-
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Classical Style
568 wordsThe remarkable musician and composer by the name of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1756. At the early ages of three and four, Wolfgang exhibited extraordinary powers of music memory and ear-sophistication. Leopold Mozart, Wolfgang's father, realized that his son was a true musical prodigy. He also realized that his best work wouldnt be his own, but in his sons future as a musician and composer. At about the age of three, Wolfgang spent hours at the piano discovering con...
Free research essays on topics related to: musical, mozart, wolfgang, classical style, wolfgang amadeus mozart -
2002 A Href Song Of Roland
1,908 wordsMusic has been a powerful force throughout history. Its power has affected all aspects of peoples lives. The ideas and attitudes people have toward their country can easily be seen in their music. While music in the early part of the modern era (1400 - 1900) served to promote patriotism and nationalism, musics role in the late 20 th century seems a reversal and has been a deconstructive force challenging nationalistic feelings. The origin of all music is cultural (Nettl 940). Folk songs tell a s...
Free research essays on topics related to: neo nazis, romantic era, 2002 a href, song of roland, nationalistic feelings -
Rite Of Spring Neo Classicism
1,951 wordsStravinsky's relations with his various publishers would make a fitting subject for a long-running TV soap opera, complete with courtroom dramas, emotional farewells, some embarrassing contractual wrangles, and of course background music based on the Ronde des princesses in The Firebird. The association with Chester Music would certainly provide some of the best episodes. Stravinsky landed in Chester's lap after the First World War, a conflict which, among other things, played havoc with interna...
Free research essays on topics related to: piano, rite of spring, piano concerto, stravinsky, neo classicism -
19 Th Century String Quartets
479 wordsBeethoven, Ludwig van (1770 - 1827), German composer, generally considered one of the greatest composers in the Western tradition. Born in Bonn, Beethoven went to Vienna in 1792 to study under Austrian composer Joseph Haydn. In Vienna, he dazzled the aristocracy with his piano improvisations and became a successful freelance composer. In the first decade of the 19 th century Beethoven expanded the musical language bequeathed by Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and revealed his complete assimila...
Free research essays on topics related to: beethoven, beethoven's, piano, 19 th century, string quartets -
Baroque Period King George
1,385 wordsGeorge Frideric Handel was born on Febuary 23, 1865 in Halle, Germany. Halle is a city in upper Saxon, on the Sale rive about 150 kilometers southwest of Berlin. He was very interested in music at an early age. Although his father discouraged his interest in music, his mother provided alot of support for him, and he led a life of music. At the age of twelve George was the assistant organist at the cathedral of Halle. Although Handel was able to show that he could master multiple instruments, his...
Free research essays on topics related to: king george, messiah, performed, handel, baroque period -
W W Ii Years Of His Life
1,358 wordsPaul was born in the German town of Hand in 1895, on December Sixteen. We might assume that Hindemith felt a pull in the musical direction from a very early age; Paul's father was a painter and did not want his son becoming a musician, so our little composer-to-be ran away at the age of 11, and started his own life. Paul taught himself the violin and viola, and began earning his living by playing at Cafes and other such establishments. Eventually, Hindemith learned the rudiments of all the instr...
Free research essays on topics related to: hard time, nazis, musical, w w ii, years of his life -
Queen Elizabeth Concert Hall
1,285 wordsPiano Competitions Piano competitions have given the world the names of the most talented young musicians. Many successful careers in music started after winning or even participating in piano competitions. Such piano-playing legends as Alfred Brendel, whose scholarly approach aroused some aesthetic controversy; the Canadian Glenn Gould, whose recordings of Bach won great acclaim, the Americans Van Cliburn, Andre Watts, and Murray Perahia, and the Russian-born Vladimir Ashkenazy, later a citizen...
Free research essays on topics related to: concert hall, piano, music lovers, five year, queen elizabeth -
Piano Sonatas Classical Era
1,706 wordsThe Sonata Christian Core 10 / 6 / 96 In the late 1700 s and early 1800 s the Baroque period gave way to the classical era, introducing many revolutionary new scientific discoveries and theories. This drastically changed the peoples social views and brought on the age of enlightenment. With this change in social philosophy came changes in musical trends. One of the most important new trends of the time was a more common use of the sonata. During the Classical era, the sonata evolved into a more ...
Free research essays on topics related to: grove dictionary, classical era, mozart composed, gained popularity, piano sonatas -
Ludwig Van Beethoven York New York
1,610 wordsThere resounds a proverbial question, ? If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear, does it make a sound as it falls? ? Capricious as this query may appear I have had occasion to entertain just such a notion when, as a youth, I found an exploratory journey down a deep wood? s path abruptly halted by the greeting of an enormous fallen tree. The colossal obstacle lay across my path and presented itself a motionless, silent guardian that protected that which lay beyond from my further...
