What is "sinfonietta"

n. 1 (context music English) A small-scale symphony (either in length or size of orchestra needed). 2 (context music English) A small orchestra.

The Sinfonietta in A major is a composition for orchestra by Sergei Prokofiev.

The Sinfonietta (subtitled “Military Sinfonietta” or “Sokol Festival”) is a very expressive and festive, late work for large orchestra (of which 25 are brass players) by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček. It is dedicated “To the Czechoslovak Army” and Janáček said it was intended to express “contemporary free man, his spiritual beauty and joy, his strength, courage and determination to fight for victory.” It started by Janáček listening to a brass band, becoming inspired to write some fanfares of his own. When the organisers of the Sokol Gymnastic Festival approached him for a commission, he developed the material into the Sinfonietta. He later dropped the word military. The first performance was in Prague on 26 June 1926 under Václav Talich. Typical performance duration is 20–25 minutes.

Sinfonietta can refer to:

• Sinfonietta (orchestra), a name for a musical group that is larger than a chamber ensemble but smaller than a full-size orchestra
• Sinfonietta (symphony), a symphony that is smaller in scale or lighter in approach than a standard symphony
• Sinfonietta (Janáček), a work by Czech composer Leoš Janáček
• Sinfonietta (ballet), by Jiří Kylián

The Sinfonietta, FP 141, is a work for orchestra by Francis Poulenc. Composed in 1947, it was first performed in London on October 24, 1948, under the baton of Roger Désormière. The work, light and full of dance rhythms, is in four movements:

1. Allegro con fuoco
2. Molto vivace
3. Andante cantabile
4. Très vite et très gai

The Sinfonietta in B major, Op. 5, is the first large-scale orchestral work written by the 20th-century Austrian composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Korngold began sketching the work in the spring of 1912 (about a year after his childhood mentor, Gustav Mahler, died), just before his 15th birthday and finished the sketches in August 1912. The orchestration of it dragged on for another year, until September 1913, by which time Korngold had composed his Violin Sonata, Op. 6, and had begun his first opera Der Ring des Polykrates, Op. 7. The Sinfonietta was premiered in Vienna on 30 November 1913 under the direction of Felix Weingartner (to whom the work is dedicated, in thanks to his support of Korngold), and was a sensational success, resulting in further performances all over Europe and America.

It has four movements:

1. Fließend, mit heiterem Schwunge (Flowing, with cheerful motion)
2. Scherzo: Molto agitato, rasch und feurig (Quickly and fiery)
3. Molto andante (Träumerisch) (Dreamy)
4. Finale: Patetico - Allegro Giocoso

The work is scored for 2 flutes, piccolo (also third flute), 2 oboes (the second also cor anglais), 2 clarinets, bass clarinet in B, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in C, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, glockenspiel, triangle, snare drum, cymbals, bells in F and B, 2 harps, celesta, upright piano and strings.

A sinfonietta is a musical group that is larger than a chamber ensemble but smaller than a full-size or symphony orchestra.

There are many orchestras called sinfonietta. Some groups are still a sinfonietta despite not including the word in their name:

• Alarm Will Sound
• Amsterdam Sinfonietta
• American Sinfonietta
• Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen
• Basel Sinfonietta
• Bournemouth Sinfonietta
• Chicago Sinfonietta
• Danish National Chamber Orchestra, also known as the Danish Radio Sinfonietta
• Hong Kong Sinfonietta
• Hull Sinfonietta
• Imperial College Sinfonietta
• Israel Beersheba Sinfonietta
• KLPac Sinfonietta
• Kymi Sinfonietta
• Lake Placid Sinfonietta
• Sinfonietta de Lisboa
• Lancashire Sinfonietta
• London Sinfonietta
• Luxembourg Sinfonietta
• Sinfonietta Nova Arnstadt
• Kyiv Sinfonietta
• Oslo Sinfonietta
• Rome Sinfonietta
• Royal College of Music Sinfonietta
• San Francisco Sinfonietta
• Siam Sinfonietta
• Southampton Youth Sinfonietta Orchestra
• Stockholm Sinfonietta
• Tapiola Sinfonietta

Category:Types of musical groups

Sinfonietta for Children ( Japanese: こどものための小交響曲 Kodomo no tame no shō-kōkyōkyoku) in B, Op. 24 (1943) is an orchestral composition by Japanese composer Saburō Moroi.

