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Jeremiah Clarke (c. 1674 – 1 December 1707) was an English baroque composer and organist.
Thought to have been born in London around 1674, Clarke was a pupil of John Blow at St Paul's Cathedral. He later became an organist at the Chapel Royal. After his death, he was succeeded in that post by William Croft.
Clarke is best remembered for a popular keyboard piece: the Prince of Denmark's March, which is commonly called the Trumpet Voluntary, written about 1700. From c. 1878 until the 1940s the work was attributed to Henry Purcell, and was published as Trumpet Voluntary by Henry Purcell in William Spark's Short Pieces for the Organ, Book VII, No. 1 (London, Ashdown and Parry). This version came to the attention of Sir Henry J. Wood, who made two orchestral transcriptions of it, both of which were recorded. The recordings further cemented the erroneous notion that the original piece was by Purcell. Clarke's piece is a popular choice for wedding music, and has been used in royal weddings.
Jeremiah (/dʒɛrᵻˈmaɪ.ə/;Hebrew: יִרְמְיָהוּ, Modern: Yirmeyahu [jiʁmeˈjahu], Tiberian: Yirmĭyāhū; Greek: Ἰερεμίας; Arabic: إرميا Irmiyā) meaning "Yah Exalts", also called the "Weeping prophet", was one of the major prophets of the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament). Jeremiah is traditionally credited with authoring the Book of Jeremiah, 1 Kings, 2 Kings and the Book of Lamentations, with the assistance and under the editorship of Baruch ben Neriah, his scribe and disciple.
Judaism considers the Book of Jeremiah part of its canon, and regards Jeremiah as the second of the major prophets. Christianity also regards Jeremiah as a prophet and he is quoted in the New Testament.Islam too considers Jeremiah a prophet, and he is listed as a major prophet in Ibn Kathir's Qisas Al-Anbiya (Stories of the Prophets).
About a year after King Josiah of Judah had turned the nation toward repentance from the widespread idolatrous practices of his father and grandfather, Jeremiah's sole purpose was to reveal the sins of the people and explain the reason for the impending disaster (destruction by the Babylonian army and captivity), "And when your people say, 'Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?' you shall say to them, 'As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve foreigners in a land that is not yours.'" God's personal message to Jeremiah, "Attack you they will, overcome you they can't," was fulfilled many times in the Biblical narrative: Jeremiah was attacked by his own brothers, beaten and put into the stocks by a priest and false prophet, imprisoned by the king, threatened with death, thrown into a cistern by Judah's officials, and opposed by a false prophet. When Nebuchadnezzar seized Jerusalem in 586 BC, he ordered that Jeremiah be freed from prison and treated well.
A triumphal march is a musical form generally reflecting a triumph, victory or great joy. See: march (music).
Many composers have written a triumphal march, with maybe the best known one being by Italian opera composer, Giuseppe Verdi for his 1871 grand opera, Aida, where, in the second act, Radames leads the Egyptian army on its return following their victory over the Ethiopians. The triumphal scene gives directors the opportunity for elaborate spectacle typical of the grand opera of the period in the nineteenth century.
The Martsang Pandangál (Filipino for "Honours March") often played during graduation ceremonies in the Philippines is an excerpt from Verdi's march. The piece is also one of three compositions (the other two being the Spanish anthem Marcha Real and the French anthem La Marseillaise) that influenced the Philippine National Anthem, according to its composer, Julián Felipe. Verdi's triumphal march has also become the background of many a popular football chant, especially in his native Italy.
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe ˈverdi]; 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer of operas.
Verdi was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, and developed a musical education with the help of a local patron. Verdi came to dominate the Italian opera scene after the era of Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini, whose works significantly influenced him, becoming one of the pre-eminent opera composers in history.
In his early operas Verdi demonstrated a sympathy with the Risorgimento movement which sought the unification of Italy. He also participated briefly as an elected politician. The chorus "Va, pensiero" from his early opera Nabucco (1842), and similar choruses in later operas, were much in the spirit of the unification movement, and the composer himself became esteemed as a representative of these ideals. An intensely private person, Verdi however did not seek to ingratiate himself with popular movements and as he became professionally successful was able to reduce his operatic workload and sought to establish himself as a landowner in his native region. He surprised the musical world by returning, after his success with the opera Aida (1871), with three late masterpieces: his Requiem (1874), and the operas Otello (1887) and Falstaff (1893).
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World Classic Organ Fantasy G. Verdi Opera Aida "The Grand March" Classic Organ Transcription NY Southern Church 4-manual Allen Organ Juilliard 5.1 Dolby Surround Jul, 25 2009 존홍 세계명곡 오르간 편곡연주 베르디 오폐라 아이다 개선행진곡 뉴욕남교회 알렌 4단 오르간 5.1 돌비 디지탈 사운드 2009년 7월 25일 오르간동영상
Grand March from Aida on the world famous 4 manual Hill pipe organ of the Baptist Cathedral of Europe - Thomas Coats Memorial Church, Paisley, Scotland. Played by resident Director of Music - Matt Edwards. Recorded 8th January 2012.
Played as Bride and Groom Exit Church.
Oh, Mussorgsky! In 1880, in one of the last creative gasps of his ruinous existence, responding to a commission for music to celebrate of 25 years of Tsar Alexander II, he rejigged his "Procession of the Nobles" from the failed opera-ballet "Mlada" by converting the middle bars to vaguely Kurdish or Turkish folk-sounding music. He called the results The Capture of Kars". It never played. He and Alexander were both dead within a year. Mussorgsky apparently made his own orchestration of the earlier version and Rimsky-Korsakov and Pavel Lamm both took a crack at improving his later version. None of the results corresponds with the piano edition. Which I'm trying to find on mp3. And help end my current obsession with The Big M (sorry, Frank Mahovlich). Yvegeny Svetlanov, USSR State Acade...
Transcription for 4 Trumpets Arrenger: Yigitcan Gozoglu
I'll let the music speak for itself.
Original Score: G.F. Handel Conducted by: Dr. Mark Laycock Arranged By: Meghan Vance