This article is about musical works named Sinfonietta. For chamber music groups named Sinfonietta, see Sinfonietta (orchestra).
A sinfonietta is a symphony that is smaller in scale (either in terms of length or the instrumental forces required), or lighter in approach than a standard symphony. Although of Italian form, the word is not genuine in that language and has seldom been used by Italian composers. It appears to have been coined in 1874 by Joachim Raff for his Op. 188, but became common usage only in the early 20th century (Temperley 2001).
Just as the term symphony itself can refer to pieces of music of varied size and scope, it is difficult to identify common criteria which pieces called sinfonietta share. Many of the sinfoniettas listed on this page employ larger forces and/or are longer than pieces designated symphonies, sometimes even by the same composer.
Jürg Baur's Triton-Sinfonietta: 3 Grotesken für Kammerorchester (1974)
Maciej Bałenkowski's Sinfonietta no. 1 "Time is ticking" for string orchestra (2013/2014) and Sinfonietta no. 2 "Polonia" - hommage à Wojciech Kilar for string orchestra (2017/2018)
Ernst Krenek's Sinfonietta for string orchestra, "A brasileira", Op. 131 (1952)
Ladislav Kubík's Sinfonietta No. 1 for 19 instruments (1999), No. 2, "Jacob’s Well" for orchestra (1999) and No. 3, "Gong" for mezzo-soprano, mixed choir, orchestra and electronics (2007–08)
Nikolai Myaskovsky's Sinfonietta No. 1 for small orchestra, Op. 10 (1911), No. 2 for string orchestra, Op. 32 No. 2 (1929) and No. 3 for string orchestra, Op. 68 (1946)
Krzysztof Penderecki's Sinfonietta No. 1 for string orchestra (1992), No. 2 for clarinet and strings (1994), No. 3 for string orchestra (2012) and Sinfonietta for flute and string orchestra (2019)
Matteo Zanetti's Symphonietta for string orchestra (2010)
Referencesedit
Temperley, Nicholas. 2001. "Sinfonietta." The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
Further readingedit
Alvarez, Alberto J. 2007. Sinfonietta en re de Ernesto Halffter. Málaga: Ediciones Maestro. ISBN978-84-96644-50-2.
Bird, Steven Carl. 1985. "Folk Material and Its Relationship to Structure and Form in Janácek's Sinfonietta". Acta Janáčkiana 2:64-75.
Kemp, Ian. 1998. "Sinfonietta 1950: Colour of Design". In Hindemith-Jahrbuch/Annales Hindemith, no. 27:180–96.
Krier, Yves. 1998. "La Sinfonietta: Une introduction à l'art classique roussélien". Musurgia: Analyse et Pratique Musicales 5, nos. 3–4:163–90.
Loll, Werner. 1992. "Ein Spiel mit Moden und Traditionen: Zur Sinfonietta op. 23". Österreichische Musikzeitschrift 47, no. 4 (April): 190–98.
Palacios Nieto, María. 2006. "Nueva música sinfónica: Acogida crítica y análisis de Sinfonietta". Cuadernos de Música Iberoamericana, no. 11 ("Monográfico dedicado a Ernesto Halffter (1905–1989) en su centenario", edited by Emilio Casares Rodicio): 123–40.
Schmitz, Eugen. 1905. Max Reger's Sinfonietta. Münchner Broschüren 4. Munich: G. Müller.
