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19 Th Century Symphony Orchestra
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founded 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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Envy Deceit And Self Sacrifice Step Of Deceit Salieri
903 words
Peter Shaffers Amadeus presents to the reader many
human values. The most prominent being envy,
deceit and self-sacrifice. During the course of
the play these features are displayed through
Salieri's actions, emotions and dialogue. The
relationship between Salieri and Mozart is like a
painting, commencing with splattered envy after
Mozart's extraordinary musical talents disrupt
Salieri's clean, white, sanity. Splatters become
blotches when Mozart uses Salieri's prize pupil
(33), Katherina Cavali...
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East Berlin Edward Ii
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EUGEN BERTHOLD FRIEDRICH BRECHT, was born on
February 10 th 1898 in Augsburg Germany, and died
on August 14 th, 1956, in East Berlin. He was a
German poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer
whose epic theatre departed from the conventions
of theatrical illusion and developed the drama as
a social and ideological forum for leftist causes.
Until 1924 Brecht lived in Bavaria, where he was
born. He studied medicine at the University of
Munich, from 1917 until 1921, and served at an
army hospital i...
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Mozart Loves His Father Loves His Father Salieri
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The main actors and their characters they played
are: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Tom Huge Mozart's
wife Elizabeth Berridde Emperor Joseph II Jeffery
Jones The movie Amadeus was based on two
composers, Mozart and Salieri. In the begging of
the movie Salieri tries to commit suicide. A
priest comes to see Salieri to ask him if he has
anything to confess. Salieri then begins to
unravel the story of Mozart and Salieri's life
together. Mozart has been a great composer since
he was four years old. Salieri...
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Period Of Time Baroque Era
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Throughout its history, music has developed into
cycle. This cycle is a return of fundamental and
traditional ideas of an earlier time transposed
into the present. It represents a style revolution
in which a simple structure further develops to
become a more complex system. At this point a
revolution begins and a return to the simple, the
more traditional form flourishes again. As a chain
of events, the cycle is extremely prominent during
the change of time periods between the Renaissance
and Ba...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Classical Style
568 words
The 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...
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Nervous Breakdown Emotional Problems
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is in my opinion one of
the greatest classical music composers of all
time. He also had one of the most interesting
lives I have ever read about. Although he suffered
through a large enormity of emotional problems and
nervous breakdowns, along with having to deal with
harsh instances of love and death, his music
reflects these emotions in a very beautiful way.
Tchaikovsky (also spelled Tchaikovsky or
Tchaikovsky, and often referred to as Peter), was
born on May seventh, ...
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Verdi Verdi's Opera
328 words
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813 - 1901), was an Italian
operatic composer. He was raised as a duchy. He
was born on October 10, 1813, in Roncole. Verdi
first studied music in the town of Busseto. In
1832 Verdi was rejected to study with the Milan
Conservatory because of his age. He became the
pupil of composer Vincenzo Latina. Then returned
to Busseto in 1833 as conductor. At the age of 25
Verdi again went to Milan. His first opera,
Oberto, was produced at La Scala with some success
in 1839. His next work...
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Financial Problems Great Deal
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... l different kinds of harmonies until the
superintendent stopped him (Vallas 19). He was a
good rebel not always looking for the negative,
but sometimes doing something that would spark a
new idea or interest. Sometimes his rebelliousness
would get him into trouble resulting in long-term
conflicts even in court appearances. Debussy
composed the music for an opera called Palleas.
After hearing the opera a few times, was
dissatisfied with the music played and the parts
it was played in so he wa...
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Period Of Time George Gershwin
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George Gershwin George Gershwin, a famous American
composer of the 1920 th, belongs to the category
of exceptionally gifted artists, who died young
and could not realize many of their plans and
ideas. Despite of his short life-time, musical and
creative inheritance of Gershwin is significant:
he wrote about thirty musicals and operettas for
theater and cinema, and became an author of many
popular songs, which are still being played in our
times. Born in 1898 in Brooklyn, New York, in a
family of...
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Avant Garde Lady Macbeth
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Dmitri 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...
