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.
Vivaldi is an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe. Vivaldi is known mainly for composing instrumental concertos, especially for the violin, as well as sacred choral works and over 40 operas. His best known work is a series of violin concertos known as The Four Seasons. Vivaldi was progressive musically.
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was born on March 4, 1678 in Venice, Italy, and died on July 28, 1741, in Vienna, Austria. Vivaldi was an Italian music composer who lived during a period of art commonly known as the Baroque era. His father, a barber and a talented violinist at Saint Mark's Cathedral had helped him in trying a career in music and made him enter the Cappella di San Marco orchestra. Vivaldi's health was a problem during his childhod with a form of asthma. This did not prevent him from learning to play the violin, composing or taking part in musical activities, but it did stop him from playing wind instruments.
Franz was like Mozart in that he was somewhat of a child prodigy. He showed remarkable talent with the piano as well as in sight reading music. Franz had a turning point in his career when at nineteen he came across the great violinist Paganini. Paganini would bedazzle audiences with his abilities on the violin. Franz vowed then, and there to be the pianist version of Paganini.
John Philip Sousa, The March King, and More William Blake Martin LDRS 2300 – Innovators in the Humanities Cynthia Martin William Penn University – College for Working Adults February 25, 2014 John Philip Sousa Probably one of the most prolific composers of the 19th and 20th centuries was also one of the most influential upon our nation’s patriotism as well. Before you even see the marching band on the Fourth of July, it’s almost a sure thing that you will hear one of Sousa’s compositions. While John Philip Sousa, often referred to as “The March King”, wrote many marches, he wrote several operettas and novels too. Not only was Sousa an accomplished composer and author, he also was the band leader of The Marine Corps Band, often
Comparison essay of lives and music of Johan Sebastian Bach and George Frederic Handel Johan Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel are two German very well-known composers of the Baroque musical era. They are two of the most influential composers of their time and their music is still popular and famous nowadays. Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach in 1685. He came from a long line of musicians, with many of his relatives being musicians. Bach was trained to be a musician from the time he was a young child.
Haydn was able to begin immediately his pursuit of a career as a freelance musician. During this arduous time, Haydn worked at many different jobs: as a music teacher, as a street serenader, and eventually, in 1752, as valet–accompanist for the Italian composer Nicola Propora, from whom he later said he learned "the true fundamentals of composition" Franz Joseph Haydn is the composer who, more than any other, epitomizes the aims and achievements of the Classical era. Perhaps his most important achievement was that he developed and evolved in countless subtle ways the most influential structural principle in the history of music: his perfection of the set of expectations known as sonata form made an epochal impact. In hundreds of instrumental sonatas, string quartets, and symphonies, Haydn both broke new ground and provided durable models; indeed, he was among the creators of these fundamental genres of classical music. 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.
New York City Ballet George Balanchine was born in 1904 and was raised in St. Petersburg. As the son of a composer, Balanchine’s piano study began at the age of five. After graduating from the Imperial Ballet School in 1921, Balanchine enrolled at the state’s Conservatory of Music where he studied piano and musical theory. Balanchine’s musical background gave him an advantage over other choreographers because he more fully understood the music he was dancing to (“Biography”). The first time George Balanchine danced was as a cupid in the Maryinsky Theatre Ballet Company Production of The Sleeping Beauty, his favorite ballet (“George Balanchine”).
Walk up to any child enrolled in a graded music performance course and ask him or her, "Who is the greatest composer of all time?" Chance are that one will hear the names of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart recited alongside with a handful of other musical greats from the Western canon. Surveying a population of music professionals (comprising of ATCL, BMus, LRSM and LTCL holders), the melody remains unchanged. Tapping into my personal network of musicians pursuing postgraduate (either FTCL or MMus) studies in music, only two out of twenty named a composer not belonging to the Western canon - the 20th century Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera and the Chinese composer who wrote "The Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto". Such an Eurocentric slant
Frolicsome Finale Britten was a 20th century British composer, conductor, and performer. His music comprises of many works, famously his operas and his works for children. He was the son of a dentist and was shown to be musically gifted when he was very young, starting to compose when he was five. A few of Britten’s inspirations for composing include his lover Sir Peter Pears whom he wrote many pieces for and his relationships and infatuations with many adolescent boys which may have contributed to his passion of writing for children. He was also the first composer to have received a life peerage.