seeing water-filled wine glasses played by Edmund Delaval at Cambridge in England in 1758. Franklin, who called his invention the "armonica" after the italian word for harmony, worked with London glassblower Charles James to build one, and it had its world permiere in early 1762, played by Marianne Davies.
