About: Sposalizio

An Entity of Type: WikicatSoloPianoPieces, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Sposalizio is the title of the first piece in Franz Liszt's Deuxième Année de Pèlerinage: Italie (Second Year of Pilgrimage: Italy), published in 1858. The composition starts out with a simple pentatonic melody, which transforms itself into a complex musical architecture. The melody then transforms itself into a type of wedding march, which continually embellishes itself to lead up to the grand climax, which contains crashing octaves into a loud finish. The composition ends quietly.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Sposalizio is the title of the first piece in Franz Liszt's Deuxième Année de Pèlerinage: Italie (Second Year of Pilgrimage: Italy), published in 1858. The composition starts out with a simple pentatonic melody, which transforms itself into a complex musical architecture. The melody then transforms itself into a type of wedding march, which continually embellishes itself to lead up to the grand climax, which contains crashing octaves into a loud finish. The composition ends quietly. Franz Liszt composed Sposalizio, which translates into "Marriage", from Italian, after being inspired from Raphael's painting The Marriage of the Virgin. This was quite common for much of the works contained in his Années de Pèlerinage. Although the fast octaves can be somewhat challenging, the piece departs from the virtuosic fireworks that were trademarks of some of his earlier works. The term sposalitzio appeared in the "Most Happy Fella" a show by Frank Loesser that appeared on Broadway in the 1950s. The song in which it appeared was entitled "Great Big Italian Sposalitzio." (en)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 8907311 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 1711 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1003664782 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:cname
  • Années de Pèlerinage: Deuxième Année (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbp:work
  • Ann%C3%A9es_de_P%C3%A8lerinage:_Deuxi%C3%A8me_Ann%C3%A9e:_Italie%2C_S.161_%28Liszt%2C_Franz%29 (en)
dcterms:subject
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Sposalizio is the title of the first piece in Franz Liszt's Deuxième Année de Pèlerinage: Italie (Second Year of Pilgrimage: Italy), published in 1858. The composition starts out with a simple pentatonic melody, which transforms itself into a complex musical architecture. The melody then transforms itself into a type of wedding march, which continually embellishes itself to lead up to the grand climax, which contains crashing octaves into a loud finish. The composition ends quietly. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Sposalizio (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License