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19 Th Century Symphony Orchestra
1,690 wordsfounded in 1895, gave its first concert the following year under the direction of Frederic Archer. Victor Herbert was the chief conductor from 1898 to 1904; he was succeeded by Emil Page (190410). The orchestra was then disbanded. It was revived in 1926, and over the next decade it was led by Elias Bree skin (192730) and Antonio Modarelli (193037). The orchestra was reorganized by Otto Klemperer in 1937. Fritz Reiner was chief conductor from 1938 to 1948, followed by William Steinberg (195276), ...
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Russian Romantic Music And Tchaikovsky
1,581 words... es influenced by Russian folk-melodies, and evoked the bleak Russian countryside in the grips of winter. Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 1 was performed in 1868 with Anton Rubenstein conducting. In the same year, Tchaikovsky met My Balakirev, who had succeeded Anton Rubenstein as head of the Conservatory at St. Petersburg. Unfortunately, Balakirev was driven out from his post because his opponents had despised his controversial ideas. He settled in Moscow, where he met Tchaikovsky. He suggested t...
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Archbishop Of Salzburg Leopold Mozart
1,755 wordsthe son of Leopold Mozart, Kapellmeister to the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, and much the reason behind's Wolfgang's education. By the age of three he could play the piano, and he was composing by the time he was five. Mozart's elder sister Maria Anna 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. Encouraged by their reception, they embarked the next year on a longer tour, including two weeks at...
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Moses Und Aron Twelve Tone Technique Schoenberg
761 wordsArnold Schoenberg was born on September 13, 1874, to a Jewish family in Vienna. He taught himself composition, with help in counterpoint from the Austrian composer Alexander Zemlinsky, and in 1899 produced his first major work, the tone poem Verklrte Nacht (Transfigured Night) for string sextet. In 1901 he married Zemlinsky's sister Mathilde, with whom he had two children. The couple moved to Berlin, where for two years Schoenberg earned a living by orchestrating operettas and directing a cabare...
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Sky High Personal Growth
621 wordsLife experiences from childhood mould us into the eventual adults we are to become. For every force, there is an opposite and reverse reaction Newtons law of physics can be aptly applied to changing perspectives in that every aspect of change leads to different results and consequences, therefore shaping the future nature of oneself. This is evident in Hannah Roberts Sky High and correspondingly in Bon Jovi's song Everyday as well as Peter Skrzynecki 10 Mary Street. The inability of an adult to ...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart Music
1,545 words... ata, while the other heard repetitive music. The Mozart group predicted 62 % more shapes on the second test. The silent group improved by 14 % and the third group by just 11 % (Kliewer 34). Almost all studies on the Mozart Effect have focused on one particular piece of music, the Sonata for Two Pianos in D Mayor (K 448). Though the effect is most prominent through this piece, researchers are not sure which other pieces might work. Major corporations such as IBM Shell, and Dupont use music in...
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Rock And Roll Twentieth Century
616 wordsRock music has affected society in the twentieth century in a large way. Rock music started in the 1950 s with various small bands such as Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. These pioneers of modern music drew a larger crowd at each show, and soon, rock music would be in the ears of almost every American. Rock and roll contributes many things back to people when they listen to it. It gives people things like a change to let out anger or aggression. One thing that happened when people listened to this...
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Musical Career Four Years
1,461 wordsCharles Charles Ives Charles Ives Charles Ives is known in our day as the Father of American Music, but in his day, he was known just like everyone else- an ordinary man living his life. He was born in Danbury, Connecticut on October 20, 1894 (Stanley 1) to his mother, Sarah Hotchkiss Wilcox Ives and father, George White Ives (A Life With Music, Swafford 4). His father was renowned for being the Unions youngest bandmaster and having the best band in the Army (The Man His Life, Swafford 1). Littl...
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Johann Sebastian Bach One Of The Greatest
1,348 wordsJOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Johann Sebastian Bach was born in 1685 in the town of Thuringia, Germany where he was raised and spent most of his life. Due to a shortage of expenses, he was confined to a very limited geographical space, as was his career. This greatly affected his, in that his music was not as wide known as other composers of the time. On traveling he never went farther north than Hamburg or farther south than Carlsbad. To look back on the life of Bach many have referred to him as? one o...
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20 Th Century Duke Ellington
1,678 wordsDuke Duke Ellington Duke Ellington Duke Ellington's pre-eminence in jazz is not only because of the very high aesthetic standard of his output and not simply due to his remarkable abilities as a pianist, composer and bandleader, but also to the fact that he has extended the boundaries of jazz more than any other musician, without abandoning the true essence of the music. Perhaps no other American musician left such a massive and challenging legacy in composition and performance. Edward Kennedy D...
