Composers

Yes. He was called the Bear because of his size. (hint, double chin)

Beethoven was fundamentally a classical composer. However there is much debate about whether his later work was classical, or romantic, as he became much more expressive. For this reason, the date that the romantic era began is often debated, between 1810, the year Beethoven's work became romantic style, and 1825, the year he died.

Wolfgang Amadeus

But at the time of his baptism, he was Joannnes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. The first two representing his saints name.

I remember reading off of an album cover thirty or forty years ago that Beethoven quipped, "The Ninth Symphony has a Story, but no one will ever guess it!"

It is perhaps impertinent to guess, buy mine is that his Ninth is his autobiography..writ large, of course. Beethoven's last string quartets might have been *personal*, as might have other chamber works, famously for example the "Moonlight Sonata", dedicated to an Italian diva, whose name has otherwise been lost, perhaps unfortunately, to history. But there is nothing personal about the Ninth. It is Beethoven imagining the perfection of humanity.

So the last movement, obviously, is death and transfiguration amongst a host of choristers.

Ergo, the first movement is Conception and Birth. In the Twenty-First Century (caps for us, aren't we important?), conception is taken for granted. Indeed, we even have CONTRA-conception. But in 1820, when Beethoven was thinking about Life, Conception was a Pretty Big Mystery. (That also made room for "immaculate conceptions" and other good stuff.) But it was a Big Mystery. So that's the basic idea of the first movement, with maybe labor pains when the tympani enter half-way through, beyond the Mystery of Conception. Then the first movement ends with the power of New Life.

The second movement is Scherzo, Youth, and joyful childhood and adolescence.

The third movement is maturity and old age. Hence the reversal of the classical positions of Scherzo and Adagio.

The last movement, as I have guessed, is Death and Transfiguration.

This all seems very obvious to me, but I'm sure Beethoven would be entertained to hear your interpretation, too.

Edvard Grieg is best known for his musical piece "In the hall of the mountain king." A very well-known piece, it features in many movies, cartoons and advertisements.

look at photos of the Bach statue in Leipzig.

Brothers, Uncles,A man named Lully,and pachelbel

Some of Antonio Vivaldi's compositions are "Fall", "Winter", "Summer" and "Winter" they are all part of one huge composition called "The Four Seasons"

CPE Bach had 6 siblings. Only 3 made it to adulthood, and Wilhelm freidemann Bach was also a composer.

It's interesting that this question has been posed, because there is a startling similarity between the beginning of the third movement of the Beethoven and the beginning of the finale of the Mozart. Check it out and you'll see that it's actually the same tune (i. e., the same intervals), only in different keys and rhythms. It involves only the first two measures, and I've heard that Mozart and Beethoven met once and acknowledged the similarity, but it's unknown whether it was intentional (on Beethoven's part, of course) or merely coincidental. Beethoven's 5th came out long after Mozart's death. And there isn't too much similarity in the styles. Mozart's work is essentially Classical and Beethoven's is essentially early Romantic. There really is no comparison.

Chopin died in Paris, France of complications from tuberculosis.

Brahms's most famous piece is the Lullaby, but Hungarian Dance No. 5 is pretty famous too.

"At a young age. I'm not sure exactly when, but it was before he lost his hearing."

First of all, you clearly know nothing about Beethoven so why are you even attempting to answer a question about him. One simple check on facts clears that up.

Second of all, the answer is more closley answered as: He performed his first concert at the age of seven and did not "make an impression" on the crowd. And started publishing his sonatas at the age of 13, so I would gamble and say he was still learning how to play during this time :)

Schubert

Messiah

The triumph of the time and truth

He wrote 16 oratorios

Johann Sebastian Bach was very fond of the music of Dieterich Buxtehude, he even walked over 400 kilometres just to hear him play. You can hear many similarities between their music. It is also safe to assume that he was aware of the music of his day and that of course affects every composer of any time in some way.

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They are usually quite specific about which instruments (and how many of each) are used in their compositions.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer of the Classical Period -

Born - 27th of January, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria

Died - 5th of December, 1791 in Vienna, Austria

Mozart married Constanze Weber, the younger sister of his first love, Aloysia, who had turned him down.

Major works include - 4 Operas, 21 Piano concertos, 5 Violin concertos, Concertos for clarinet and other wind instruments, 41 Symphonies, 24 String quartets and other chamber music, 17 Masses.

That's what they say!

If you are familiar with Aspergers, then it's not too hard to see the connection...!

the pianos role in popular music to just simply play a harmony to the melody it has no leading role in music, except for harmonic fills, and to keep time. through playing whole chords in major or minor tonalities, the piano keeps a solid pulse through out the whole song/section its played for. This instrument simply sets the mood for the piece, ie skinny love by birdy, in this piece she lets the piano help strengthen her voice and the mood/tone in which she's trying to set, and helping get the message across.

The movement of the Symphonie Fantastique played in "Sleeping With the Enemy" is the Witches' Sabbath or Witches' Dance. The main theme of the Witches' Sabbath is better known as the Dies Irae, which is originally from various Requiem masses dating from the medieval church.