Berry’s friend Ira Harris taught him new guitar techniques that became the basis for the Chuck Berry sound. On a trip to Chicago, he hooked up with his idol Muddy Waters who sent him over to Chess Records to make a record. Berry had no recordings of his own and had to return to St. Louis to put some music together on tape. One of those songs was “Maybelline” which would become his first big hit. The
By 12 he was contributing to the family income by giving music lessons. Mertz eventually devoted most of his energies to the guitar, but it was not until he was 34 that he moved to Vienna to launch his career as a concert guitarist. He appeared in a concert at the Hofburgtheater in Vienna in November 1840 under the patronage of the Empress Carolina Augusta. The success of this concert introduced Mertz to the Viennese social, political, and artistic elite. Attesting to his early Viennese triumphs, guitar music by Mertz was first published during this same period by the prestigious Haslinger publishing house of Vienna.
His first musical inspirations were by such talents as: Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard. He formed several bands in high school like Shadow Blasters which was short-lived, but his next band, The Golden Chords, lasted longer and played covers of popular songs. After Dylan graduated from high school, he joined University of Minnesota in early 1959. University was where the thought of becoming a musical artist formed. Dylan begun to listen to folk and rock pioneers: Hank Williams, Robert Johnson and Woody Guthrie.
His life as a child was difficult because he received only minimal schooling. He had to quit school to help his sharecropping family around the house. Broonzy worked as a field hand, and it was behind the mule that he first developed his unmistakable, hollering voice, with its remarkable range and flexibility. Influenced by musicians such as Jimmie Rodgers, Blind Blake, Son House, and Blind Lemon Jefferson, Broonzy developed an amalgamated form of the blues. He began playing music at an early age and at the age of ten he made himself a fiddle from a cigar box and learned how to play spiritual and folk songs from his uncle, Jerry Belcher.
Their music helps me to relax and it`s one of coping skills when I’m in trouble. When Billie was 13 years old, his mom bought him with his first electric guitar, a Fernandes Daphne Blue Stratocaster. He named it “Blue” he still plays it too. In 1987 Armstrong formed a band called Sweet Children with one of his close
Although his mother was a piano teacher, Arnold was self-taught; when he was eight years old he started to learn the violin and soon after began composing violin duets. The only lessons he took were from the composer Alexander Zemlinsky, and he gave him instructions on composition. At the age of 25, he produced his first major piece of work, the tone poem Verkarte Nacht for string sextet, which translates to Transfigured Night. In 1901 at the age of 27 he married Alexander Zemlinsky’s sister, Mathilde, with whom he had two children. The couple moved to Berlin and lived there for two years while he orchestrated operettas and directed a cabaret orchestra.
Mozart’s father, “a violinist at the court of the prince of Salzburg,” taught him how to play the clavier and encouraged him in his art (“Wolfgang” World History). His parents had seven children, although only two of them, Mozart and his sister Maria Anna Mozart, survived to adulthood. Mozart first showed off his innate abilities in music at age four, when “he began playing his pieces from his elder sister’s clavier lessons” and astonished his entire family (“Wolfgang” World History). After his father heard him play such arduous pieces, he started giving him lessons. Mozart’s sister was also a talented musician.
Arnold Schoenberg (b.1874-1951) was born in to a poor orthodox Jewish family who were of Hungarian decent. His family had no musical affiliation apart from his brother and cousin who were excellent singers and although his parents did enjoy listening to music, they were unable to contribute towards his future music career. His mother was from Prague, his father was from Bratislava and was also a shoemaker. He started learning the violin at the age of 8 and started composing violin duets which started to reveal a natural flair for composing. After this, he was taught counterpoint and harmony by his first teacher Oskar Adler.
He constructed wonderful Baroque works with his superb musical skills that he had obtained since childhood. Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany on March 31, 1685, to a family that was well established in music. It is believed that Bach’s first musical lessons came from his father in their hometown. At the young age of 9 both of Bach’s parents passed away and he went to live with his older brother, who was an organist. It was with his brother that he was formally introduced to a keyboard, although it is believed that he already had a versatile knowledge of music at that point.
At the age of four, the family moved to Basel. When he was six years old, Carl went to the village school in Klein-Huningen. His father also started teaching him Latin at this time.Jung observed his parents and teachers and tried to understand their behavior, especially that of his father. As Jung grew older, his keen interest in a large variety of sciences, and the history of religion made the choice of a career quite difficult. Before deciding to pursue medicine Jung studied biology,zoology,paleontology and archaeology.