Vienna recognized Beethoven as a great pianist and he became very popular. In 1795, he wrote his first works with opus numbers which were the three piano trios. He supported himself by giving lessons, selling his works, and gifts from aristocratic patrons. This was very unusual for musicians of his time because they normally joined the church and became clergy to gain income. In 1801 Beethoven started loosing his hearing.
At age 8 he attended the old Latin Grammar School where he learned to read and write and later joined the choir. At age 9 his mother died and nearly 9 months later so did his father. After this tragedy, his eldest brother Johann Christoph Bach, who was at the time an organist, took in him and another sibling. Bach learned the Organ and more about the harpsichord from his brother while attending the Gymnasium Grammar School of Ohrdruf. In his life time Bach was an organist for 5 years, a court organist and court master for 9 years, a music director for 6 years and his
He was playing piano concertos at the age of eight. Chopin became a successful composer, teacher and performer in Vienna and Paris. His piano music includes Polish folk music and dances such as the mazurka and polonaise, and reflects his love of his homeland. Chopin composed Prelude Number 15 whilst isolated in a monastery in Vallderosa in Spain because he had tuberculosis, an extremely infectious disease at the time. He died about a year later in Paris at the age of 39.
"— Actor David Garrick 2/19/1717-1/20/1779 agreeable with the tens of thousands that witnessed. George Whitefield the youngest of seven children. Born in Gloucestea, England on December 16, 1714 to Elizabeth Edwards and Thomas Whitefield. His father a wine merchant and a innkeeper up until his death in 1716. Leaving his mother widowed and struggling to provide for her
| My Favorite Mr. B in Music | Pamila Besaw | | Music Appreciation 1101 | Monday/Wednesday 9:30 | Dr. Clayton Turner, Instructor | My Favorite Mr. B in Music A musician that joined the ages, Leonard Bernstein’s talent spanned centuries, from the Classical Period, to Romantic Period, to Twentieth Century and Beyond. He started his musical journey with very little encouragement from his family. Through his intense drive for learning music, he became one of the most talented musicians of the 20th Century. Bernstein loved classical music and wrote many classical pieces, but he truly thrived and excelled in his romantic feel of music. “He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive
Following this success, Leopold was inundated with invitations for the children to play, for a fee. Leopold seized the opportunity and booked as many concerts as possible at courts throughout Europe. After the children performed at the major court in a region, other nobles competed to have the “miracle children of Salzburg” play a private concert in their homes. A concert could last three hours, and the children played at least two a day. Today, Leopold might be considered the worst kind of stage parent, but at the time it was not uncommon for prodigies to make extensive concert tours.
I really need to cheat Ringo Starr (born 1940) is an English drummer, singer, songwriter, and actor best known as the drummer for the Beatles. As a child he was twice afflicted by life-threatening illnesses requiring prolonged hospitalisations. He cofounded his first band in 1957, the Eddie Clayton Skiffle Group, and then achieved moderate success with Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He joined the Beatles in 1962, replacing Pete Best. He sang lead vocals for "With a Little Help from My Friends" and "Yellow Submarine".
Jerry Lee Lewis was born September 29, 1935 in Ferriday, Louisiana. When he was ten years old he shared piano lessons with his cousins. Lewis mixed rock- solid boogie patterns with gospel and country. His mother enrolled him in a bible college in Waxahatchie, Texas so that he would be exclusively singing his songs to the Lord. They say that the Killer did a boogie- woogie version of “My God Is Real” at a church Assembly which got him thrown out of Bible College.
Charles Dickens Research Essay Charles Dickens, the well known author was born in Portsmouth England on February 7th 1812. He was a part of a middle class family and the second of eight siblings. To cut expenses his family moved to a smaller home in Chanthan at around the time he was four months because his family got too large. Mary Weller was an early influence on Charles since she was hired to care for all the Dickens children. At the age of twelve Charles’s mother took him out of school so he could work while his father was in jail for failure to pay debt.
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.)