Ernest Bloch, an American composer, was born in Geneva on July 24th, 1880. He began his passion for music at the age of 9 when he began playing the violin and soon began to compose music. While at a conservatory in Brussels he studied music under teachers such as the Belgian violinist Eugene Ysaye. Bloch’s compositions from this apprenticeship period reveal the influence of the Russian national school, particularly in matters of fluctuating meters, folk-flavored melodies, irregular rhythms, exotic
and irreplaceable value of plants. The Botanic Garden is currently located on 100 Maryland Avenue SW, District of Columbia. The Botanic Garden is composed of three parts: the Conservatory, the National Garden, and Bartholdi Park. Bartholdi Park is located across the street from the main building, which includes the Conservatory and National Garden. Each part has an important exhibit that makes them special. The U.S. Botanic Garden would not be here today without the Colombian Institute for the Promotion
included, there is a fantasy of being in an environment that is exotic and surreal. Conservatories started around the nineteenth century, a time of the Golden Age. English architecture, allowed designers to show off a different side, one that was open and enjoyable, in contrast to being useful or industrial. Conservatories were built for the wealth class. Wealth alone would not have brought about conservatories if it were not for the development of technology in heating, ventilation, iron, and glass
Georgiana and Mr. Carpenter met in the Green Mountains, where Georgiana’s ancestors had dwelt for years. After the two adults left the Green Mountains, Aunt Georgiana headed to Boston to return to her normal life of teaching music at the Boston Conservatory. Mr. Carpenter relentlessly followed her to Boston and persuaded her to move with him to Nebraska. Mr. Clark explains how he owes his whole boyhood to Aunt Georgiana. He also explains that his aunt was extremely overworked by stating, “During the
Hannah Hoch was an artist best known for her work in the medium of photomontage. She would be practice her art in Germany beginning shortly before World War I and continue until her death, at the age of 88, in 1978. She was known for her work in the dada movement in Germany. Her advocacy for women’s rights and the feminist movement would be a large part of her life. Many of her most famous works would be inspired by her views of the social and political climate of her time. Anna Therese Johanna
Pyotr “Peter” Ilyich Tchaikovsky was one of the greatest and popular Russian composers of all time. Even though he died very mysteriously at the age of 53. His musical talent was so stellar, which led him to composing numerous symphonies, chamber compositions, vocal compositions, and dramatic works. With great musical ability comes great struggles within his personal life, much like other composers. Depression and love affairs were a constant struggle, but his music helped overcome those issues
Tchaikovsky: A Musical Giant Among Men Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is widely considered the most popular Russian composer in history, who has added major contributions to the world of music in his time as well as in ours. His most influential as well as prominent works include The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker. His music has always had great appeal for the general public because of its beautiful, flowing melodies, harmonies, and intriguing, picturesque orchestration, all of which bring about a
held a job as a government clerk, but soon threw out that career in favor of his musical pursuits’ (Osborne, 77). Tchaikovsky entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1861 and studied composition with Anton Rubinstein, then the most famed pianist and composer in Russia. Graduating in 1856, he found a position as a teacher at the Moscow Conservatory and began to write minor overtures, quartets and a larger symphonic work (Sadie, 94). In 1876, Tchaikovsky entered into a relationship, which would dominate
much bore by it as Schumann had been, and even became a petty clerk in the Ministry of Justice. But in his early twenties he rebelled, and against his family's wishes had the courage to throw himself into the study of music at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. He was a ready improviser, playing well for dancing and had a naturally rich sense of harmony, but was so little schooled as to be astonished when a cousin told him it was possible to modulate form any key to another. He went frequently to the
George Percy Grainger was born on July 8, 1882 in Brighton, Australia. He was a composer and pianist who used the stage name Percy Aldridge Grainger. His father, John Harry Grainger, was a successful architect who emigrated from London, England in 1876. Percy’s mother, Rosa Annie Aldridge, was born on July 3, 1861 in Adelaide, Australia. Her parents were in the hotel business and were also English immigrants. During the early parts of Percy’s parents’ marriage, his mother received syphilis from
The brilliant composer Clara Schumann was born as Clara Josephine Wieck on 13 September 1819. Even before her birth, her destiny was to become a famous musician. Her father, Friedrich Wieck, was a piano teacher and music dealer, while her mother, Marianne Wieck, was a soprano and a concert pianist and her family was very musically gifted. Her father, Friedrich, wanted to prove to the world that his teaching methods could produce a famous pianist, so he decided, before Clara’s birth, that she would
Clara Schumann was a concert pianist born to Frederick Wieck and Marianne Tromlitz in Leipzig, Germany on September 13, 1819 (Comminfo). Clara was the second of five children and the daughter of a prominent music teacher and piano proprietor (Friedrich Wieck) and an opera soprano singer (Marianne Tromlitz). She died in 1896, renowned as a classical pianist and composer in the nineteenth-century Romantic style. During her height of popularity, the press deemed Clara as the “Queen of the Piano”