What s an exampe of absolute music and wh composed it?

Answer 1

A very famous example is the organ piece "Toccata and Fugue in d minor" by Johann Sebastian Bach. Many composers wrote absolute music, other examples are orchestral symphonies, string quartets, piano sonatas, etc., any composition that doesn't tell a story or represent something non-musical.

Answer 2

There are quick answers, and then there are more difficult answers. Early in his career, Beethoven was praised by many of his contemporaries as a champion of 'absolute music', music without an agenda, story or meaning in a philosophical or linguistic sense. His sixth and ninth symphonies, with their obvious programatic elements and even lyrics, changed that. Symphonic music is often thought of as being more likely to be absolute than several other forms like Opera or Ballet, but these distinctions can't be held as, well, absolute.

Some, like the scholar Susan McClary, argue that any music at all will have at least some elements of program, since they are informed by and come out of a certain culture, political, philosophical and/or aesthetic mindset of the composer's time.

The music of Philip Glass could be considered as close to absolute, perhaps, as music can currently get. Schoenberg too, manifested in his atonal work, wrote music that many would say couldn't possibly be programmatic in any way. Yet the stark differences between Glass and Schoenberg might help to highlight how the different cultures and world views of the two might indeed be informing their approach to form.

Answer 3

Beethoven