What is a concert?
The concert is an instrumental work based on a contrast between the only instrumentalist of a small group of instrumentalists and a large orchestral ensemble. This meaning was applied with consistency since the 17th century, unlike the 16th century, when the genre of sacred music was referred to as the concert of Chorle. Most often it concerns three movements, the first and last is fast, while in the middle it is slow for one soloist and orchestra, for more soloists and orchestra in a specialized version called Concerto Grosso or groups in the orchestra that are not divided. His concerts musical and quattro op. 6, in which Torelli explains the meaning of the word solo used for decorative passages to play a single tool. As a result, it is sometimes identified as an inventor of a concertuform.
Two kinds of concerts have evolved: Roman and North Italian. The Orchestra in Rome was created around the main group of players called The Concertino, which included the players needed for the trio Sonata, balanced with the majorityA group called Concerto Grosso or Ripieno. This was shaped by a Roman concert around four separate violin parts and the development was in line with the tradition of Sonata. Arcangelo Corelli concerts were from this style.
In northern Italy, a concert and cinque are made up of the main violin, along with two other violins, Viola and cello, which can be doubled by continuum, or alternatively have a separate continuo part. Tomas Albinoni of Venice was significantly important in the development of this style of concert with his OP. 2 and his concert and Cinque Op. 5.
Other composers who helped shape the concert include Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Vivaldi wrote about 500 concerts, the most famous are undoubtedly solo violin concerts called Le Quattro Stagioni - four seasons in English: La Primavera, L'Estate, L'Tunno and Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter,Teré is program music.
Bach is the most famous of his concerts is six Brandenburg concerts, originally called Six Concerts Avec Plusieurs instruments and completed in 1721. Bach differs in solo group, including only violin, but also Piccolo violin, corner, oboe, bass, trumpet, recorder, harpsichord and flute.
Mozart is known for its concerts for Fagot, oboe, flute, corner, piano and his clarinet concert in Major. Other famous composers of the concert include Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Antonin Dvorak, Edward Elgar, Josef Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky and Georg Telemann.