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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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Mozart Composed G Minor
903 wordsProbably the greatest genius in Western musical history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria, Jan. 27, 1756, the son of Leopold Mozart and his wife, Anna Maria Part. Leopold was a successful composer, violinist and assistant concertmaster at the Salzburg court. Wolfgang began composing minuets at the age of 5 and symphonies at 9. When he was 6, he and his older sister, Maria Anna, performed a series of concerts to Europe's courts and major cities. Both children played the keybo...
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Play The Piano Romantic Era
749 wordsLudwig Van Beethoven was born on December 16, 1770 in Bonn, Germany. He was the third child of Johann and Johanna Beethoven. Ludwig had a terrible childhood because his dad was an alcoholic. He woke him up in the middle of the night and made him play the piano until dawn. He would smack him every time he made a mistake. His father was a musician as was his grandfather. Ludwig loved spending time with his grandfather. His grandfather died when Beethoven was only three years old. At age four, he w...
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2,526 words... at we think are part of our identity and then, if we " re lucky, we discover later on that we can actually step out of that identity and we are actually not confined by that identity that's been laid upon us. Back to our frog. The world becomes very simple if all you " re looking for, all your epistemology encompasses, is flies or not-flies. Even your need to eat flies may suffer, because the frog can be easily tricked into swallowing other moving black objects which are not flies. Human bei...
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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...
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Beethoven The Greatest Composer
903 wordsLudwig van Beethoven was, and remains today, an influential figure in the history of classical music. Perhaps no other composer in history wrote music of such inspiring power and expressiveness. His influence on the last 150 years of music is unequalled. Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany in 1770. His father, a music enthusiast, dreamed of molding his son into the next Mozart. Beethoven never showed the impressive characteristics of Mozart, but he was unusually talented, learning the piano, org...
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Tells An Admission Officer Tells An Admission Music
1,272 words... thrust it toward the beaming stewardess, but took the time to return her wide smile. Before stepping into the caterpillar tunnel I looked back at my parents, seeking reassurance, but I sensed from their plastered-on grins and overly enters-instil waves that they were more terrified than I. I gave them a departing wave, grabbed my violin case, and commenced my first solitary journey. Seated in the plane I began to study the pieces I would soon be performing, trying to dispel the flutterings i...
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Admissions Officers Left Hand
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Twelve Years Solomon Slave
832 wordsDescribe Northup's life before slavery. Explain how he became a slave, and how he finally escaped Early life. Solomon was born in New York in 1808. His father was a former slave who had been freed by his master in his will. Somehow his father Miss managed to make sure that his children received an education that was better than the usual for Americans of African descent including learning to play the violin. He also worked on his fathers farm. Solomon said that though his father was affectionate...
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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...
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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...
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Mary Livingstone Benny Joan Benny Jack
1,114 wordsThe late Jack Benny wrote an autobiography that was known to almost no one. So few, in fact, that his only daughter Joan was surprised to find the finished manuscript among her mothers files after her death in 1983. Joan Benny has augmented her fathers words with her own memories and some interviews accomplished expressly for the book. It is very good. As one might expect from the most popular comedian of the age of radio, Jack Benny's memoirs are fast-paced, lively, and entertaining. His recoll...
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2,255 wordsOverview Laurie Anderson earned an international reputation as a high-tech magician of multi-media performance art. Her legendary shows, combining computer synthesized music, videos, slides, and provocative monologues, have challenged and delighted audiences for over twenty years. A self-described " story-teller, " Andersons art stems from a deeply personal vision. Once the lenfant terrible of New Yorks avante-garde, Anderson has evolved into a kind of electronic folk artist; an urbane...
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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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1,150 wordsMusic Theory Wolfgang Mozart Aaron Stern Music Theory Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart is perhaps the greatest musical genius who ever lived. Mozart s full name is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Most people called him Mozart or Wolfgang. Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria, January 27, 1756. His father, Leopold, perhaps the greatest influence on Mozart's life, was the vice Kapellmeister (assistant choir director) to the Archbishop of Salzburg at the time of Mozart's birth. Mozart was actually christene...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's
850 wordsFrom: To: Subject: Submit a paper Date: Tuesday, November 04, 1997 3: 06 PMTitle: Mozart Category: other Description: Body of paper: Thomas G. Builder 257 - 27 - 449710 - 30 - 97 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 - 1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg on 27 January 1756. His father, Leopold Mozart, was a famous musician and composer in his own right. In his twenty-fourth year, Leopold received an appointment as violinist in the orchestra of the Archbishop of Salzburg, finally rising to t...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Marriage Of Figaro
699 wordsThe Life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 91) is regarded as the greatest composer who ever lived. He began writing minuets at the age of 5, and by the time he died in 1791 at the age of 35, he had produced 626 cataloged works. Mozart has enriched the concerto form with a larger number of masterpieces than any other composer. 1 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is said to be the greatest genius in western music history. Wolfgang Amadeus was born in Salzburg, Austria January 27, 1...
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Archbishop Of Salzburg Mozart Composed
556 words(1756 Mozart WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756 1791) EARLY YEARS Mozart was an Austrian composer of the Classical Era. He was born on January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. Mozart s whole name is Johannes Chrysostmus Wolfgang us Theophilus Mozart. His father taught schooling and music. Mozart s dad was a Concertmaster in the court orchestra for the archbishop. When Mozart was six he performed on the clavier, violin, and organ. He was good at sight-reading and improvisation. Mozart composed five shor...
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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...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Archbishop Of Salzburg
1,885 wordsWolfgang 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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