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This article is about musical works named Sinfonietta For chamber music groups named Sinfonietta see Sinfonietta orchestra A sinfonietta is a symphony that is smaller in scale either in terms of length or the instrumental forces required or lighter in approach than a standard symphony Although of Italian form the word is not genuine in that language and has seldom been used by Italian composers It appears to have been coined in 1874 by Joachim Raff for his Op 188 but became common usage only in the early 20th century Temperley 2001 Just as the term symphony itself can refer to pieces of music of varied size and scope it is difficult to identify common criteria which pieces called sinfonietta share Many of the sinfoniettas listed on this page employ larger forces and or are longer than pieces designated symphonies sometimes even by the same composer Examples of sinfoniettas include William Alwyn s Sinfonietta for strings 1970 Malcolm Arnold s Sinfonietta No 1 Op 48 1954 Sinfonietta No 2 Op 65 1958 and Sinfonietta No 3 Op 81 1964 Alexander Arutiunian s Sinfonietta for string orchestra 1966 Jurg Baur s Triton Sinfonietta 3 Grotesken fur Kammerorchester 1974 Maciej Balenkowski s Sinfonietta no 1 Time is ticking for string orchestra 2013 2014 and Sinfonietta no 2 Polonia hommage a Wojciech Kilar for string orchestra 2017 2018 Arnold Bax s Sinfonietta 1932 Lennox Berkeley s Sinfonietta Op 34 1950 Herbert Blendinger s Sinfonietta Op 30 1976 Eugene Bozza s Sinfonietta for string orchestra Op 61 1944 Mikis Theodorakis s Sinfonietta for piano flauto and string orchestra 1947 Benjamin Britten s Sinfonietta Op 1 1932 George Whitefield Chadwick s Sinfonietta 1904 Henry Cowell s Sinfonietta for chamber orchestra 1928 Ingolf Dahl s Sinfonietta for concert band Ikuma Dan s Sinfonietta 1974 Peter Maxwell Davies s Sinfonietta accademica 1987 Louis Durey s Sinfonietta for strings Op 105 1966 Ulvi Cemal Erkin s Sinfonietta for string orchestra 1951 59 Ivan Erod s Minnesota Sinfonietta Op 51 Harald Genzmer s Sinfonietta for string orchestra Peggy Glanville Hicks s Sinfonietta No 1 in D minor for small orchestra 1935 and Sinfonietta No 2 for orchestra 1938 Kimmo Hakola s Sinfonietta 1999 Ernesto Halffter s Sinfonietta in D major 1925 Josef Matthias Hauer s Sinfonietta in 3 Satzen Op 50 Bernard Herrmann s Sinfonietta for string orchestra 1935 Paul Hindemith s Lustige Sinfonietta Op 4 1916 and Symphonietta Little Symphony in E major 1949 Alun Hoddinott s Sinfonietta No 1 Op 56 1968 Sinfonietta No 2 Op 67 1969 Sinfonietta No 3 Op 71 1970 and Sinfonietta No 4 1971 Mikhail Ippolitov Ivanov s Sinfonietta Op 34 arrangement for large orchestra of Violin Sonata Op 8 1902 Leos Janacek s Sinfonietta 1926 John Joubert s Sinfonietta for chamber orchestra Op 38 Pal Kadosa s Sinfonietta for orchestra Robert Kajanus s Sinfonietta Op 16 1915 Vitezslava Kapralova s Military Sinfonietta Op 11 1937 Nikolai Kapustin s Sinfonietta for orchestra Op 49 1986 Erich Wolfgang Korngold s Sinfonietta in B major Op 5 1912 Ernst Krenek s Sinfonietta for string orchestra A brasileira Op 131 1952 Ladislav Kubik s Sinfonietta No 1 for 19 instruments 1999 No 2 Jacob s Well for orchestra 1999 and No 3 Gong for mezzo soprano mixed choir orchestra and electronics 2007 08 James MacMillan s Sinfonietta 1991 Elizabeth Maconchy s Sinfonietta 1976 not to be confused with her Little Symphony 1980 81 Tomas Marco s Sinfonietta No 1 Opaco resplandor de la memoria for orchestra 1998 99 and Sinfonietta No 2 Curvas del Guadiana 2004 Igor Markevitch s Sinfonietta in F 1928 29 Bohuslav Martinu s Sinfonietta giocosa 1940 and Sinfonietta La Jolla 1950 both for piano and chamber orchestra William Mathias s Sinfonietta Op 34 1967 Johan de Meij s Sinfonietta No 1 for brass band 2011 Darius Milhaud s Sinfonietta Op 363 1957 E J Moeran s Sinfonietta 1944 Jose Pablo Moncayo s Sinfonietta 1945 Saburō Moroi s Sinfonietta in B flat Op 24 For Children 1943 Nikolai Myaskovsky