Danse des Ghazies
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Product ID: BM1 44791
By Anton Arensky
Publisher:
Belwin Mills
Arranger:
Victor Lopéz
Series:
Beginning Full Orchestra
Genre:
Romantic Era, Russian
Line Up:
Symphony Orchestra
Duration:
3:00
Level: 1,5
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Originally written for piano, "Danse des Ghazies" from Egyptian Nights is an outstanding work by Anton Stepanovich Arensky that has been wonderfully arranged for beginning full orchestra by Victor López. Its light texture, melodic contour, and playful nature will be an excellent addition to any contest program.
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Composer
Anton Arensky
Anton Stepanovich Arensky (12 July 1861 – 25 February] 1906), was a Russian composer of Romantic classical music, a pianist and a professor of music.
Arensky was born in Novgorod, Russia. He was musically precocious and had composed a number of songs and piano pieces by the age of nine. With his mother and father, he moved to Saint Petersburg in 1879, where he studied composition at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
After graduating from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1882, Arensky became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. Among his students there were Alexander Scriabin, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Gretchaninov.
In 1895 Arensky returned to Saint Petersburg as the director of the Imperial Choir, a post for which he had been recommended by Mily Balakirev. Arensky retired from this position in 1901, spending his remaining time as a pianist, conductor, and composer.
Arensky died of tuberculosis in a sanatorium in Perkjärvi, Finland. It is alleged that drinking and gambling undermined his health. The Antarctic Arensky Glacier was named after him.
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