It shows how he struggled while he was alive to earn for his family and profit off of his music. Like so many great artists of his time, he only was able to gain fame and fortune posthumous. You see a role that his family may have played in not only helping but also hindering in his writing of music. And most importantly it shows off his expertise in the understanding of music, one point in the movie depicting Mozart writing an entire symphony in his head. The movie showed the Classical Spirit typical to that commonly associated with late 1700’s Europe.
| 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
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.)
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.
Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach was an 18th century composer, musician and teacher. He was born on the 21st of March 1685 in Eisenach, Germany, to Maria Elizabetha and Johann Ambrosius Bach. Growing up Bach was taught to play the violin and harpsichord by his father and the organ by his famous uncle Johann Christoph Bach. Bach was a quick student and easily mastered the instruments given to him. At age 8 he attended the old Latin Grammar School where he learned to read and write and later joined the choir.
However, the one who builds Stephen’s musical love and career is Father. In one of Aunt Emily’s letters to Mother, Aunt Emily says “…Mark… All he thinks about are Stephens’s music lessons. He sent two pages of exercises and a melody he thought up himself…Dad said Stephens’s health is more important than music right now” (113). Throughout the novel, several instruments have been used, by Stephen, to portray the theme of music; some examples are piano, flutes, and violin. Stephen works hard when it comes to music and it would not have happened without his mother or father’s support.
He started his career when he was hired by the Esterhazy family, giving him the chance to write and compose symphonies and conduct orchestras. Also known as the Father of the Symphony or String Quartet, he invented the idea of sonatas (History Reference Center 1). His best known piece, the Emperor Quartet, was so well written that it was the national anthem of Austria until the end of World War I. without the guidance of the Esterhazy family and the chance to write and compose, Haydn’s career would not have been as influencing. Haydn was an ideal man of the Enlightenment. He had a great sense of humor, and loved playing jokes on his friends.
The most influential music of the early Romantic period His sonatas do not adhere to a strict formal scheme and they create a mood without text or programme Influential were Field's early piano concertos, which occupy a central place in the development of the genre in the 19th century Pioneered the Romantic large scale episodic structure. Partly as a result of his extravagant lifestyle, Field's health began deteriorating by mid-1820s By the late 1820's he was suffering from rectal cancer He gave his last concert in March 1836 and died in Moscow from pneumonia He was buried in the Vvedenskoye Cemetery Influenced many major composers, including Chopin, Brahms, Schumann, and Liszt Is best known today for originating the piano nocturne, a form later made famous by Chopin, as well as the development of the Russian piano school. The first historically important work was Piano Concerto No. 1 H 27 First official opus was a set of three piano sonatas published by (and dedicated to) Clementi in
He would use his voice when talking with other people and they would write back in his books. His music was considered very off-beat, but the royalty still loved it. He once stated his music was for a later time. His final piece, The Ninth Symphony, is considered one of the greatest musical pieces of all time. Despite becoming deaf, Beethoven managed to maintain his excellent demeanor and popularity among the royal class.
He started receiving full time Musial classes from Christian Gottlob Neefe, the newly appointed Court Organist. Christian Neefe introduced Beethoven to the famous Bach. Neefe saw real talent in Beethoven. Not only did Neefe teach Beethoven music, but also taught him about ancient and modern philosophy. In 1782, before he was even twelve years old Beethoven published his first musical composition.