Composers

This selection is in duple meter. In the beginning of the selection it is almost as if one can march to the beat of music. Left to right as if in a marching band.

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Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, born on 4 March 1678 in Venice, Italy, was perhaps best known as a composer of the Baroque period. He was also a priest, nicknamed Il Prete Rosso ("The Red Priest") and an accomplished violinist. Vivaldi's composing style had considerable influence on other famous composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach. Vivaldi wrote 46 operas and hundreds of concertos, as well as sinfonias, sonatas, chamber music, sacred music, and one of his best known works, The Four Seasons (Le Quattro Stagioni), in which he attempted to capture the moods of the four seasons through his music. Vivaldi died on 28 July 1741 in Vienna.

He had 2 children.

When he was 4 years old.

At the age of 5 years, Mozart could both read and write musical scores.
He wrote his first piece of music when he was 5 it was twinkle twinkle little star

Mozart did not compose the tune, Twinkle twinkle little star.

"Dmitri Shostakovich" was a Russian composer during the Soviet era.

4 subjects include love, greif,joy, death and the beauty of the natural world (pg.34!)

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In the movie "Amadeus", Mozart's wife brings Salieri samples of her husband's work to submit for a teaching position. Mozart is too proud to give a sample for he feels he should have been offered the position without them. Desperate for money, Mozart's wife goes behind her husband's back to submit him for the job.

The Latin word felix means 'happy man', and this is essentially what he was. Unlike other great composers of the time, Mendelssohn was born into a wealthy family, encouraged by them from a young age to pursue his musical talents, and he loved a woman who loved him back. His life was perfect. The fact that he died young simply meant that nothing ever occurred during his life that could ruin it.

he was famous because he was a very yong composer and wrote only for the piano.

in 1847

Joseph Haydn composed more than 200 principal compositions. Most notable of them are his 84 string quartets and 104 symphonies. Haydn composed more than 30 piano sonatas and oratorios.

Die Zauberflote

Cosi fan Tutte

Don Giovanni

The most famous theme and variations ever written

is Bach's The Art of The Variation (also known as

The Goldberg Variations). MP3 and MIDIs of this work

can be obtained at:

http://www.sdrodrian.com/bach/the_goldberg_variations/

Beethoven was a composer during the classical era, and he was a very influential one at that...

Beethoven was better known for providing the transition from the Classical to the Romantic Era. His later symphonies had a dynamic power and passion which were in marked contrast to the less complex melodies, harmonies and instrumentation of his earlier works, when he was composing within the Classical era. Beethoven's expressive and passionate style greatly influenced other composers of the Romantic period.

Vivaldi had a huge impact on Baroque music. Although Baroque music is usually associated with Bach or Handel, Vivaldi was one of the epitomized composers. His music is basically what Baroque music is about.

Cesar Cui (Lithuanian composer)

Eduard Strauss (Austrian composer)

Henryk Wieniawski (Polish composer)

Felix Draeseke (German Composer)

Camille Saint-Saens (French composer)

Because he was employed by the archbishop as a violinist when he wasn't touring around Europe with his father (Leopold), and that archbishop understood that they had to take extended leaves. But when the archbishop died and a new one was announced he put a stop to the extended leaves and eventually fired Mozart so he moved to Vienna, Austria to solely focus on composing and teaching.

Johann Sebastian Bach, was a baroque composer. He was born in Saxe-Eisenach, Germany, in 21 March 1685. His death was in Leipzig, Germany in 28 July 1750. He has 20 children, but there are only 10 had survived to adulthood. His first wife, Maria Barbara Bach (1684-1720), his second cousin, bore him 7 children, but only 4 survived to adulthood, they are Catharina Dorothea (1708-1774), Wilhelm Friedemann (1710-1784), Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788) and Johann Gottfried Bernhard (1715-1739). His second wife, Anna Magdalena Bach (born Wilcke, 1701-1760), bore him 13 children that only 6 children survived to adulthood, 2 of them are Johann Christoph Friedrich (1732-1795) and Johann Christian (the 'London' Bach, 1735-1782). His first wife died when he was 35 years old, while his second wife died 9 a-half years after his death.

claude debussy impacted other composers by impacting the history of music.

Only a small fraction of Scarlatti's compositions were published during his lifetime; Scarlatti himself seems to have overseen the publication in 1738 of the most famous collection, his 30 Essercizi ("Exercises"). These were rapturously received throughout Europe, and were championed by the foremost English writer on music of the eighteenth century, Dr. Charles Burney.

Johann Sebastian Bach wrote Organ Fugue in G minor (Little Fugue) in 1709

His first composition was in 1764 and was simply named "Symphony No. 1"(Performed in E-Flat) The majority of compositions don't have names as such.

He wrote this when he was just 8 years old!

The type of Style John Cage composed was 20th Century