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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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Name the popular bandleader and composer who wrote the star and stripes forever?

John Philip Sousa, the March King wrote the march The Stars and Stripes Forever which is the Official March of the United States of America.

How many pieces did Elgar compose?

I counted approximately 394 works that he composed, both complete and incomplete. These are not individual pieces of music, rather they are as they were compiled, for example; the Enigma Variations are counted as one work, but each of the Pomp and Circumstance marches are counted as individual works.

Earliest known composers to write music with measured rhythm?

The rhythm of early notated music came from a few different sources. One idea is that it was first notated with the Greeks.

How many songs did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart write?

Mozart lived 1765-1791, and was composing literally all that time. He probably started when he was 2 or 3 and composed until his death (33 years approximately all together).

How many pieces of music did Johannes Brahms write?

Brahms wrote 4 symphonies. He easily could have written more, but it took him over 20 years to write his first, due largely to the incredible shadow left by Beethoven, who Brahms respected immensely..

Who was the first great American composer of the 20Th century?

John Cage, Elliott Carter, George Crumb, Morton Feldman, Phillip Glass, Steve Reich, Duke Ellington, Samuel Barber, Billy Strayhorn, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, John Phillip Sousa, Charles Ives, Scott Joplin, Charles Mingus...

The two most important and greatest composers in American history were Charles Ives and John Cage.

Why did Mozart want to play the piano?

he loved his father and one day he heared his father play the piano and he really wanted to do that and write loads of music His father was a great experience to music and Mozart wanted to be too

Who did Stephen Collins Foster influence?

he inspired the whole country with his nice folk music

Is Mozart a piano player?

Not Australia. Austria. He was born in the place that is now called Austria. He was not just a piano player, he was the composer of some of the most renowned classical music in history.

What type of piano did Beethoven use in his concertos?

Modern pianos come in two basic design and several sizes: the grand piano and the upright piano. Grand pianos have the frame and strings placed going side ways, with the strings extending away from the keyboard. This avoids the problems caused in an upright piano, but takes up a lot of room and needs high ceilings for the right kind of sound. & Upright pianos, also called vertical pianos, are smaller because the frame and strings are placed so that they go up and down, extending in either direction from the keyboard and hammers. Hope This Helps.

What age was Beethoven when he started making music?

Beethoven composed his first piece of music, which was a song (lieder) at the age of 11. This means he started writing music in 1781. In 1787, he started to receive his first composition lessons, from Mozart.

Did Chopin have children?

No ... he never married. but he did have a wife George Sand (real name unknown, dressed as male but was woman) there is a lot of debate whether he had children

in one report i read he had a daughter called Solange, in another he had a son, there is a lot of debate about whether or not he had children.

and he although he wasn't married in a church, people believe that he married but kept the name...no one really knows anything about him apart from his music and life...

anyways i hope this helped you...

What music composers incorporated nationalism in their works?

Although there are some benign themes of nationalism in Wagner's stage works, there is no "nationalism" in the music itself. Wagner was very committed to the idea of "German " opera it was an artistic concept, not a political or patriotic one.

Who was the most outstanding German opera composer of the 19th century?

Louis Spohr (1784-1859) was born Ludwig Spohr and was a German composer, violinist and conductor.

Fredrick Chopin the great composer was a native of what country?

Chopin was from Poland. However, he would spent all of his adult life away from Poland, mostly in Paris.

Who is canon in d composed by?

Pachelbel's Canon, also known as Canon in D major(PWC 37, T. 337, PC 358), is the most famous piece of music by German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel. It was originally scored for three violins and basso continuo and paired with a gigue in the same key. Like most other works by Pachelbel and other pre-1700 composers, the Canon remained forgotten for centuries and was rediscovered only in the 20th century. Several decades after it was first published in 1919, the piece became extremely popular, and today it is frequently played at weddings and included on classical music compilations, along with other famous Baroque pieces such as Air on the G String by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Where was Claude Debussy born in?

Claude Debussy was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, on August 22, 1862.

What were ten songs Beethoven composed?

  • Symphony No. 1 in C major, op. 21 (1799-1800)
  • Symphony No. 2 in D major, op.36 (1802)
  • Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, op.55, "Eroica", (1804)
  • Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, op. 60, (1806)
  • Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67 (1807)
  • Symphony No. 6 in F major, op. 68,"Pastoral" (1808)
  • Symphony No. 7 in A major, op. 92, "The Apotheosis of Dance", (1812)
  • Symphony No. 8 in F major, op.93 "The Little Symphony"(1812)
  • Symphony No. 9 with a choir and soloists, in D minor, op.125 (1817-1825) - the 'Choral'.

Beethoven was already sketching his Tenth Symphony whilst working on his Ninth. More details on the unfinished Tenth Symphony can be found at the website below.

What famous composer wrote for the trumpet?

The most famous trumpet concertos were composed by Hadyn and Hummel.

Was Beethoven a hero?

He was certainly a genius, but not necessarily 'like' Mozart. He is a hero of mine, particularly because of some of the ways he was unlike Mozart. I don't mean to diminish Mozart's mythic greatness one bit; Mozart is arguably the greatest composer who will ever draw breath.

The appealing thing about Beethoven's genius is that he had to put enormous effort into his writing, if evidence to that effect is accurate. He labored over what he wrote and re-wrote materials quite a lot before arriving at final versions. Again, if the evidence is sound, Mozart wrote with lightning speed, sometimes in his head, and produced much of his output in final form at the first scoring. There is some evidence that this might not be as true as some have indicated, but it seems clear that he didn't have to struggle nearly as hard as Beethoven. Writing music must have been almost a facile skill for Mozart. This is paraphrased and I do not know the source, but I read years ago that Mozart said "Writing music is the easiest thing in the world to do... once you know how to do it." In all probability Beethoven would never have said anything remotely like this.

Beethoven also lived and wrote at the very dawning of the Romantic period, and much of his music reflects and presages the aesthetics and style of that unfolding era.