Free research essays on topics related to: york alfred, life, york new york, ludwig van beethoven, mozart -
Ballets Russes Twentieth Century
1,234 wordsHe fancied a Diaghilev Diaghilev He fancied a career in music, but was a terrible composer. He wanted to be a painter, but lacked vision and aptitude. He wanted to change the face of dance, but had no dance training whatsoever. By his own admission, this poor, misguided soul had no real gifts. He went on to become one of the most influential artistic figures of the twentieth century. Despite his claim to the contrary, Serge Diaghilev, founder of the famous Diaghilev Ballets Russes, had many gift...
Free research essays on topics related to: ballets russes, ballet, sleeping beauty, ballets, twentieth century -
Avant Garde Lady Macbeth
1,557 wordsDmitri Dimitri Shostakovich Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Shostakovich, born on September 25, 1905, started taking piano lessons from his mother at the age of nine after he showed interest in a string quartet that practiced next door. He entered the Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg, later Leningrad) Conservatory in 1919, where he studied the piano with Leonid Nikolayev until 1923 and composition until 1925 with Aleksandr Glazunov and Maksimilian Steinberg. He participated in the Chopin Internatio...
Free research essays on topics related to: avant garde, string quartet, symphony, lady macbeth, soviet union -
Master Symphonist Music Beethoven
678 wordsLudwig van Beethoven was, and remains today, an Olympian figure in the history of classical music. His influence on the last 150 years of music is unequalled; while general a member of the Classicist fold, he was in fact the first Romantic, and pre-figured virtually all music that followed the Romantic era as well. Perhaps no other composer in history wrote music of such exhilarating power and expressiveness; certainly no other composer did so against greater odds. Beethoven was born in Bonn in ...
Free research essays on topics related to: combined, composer, vienna, beethoven, mozart -
Johann Sebastian Instrumental Music
806 wordsRegarded as perhaps the greatest composer of all time, Bach was known during his lifetime primarily as an outstanding organ player and technician. The youngest of eight children born to musical parents, Johann Sebastian was destined to become a musician. While still young, he had mastered the organ and violin, and was also an excellent singer. At the age of ten, both of his parents died within a year of each other. Young Sebastian was fortunate to be taken in by an older brother, Johann Christop...
Free research essays on topics related to: johann, bach, instruments, johann sebastian, instrumental music -
20 Th Century Rite Of Spring
1,236 wordsIgor Igor Stravinsky IGOR STRAVINSKY Igor Stravinsky is considered by many the greatest composer of the 20 th Century. Several composers have made breakthroughs and great accomplishments in the past 100 years, but Stravinsky has dominated nearly every trend set. He was born near St. Petersburg, Russia in Oranienbaum, on June 17, 1882. He was born to a famous Russian bass opera singer, Fyodor Ignatyevich Stravinsky. Igor Stravinsky was third of a family of four boys. He grew up hearing his father...
Free research essays on topics related to: stravinsky, 20 th century, ballet, symphony, rite of spring -
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...
Free research essays on topics related to: maria anna, wolfgang amadeus mozart, archbishop of salzburg, piano concertos, string quartets -
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...
Free research essays on topics related to: anna maria, leopold mozart, archbishop of salzburg, maria anna, piano lessons -
Mozart Mozart Magic Flute Died
389 wordsMozart Mozart Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. His Christian name was Johannes Chrysostom us Wolfgang us Theophilus Mozart. His father Leopold Mozart educated him and was a violinist, author, and composer. He began composing minuets at the age of five. When Mozart was six, he was successful at the clavier, violin, and organ. Mozart started composing symphonies at nine years of age. In 1762 his father brought him to many concerts through Europe. E...
Free research essays on topics related to: weber, magic flute, composer, musical, mozart -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concertos
2,089 wordsWolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart was one of the (if not the) most important composer (s) of the Classical era. His accomplishments in musical composition were outstanding against the others of his time. He was a child prodigy, finishing his first opera at the age of twelve, and in his later life went on to even more amazing things. Though we always hear of Mozart's wonderful achievements, we hardly ever hear about the hard later life of alcohol abuse and horrible misfortune with children he had wh...
Free research essays on topics related to: wolfgang amadeus mozart, eerdmans publishing, piano concertos, da ponte, string quartets -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Amadeus Mozart Music
618 wordsMozart Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart is and was a 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 give his son, Wolfgang, harpsichord lessons. From day one of his lesso...
Free research essays on topics related to: wolfgang, mozart, composer, wolfgang amadeus mozart, vienna -
Recording Artist Napster Users
949 wordsNapster is an integrated browser and communications system provided by Napster, Inc. , to enable musicians and music fans to locate bands and music available in the MP 3 and WMA music formats. The MP 3 and WMA files that you locate using Napster are not stored on Napster's servers. Napster users decide what content to make available to others using the Napster browser, and what content to download. Napster utilizes file name filtering technology within the limits of the Napster architecture in o...
Free research essays on topics related to: copyright owner, recording artist, sound recording, napster service, napster users
Customer center
