11 Facts About Chamber Orchestra

1.

Chamber Orchestra tried other innovative ensembles, including the quintet for violin, two violas, cello, and horn, K 407, quartets for flute and strings, and various wind instrument combinations.

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Chamber Orchestra wrote six string quintets for two violins, two violas and cello, which explore the rich tenor tones of the violas, adding a new dimension to the string quartet conversation.

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3.

Chamber Orchestra has taste, and, what is more, the most profound knowledge of composition.

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4.

Chamber Orchestra wrote ten sonatas for violin and piano and five sonatas for cello and piano.

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5.

Chamber Orchestra developed a technique that Arnold Schoenberg described as "developing variation".

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6.

Chamber Orchestra wrote a trio for the unusual combination of piano, violin and horn, Op.

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7.

Chamber Orchestra wrote two songs for alto singer, viola and piano, Op.

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Chamber Orchestra's method entails building a piece using a series of the twelve notes of the chromatic scale, permuting it and superimposing it on itself to create the composition.

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Chamber Orchestra was followed by a number of other twelve-tone composers, the most prominent of whom were his students Alban Berg, who wrote the Lyric Suite for string quartet, and Anton Webern, who wrote Five Movements for String Quartet, op.

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Chamber Orchestra's eighth quartet is an autobiographical work, that expresses his deep depression from his ostracization, bordering on suicide: it quotes from previous compositions, and uses the four-note motif DSCH, the composer's initials.

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11.

Chamber Orchestra music performance is a specialized field, and requires a number of skills not normally required for the performance of symphonic or solo music.

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