Written throughout October 1943 in the midst of the Second World War, the work was premiered by the Tokyo Broadcast Orchestra with Moroi conducting on 5 November 1943, just five days after the completion.

Benjamin Britten's Sinfonietta was composed in 1932, while he was a student at the Royal College of Music, and first performed in 1933. It was published as his Op. 1 and dedicated to his teacher Frank Bridge.

A sinfonietta is a symphony that is smaller in scale 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).

A number of composers have written works in this format:

• 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)
• Jürg Baur's Triton-Sinfonietta: 3 Grotesken für Kammerorchester (1974)
• Arnold Bax's Sinfonietta (1932)
• Lennox Berkeley's Sinfonietta, Op. 34 (1950)
• Herbert Blendinger's Sinfonietta, Op. 30 (1976)
• Eugène Bozza's Sinfonietta for string orchestra, Op. 61 (1944)
• Benjamin Britten's Sinfonietta, Op. 1 (1932)
• Henry Cowell's Sinfonietta for chamber orchestra (1928)
• Ingolf Dahl's Sinfonietta for concert band
• 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)
• Iván Erőd's Minnesota Sinfonietta, Op. 51
• Peggy Glanville-Hicks's Sinfonietta No. 1 in D minor for small orchestra (1935) and Sinfonietta No. 2 for orchestra (1938)
• Ernesto Halffter's Sinfonietta in D major (1925)
• Josef Matthias Hauer's Sinfonietta in 3 Sätzen, 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)
• Leoš Janáček's Sinfonietta (1926)
• John Joubert's Sinfonietta for chamber orchestra, Op. 38
• Pál Kadosa's Sinfonietta for orchestra
• Vítězslava Kaprálová's Military Sinfonietta, Op. 11 (1937)
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Sinfonietta in B major, Op. 5 (1912)
• Ernst Krenek's Sinfonietta for string orchestra, "A brasileira", Op. 131 (1952)
• Elizabeth Maconchy's Sinfonietta (1976), not to be confused with her Little Symphony (1980–81)
• Tomás 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 Martinů's Sinfonietta giocosa (1940) and Sinfonietta La Jolla (1950), both for piano and chamber orchestra
• Darius Milhaud's Sinfonietta, Op. 363 (1957)
• E. J. Moeran's Sinfonietta (1944)
• José Pablo Moncayo's Sinfonietta (1945)
• Saburō Moroi's Sinfonietta in B-flat, Op. 24 "For Children" (1943)
• Ottokar Nováček's Sinfonietta for woodwind octet (1905)
• Krzysztof Penderecki's Sinfonietta No. 1, for string orchestra (1992) and Sinfonietta No. 2, for clarinet and strings (1994)
• George Perle's Sinfonietta
• Ástor 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)
• Albert Roussel's Sinfonietta for string orchestra, Op. 52 (1934)
• Edmund Rubbra's Sinfonietta for large string orchestra, Op. 163 (1984–85)
• Humphrey Searle's Sinfonietta, Op. 49, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, violoncello, and double bass
• Carlos Surinach's Sinfonietta flamenca (1953–54)
• Erich Urbanner's Sinfonietta 79
• Heitor Villa-Lobos's Sinfonietta No. 1 (1916) and Sinfonietta No. 2 (1947)
• Graham Waterhouse's Sinfonietta for string orchestra, Op. 54 (2002)
• Felix Weingartner's Sinfonietta, Op. 83 (1932)
• Alexander von Zemlinsky's Sinfonietta for orchestra, Op. 23 (1934)