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I would like to start my report by saying that this is not the composer I was originally
going to write about. I started out by looking up all the composers, and choosing
Johannes Brahms because he looked like Santa Claus. I also liked him after reading more
about him and then listening to one of his works called A German Requiem. However, I
was not fully satisfied and began reading about other composers when I came upon Carlo
Gesualdo. His story has the most drama and shock factor that I have read so far and thus
caught my attention and provoked me to write my report on him. I would like to start by
saying that he was a composer of the late renaissance, he wrote very expressive madrigals
and also sacred music. He was born in 1560 although that is a matter of dispute. He was
born in Venosa, a town in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of
Basilicata. He was born into privilege, he was born a Prince. His family acquired the
principality of Venosa in 1560. He had a good childhood and showed an immediate
interest in music and began playing m...
Beethoven’s early life was one out of a sad story book. For being one of the most well-known musicians one would think that sometime during Beethovens childhood he was influenced and inspired to play music; This was not the case. His father was indeed a musician but he was more interested in drinking than he was playing music. When his father saw the smallest sliver of music interest in Beethoven he immediately put him into vigorous musical training in hopes he would be the next Mozart; his training included organ, viola, and piano. This tainted how young Beethoven saw music and the memories that music brought. Nevertheless Beethoven continued to do what he knew and by thirteen he was composing his own music and assisting his teacher, Christian Neefe. Connections began to form during this time with different aristocrats and families who stuck with him and became lifelong friends. At 17 Beethoven, with the help of his friends, traveled to Vienna, the music capitol of the world, to further his knowledge and connection...
Johann Sebastian Bach was one of the most famous German composers of his time. All of his work was mostly during the baroque era. The baroque period was from 1600 to 1750 and it is known to be one of the most diverse musical periods as opposed to the other classical music eras. It was in this era that “included composer like Bach, Vivaldi and Handel, who pioneered new styles like the concerto and the sonata.”(Classic FM) Johann Sebastian was born in the midst of the Baroque era as he was born on March 31, 1685 in Thuringia, Germany. Johann came from a family of musicians, which is how he himself became one as well. It was his father who showed him how to play his first instrument, which was the violin. His father was also a well-known musician in his town as he “worked as the town musician in Eisenach.”(Johann Sebastian Bach) It is known that Johann Sebastian went to a school that taught him
... in Vienna, which was directed by Joseph Goebbels, who was one of Hitler’s closest associates. When he got back from the festival, he wrote about how much loved the German music, which the other members of Les Six did not like. Honegger was in a position where he was confused as to what he believed, and he was in the middle of it all, which definitely affected his music (Fancourt).
present day Italy. As a young boy he spend most of his time at sea.
...lassical composers, I applaud this man for his creativity, style, but most of all for the great contribution he has made to the music and film world.
Born in 1474, the eldest child of the Duke Ercole I and his Duchess Leonora of Aragon. All of Ferrara rejoi...
...ts of fever and general ill-health. And in his last ten years in Vienna, the constant need to write commissioned work - for he was the first of the composing freelances, with no regular patrons or court salaries - had worn him down to the point where one bout of fever was sure to finish him off. In July he'd had the anonymous commission to write a Requiem for the Dead; but that had been progressing slowly, because he'd been busy with two operas - La Clemenza di Tito and The Magic Flute - and two cantatas at the same time. Thirty-five years of artistic, social and personal pressure was taking its toll.
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.
By then his name was well known across Europe thanks to his series of Books of Madrigals. Monteverdi then began to compose stage music. He composed a ballet, The Love for Diana and Endymion (1628), which is presently lost, and afterward the opera L'Orfeo, which was debuted in 1607. Though Jacopo Peri had composed the first opera in 1598, L’Orfeo is the earliest surviving opera which is regularly performed today. As in his madrigals, Monteverdi uses shocking dissonance in his operas to emphasize important words. His scene-setting is particularly effective, making use of range of instrumental colors.
The first thing I will talk about is the type of music he is know for which gave him that name. Most people listen to the type of music he composed but next to none know who or how it was composed. There seems to be an abundance of music fans who know little or nothing about the origin of their music. By discussing what he has accomplished it will explain why he is considered to be so important to his type of music.
his first openly atonal composition. The piece was representative of new ideas, and roused lots of
Vivaldi's music is particularly innovative as he gave brightness to the formal and the rhythmic structure of concertos. He repeatedly looked for harmonic contrasts, creating innovative melodies and themes. Vivaldi’ main goal was to create a musical piece meant to be appreciated by the wide public, and not only by an intellectual minority. The joyful appearance of his music reveals a transmittable joy of composing. These are among the causes of the vast popularity of his music. This popularity soon made him famous also in countries like France, at the time very closed into its national schemes. He is considered one of the authors that brought Baroque music to evolve into an impressionist style.
As a skilled young genius, Mozart’s early life was full of many occurrences which led to his fame. At the age of four, Mozart was able to play minuets and scherzos on the piano, and his father, realizing his great genius, devoted much time to his son. When Mozart was six years old many people wondered at his extraordinary skill, and in 1763 he traveled all over Europe with his family playing for courts and learning many languages. Amazingly at the age of 13, he composed his first opera called “The Fake Simpleton.” And although he was knighted by the pope and popular with the people, the young teenager couldn’t find any work and spent the rest of his young life in Salzburg composing two more operas and the nine movement “Haffner Senerade.” After traveling to Parris in 1778 and then returning, Mozart became the part time organist in the court of Prince Archbishop of Salzburg but left in 1781 because of a disagreement with the Prince. Making his living by giving piano lessons, concerts and selling his compositions, Mozart soon married Constanze Weber. Finally becoming very successful in Vienna and in high demand, Mozart started writing his most famous opera “The Marriage of Figaro,” in 1785. Once this prosperous time was over Mozart began losi...
The individual that I have chosen to write my music writing assignment about is Luciano Pavarotti who was in my opinion the greatest opera singer of the twentieth century. but I must be honest with you I have never heard this musician sing until I was bored one day and started trying to discover new genres of music to listen to and I typed in his name on google and that website then directed me to YouTube and then I typed in his name there and since I knew of a few composers I typed in Ave Maria and his name and when the video finished loading and I heard that calm, soothing voice come out of such an imposing man I was captivated and since then I have been hooked on opera.
Monteverdi’s work will be remembered as revolutionary as well as somewhat radical for his time. He continued to stay true to many of the previous methods such as counterpoint, but changed many things and searched for ways to express the lyrical content better than before. His attraction to the Madrigal is a good example of his ability to do this, displayed in his nine books. Word phrases and expressive moods were also shown in his Operas where he told longer stories of love and ancient tales. In every style that Monteverdi wrote it, he will be remembered as a composer who was true to foundational principles of the old styles, but took daring steps to form new sounds that would influence future artwork.