18 Results for classical music

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...
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was born in Hamburg in 1809. His father was banker, and his grandfather a noted Jewish philosopher who advocated religious tolerance (Teachout, 2001). He only lived 38 years, dying in 1847. He was a child prodigy (Columbia, 2004), composing and performing as a child much ...
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. ...
Music Concert Report On Sunday November 10, 2002 at 4:00 PM I went to Queensborough Community College/CUNY located at 56th Avenue and Springfield Blvd., Bayside, NY and I saw Masterworks Series – Coffee Cantata presented by the Queens Symphony Orchestra featuring Maria Ferrante, So...
Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany, and was baptized on December 17, 1770. There is no record of his actual birth date. He came from a family of musicians. His father and grandfather worked for the Elector of Cologne. Beethoven's grandfather, Lodewyk van Beethoven came from Belgium...
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...
In order to assess how important individuality was to composers of the Classical period the question of what exactly individuality is must first be tackled. It can be defined as "the aggregate of qualities and characteristics that distinguish one person or thing from others" and in a mus...
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...
Paul Hindemith was revolutionary and a musical genius. Many people who lived around the same time saw him as nothing more than an untalented noisemaker. Granted, these people didn't have all of the various forms of music that we have today, but untalented would not be a word I would use to describe ...
History of Music TherapyAlthough it is only in recent times that scientists have started to document the effects of music, the qualities of music were understood even in earliest times. Evidence suggests that dance and song preceded speech, which means that music is the original language of humans. ...
Amadeus was a world wide profound success, receiving 8 academy awards with the help of director Milos Forman, and the producer Saul Zaenty. It's not about a famous musician and his works, but about a suffering old man, Antonio Salieri, who carries the guilt of destroying an artist of music, Wo...
Haydn was one of the two outstanding composers of the late 18th century. He, along with Mozart, represented the Classic period by using the musical language of the time and creating works of unsurpassed perfection. Haydn experienced some hardship as a young boy. He was largely self-taught as a musi...
Page One The works of Johannes Brahms are among the most consistent of any composer. His style matured early and then changed little, and his meticulous, self- critical approach never allowed publication of any work less than excellent. He was one of the seminal musical figures of the 19th...
Julien Rouleau "The classical period produced more instrumental than vocal music, a wealth of serious and comic operas as well as vocal religious music also appeared during this time"(Ferris, 231). One of the best composer of this time was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart....
Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg on May 7, 1833. He was one of the major composers of the 19th century, whose works combined the best of the classical and romantic schools. He first studied violin and cello with his father, a double bass player for the Hamburg opera. Brahms became a talented pian...
"Not only did I have the encouragement of constant approval, but as the conductor of the orchestra I could experiment, find out what made a good effect and what weakened it, so I was free to alter, improve, add or omit and be as bold as I pleased. Cut off from the rest of the world I had no one to b...
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...