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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.
6,063 Questions
What university did Mozart go to?
He didn't. He was taught music by his parents.
There weren't many (if at all) universities in those days.
Actually, there were universities in "those days," both in Europe (Paris, London, Rome, and other cities) and in America.
What were some of Beethoven's challenges in life?
it was a sad life as he had no wife from his bitter ness and uglyness, beethoven did propose to many woman but they rejected him...Beethoven's father was an aggressive alcoholic who would punish beethoven for little mistakes.Beethovens father would come home from a night out drinking and make beethoven practice the piano. so overall beethoven hade a sad life but he also had his music which would help him become happy in himslef
Who is the composer who used the chord spelled C-F#-Bb-E-A-D as the basis for one of his orchestral compositions?
What songs did tchaikovsky compose?
Tchaikovsky wrote little pieces for his mother and others as a child. His first published work was Scherzo a la Russe, Op. 1, no. 1, for solo piano, in 1867.
Mozart's musical intuition was so astounding that, even thought there is no evidence that he ever played the flute, I'm sure that he would have had little difficulty in playing the instrument.
What is the first composition by Joseph haydn?
Die seiben letzten Worte "The Seven Last Words of Christ" and Die Schöpfung "The Creation" and Die Jahreszeiten"The Seasons"
What is Joseph Haydn's Pastoral Song about?
The song (also known as 'My mother bids me bind my hair') is sung by a young woman who is pining for her absent lover. All she wants to do is sit around sighing and crying and taking no interest in life, but her mother thinks she should dress up in her best clothes and go out dancing with her friends. That's it!
What did Beethoven do differently when he composed his symphonies?
Bethoven was inspired by the beauty Beethoven saw in nature or the love he felt for a woman.
What Beethoven actually did differently was to be a pioneer of expression in music. As a volatile and passionate man, Beethoven introduced emotion into his works, extending the previous abilities of musicians and the range of their instruments.
How many children did Mozart have?
Mozart and his wife Constanze had six children, only two of which survived until adulthood.
In order of birth:
Raimund - 1783 (died in infancy)
Karl - 1784
Johann - 1786 (died in infancy)
Theresia - 1788 (died in infancy)
Anna Maria - 1789 (died in infancy)
Franz - 1791
Who are the composers of program music?
This question suggests that there has only been one famous composer of programme music. There have been many such. Are you trying to identify one specific composer (in which case you need to supply enough details for someone to be able to work out whom you mean), or are you looking for a list of some famous composers of programme music?
Where did Beethoven spend his childhood?
He had to be the head of his family because his mom died and his dad drank
What became of Stravinsky's children?
He had 4 children Fyodor, Lyudmila
(died in 1938 of tuberculosis), Soulima
(he became a composer, like his father)
and Milena we only know about 1
What was the first single composed of samples?
"Amen, Brother" by the Winstons is widely considered one of the earliest songs to be sampled.
What composers influenced Beethoven?
Originally, CPE Bach, Haydn, and Mozart. But later on he went on to compose in an increasingly individual style.
Which one of these composers wrote music for prepared piano?
John Cage, American composer/philosopher/gormet mushroom hunter (1912-1992).
What are Beethoven's well-known pieces?
i would consider the song moonlight to be his most famous, as this is the one most people have heard of and attempt to play anytime they get their hands on a piano!
What is Johann Sebastian Bach's accomplishments?
An easier question might be: what isn't his contribution? For my money he was the greatest composer ever, or at least in the period of common tonality since 1600. He wrote in every style except opera, and I don't doubt that he could have done that brilliantly if he'd had the chance. His contributions to music include but are not limited to the following.
1. He established the definitive form of every Baroque genre and style in which he wrote. His four orchestral suites, concertos (especially the six Brandenburgs), sacred cantatas, two Passions (the St Matthew and the St John), Goldberg Variations for keyboard and his sonatas and partitas for solo violin, his fugues and the jaw-dropping compendium of contrapuntal wizardry in his Musical Offering and Art of Fugue are just some examples.
