Classical Music is still popular after it has already developed for hundreds of years. Currently, there are still many people fascinate this unique kind of performing music by many classical instruments. Unlike pop-musical instruments, classical instruments are usually much more peaceful. As a resul...

Last Sunday afternoon, February 24, my friend and I went to the Music at the Merc in Old Town Temecula community theatre and saw Paul Kenyon's performance. He is a solo pianist and played some beautiful classical pieces. He plays both solo piano and is a collaborative artist. Paul Kenyon has...

From the beginning of the world, music has been an important element in different dynasties, places, societies and individuals. Music actually has a lot of purposes, which can help us in our daily life. Nowadays, music involves some help in medical treatment. For example, many psychologists...

Ludwig 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. ...

I'm 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 wrotemany different types of music. He was the best composer of his time.Mozart wa...

BeethovenFor many people, Ludwig Van Beethoven is considered the greatestcomposer who ever lived and is the highest level of musical geniuses. Hiscompositions are the expression of one of the most powerful musical personalitiesof all time which he exceeded above average in both areas of Classical a...

How many artists, composers and musicians do not enjoy recognition during their own lifetime? This surely was not the case with Ludwig Van Beethoven. Although his life was made up of trials and tribulations, his deaf ears were able to feel the vibrations of audiences clapping and stamping their appr...

Who Do You Call Educated? How is it possible to be a composer and face the reality that one's acute hearing is slowly slipping away? However, for the fortunate one's like Beethoven, he was able to master his musical career even though he didn't have the full benefit of hearin...

I'm 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 wa...

We have witnessed and had the chance to hear many pieces from both classical and modern composers . Numerous composers have tried to match the style of one of the most prominent composers of the nineteenth century, but few have come close. We are speaking of the ever-famous Ludwig van Beethoven...

Piano Man by Billy Joel For my final project, after a lot of research and decision making, I chose Piano Man by Billy Joel. I believe this self-titled record, Piano Man, is truly a magnificent piece of art work, and is a must in everybody's music collection. William Martin Joel was born in ...

NINE BEETHOVEN SYMPHONIESOut of all musical artists known today, Ludwig Van Beethoven is right at the top of popularity and stardom. Though his life didn't start this way, as did Mozart's, Beethoven increased in knowledge and musical ablility as he was taught by some of the best composers of his ti...

Edward Alexander MacDowell (1860-1908) was one of the most well known composers in the nineteenth century and as also one of the first to gain international recognition. " His native land not only accepted but encouraged him-and heaped praise upon him, often so extravagantly as to put his sen...

Maurice Ravel Maurice Ravel was born in Ciboure, March 7, 1875. His father's background was Swiss and his mother's was Basque, but he was brought up in Paris. Here he studied at the Conservatoire from approximately 1889 to 1895, returning in 1897 to study further with Faure and Gedalge. R...

Beethoven and Mozart: Two Great Composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig Van Beethoven are two of the most well know and respected composers of all time. Over one hundred and fifty years after their lives their music is still studied, enjoyed and respected. These two great composers had differ...

This piece is taken from Book 2 of J.S. Bach's Forty-Eight Preludes and Fugues (also known as The Well-Tempered Clavier). A prelude could take almost any form, the only conditions being that it should be in the same key as the fugue and form a suitable preparation of the listener's ear and...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was born in 1714 in Weimar. He was a German composer, one of the most influential and celebrated composers of his era. He was the third son of Johann Sebastian Bach and he trained under his father. He studied philosophy and law at the universities in Leipzig and ...

Musical instruments are divided into four primary families, determined by the manner of their construction and the way in which they are played. These four groups are named Stringed Instruments, Keyboard Instruments, Wind Instruments, and Instruments of Percussion. The Stringed Instruments can on...

Many prominent musicians produced major works during the romantic period. Among these are Beethoven, Strause, and Bach. But the musician that I think had the most impact, was Franz Schubert. Franz Peter, born on 31 January 1797 was one of fourteen children born of Franz Theodore Schubert and Elisab...

Many prominent musicians produced major works during the romantic period. Among these are Beethoven, Strause, and Bach. But the musician that I think had the most impact, was Franz Schubert. Franz Peter, born on 31 January 1797 was one of fourteen children born of Franz Theodore Schubert and Elisab...

Soulful Strings As I plop down on the over-stuffed rose-tinted antique love seat, childhood memories dance through my imagination, creating a comforting yet unbreakable bubble, until reality's sharpness stabs the unfamiliar world into several suds of disillusion. Intensely fixated on a pleasantly p...