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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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What school did wolfgang Mozart go to?
Mozart didn't attend a school per se. He received his musical education from his family, as was the norm for that period of time. Often children adopted the same or similar work that their parents had or were doing at the time of their birth.
Richard Wagners major work is a four-opera cycle called?
This set of operas is called The Ring Cycle and is composed of these individual titles:
- Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold)
- Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)
- Siegfried
- Götterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods)
The collective title is Der Ring des Nibelungen, The Ring of the Nibelung.
Thanks to Wikipedia for these German and English titles.
Who wrote the song 'Thinking About You'?
The song 'Thinking About You' was written by American singer-songwriter Frank Ocean. In 2012 the song was released to radio stations everywhere and was also released on Itunes as a single from Oceans album 'Channel Orange.'
What Beethoven symphony is the surprise symphony?
The Surprise Symphony is a symphony written by Franz Joeseph Hayden. He has also made many more for example, the goodbye symphony
Did Johann Strauss have any pets?
Yes he did. He had a Newfoundland dog & it's coat was cut off to send to Johann's fans in the USA to save himself from going bald! I would love to know what the dogs name was if anyone out there knows. If you do could you write it on this question answer???
A Verdi opera is an opera written by "...Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi ... 10 October 1813 - 27 January 1901 ... was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera."
You can read more about him and the estimated 28 operas that he composed, below.
Who sang Dream a little dream of me?
"Dream a Little Dream of Me" is credited to Fabian Andre and Wilbur Schwandt
It was recorded by Wayne King and his Orchestra with vocal by Ernie Birchill on February 18, 1931.
The most famous version is by Cass Elliot of The Mamas & the Papas, in 1968.
Other performers:
Ozzie Nelson and his band performed the song in 1931.
The Nat King Cole Trio in New York on October 28, 1947.
Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald in New York on August 25, 1950
Frankie Laine also performed the song in 1950.
Bing Crosby recorded the song in 1957, as did Doris Day.
A version was performed by Terry Hall in 1995 and Michael Buble in 2010.
When did Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel write?
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel(1805-1847) was born in Hamburg, Germany, the eldest of four children. Being born into a prosperous and highly cultured family had its benefits. Fanny's grandfather, Moses Mendelssohn was a leading Jewish philosopher, yet her parents converted to Protestantism when her younger brother, Felix, was a child.
She was raised in Berlin and received her early musical training from her mother. And like her younger brother, she studied theory and composition with Carl Friedrich Zelter, who introduced her to the music of J.S. Bach. From an early age, her musical gifts were evident, and she was strongly encouraged by her family. In fact, her mother, Lea, is believed to have said that Fanny was born with "Bach's fingers."
Her first surviving work is a Lied, written for her father on his birthday when she was only fourteen. And at age fifteen, she enrolled in the Berlin Singaakademie.
Because of the era in which she was born, she was strongly discouraged from pursuing music as a career. And although she had a very close relationship with her younger brother, Felix, he followed the sentiments of the males of that era. He agreed with his father when Fanny was cautioned to focus on "the only calling for a young woman - that of a housewife." Yet, he was supportive of her creative endeavors, and he often asked her advice on musical matters. He didn't help her in becoming published, but he did publish some of her works under his name. When Felix had a private audience with Queen Victoria, she asked him if she could sing her favorite-Italien from his Op. 8 collection. Felix did admit that it wasn't his, but rather his sister's work.
Fanny married the court artist, Wilhelm Hensel in 1829 and had one son, Sebastian. As a wife and mother, Fanny's musical activities focused around the Sunday family salon concerts at the Mendelssohn home. She composed the majority of her music and performed at the piano for these Sunday performances.
In 1838, she made one public appearance as a piano soloist for a benefit performance of one of her brother's works. And the years 1839-1840 were important for her creativity. With her family, she traveled to Italy and wrote Das Jahr (The Year), which is a musical diary for piano of her trip in twelve character pieces.
When her mother died in 1842, she took over the responsibilities of continuing the weekly family concerts.
What country and city was Ludwig Van Beethoven born in?
The true date of Beethoven's birth is not known, but it is commonly regarded that he was born on 16 December 1770. He was baptised on 17 December 1770, and it was common practice for infants of his time to be baptised the day after they were born.
Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany.
Which instrument is most closely connected to Clara Schumann?
Clara Schumann's principal compositions are: several dozen short piano pieces, a piano sonata, two concertos (one unfinished), a piano trio, some two dozen solo songs and three choral songs. She also composed cadenzas, and a number of transcriptions and arrangements for piano. Her style was, broadly, the romantic style of the time, as found in the music of the Mendelssohns and Robert Schumann (for example).
Who paid Beethoven to write songs?
Beethoven wrote works on commission for various members of the royal and political families during the 18th and 19th centuries. Most famously might be his relationship with the Austrian nobleman Andrey Kirilovich Razumovsky to whom Beethoven dedicated his op. 59 string quartets and the 5th and 6th symphonies.
Who was Jean-Baptiste Accolay?
Accolay (1845-1910) was a Belgian violinist of the Romantic era who composed a very popular student violin concerto in a minor. YouTube has several videos of various young players performing the piece.
What are the general characteristics of romantic music?
If these are your options:
Compositions were based on logic and controlled feelings.
Composers were highly individualistic.
Nationalistic trends started to emerge.
Composers created new forms or changed existing ones.
It is this one: Compositions were based on logic and controlled feelings.
When did Johann Pachelbel die?
Europe
More specifically, Germany. He was born and buried there.
Johann Pachelbel lived in the Netherlands region.
He use to live in Europe to be more specific Germany.He was born and buried there to.Johann Pachelbel lived in the Netherlands region.
What was Christoph Willibald Gluck's most famous piece of music?
Gluck was primarily an opera composer. The most famous and certainly the most lasting of his operas is "Orfeo ed Euridice." Probably about equally well-known are the aria "Che faro senza Euridice" and the instrumental "Dance of the blessed spirits," both from that opera.
Why did Arnold Schoenberg create his 12-tone system?
He was looking for a way to advance music by freeing it from the bonds and restrictions of tonality, the basic idea that a piece of music can have a tonal center, or progressions of tonal centers. Most western musics still produce works with tonal centers, and they can be identified if you can correctly determine that a piece is written in a certain 'key' or with some other organizational system that allows for harmonic progressions or tonal bias of some kind. This means that the music will tend to contain harmonies that are consistent with tonal concepts (or music written in keys) and the music will generally tend to resolve itself into a final key. Schoenberg's system attempted to use all of the 12 standard tones equally and without bias toward standard concepts of harmony. As it turns out, this is nearly if not literally impossible, and many composers even made creative use of harmonic ideas within their 12-tone works.
How many singers does it take to make up a quartet?
There are 4 singers in a quartet. A quartet is an organized group of four singers or players. Just like there are 4 quarters in a dollar.
What kind of music did frederic Chopin write?
Frederic Chopin wrote classical music and most of his music was composed for the piano. He was from Poland and considered one of the classical greats.
What was it like during the Romantic time period?
it depends on which country. I know for a fact that in England the theatre was there source of entertainment, especially Shakespeare's plays, those plays appealed to every one
