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Pianist And Composer Beethoven
516 wordsI. Education in general and in music Beethoven came from a musical family, and his early musical training was under his father's guidance. His father taught him piano and violin. His general education was not continued beyond the elementary school. He was practically illiterate in math. As a youth of 19, in 1789, Beethoven took legal steps to have himself placed at the head of his family. He petitioned for half his father's salary to support his brothers. This act of self-assertion is an indicat...
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Anti Semitism Financial Assistance
1,751 wordsThe Vienna branch of the Rothschild banking consortium was established by Salomon Rothschild in 1815, after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. His brother Carl established the Naples branch only a few years after him. The biggest struggle that the Rothschild's faced during these early years was acceptance. Anti-Semitism kept them out of the elite social circles, necessary realms of connection making, and thus hindered business. This was especially felt in Vienna and Naples. Salomon wasnt even able ...
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Academy Of Fine Arts Adolf Hitler
1,134 wordsHave you ever wanted to know what made Hitler go bad? Most people use the normal excuse that his childhood was the cause of all of his troubles. However, the information in this report should prove that theory wrong. He was a good student in his early school years and had dreams of becoming an artist. Adolf actually had a pretty normal childhood. On April 20, 1889, Adolf Hitler was born in the small Austrian city of Brand. His father, Alois, worked as customs official, checking goods traded betw...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Opera Seria
1,351 wordsA remarkable musician and composer, whose legend continues to grow more than two centuries after his death, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1756. Before the age of four, he had exhibited such extraordinary powers of musical memory and ear-sophistication that his father, Leopold (a highly esteemed violinist and composer in his own right) decided to sign young Wolfgang up for harpsichord lessons. Almost from day one, the boy's reputation as an unexampled musical prodigy gr...
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Marriage Of Figaro Archbishop Of Salzburg
4,183 words"For the respect his works have commanded of musicians, and the popularity they have enjoyed among wider audiences, he is probably the most admired composer in the history of Western music. " With this appraisal the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, published in 1980, begins its magisterial article on Beethoven. More than a decade later one might not apply this statement to the Teutonic Goliath but to the David of Mozart. Not only is this year (1991) the bicentennial of Mozart's death...
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19 Th Century Anti Semitism
2,372 wordster> "Mythenbildung ist wie kristallisation in der gesattigten salzlosung: es wird dann im entscheidenden augen blick alles mythic" Arthur Schnitzler (Buch der Freunde) (1) Viennese Jews proportionally did have more representatives in the cultural sphere. This can be because they had the means, ways and opportunity to exploit their situation to pursue the arts. Steven Beller states quite unequivocally "Whether it be Freud, Schoenberg, Schnitzler or Wittgenstein, the number of individua...
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Anti Semitism Isaac Bashevis
2,352 words... ies in fin de since Vienna is one such "invented tradition" The myth "that the cultural flowering in Vienna was an essentially Jewish phenomenon. "{ 2 }: { 1 } Hobsbawm, Eric. Introduction: Inventing Traditions in Hobsbawm, Eric and Ranger, Terence The Invention of Tradition p 13 { 2 }Beller, Steven. Vienna and the Jews 1867 - 1938 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990) (4) Typical of these is Berkley who espouses this golden age and argues that without the Jews Vienna was nothing. Be...
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Mein Kampf And The Formation Of Hitler Ideas
1,518 wordsThe dominant political figure of German history in the twentieth century, Adolf Hitler, was born in a lower middle class family in the provincial Austrian town of Braunau am Inn on 20 April 1889. In 1907 Hitler applied to enter the Vienna Academy of Art but his application was rejected. After the death of his mother Klara, Hitler decided to move to Vienna. He drifted from job to job, often selling sketches or painting scenes of Old Vienna and it was a period that he himself later called the most...
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The Life Of Sigmund Freud
2,472 wordsThe Life of Sigmund Freud Introduction: The contribution of Sigmund Freud to the development of psychology as science is enormous. It can only be fully understood if compared to the system of beliefs of those times. The society those days had not a single psychological way of observing individuals and their instincts. However, today the ideas of Freud, which were considered heresy before, are freely used in contemporary psychology. His thoughts and concepts seem to be logical and understandable....
