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.
But a concert pianist is one in a million.” (p115) “You’ve been like a father to me. Taught me everything I know.” “ I have taught you everything you were able to learn.” (p116) “Perhaps I have been too hard on you because of that. A father’s hardness.” (p119) “I do not tell you this for me…but for you.” (p123) Everything he had taught me – every opinion, every phrasing, every note – had hardened into dogma.” (p125) “I was the only pianist I had time to listen to.” (p127) “Don’t put too much store on winning – you never win by much.” (p148) “…he had been a safety net…genetic
He composed many brilliant music works such as Bolero, Piano concert for the left hand and so on. Compare to other famous musician such as Franz Schubert who had a lot of completed relationships with other women, Ravel was not famous for his personal life, and seldom people knew his intimate relationships. He remained a mystery of his personal life. I wonder what his real life in 1923 and how he could compose so much innovative music. After a while, I decided to have a meeting with Ravel because I was really curious about the piece he composed called Le Tombeau de Couperin which was completed in 1914.
Vivaldi’s orchestra in the Bassoon concerto consisted of a bassoon, Violin 1 and 2, Viola, Cello, and Bass. ******** Composer Beethoven was born in Germany. He was an innovator, widening the scope of sonata, symphony, concerto and quartet, and combining vocals and instruments in a new way. His personal life was marked by a struggle against deafness, and
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. He was a prolific composer and is well known for composing over 500 concertos, 46 Operas, 73 sonatas, chamber music, and sacred music. Vivaldi was the first composer to use ritornello form regularly in fast movements, and his use of it became a model for later composers. Vivaldi repeatedly looked for contrasting harmonies, creating new melodies and themes. His main goal was to create a musical piece that was meant to be appreciated by a large population opposed to only a certain group of people.
Mr. Holland’s Opus Mr. Glenn Holland is a musician and composer who also obtained his teaching certificate as a “fallback” plan if his music career didn’t work out. He ends up taking a teaching job to pay the rent. In his 'spare time', he hopes to achieve his true dream - to be a famous composer of some of the greatest symphonies ever heard. Teaching isn’t a fallback career, it is a lifestyle. As Mr. Holland discovers, “Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans”, and as the years unfold the joy of sharing his contagious passion for music with his students becomes his new definition of success.
This quote from the book is about the gap between good and great pianists. This is said by the Maestro to Paul, when Paul is approaching whatever musical essence Keller is seeking. This quote relates to the novel as a whole in the fact that Paul is always continually trying to bridge the gap between a good and great pianist, perfection; but this is always achingly just out of reach. 3. This quote is from Keller to Paul, telling about Vienna’s falseness and disguise.
To get started, why bother the concept of multi-genre? Romano illustrates the point by some concrete examples he uses in the classroom. For example, he shows that the diverse aspects of the renowned jazz pianist, Count Basie, cannot be fully represented in the sole genre of biology. And one of his students, Tom, got this point very clearly, who “knew there was more to understanding Count Basie than knowing the year he was born, the city where he got his start, and the names of famous musicians he worked with” (19). And when he gave a poem about Basie, his students were more emotionally engaged with the subject, because the poem “bloods Count Basie” (21) and “draws readers into imagining what it might have been like to attend a Basie performance” (21).
Franz vowed then, and there to be the pianist version of Paganini. Already an accomplished composer, Franz took time off from concerts to work tirelessly day in and day out until he emerged, a few years later, as the greatest pianist of his time. Liszt created sounds from the piano as if an orchestra were playing them, and he had remarkable finger dexterity; works such as Douze Grandes Etudes and Paganini Studies show off his amazing talent on the piano. He was an excellent showman. His work encompassed the use of bold leaps, and extreme dynamics.
Alex McKenzie Music History III Mid-Term Paper 10/8/09 The Rach Sergei Rachmaninoff is considered to many people as one of the last, if not the last, true link to 19th century Romanticism in music composition. He was known for his stern manner, huge hands that helped in his piano playing, and for his few, but exciting compositions. Many at the time he was alive did not like his music because they thought he was behind modern composition, but the remaining romantic composers and fans of romantic music praised his works. To this day the last great romantic’s pieces are played and loved by many. Born 1 April, 1873 in Semyonovo, Russia, Sergei Rachmaninoff was the son of Vasily and Lubov Rachmaninoff.