Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany, in 1770 to Johann van Beethoven and Magdalena Keverich van Beethoven. He was baptized on December 17, 1770. When Beethoven was young, he started taking music lessons from his father, who was a musician in the court of Bonn. Beethoven was exceptionally good even as a child. In 1787 he visited Vienna where he performed and met many famous musicians including Mozart.
He later was kicked at the age of seventeen out of the choir because he’s amazing voice had matured and he could no longer sing the higher notes. He tried everything he could to make a living after this event from composing to free-lance musician. At age twenty-nine Haydn entered the Eszterhaza family (a wealthy aristocrat family). The Eszterhaza family employed Haydn to be their personal composer and write them pieces when they pleased. Haydn spent almost thirty years there.
His influence upon later composers is immeasurable; Haydn's most illustrious pupil, Beethoven, was the direct beneficiary of the elder master's musical imagination, and Haydn's shadow lurks within (and sometimes looms over) the music of composers like Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Brahms. Franz Joseph Haydn is the composer who, more than any other,
After his death, he was not very well known throughout the world at the time. Before I continue with Bach’s music works, I would like to continue with the other great composer who was a part and contribute for the development of the Baroque music style- George Frederic Handel. He was born in 1685 in Halle, Germany. His parents did not want him to be a composer, but because his musical talent was so developed in his early years, his parents consented for
He has sat in Chamber of Deputies of Italy for couple of years. Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was born in Germany. He has composed his first work Die Feen at age of 20, but it has never been performed during his lifetime. He has been appointed conductor of the King of Saxony after performance of Rienzi. He also wrote important literary works in his life, and his music dramas Die meistersinger von Nibelung, The Ring of The Nibelung, Tristan und Isolde were performed at last.
It started before the Romantic period, but it become popular with German composers of the nineteenth century. The first generally accepted example of a song cycle is Ludwig van Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte, opus 98. It considered being the first true song cycle by a major composer. He composed in 1816, and it can be seen as the first real song cycle by a great composer in the sense that it is a number of songs by voice and piano that are clearly related with each other. The six songs of the cycle flow into each other, the tonal structure is very clear, and the poetic structure is also clear.
A few composers who made music today possible by struggling through the aftermath of the Black Death epidemic would be; Jasquin Des Prez, (who was a big name at the time,) Pierre De La Rue, a very well proclaimed vocalist (The New York Time Company 2012, March 23. Top 8 Renaissance Composers Retrieved from http://classicalmusic.about.com.) One such composer whose name is still heard pretty often would be Johann Sebastian Bach; he is considered as one of the faces of classical music. Like all of us, he started out with baby steps, slowly learning the ways of music. Bach came from a family of musicians who brought him into the whole scene; his father was a director and had several uncles who were musicians (Christoph Wolff, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 2000.)
George Handel perished on April 14, 1759, in London, England. George Handel was a composer of operas, of oratorios, and of instrumentals. His 1741 exertion, Messiah, is the most famous oratorio. At an early age, Handel yearned to study music, but his parents objected, doubtful that music was a genuine source of revenue.
Oops! Tim McGraw's label, Curb Records, has gone ahead and released yet another McGraw greatest hits album - without the musician's knowledge or permission! McGraw says he feels most for his fans - "It has to be just as confusing to the fans as it is to me." That's because this is the second compilation album since 2006, with only one studio album in between. McGraw says he's been working on a studio album for over a year now, performing new tracks on tour and hoping to release the new album in the fall.
His emotions reflected clearly in his music. He is also said to have brought about the transition from Classicism to Romanticism in the field of music. The Middle Period The middle period began around 1800 and is said to have been Beethoven’s most productive period . He once said to his friend Krumpholz, "I am not very well satisfied with the work I have thus far done. From this day on I shall take a new way."