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. In 1703 Vivaldi became a priest and was given the nickname "The Red Priest" because he had red hair. He had become a priest against his own will because it was the only possible way for his poor family to obtain free schooling. Most of his life was spent as a composer, violin teacher, conductor, and violin virtuoso at the Pietà asylum for orphaned young women and girls. Vivaldi was a master of the violin and is widely known as the composer of concertos which is a form of music with a small orchestra and solo lead instrument.
Bach was trained to be a musician from the time he was a young child. At fifteen he left his brother's home and moved to another town, where he played the violin and organ to support himself in school. When he was eighteen, he became the organist for a church not far outside of his hometown. He left this church at twenty-three and married his cousin Barbara. In 1708, Bach became a court organist in Weimar.
Wassily Kandinsky There is no doubt that Wassily is a unique and influential artist who had left his mark upon the Expressionist Movement. He started by studying Art in the Munich Academy of Art where he developed an interest and what was known as decorative art. Soon Wassily became a well known figure in the art community in Munich. But Munich was not enough for his dreams and ambition. In the period between 1903 and 1908 he had a tour around Europe with his friend Gabriela Munter and they participated in many exhibitions.
Durkheim's scientific way thinking did not make it easy for him to do well in the studies he required to gain admittance into the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Durkheim.com). It wasn't until 1879, at the age of 21, on the third try that he finally attained his goal, joining the ranks of other great intellectual and political leaders such as socialist Jean Jaurès, psychologist Pierre Janet, philosophers Henri Bergson, Felix Rauh and Maurice Blondel, all of whom had been, or were soon to be studying at the famed institution (Durkheim.com). Emile and this group of young thinkers were involved in political and philosophical discussions, most of which focused on the Republican cause, of which Durkheim, along with his friend Jaurès were strong proponents. Durkheim had great admiration for Léon Gambetta, one of the founders of the French Third Republic, and Jules Ferry, who introduced the anti-clerical reform that made primary education obligatory, free, and non-clerical, but his own interest in education centered more upon teaching methods, which had long been literary, and which he felt needed to be scientific, and it was this issue which fueled his orations. It was then, that Durkheim found allies in philosophers Emile
Konstantin Stanislavski, born as Konstantin Sergeievich Alexeiev was one of Russia’s great actor/directors, born in 1863. Through theatre work his most famous aspect was his great struggle to find the perfect system approach towards acting. It was his great passion for the arts and in particular theatre that inspired him to strive to refine and remake his system until he died in 1938. [1] Stanislavski was born into a rich family which ran a gold and silver processing factory designed mainly for military uniforms. As a privileged member of society Stanislavski was introduced to the arts at an early age with his family even owning their own home theatre.
Not long after her death Sergei’s parents divorced and Lubov took custody of the three remaining children. In 1885 Rachmaninoff failed miserably in all of his classes at school and his mother moved him to a school in Moscow. This is where he began to really show his true musical abilities. He studied piano under Nikolai Zverev who pushed him to be the great piano player he knew he could be. He also took lessons from Alexander Ziloti, who was a former piano student of Franz Liszt.
The romance of the Italian Renaissance has captivated many historians over the years, but very few have studied the era as extensively as Jacob Burckhardt. Raised in Germany during the nineteenth century, Burckhardt was disenchanted by events such as the Industrial Revolution, which he found to be cold and unemotional. He was originally sent to the University of Basil to study Theology, but lost his faith and decided that he would study Art and History. Detached from his own time, Burckhardt found his life’s passion in the culture, art, and people of the Italian Renaissance. After graduation, Burckhardt taught Art History and it was while he was a professor that he began to publish.
Consequently, during his youth, Erikson had many struggles with identity. (Boeree) Erikson's family very much wanted him to study science. Erikson did not do well in school and did not continue on to university. Instead of pursuing the science degree, he went to art school and enjoyed eight years of travelling Europe as a wandering artist. (Martin) After Erikson had graduated from art school, he began to teach at a private school in Vienna.
Calatrava's family had suffered during the political upheavals of the 1930s in Spain, and they saw an international future as their son's best chance. Therefore, when he was thirteen, his family took advantage of the recent opening of the borders and sent him to Paris as an exchange student. He later travelled and studied in Switzerland. Calatrava was initially interested in becoming an artist so he made plans to attend art school in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (School of Fine Arts), but he arrived in mid-1968, with the student protests of that year at their height, and found that his classes had been cancelled. As a result, he returned to Valencia and enrolled in the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura, a relatively new institution, where he earned a degree in architecture and took a post-graduate course in urbanism.
“Walt’s drawings sometimes got him in trouble in school, he would rather doodle than complete his school work. He even carved his initials into his grade school desk.”5 In late 1919, Walt began his art career and returned to Kansas City where he had originally lived at the age of seven. Walt and his friend Ub Iwerks decided they wanted to further their love in art and started their own