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Composers
Whether it be classical or contemporary, composers are the men and women behind the music. Beethoven and Mozart are among those who have left their marks on history.
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Mozart's opera Don Giovanni What kind of voice does the character Zerlina have?
Normally the role is sung by a bass-baritone. Mozart originally intended that the role be sung by a bass, but with the demands of tessitura, it is best performed by a bass-baritone.
What influenced Tchaikovsky to write the Nutcracker?
Tchaikovsky was inspired very much by Mozart, whom he considered the greatest of all composers. He also drew inspiration from the successes of Mikhail Glinka in creating a Russian classical music style in his operas "A Life For the Tsar" and "Russlan and Ludmila."
Which composer wrote music related to war?
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), the Finnish composer, was arguably unaffected musically by the war. To follow through his symphonies, one sees a continuous progression and growth of his musical language,logically refining and unifying the symphonic form as well as that of his tone poems. (: hope this helps, i'm doing a project for music of WW1 era, and I went deep to go find this, and I found your question, so I came back to anwser it when I found this answer!
How old was Mozart when he first played in public?
I'm not sure, but he composed songs when he was 5. Some of these are Andante (K. 1a) and Allegro in C (K. 1b). He was strangely similar to Beethoven, with the exception that Beethoven wasn't writing songs by the time he was 5.
Style was used by debussy composition?
Claude Debussy used an impressionist style in all of his compositions.
At what age did Mozart learn to play piano?
he started playing piano at aged 4 or 5 don't know about violin. =D
What school did Johann Sebastian bach graduate in 1702?
"In 1700 Sebastian, now fifteen and thrown on his own resources by the death of his brother, went to Luneburg, where his beautiful soprano voice obtained him an appointment at the school of St. Michael as chorister. He seems, however, to have worked more at instrumental than at vocal music. Apart from the choristers' routine, his position provided only for his general education, and we know little about his definite musical instructors. In any case he owed his musical development mainly to his own incessant study of classical and contemporary composers, such as Girolamo Frescobaldi (circa 1587), Caspar Kerl (1628-1693), Buxtehude, Froberger, Muffat the elder, Pachelbel and probably Johann Joseph Fux, the author of the Gradus ad Parnassum on which all later classical composers were trained."
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"Johann Sebastian Bach"
Was js bach able to influence his children in his music?
Musicians were common to the Bach family. At the time of Sebastian, there were 50 musical members. His sons -Carl Philipp Emanuel, Johann Christian, Wilhelm Friedemann, and Johann Christoph Friedrich-became composers in their own right.
Why didn't Beethoven conduct his Symphony?
Prior to being beset with deafness, Beethoven did conduct his symphonies. Once his deafness became too profound, he was unable to conduct, simply because he could not hear the orchestra.
How did carl orff die and where did he die at?
Carl Orff died in 1982 in Munich. Obituaries at the time listed cancer as the cause, but with no further details. Most of the sources don't even mention the cause of death.
What age did wolfgang amadeus Mozart start playing music?
At the age of three, it was apparent that Mozart was a musical prodigy and he was taught to play the harpsichord, violin, and organ by his father. More about Mozart can be found at -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart
When did Mozart lose his hearing?
In a fight over a lady his friend, who was keen on fencing, cut it off. He then gave the ear to the lady they had been fighting over..
another theory is that he had drank a large amount of absinthe (an extremely high volume alcohol) and shot his ear off
What musical instrument did Leonard Bernstein play?
He (only) played the piano. But as you know he was also a composer AND conductor.
What were Beethoven's struggles?
Ludwig Van Beethoven was a famous musician despite of being deaf.
His challenges in life were:
1.) His father was an alcoholic. And Beethoven often got beat up by his father. That also triggered his deafness.
2.) Tuberculosisb killrf hid mother when he was 16.
3.) He has to take responsibility to raise up his brothers alone.
4.) he was fighting for his nephew's custody
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Which composer first used trombones in a symphony?
He didn't. Not as we know it. He commissioned a class of brass instruments in 1853 to be used in his operas that were more closely related to the French Horn - the Wagner Tubas.
How did antionio vivaldi get into music?
His father was a musician and taught Antonio on how to play.
When Johann Sebastian Bach worked as an organist at St. Blasius's he composed Cantatas. When he worked as director of music for the ducal court he composed organ music and preludes. When he became Konzertmeister he wrote Cantatas.
What type of music did Brahms write?
Brahms's style of composition was basically romantic in expression within classical structures.
If you mean what genres did he compose in, these are the principle ones:
Symphonies, concertos, string quartets and other chamber music, songs, sonatas and short pieces for keyboard. He did not compose music for the theatre (operas or ballets).
