Franz Liszt Although renown as both a composer and teacher, Franz Liszt is possibly regarded as the greatest piano player of all time. His musical work is greatly influenced by subjects of art and religion. The traumatic death of his father who played a big role in Liszt life turned him away from music only for a while; however, this event brought him back to be a phenomenal pianist. This paper will examine his life and show him to be a colorful and brilliant figure. Born in Raiding, Germany on October 22, 1811, Liszt piano playing was phenomenal, but more than that he was known to be flashy.
They thought they should change the name of the band to the Jackson 5, but then in 1975 Jermaine left to have a solo career, so Randy decided to join in. They later renamed to the Jacksons. In 1979, Michael broke his nose when he was doing a complex dance routine, he had to have rhinoplasty, which is plastic surgery, but it didn’t work out the way he wanted it to. He had trouble breathing and thought his music career was all over. Michael’s skin had been a medium brown color for his entire youth, but in the 1980s, it began to go pale.
At school Speer excelled, particularly in mathematics. In 1923, aged 18, Speer left school with the ambition of becoming a mathematician. However, his Father disapproved and persuaded him to follow in the footsteps of himself in becoming an architect. Due to the inflation period of 1923, Speer decided to start his architectural studies locally at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. In 1924 the stabilizing inflation rate meant Speer could transfer to the more esteemed Munich Institute of Technology and a year following that he transferred to Berlin Institute of Technology.
Initially Steve Lopez saw Nathaniel as a story that would interest his writers. Upon Steve’s investigation he learns Nathaniel Anthony Ayers Jr. was a child prodigy that attended Julliard a prestigious school for the Arts in NYC and dropped out after his second year. He also learned that Nathaniel was obsessed with learning to play his Cello at a young age and focused on becoming like Beethoven with his compulsion over music. Steve also learns that Nathaniel dropped out of Julliard because he began hearing voices that controlled his thinking and led him to believe that people were reading his mind and planned on hurting him which disturbed his focus when playing his Cello. After Steve wrote this article, His readers began writing to him and donating instruments/opportunities to Steve that
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
According to Freudian’s theory he displays signs of a core issue referred to as Fear of Intimacy. This issue leads a person to become detached because they have “overpowering feelings that emotional closeness will seriously hurt or destroy them” (Freudian). For example, he does not have any relationships outside of his family, and even when he is at home he remains guarded. Home is where people get comfortable and let their real selves shine. However, Gregor continues “locking the doors at night, even at home” (Kafka 9).
I feel that the text was made purely to satisfy him as an artist continuing his lifelong delight and exploration in provocation. The use of Chopin’s Tristesse as a base for the music could also have a bearing on the text’s thematic origins – Before his career as a singer songwriter Gainsbourg earned a living as a pianist playing a repertoire of pieces which included Chopin. He had learnt to play the piano from his musician father, so it could be interpreted that this text originates partly as a reaction or homage to his own childhood and relationship with his parents with the Chopin piece being the link to that time. (Chabot A , n.d) I was unable to find any
Salad Days Original Source/ Context: Salad Days, is a musical about two adolescents named Timothy and Jane, that meet up after graduation to plan the rest of their lives together. They agreed that they should get married in secret. Meanwhile, Timothy’s parents wanted him to look for advice with his uncles that were in positions to help him find a suitable job. On the other hand, Jane wanted Timothy decided that Timothy should accept the first job he is offered. One day a tramp passing by offered him the job of taking care of his piano for a month and paying him £7 a week.
Whilst Keller is characterised as reclusive and eccentric, wearing a white linen suit, pince nez, and cloistered above the beer garden at the Swan hotel, he boasts a fine pedigree having Czerny and Liszt as his ‘musical ancestors.’ Goldsworthy characterises Keller’s teaching as eccentric and domineering. In his first encounter with a bemused and outraged Paul, he spends time examining Paul’s fingers, and won’t allow the boy to play, exclaiming, ‘you are not free to play in my home without permission’. When Paul boldly questions Keller’s claim that the ‘little finger is a lazy fellow,’ Keller miraculously, plays ‘an effortless, rippling run of tenths’. Goldsworthy uses sparse, direct dialogue to portray Keller as axiomatic and domineering. Keller’s aphorisms and ‘fragments of folk wisdom,’ such as ‘is water at fifty degrees half boiling?’ (used to castigate Paul for half finishing his Rondo), present a picture of an abrupt, punctilious man with exacting standards; yet Keller can also be viewed as a man broken by the pain of his past, who is more philosophical than ambitious, such as where he explains aphoristically, ‘To search too long for perfection can also
Duke especially loved working with the color blue. Unlike his parents, Duke was not interested in piano; rather he enjoyed playing “boy games”, in particular, open- lot baseball. However, fate took its course, and his mother made him take piano lessons. Being the stubborn duke that he was however, Duke showed no interest in piano, allowing his parents to discontinue his lessons merely because they could not afford to send their son to lessons in which he did not want to participate in. He realized his mistake though when he became interested in things like girls and parties, and noticed that anyone who could play music, especially the piano, was likely to be popular and be invited to parties.