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Congress Of Vienna Balance Of Power
521 wordsCongress Of Vienna The Congress of Vienna was certainly a great piece of history. But was it is great success, or a great failure? Personally, I think it was a great success. Many things were accomplished, like balance of power, a way to settle disputes peacefully, and peace &# 038; stability were restored. If the Congress of Vienna were never formed, Europe and other countries wouldn t be the same. For example, one country would be ruling everything and there would be chaos and wars. Balance of...
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Studies On Hysteria University Of Vienna
1,335 wordsSigmund Freud, Austrian physician, neurologist, and founder of psychoanalysis. Freud was born in Freiberg (now Pr? bor, Czech Republic), on May 6, 1856, and educated at the University of Vienna. When he was three years old his family, fleeing from the anti-Semitic riots then raging in Freiberg, moved to Leipzig. Shortly thereafter, the family settled in Vienna, where Freud remained for most of his life. Although Freud's ambition from childhood had been a career in law, he decided to become a med...
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Maria Anna Great Deal
2,527 wordsJoseph Haydn was without a doubt one of the greatest composers of his day. He was loved very much as both a man and a musician, and unlike many other composers when he died in 1809. he was one of the most celebrated composers in the world. Haydn once said, Young people can see from my example that something can still come from nothing, but what I am is the result of dire necessity. And it was very true. The story of Haydn was a classic story of rags to riches. His father, Mathias Haydn (1699 - 1...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Archbishop Of Salzburg
1,979 wordsWolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) was born in Salzburg in Austria, the son of Leopold, Kapellmeister to the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg. By the age of three he could play the piano, and he was composing by the time he was five; minuets from this period show remarkable understanding of form. Mozart's elder sister Maria Anna (best known as Nannerl) was also a gifted keyboard player, and in 1762 their father took the two prodigies on a short performing tour, of the courts at Vienna and Munich...
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Amadeus Mozart Leopold Mozart
8,379 wordsFor the respect his works have commanded of musicians, and the popularity they have enjoyed among wider audiences, he is probably the most admired composer in the history of Western music. With this appraisal the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, published in 1980, begins its magisterial article on Beethoven. More than a decade later one might not apply this statement to the Teutonic Goliath but to the David of Mozart. Not only is this year (1991) the bicentennial of Mozart's death, i...
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Archbishop Of Salzburg Leopold Mozart
3,855 wordsMozart was born on January 27 th, 1756. He was born to Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart. He had a sister named Maria Anna Mozart, who was also musically talented. Mozart was a young boy who showed talent from the beginning of his life. He never attended a proper school, which was a custom for children of that time. Instead of going to school, he was taught by his father who was a respectable man in Salzburg. His father held many professions such as concertmaster for the court orchestra of the Archb...
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Sigmund Freud Inversely Proportional
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Anti Semitism Isaac Bashevis
4,737 wordsWhy Did Jews Play Such A Disproportionate Why Did Jews Play Such A Disproportionate Part In The Cultural Life Of Fin De Since Vienna? Mythenbildung ist wie kristallisation in der gesattigten salzlosung: es wird dann im entscheidenden augen blick alles mythic Arthur Schnitzler (Buch der Freunde) (1) Viennese Jews proportionally did have more representatives in the cultural sphere. This can be because they had the means, ways and opportunity to exploit their situation to pursue the arts. Steven Be...
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Sigmund Freud Freud Published
1,929 wordsSigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856, in the small Moravian town of Freiberg. His father was a merchant, and his mother was his fathers third wife. Freud and his family moved to the city of Vienna when he was almost four. This was the initial stages of the Hapsburg empires liberal era. A lot of religious restrictions and unfair taxes targeted on the Jewish community were repealed. This created a feeling hope that affected the new generation of Jews, including Freud. Freud was a brilliant studen...
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