20th Century Russian Composer example essay topic

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Shostakovich was a 20th Century composer, who wrote three fantastic dances. The second dance is an ethereal waltz, and it is both graceful and mysterious, with unexpected harmonies creating tension. The Russian composer Tchaikovsky wrote several nocturnes. A nocturne is a 'night piece', and they often encompass what could be interpreted as the cold, melancholic mood of a winter night, and all the warmth and richness of a summer night. The 20th Century Russian Composer, Alexander Tcherepnin wrote some bagatelles. Tcherepnin himself described his Bagatelles as "absolutely anti-impressionistic and anti-eclectic".

Bagatelle literally means 'trifle', and in music this translates as a short, usually light and humorous piece as you can hear in the Bagatelles. William Walton's wrote a Popular Song in his Facade Suite, which has been arranged for two pianos. This piece, along with the rest of the Facade Suite, was written to accompany a poem by Edith Sitwell. The poem for this particular piece is also called Popular Song. As it is quite long I won't record the whole poem, but it begins: 'Lily O'Grady, Silly and shady, Longing to be A lazy lady... ' The music captures both the lazy style and the almost cheeky mood of the poem.

Mozart showed an interest in music from a very early age and at 3 years old he was attending his sister, Maria Anne's (known as Nannerl) music lessons. Because of this interest he expressed his father, Leopold Mozart, began to give his son lessons. His father influenced his playing and his composing, especially while he was still young. Mozart also admired and was influenced by his friend Franz Joseph Haydn. George Frederic Handel, Johann Schubert and K (C). P. E Bach were also composers who he looked up to and was influenced by.