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Record 1 2024-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Music
CONT

... pieces for orchestra were often executed by a chamber ensemble of nine or fewer players or by a chamber orchestra of about thirteen (rather than the twenty-five to thirty that were customary for a full orchestra in the early nineteenth century) ... The chamber orchestra, as a rule, consisted of four violins, one viola, one cello, one bass, one flute, two oboes or clarinets, two French horns, and one bassoon.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Musique

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