The Importance Of Classical Music

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Classical music takes a big importance in the western and other parts of the world history, being in a classical concert is part of the stage of life that nobody should skip. Classical music is beyond music, but art and psychology. An important classical music event was achieved at the Lincoln Center “Mostly Mozart”. It was a festival full of the three masters of the classical music; Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig Van Beethoven. During my visited, I was amazed with these composers’ pieces. In fact, three famous pieces were performed, such as Over the to Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) from Mozart, Cello Concerto in C major, Hob. Vllb:1 by Haydn and Symphony #4 in B-flat major written by Beethoven.
Wolfgang A. Mozart was known as the king of melody, Mozart was born in Salzburg in January 5th, 1791. He is considered a prodigy child because of his over talent in music at an extremely young age. He was able to play the harpsichord when he was a toddler. When he was just four years old, he was able to learn music. …show more content…

He was trained to work for St. Stephen’s Cathedral. He spent a big part of his career composing for palaces. Additionally, Haydn wrote a lot of compositions for the family Esterhazy. Haydn was Ludwig Beethoven 's professor another important composer of the classical period. Haydn was a public composed which means he was well known for the society at that time but also he was an employee to the Esterhazy family. Haydn influenced great composer such as Beethoven and Mozart. He is the composer that invented the string quartet. In 1809 Napoleon ordered to attack Vienna where his city was bombarded on May 10th. He died at the age of 77 on May 31st, 1809. Cello Concerto in C major was a piece that was composed at the concert, the piece length was about 24 minutes. In addition, the piece was composed between 1761 and

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