Classical Music/unknown piece

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Expert: Pat G - 2/9/2010


Question
can you help me identify the composer and name of this piece?
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Answer
Hello, Tom,

Very familiar piece, which doesn't necessarily mean I can tell you who composed it (though I can narrow the search by determining what instruments, what period, early Classical in this case, and so forth). However, I lucked out. It's the second movement from the Oboe Concerto in C major/C minor by Domenico Cimarosa. It's available at Amazon.com. The name of the album is Five Italian Oboe Concertos (though there may be other recordings as well).  

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I am no longer answering questions asking me to identify music. Most music is either on YouTube, which crashes my browser, or on another site that crashes my browser. I am available for other questions.

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I have been playing piano since I was 3, and I am now 66 years old. I took formal lessons for about 11 years, and took some piano and organ performance courses in college. I also sang in the Masterworks Chorale for a number of years, and can sing anything from baritone to first soprano. We performed twice a year, usually a major choral work, ranging from requiem masses to Carmina Burana. I also attended recorder society meetings once a month. We would read compositions and perform them together. I took several children to their music lessons and rehearsals and usually stayed and watched intensely. Our children studied violin, viola, flute, guitar, clarinet, French horn, trumpet, and trombone.

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I studied piano and organ in college, and took courses in music theory. I have also taken seminars in pre-Columbian folk music with Xochimoki, as well as played a short while in a gamelan, and a balalaika orchestra, where I played autoharp.

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