2. Related to 1. above, his music is the cornerstone of the repertoire for every genre in which he wrote. The Brandenburgs are the standard Baroque concertos; no 'cellist can claim to be one without mastering the six solo 'cello suites; many organists make his organ music the main, if not the sole, content of their repertoire. For many people, when you say "Passion" and "cantata" you mean the Bach ones by default. It comes as a bit of a surprise to learn that other people wrote them, too!
3. Related to 2. above, this applies to every level. If you're a six-year-old starting to learn the piano, you won't get through many lessons without coming across the Minuet in G by Petzold that Bach collected for his wife. A grade or two later you'll play the first of the preludes (the one that Gounod foolishly arranged as his Ave Maria) from The Well-Tempered Clavier(WTC), itself the standard compendium of fugue technique. Then you'll quickly progress to the first of the Fifteen Inventions. When you become an established keyboardist (you might be specialising in harpsichord, organ or even clavichord by this stage), you could make a career solely from Bach: after the delightful French Suites you'll progress to the larger and more demanding English Suites and the Goldberg Variations, for instance. If you're learning harmony beyond the most basic level, the 371 chorales (Lutheran hymn tunes) harmonised by Bach and collected by Riemenschneider will be your textbook, defining how chords work and how individual parts or voices move. (That's perhaps his greatest contribution to music: when we say "tonal harmony", we mean basically the practice established by Bach, which is still standard practice for tonal music 250 years after his death.) If you're learning counterpoint (the independent movement of voices against each other), those same chorales will teach you that as well; you can then advance to his hundreds of fugues, from the wealth of fugue types in the WTC through the organ preludes and fugues and the ones in The Art of Fugue to the ones in his sacred choral works such as the two Kyries at the beginning of the Mass in B Minor. If you're a violinist, you might regard the solo violin sonatas and partitas as the greatest music for your instrument that you will ever play; likewise if you're a flautist for the solo flute suite and the solo lute works if you're a lutenist. The Passions, the cantatas and the motets are likewise among the cornerstones of the choral repertoire. (My favourite choral experience was singing in a local choir that was no more than reasonably good, but whose main repertoire was the cantatas. We did one of these works every month, and being immersed in this great music week by week at rehearsals was just pure heaven.)
4. He heavily influenced the music of many great composers who came after him. Schumann said: "Let the WTC be your daily bread. Then you will certainly become a solid musician"; he also said "Playing and studying Bach convinces us we are all numbskulls". Mozart absorbed Bach's influence in the last decade of his life, and it shows in the greater contrapuntal ingenuity and depth of his music over that time. For Wagner, Bach was "the most stupendous miracle in all of music", and his counterpoint in The Mastersingers clearly refers to that of Bach. Brahms said "Study Bach and you will find everything". Mahler said "In Bach the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God". Mendelssohn adored Bach, and arranged for the first performance of his St Matthew Passion in a century. The "atonal" composers like Schoenberg revived the Bach's contrapuntal influences in their own work, while Shostakovitch wrote a set of preludes and fugues in obvious imitation of the WTC. Generally speaking, his contribution to music exists in two forms: specific instances of influence like that of Shostakovitch, and the general result of study of his music, which invariably made the students' works deeper and put them in closer touch with the essence of music.
To sum up: you could think of Bach's influence as the funnel of his mighty genius, in which he collected, absorbed and synthesised the musical styles and forms of his day and realised their possibilities to the utmost, and through which he imparted to his successors the inspiration to take music to its limits.
What are the family members of antonio vivaldi?
Vivaldi was born to Giovanni Battista Vivaldi and Camilla Calicchio. He had five siblings, a brother, Francesco Gaetano, and four sisters, Zanetta Anna, Margarita Gabriela, Cecilia Maria, and Bonaventura Tomaso.
What are three of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's most famous pieces?
Antonio Vivaldi is best known for composing The Four Seasons. The Four Seasons is a set of violin concertos depicting the seasons as Vivaldi saw/heard them. I'm sure you've heard Spring, which is the most recognized piece.
