THE LIFE OF EDWARD ELGAR
Edward Elgar was born on June 2, 1857. He was born in the town of Broadheath, Worcestershire, England. Edward was the son of an organist and a music dealer. His father’s name was William Henry Elgar. He was raised in Dover and served as an apprentice in London for a music publisher. Edward Elgar’s mom was interested in artistic things and encouraged Edward to pursue Music development. He acquired his strange taste of literature from his love of the countryside. Edward had a friend named W. H. “Billy” Reed who wrote about how Elgar’s surroundings as a child contributed to all of his life’s work and gave it a subtle but evident English vibe. He began writing music as a kid when he was about 10. One of his first compositions was rearranged about 40 years later with only few changes. It was titled “The Wang of Youth”. Until the age of 15, Edward received his education from Littleton. This was an in home school in Worchester. He received extensive musical training from a man named Adolf Pollitzer. These music lessons included sessions for the piano and violin. Edward took various brief visits to London from 1877-1878. He said that it was in the Worchester Cathedral he first truly learned music. He worked extensively on the organ as a kid. He tried to grab ahold of every musical book possible. He later started to get help from a man named Hubert Perry. Edward said that he had the most help from Perry. At one point in his musical journey, Edward began to learn German so that he could hopefully attend the Leipzig Conservatory to further his musical studies. He ended up not going because his father could not afford to send him there. A news magazine called the Musical Times stated that Elgar’s failed attemp...
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After going on through much of life’s ups and downs, he finally be came a renowned composer. He has written and arranged hundreds of famous pieces. One that is probably the most popular nowadays would be Pomp and Circumstance. If you have been to any high school or college graduation, you have heard this song played over and over again. Pomp and Circumstance is the usual graduation music that is played. He first wrote this piece in 1901, and continued to write 4 other similar versions. After this he was knighted in 1904, and from 1905-1908 he served as the University of Birmingham’s first professor of music.
It is very interesting that although he had many failures and setbacks in life, he produced a tune that is well known and still used around the world. Elgar used is disappointments to drive him to success.
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Anderson had a very strong musical education. At age eleven he began piano lessons and music studies at the New England Conservatory of Music in Cambridge. At his high school graduation from the Cambridge High and Latin School, Anderson composed, orchestrated, and conducted his class song. In 1925 he entered Harvard College. While at Harvard he studied musical harmony with Walter Spalding, counterpoint with Edward Ballantine, canon and fugue with William C. Heilman, and orchestration with Edward B. Hill and Walter Piston. Between 1926 and 1929 he played trombone for the Harvard University Band. He eventually became the director of the Harvard University Band for four years. In 1929 Anderson received a B.A. magna cum laude in Music from Harvard. The magna cum laude is the next-to-highest of three special honors for grades above the average. He was also elected into Phi Beta Kappa. Anderson continued into graduate school at Harvard. In 1930, he earned an M.A. with a major in music. He began studying composition with Walter Piston and Georges Enesco; organ with Henry Gideon and double bass with Gaston Dufresne of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. As well as his studies in music, he continued for his PhD in German and Scandinavian languages. He ultimately mastered Danish, Norwegian, Icel...
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Gustav Mahler was born in 1860 in the small town of Kalischt, Bohemia. He was a late romantic-era composer. He was one of the leading conductors of his generation. Mahler was a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. In 1897 he was the director of the Vienna Court Opera. He stayed in Vienna for 10 years, but during that time he got a lot of opposition from the Anti- Semitic Press. His awesome productions and high production standards gave him the name of Greatest of Opera Conductors. Composing was only his part time job as living as a conductor was his full time. Most of his pieces are for large orchestra forces, symphonic choruses, and operatic soloists.
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... to his own music, but the music he made was so groundbreaking that he is still widely listened to today, and his beliefs and techniques still live on in the work of others.
While he was taking lessons with Zachau at the Halle Cathedral, Handel became his assistant organist. He followed his father’s wish for him to study law, however after his father died, Handel quit his unwanted pursuit of the career, and eventually moved to Hamburg, Germany which was a major music...
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