Sunday, March 14, 2010

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet No. 14

Mozart String Quartet No. 14 VBR MP3 4.90 mb, Mozart String Quartet No. 14 OGG format 3.26 mb which is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The OGG format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.

The String Quartet No. 14 in G major, K. 387, nicknamed the "Spring" quartet, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1782 while in Vienna.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, full baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music.



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Performance Licence: The first movement of Mozart's String Quartet No. 14.

Mozart String Quartet No. 14It was converted from Image: String Quartet No. 14, movement 1.mid, which is itself from the Mutopia project, number 245, specifically k387-score-1.mid from k387-mids.zip. Mutopia credits "Breitkopf und Härtel (1882)" as their source.
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Artist/Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Keywords: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; String Quartet No. 14; Classical
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Sunday, March 7, 2010

The Toreador Song from Carmen by Georges Bizet

Noise removed, bass boosted and normalized, with Audacity by sookietex. Toreador Song VBR MP3 2.27 mb, Toreador Song OGG format 1.22 mb which is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The OGG format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.

Georges Bizet (October 25, 1838 – June 3, 1875) French composer and pianist of the Romantic era, best known for the opera Carmen.

The Toreador Song by the Damrosch (New York Symphony) Orchestra. Orchestral arrangement of the Toreador Song from Georges Bizet's opera Carmen, played by the Damrosch Orchestra in 1903.



Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845. Adapted from the narrative poem The Gypsies (1824) by Alexander Pushkin. Mérimée had read the poem in Russian by 1840 and translated it into French in 1852.

Poster from the 1875 premiere of CarmenComposition Licence: This MP3 (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, where Works published prior to 1923 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" PDF from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published before 1923 are now in the public domain.

This MP3 (or other media file) is also in the public domain in countries that figure copyright from the date of death of the artist (post mortem auctoris) in this case Georges Bizet (October 25, 1838 – June 3, 1875) and that most commonly runs for a period of 70 years from December 31st of that year.
Performance Licence: This MP3 (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, where Works published prior to 1923 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" PDF from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published before 1923 are now in the public domain. In this case Damrosch Orchestra in 1903.

This audio is part of the collection: Open Source Audio
Artist/Composer: New York Symphony Orchestra
Keywords: Toreador Song; Carmen; Opera; Georges Bizet
Creative Commons license: Public Domain