I have chosen to look at the biographical information, the musical aspects, and also some similarities as well as differences in composers, Alban Berg and Anton Webern. The two composers had a great impact on musical history between the Romantic era and the Twentieth Century. These two composers have so many similarities as well as differences. They were both successful students of Arnold Schoenberg. According to our textbook Music and Appreciation, written by Roger Kamien states that Berg was born in Vienna in 1885. His family was musical and they encouraged him to compose without professional help. Berg did not get too much attention until his main opera Wozzek debuted. The first place that his opera was shown was in Berlin, and then was …show more content…
It also states that he studied piano, cello, and music theory at the University of Vienna. Unlike Berg, Webern had more training in musical lessons. Webern wrote his music from ideas of poetry. Almost half of Webern’s music was for voice and chorus. He also wrote atonal works simultaneously when his teacher, Schoenberg, made the twelve-tone system. Both, Berg and Webern used the twelve-tone system that their teacher invented (Kamien 314-15). The two composers also were in between the Romantic era and the twentieth century. They both used Romantic and atonal forms. Webern reveled his atonal Five Piece for Orchestra, Op. 10, was what he wrote before he took the twelve-tone system into play. His Five Pieces are the shortest orchestral music that has ever been written. The article Anton Webern Facts says, “After World War I Webern took an active part in Schoenberg's Society for Private Performances in Vienna. This organization did valuable work in presenting major contemporary compositions to a highly selective audience. When it had to dissolve in 1922 because of rising costs, Webern took over the direction of the Vienna Workers' Symphony Orchestra and, in the following year, added the responsibility of the Vienna Workers' Singing Society” (Anton Webern Facts par 9). Anton Webern died in Mittersil, Austria. Webern was shot and killed by an American soldier. Berg and Webern had
In terms of the technical differences between the art music of early times and that of the modern period (i.e., after 1600) we can identify five specific features that make post-1600 styles in music sound more or less "familiar."
Introduction Three thinkers form the foundations of modern-day sociological thinking. Émile Durkheim, Karl Marx, and Max Weber. Each developed different theoretical approaches to help us understand the way societies function, and how we are determined by society. This essay will focus on the contrasts and similarities between Durkheim and Weber’s thoughts on how we are determined by society. It will then go on to argue that Weber provides us with the best account of modern life.
Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven both flourished in their compositions of classical music; however, their genre of music differed considerably. Bach was a German composer during the Baroque time era of western music which is estimated to have taken place during 1600 to 1750. It was during this time that he composed prolific church organ music which included such works as the Mass in B Minor, much scared choral music, and the St. Matthew Passion, as well as composing over a thousand works in nearly every musical genre except opera. On the other hand, Beethoven was a German composer whom began to emerge during the classical era of western music twenty years after Bach. This era took place throughout the years1750 and 1830. The large quantity of arrangements, over two hundred works in numerous musical genres composed by Beethoven was significantly influenced by his predecessors, onset of deafness, and his highly personal expression of intellectual depth. Such works include the first an...
The composers and their works gave definition to their time eras from the free-form ways of the Modern era to the concrete more formal structure of the Baroque period. Each composer brings a new aspect to their time and brings further value to the music, creativity and knowledge of their time periods.
Unlike Schönberg, his student Anton von Webern did not make many comments about the relationship between text and music in his works. His George-settings appear rather different to Schönberg’s in their relationship to the text. He was guided much more by declamatory and rhythmical aspects of the poetry than Schönberg.
What struck me as odd throughout my research, aside from many eerie coincidences in the progression of their lives, was how many times the subject of Ludwig van Beethoven appeared in my research, as he was Wagner's first real musical inspiration and various references are made to him. I was able to make many parallels between the life of Nietzsche and Beethoven, and it is in my opinion that the similarities between these two men are even more profound than the parallels between Wagner and Neitzsche. As academic interest in the comparison between these two men is buried beneath an overwhelming amount of material relating Nietzsche and more directly related historical characte...
Ludwig Van Beethoven and W.A. Mozart are the two most important musicians of their time. Their pieces are everlasting and will live on forever. Their styles are so unique and uplifting that they could never be matched. These masterminds played in the same time period but their lives differed tremendously. There are some similarities and many differences between these two but one fact will remain: They are the central and most vital part of all music.
Igor Stravinsky was born near St. Petersburg, Russia in 1882. His father was a bass singer in the Imperial Opera, therefore he was well verse in music at an early age. He began piano lessons while a young boy and began to understand theory. He continued his studies at the University of St. Petersburg after deciding not to pursue law, as his parents wanted him to. Stravinsky's work is usually split into three general style periods: a Russian period, a Neoclassical period, and a Serial period.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven are two of the greatest composers ever to write music. Both men lived in the early 18th and 19th century, but their music and influences are still felt today. The men faced similar experiences, yet they both lead very different lives. All together the pieces that these men composed amounts to over 300 published, and unpublished works of art. The people of their time period often had mixed feelings about these men, some “complained that Mozart’s music presented them with too many ideas and that his melodies moved from one to the next faster than audiences could follow, yet the ideas themselves seem effortless and natural, clear and unforced.” (Bonds 210-211) Beethoven’s criticisms ranged from ‘genius’ to grim dislike. Mozart and Beethoven were influenced by things going on around them such as: love, nature, and the Enlightenment.
This paper will explore the life of the great composer, Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach was considered one of the greatest composers of all time. He created amazing, famous compositions that made a big impact in today’s world. He went through rough times like many people do, the loss of his parents and finding a way back to the old routine was not an easy task. Bach came from generations of musicians and was given a religious education which is something that played a big role in his life when becoming a musician. We will analyze and learn the significance of some of his great compositions, the stories and what inspired him to compose music.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven are very famous past composers that have created many pieces that have influenced not just people of their time, but people in modern times as well.
...choir, two harps, an organ and a large percussion section, along with a gigantic orchestra. He also deviated from tradition in his use of tonality. His larger works often finished in a different tone than when they began. This weakened the structural role of tonality at the same time that Schoenburg and his contemporaries were moving forward a purely atonal style. The final factor we can note in Mahler’s music is its wit, frequently touched with irony and parody. This can occur by means of the comparison of incongruous elements to create a jarring, banal, mix. Mahler died in Vienna on May 18, 1911 at the age of fifty from a blood infection. The International Gustav Mahler Institute that was established in 1955 was built to honor his life and work.
After changing his name to Carl at a young age, he and his brother followed in his father’s footsteps and attended the prestigious Mannheim school. The school’s court orchestra comprised of a group of composers and musicia...
...n shaping the music and a lot of the music expressed emotions in many different and new ways. Their music had experiments with harmonies and textures, more forms, and new treatments of melodies. There were many new compositions that were aimed towards amateurs. There were also a lot of new genres that came about during this time. Because a lot of the composers during this time were so great, they influenced composers in the twentieth century and so on.
...ope and eventually went to America with his wife and two daughters, but instead of composing he focused on being a pianist. He stayed there for the rest of his life, dying at the age of seventy from cancer, but not before becoming an American citizen, which he was able to do just five weeks before he died.