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Potpourri (music)

Potpourri or Pot-Pourri is a kind of musical form structured as ABCDEF..., the same as medley or, sometimes, fantasia. It is often used in light, easy-going and popular types of music.

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The Italian guitar virtuoso Mauro Giuliani, (1781–1829) entitled a number of his works "potpourris": Potpourri, Opp. 18, 26, 28, 31, 42, and Potpourri Romano, Op. 108 There are many more pieces called "potpourris": • Louis Spohr: Potpourri No. 2 on themes by Mozart for violin, string quartet & double bass in B flat major, Op. 22 • Louis Spohr: Potpourri No. 4 on themes by Mozart for violin & string trio in B major, Op. 24Louis Spohr: Potpourri for Clarinet and Orchestra on themes by von Winter in F major, Op. 80 • Carl Maria von Weber: Grand potpourri for cello and orchestra, Op.20 • Johann Strauss: Potpourri Quadrille • Ernst Krenek: Potpourri, Op. 54 for symphony orchestra • John Philip Sousa: Carmen grand potpourri de concertGiacomo Meyerbeer's ''L'Africaine Potpourri'' • André Rieu: Opera Potpourri (2003) • Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Potpourri Op. 94 (Fantasie) for Viola and Orchestra • Karol Kurpinski: Potpourri in D minor for Piano Solo (1822 ca.) • The Beatles: The Long One (1969) • Juan Gabriel: Hasta Que Te Conocí (Popurrí) (1990) == Quotations ==
Quotations
"If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears..." (Arnold Schoenberg: "Glosses on the Theories of Others" (1929), See "Style and Idea", Faber and Faber 1985, p. 313–314) ==External links==
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