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Ludwig Van Beethoven String Quartets
762 wordsBeethoven BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van (1770 - 1827) The composer of some of the most influential pieces of music ever written, Ludwig van Beethoven created a bridge between the 18 th-century classical period and the new beginnings of Romanticism. His greatest breakthroughs in composition came in his instrumental work, including his symphonies. Unlike his predecessor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, for whom writing music seemed to come easily, Beethoven always struggled to perfect his work. Ludwig van Beethov...
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Music Varese Sounds
211 wordsEdgard Varese was born in Paris and studied composition there. He came to the United States at the age of thirty-two. He is considered an American composer. In most of his works, he used the spelling? Edgar? , but later used the French spelling? Edgard? . Varese was one of the most original composers. He was not satisfied with traditional instruments or the tempered scale of twelve equal half steps to the octave. He thought of his music as structures in sound. He did not think there was a need f...
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George Frederick Handel Handel Was Born Music
973 wordsGeorge Frederick Handel George Frederick Handel was born on February 24, 1685 in Halle, Germany. One of the greatest composers of the late baroque period (1700 - 50) and, during his lifetime, perhaps the most internationally famous of all musicians. Handel was born February 24, 1685, in Halle, Germany, to a family of no musical distinction. His own musical talent, however, expressed itself so clearly that before his tenth birthday he began to receive, from a local organist, the only formal music...
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Aix La Chapelle Italian Opera
1,273 wordsHandel, George Frideric b. Feb. 23, 1685, Halle, Saxony [Germany] d. April 14, 1759, London, Eng. German (UNTIL 1715) GEORG FRIEDRICH H? NDEL, OR HAENDEL German-born English composer of the late Baroque era, noted particularly for his operas, oratorios, and instrumental compositions. He wrote the most famous of all oratorios, the Messiah (1741), and is also known for such occasional pieces as Water Music (1717) and Music for the Royal Fireworks (1749). Life. The son of a barber-surgeon, Handel s...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wife And Son
659 wordsIm writing my paper on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. I will be talking about his life and his music. I will tell you a little bit about his father, wife, and son. Mozart was the leading composer of the Classical Age. He wrote many different types of music. He was the best composer of his time. Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria on January 27, 1756. He was around music his entire life. By the age of three, he had begun to show a love of music. He would listen to his sister play the piano for hours a...
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Marine Corps Gilded Age
1,008 wordsZeitgeist: John Philip Sousa Artists do not create in a vacuum. They reflect their times or at the very least are affected by the lives they lead which are also influenced by the public sphere. The term for this reflection is? Zeitgeist. ? It literally means? spirit of the times. ? John Philip Sousa and his works can be classified under this term of? Zeitgeist. ? Most of Sousa? s music was composed during a period known as the gilded age. This period is known for its gross materialism and blatan...
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Musical Composition Key Points
1,386 wordsModern Music Composition Student: 0135761 Teacher Composition has been an ever-changing entity in our society. Music composition is also a very alternating subject of study. You have to keep up to date when you wish to compose a piece of music. This is strictly due to the progression of music in this day in age. If you fail to study, the music you are writing may, very well, upset the music community with old or potentially outdated material. The only way to stay up to date with composition is t...
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Patron The Archbishop Da Ponte Mozart
468 wordsThe Composer The Mozart Mozart The Composer The youngest child and only surviving son of Leopold Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus was born in Salzburg in 1756, the year of publication of his fathers influential treaties on violin playing. He showed early precocity both as a Keyboard-player and violinist, and soon turned his hand to composition. His obvious gifts were developed under his fathers tutelage, with those of his elder sister, and the family, through the indulgence of their then patron, the Arc...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart
1,135 wordsWolfgang Amadeus Mozart was probably the greatest genius in Western musical history. He was born in Salzburg, Austria on January 27, 1756. The son of Leopold Mozart and his wife Anna Maria Part. Leopold was a successful composer and violinist and assistant concertmaster at the Salzburg court. At the age of three, Wolfgang showed signs of remarkable musical talent. He learned to play the harpsichord, a keyboard instrument related to the piano, at the age of four. Wolfgang began composing minuets ...
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Main Theme Excellent Quality Piano
401 wordsProbably the most revered of Rachmaninoff s compositions is the Second Piano Concerto, a work whose existence is attributed to the auto-suggestion therapy of a Dr. Nicholas Dahl. Rachmaninoff s need for the good doctor s services came about in this manner: in 1897, the composer was in the throes of despair over the failure of his First Symphony at its premiere at St. Petersburg. Nothing, not even subsequent success in London in his unusual triple role of pianist, conductor, and composer, could d...
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