Bela Bartok, [was] a Hungarian composer who is considered one of the most important musicians of the twentieth century. Bartok synthesized the Hungarian pattern of music and other folk music that he studied. Bartok realized what was being distributed as Hungarian music was actually music of Gypies or Roma. Bartok was determined to search high and low of his native country to collect Hungarian songs before they became extinct. Bartok synthesized the Hungarian pattern of music and other folk music throughout his career, to make his own individual style.
Bartok was born in Nagyszentmiklos Hungry, which is now Sinnicolau Mare Romania in 1881. Bartok’s music lessons began at a young age, taught by his mother, who was a pianist. Bartok’s father was headmaster of a local school and was also musically inclined. Bartok’s mother brought up his family alone after his father died in 1888 when Bartok was just seven years old. In 1894 Bartok’s family moved to Pressburg now known as Slovakia. There he studied with Laszlo Erkel, another Hungarian composer. In 1898 Bartok was accepted into Vienna Conservatory, but chose not to attend. Instead he chose to attend the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest. At the Royal Academy Bartok studied piano and graduated in 1903. Bartok who had delivered his first public concert at age eleven was beginning to launch a fine reputation as a pianist, even further then Hungary.
Bartok’s teachers at the Royal academy were Janos Koessler, for composition and István Thoman for piano. At the academy Bartok met Zoltan Kodaly and together they collected folk music from the region in attempt to protect it. This was to have a major impact on his style. After discovering peasant folk song, which Bartok considered to be t...
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...ne of the most musically influential people in the twentieth century. A leader of modern piano, Bartok’s six string quartets have been considered the finest achievements of the twentieth century. He is one of the most remarkable rhythmic modernizers. Pushed by the love of his country’s folk music, and other musical influences to create a sound all his own.
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Johannes Brahms was a German Composer, Pianist and conductor of the 19th century or the Romantic period. He was one of the 3 B's or the Big three: Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. Johannes was a very self-critic man he burned many of his pieces before he could get anyone's opinion on them and he burned all of his compositions that he wrote before the age of 19.
Gottschalk was a child prodigy, showing astonishing musical abilities at a young age. His father, against his mother’s wishes, sent him off to study music more intensively in Paris. During his time in Paris, Gottschalk studied piano with Charles Hallé, Camille Stamaty, and later studied composition with Pierre Maleden. Paris was just the beginning of the many places where he would compose some of his finest works.
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Dvorak earned his first glance of success on March 9 of 1873 with the premiere of his patriotic cantata for male voices. (Doge) Boasting in the success Dvorak would then start to work on his opera, King and Charcoal Burner, with the Provisional Theatre. (Doge) This piece unfortunately did not get to premiere and was taken off the program because it exceeded the capabilities of the Czech orchestra. This event, however, is a pivotal point in the composition process of Dvorak as he began to critically assess his work and started to dive into new directions (Doge). This is where he starts to explore the ideas of music nationalism as his compositions deviated from the German influence and were influenced more by elements of Slavonic Folklore. During this Dvorak composed a couple more string quartets and a new version of his King and Charcoal Burner, which ended up having a very successful premiere in Novemb...
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When one considers the history of classical music, often images of Vienna, Prague, and other European cities come to mind. Centuries of European musical achievement and development have implanted in society the idea that classical music is an inherently European creation. Considering the accomplishments of countless composers such as J.S. Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Antonin Dvorak, this preconception is certainly not unfounded. However, Leonard Bernstein's rise to international fame proved that one cannot neglect American composers in a discussion of the development of Western music. Combining elements of a vast array of musical styles, Bernstein's unique compositions reached a wide variety of audiences and often bridged gaps between distinct musical genres. Through his long conducting career, profoundly influential compositional output, and televised music lectures, Leonard Bernstein left a lasting legacy which came to define American music in the 20th century.
Leonard Bernstein is widely known not only as one of the greatest American conductors, but also as a composer whose creativity and passion was spread over a wide range. His social and cultural influences helped shape his career into a musical icon and his music rekindled the American spirit. Above all, he will be remembered as one of the most amazing and influential musical personalities of the twentieth century.
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For the English-speaking peoples there exists a vast body of ballads, collected in England as well as America. Of German folklore we know best the songs that have come into repertory rather recently. Swedish folk music happens to have available a large collection of fiddle tunes, because some Swedish collectors have concentrated on this aspect of music.” (Folk & Traditional Music of the Western Continents Bruno Nettl) Here Bruno Nettl states some of the obvious dissimilarities between cultures and how their own folk music differed from other cultures.... ...