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Emotions And Feelings Don Giovanni
970 words
Music has the capability to bring forth many
emotions and feelings in a person. Depending on
the tone and the melody of the music, emotions
such as anger, joy, and grief may arise. For
example, rap music, in general, brings forth
emotions such as anger, frustration, and rage to a
persons mind. Melodies such as Celine Dion's My
Heart Will Go On and Aerosmith's I Dont Want To
Miss A Thing often arouse emotions of love,
sadness, and hope; lovey-dovey feelings which
remind a person of a past or curr...
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Actors And Actresses Fair Lady
781 words
The two plays that I will be comparing in my final
project are The Phantom of The Opera written by
Andrew Lloyd Webber and My Fair Lady written by
Frederick Loewe. The Phantom of The Opera which
was playing at the Krannert Center in Champaign
was what I thought to be a high budgeted play
because of the props, scenery, and costumes that
the actors wore. My Fair Lady which was playing at
The Sunshine Company of Champaign was not as
expensive as the Krannert Center and was shown
through the costume...
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Piano Sonatas String Quartets
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The son of a wheelwright, he was trained as a
choirboy and taken into the choir at St. Stephens
Cathedral, Vienna, where he sang from circa 1740
to circa 1750. He then worked as a freelance
musician, playing the violin and keyboard
instruments, accompanying for singing lessons
given by the composer Porpora, who helped and
encouraged him. At this time he wrote some sacred
works, music for theatre comedies and chamber
music. In circa 1759 he was appointed music
director to Count Morning; but he so...
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20 Th Century Style Of Music
576 words
History of singing styles There have been distinct
stages in the development of music and
particularly singing over the previous hundreds of
years. Looking back now we can easily see where
certain things interlinked to create a new style
or method of singing. From the western side of
things, the first significant frame was the
operatic movement. This began in the early 1600 s
with the first ever Opera 1602. It was called
Orpheo and was written by Monteverdi. The singing
style that existed betwee...
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Musical Comedy Opera House
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There are many well-known lyricists and composers,
but only a few leave such a mark as Rodgers and
Hammerstein. This duo produced nine musical plays
during their partnership and caused a profound
change in musical comedy. They set the standards
that are followed to this day in musical history.
They created the modern musical that we all know
and love. Before they became Rodgers and
Hammerstein, they were simply Richard Rodgers and
Oscar Hammerstein II, both of New York City.
Hammerstein, born in...
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Marriage Of Figaro Don Giovanni
874 words
In Mozart's time (the late 1700 s), women were
viewed much differently than they are viewed
today. Women were perceived as being inferior
(intellectually and physically) to men. As we all
know, the women were supposed to spend their time
in the house cleaning, cooking, and taking care of
the children. Although, we must take into account
that this was mostly the biased perspective of the
men of the time. As time progressed, the
submissive female role changed. Their presence
became much more preva...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Archbishop Of Salzburg
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Y ekaterina Todika
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
was baptized in Salzburg Cathedral on the day
after his birth as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgang
Theophilus. The first and last given names come
from his godfather Joannes Theophilus Pergmayr,
although Mozart preferred the Latin form of this
last name, Amadeus, more often Amadeus, or the
Italiano Amadeo. Whatever the case may be, he
rarely-if ever-used Theophilus in his signature.
The name Chrysostomus origi...
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State Of The Art John Cage
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Nam June Paik was born in Seoul, Korea on July 20,
1932. He was the fifth and youngest child of a
textile merchant. In 1947, at the age of 14, he
studied piano and composition with two of Koreas
foremost composers. The family moved to Tokyo,
Japan in 1950 to avoid the havoc of the Korean
War. Paik studied music, history, art history, and
philosophy at the University of Tokyo from 1953 to
1956. He did his graduate dissertation on
Schoenberg. In 1956, he moved to Germany to pursue
his interest in ...
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Act 1 Scene Absolute Power
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Act M. Butterfly M. Butterfly Act 1, scene 11,
Gallimard, the love stricken French Diplomat in
China announces his decision to try an experiment.
(Act 1, Scene 11). Upon thinking up this
experiment, he reverts back to a memory of Madame
Butterfly where Cio-Cio-San fears that the western
man who catches a butterfly will pierce its heart
with a needle, then leave it to perish. (Act 1,
Scene 11). He too feels that he has caught a
butterfly who will writhe on a needle (Act 1,
Scene 11). This butterf...
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