Moments Musicaux
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Moments musicaux is a popular name for classical
suite
s. The general term can refer to the following sets of compositions:
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
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Suite
In music, a suite is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral pieces normally performed in a concert setting rather than as accompaniment; they may be extracts from an opera, ballet , or incidental music to a play or film , or they may be entirely original movements .In the...
s. The general term can refer to the following sets of compositions:
- Six moments musicaux (Schubert)Six Moments Musicaux (Schubert)Six moments musicaux, D 780 is a collection of six short pieces for solo piano composed by Franz Schubert. The movements are as follows:*1. Moderato in C major*2. Andantino in A-flat major*3. Allegro moderato in F minor...
, composed by Franz Schubert from 1823 to 1828. - Six moments musicaux (Rachmaninoff)Six Moments Musicaux (Rachmaninoff)Six moments musicaux , Op. 16, is a set of solo piano pieces composed by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff between October and December, 1896. Moments musicaux comprises a group of six separate works which reproduce musical forms characteristic of previous musical eras...
, composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1896.