s Sinfonietta No 1 for small orchestra Op 10 1911 No 2 for string orchestra Op 32 No 2 1929 and No 3 for string orchestra Op 68 1946 Ottokar Novacek s Sinfonietta for woodwind octet 1905 Krzysztof Penderecki s Sinfonietta No 1 for string orchestra 1992 No 2 for clarinet and strings 1994 No 3 for string orchestra 2012 and Sinfonietta for flute and string orchestra 2019 George Perle s Sinfonietta I 1987 and II 1990 Astor Piazzolla s Sinfonietta for chamber orchestra Op 19 Walter Piston s Sinfonietta 1941 Francis Poulenc s Sinfonietta 1947 Sergei Prokofiev s Sinfonietta in A major Op 5 1909 rev 1929 as Op 48 Joachim Raff s Sinfonietta for ten winds Op 188 1874 Max Reger s Sinfonietta in A major Op 90 1904 05 Wallingford Riegger s Sinfonietta 1959 Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov s Sinfonietta on Russian Themes in A minor Op 31 1879 84 Julius Rontgen s Sinfonietta humoristica 1922 Albert Roussel s Sinfonietta for string orchestra Op 52 1934 Edmund Rubbra s Sinfonietta for large string orchestra Op 163 1984 85 Cyril Scott s Sinfonietta for organ harp and strings 1962 Humphrey Searle s Sinfonietta Op 49 for flute oboe clarinet bassoon horn violin viola cello and double bass 1968 69 Kazimierz Serocki s Sinfonietta for 2 string orchestras 1956 Vissarion Shebalin s Sinfonietta on Russian folksongs Op 43 1949 51 Nikos Skalkottas s Sinfonietta 1948 49 Carlos Surinach s Sinfonietta flamenca 1953 54 Germaine Tailleferre s Symphonietta for trumpet tympani and strings 1974 75 Alexandre Tansman s Sinfonietta No 1 A mon ami Louis Gruenberg 1924 and Sinfonietta No 1 A Renard Czajkowski 1978 Boris Tchaikovsky s Sinfonietta for string orchestra 1953 Mikis Theodorakis s Sinfonietta for solo flute piano and string orchestra 1947 Ernst Toch s Sinfonietta for string orchestra Op 96 1964 Sinfonietta for wind instruments and percussion Op 97 1964 Eduard Tubin s Sinfonietta on Estonian Motifs 1940 Geirr Tveitt s Sinfonietta di Soffiatori 1962 Erich Urbanner s Sinfonietta 79 Anatol Vieru s Sinfonietta 1975 Heitor Villa Lobos s Sinfonietta No 1 1916 and Sinfonietta No 2 1947 Johan Wagenaar s Sinfonietta 1916 Graham Waterhouse s Sinfonietta for string orchestra Op 54 2002 Franz Waxman s Sinfonietta for string orchestra and timpani Mieczyslaw Weinberg s Sinfonietta No 1 Op 41 1948 and Sinfonietta No 2 for string orchestra and timpani Op 74 1960 Felix Weingartner s Sinfonietta Op 83 1932 John Williams s Sinfonietta for wind ensemble 1968 Malcolm Williamson s Sinfonietta 1965 Alexander von Zemlinsky s Sinfonietta for orchestra Op 23 1934 Zhu Jian er s Sinfonietta Op 38 1994 Matteo Zanetti s Symphonietta for string orchestra 2010 References editTemperley Nicholas 2001 Sinfonietta The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians second edition edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell London Macmillan Publishers Further reading editAlvarez Alberto J 2007 Sinfonietta en re de Ernesto Halffter Malaga Ediciones Maestro ISBN 978 84 96644 50 2 Bird Steven Carl 1985 Folk Material and Its Relationship to Structure and Form in Janacek s Sinfonietta Acta Janackiana 2 64 75 Kemp Ian 1998 Sinfonietta 1950 Colour of Design In Hindemith Jahrbuch Annales Hindemith no 27 180 96 Krier Yves 1998 La Sinfonietta Une introduction a l art classique rousselien Musurgia Analyse et Pratique Musicales 5 nos 3 4 163 90 Loll Werner 1992 Ein Spiel mit Moden und Traditionen Zur Sinfonietta op 23 Osterreichische Musikzeitschrift 47 no 4 April 190 98 Palacios Nieto Maria 2006 Nueva musica sinfonica Acogida critica y analisis de Sinfonietta Cuadernos de Musica Iberoamericana no 11 Monografico dedicado a Ernesto Halffter 1905 1989 en su centenario edited by Emilio Casares Rodicio 123 40 Schmitz Eugen 1905 Max Reger s Sinfonietta Munchner Broschuren 4 Munich G Muller See also editLittle Symphony Chamber Symphony Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Sinfonietta symphony amp oldid 1218143157, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
