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Franz Liszt
871 wordsOde to Franz Liszt "A prophetic voice, borne on the golden wings of time, Transcends the beat of the human drum... ever sublime Ancient strategic dots that plot a masterful score Slumber for a century till given life once more Clay digits cascade over ivories, black and white, Summoning reveries that croon and howl in the night More profound than the Pole or diverse than all his peers His rich tapestry of sound soaks in blood, sweat and tears Once Prometheus bound his exhumed spirit now soars En...
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Reception Of Carmen Left Bizet
783 wordsGeorges Bizet Georges Bizet was born in Paris on October 25th, 1838. He was trained by his parents, who were musical, and admitted to the Paris Conservatoire just before his tenth birthday. There he studied counterpoint with Zimmerman and Gounod and composition with Hal " eve, and under Marmontel's tuition he became a brilliant pianist. Bizet's exceptional powers as a composer are already apparent in the products of his Conservatoire years, notably the Symphony in C, a work of precocious genius ...
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Music Of Tchaikovsky
1,753 wordsPeter Ilynich Tchaikovsky is the author of six symphonies and the finest and most popular operas in the Russian repertory. Tchaikovsky was also one of the founders of the school of Russian music. He was a brilliant composer with a creative imagination that helped his career throughout many years. He was completely attached to his art. His life and art were inseparably woven together. "I literally cannot live without working", Tchaikovsky once wrote, "for as soon as one piece of work is finished ...
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Berlioz And Chopin Beethoven
3,069 wordsBeethoven, Berlioz and Chopin Beethoven. Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany in 1770 to Johann van Beethoven and his wife, Maria Magdalena. He took his first music lessons from his father, who was tenor in the choir of the archbishop-elector of Cologne. His father was an unstable, yet ambitious man whose excessive drinking, rough temper and anxiety surprisingly did not diminish Beethoven's love for music. He studied and performed with great success, despite becoming the breadwinner of his househ...
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University Director Of Music
2,924 wordsBach is considered by many to have been the greatest composer in the history of western music. Bach's main achievement lies inh is synthesis and advanced development of the primary contrapuntal idiom of the late Baroque, and in the basic tunefulness of his thematic material. He was able to successfully integrate and expand upon the harmonic and formal frameworks of the national schools of the time: German, French, Italian & English, while retaining a personal identity and spirit in his large out...
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Bizet's Next And Best Known Opera
1,507 wordsGeorge Bizet Georges Bizet, who is best known for his opera, Carmen, has remained somewhat of a mystery as far as his musical education, social life, and personal life. He is not like so many other composers and musicians of the Romantic Period who led a highly publicized life like Hector Berlioz, PeterIlyich Tchaikovsky, or Johannes Brahms. He spent his short life devoted to music and he did not quite make it into the limelight like these other Romantic composers. The most believable explanatio...
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Mahler's Chamber Music Composition
1,109 wordsMahler was born in Kalisch t, Bohemia, on July 7, 1860. At the time, Bohemia (later to form a major component of Czechoslovakia, and later the Czech Republic) was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, then enduring its final crumbling decades, and the region where Mahler spent his youth was strongly associate with the Czech independence movement. However, Mahler also was a Jew, and Jews in the region were associated by ethnic Czechs with Germans. Mahler famous quote is: 'I am thrice homeless, as ...
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Mr Armstrong Style Of Music
2,202 wordsThis essay will consist of information about nine composers and one piece of work that they are known for dating from 1862 to 1990. The names of these composers are: Aaron Copeland, Claude Debussy, Charles Ives, Scott Joplin, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Leonard Berstein, Igor Stravinsky, and Arnold Schoenberg. The first composer I will discuss will be Aaron Copeland (1900 1990). Mr. Copeland was born in Brooklyn, New York USA to Russian American immigrant parents. His style is strongly tonal ...
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Careers Of Igor Stravinsky And Coco Chanel
1,027 wordsRevolutions in the heart Coco and Igor by Chris Greenhalgh 311 pp, Review People punched each other at the premiere of the Rite of Spring. Maybe it was the heat in the packed There des Champs lyses on the warm, Spring evening of May 29 1913. Maybe it was the primal, groin-thrusting immodesty of Nijinsky's choreography. But the raw, rhythmic violence of Stravinsky's score soon spilled over into the auditorium, inciting the detractors and defenders of this epoch-making music to blows. Stravinsky's...
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Jewish Musicians Before Salamone Rossi
776 wordsBefore I encountered the biography of Salamone Rossi, one of Jewish musicians, I never knew that there were any Jewish musicians in Late Renaissance, so it was pleasing to read the book and learn new facts. As I was reading, I also discovered that there were some Jewish musicians whom I have heard of, but never realized that they were Jewish such as Ernest Bloch, Leonard Bernstein, and Mahler. I was surprised to find that even one of my favorite composers, Mendelssohn, was Jewish-born, but conve...
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Bedrich Smetana
553 wordsBedrich Smetana was the Bohemia's pianist and composer. He was born in 1824 in Leitomischl, small town in eastern Bohemia, present day Czech Republic. Smetana was a gifted child. He debuted in a string quartet at the age of five, and as a pianist only one year later. He wrote his first piano piece when he was eight years old, and at the age of fifteen he composed his first string quartet. Smetana's father was a music lover who gave to his son much musical training. Bedrich Smetana gained the wor...
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Asian Music And Philippine Indigenous Cultural Traditions
10,720 wordsStory, music, song, autobiography, history Nicanor Abelardo (1893-1934) Nicanor Abelardo wrote his first composition by age 8. He learned to play the piano and guitar, and while he was a music student at the University of the Philippines, he won first prize for his "U.P. Beloved" song and was appointed head of the conservatory's department of music. He was called the "father of kundiman" because he wrote 149 kundiman. Some of his famous kundiman are "Bituing Marikit", "Kundiman ng Luha,"Mutya Ng...
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Music Of Hildegard
496 wordsThe twelfth-century mystic, herbalist, theologian, visual artist, composer, and poet was born at Bockelheim on the Nac he in 1098. Hildegard's parents, Hilde bert and Mechtild, were members of the nobility. They promised her, as their tenth child, to the service of the Church. At age eight, the family sent Hildegard to an archorness named Jutta to receive her religious education. At age fifteen she to the veil. Jutta died in 1136, and Hildegard succeeded her as superior. Between 1147 and 1150 sh...
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Major Visual Artists During Guillaume
1,248 wordsReview of Renaissance Artists Basic idea: How the church was the center of European life during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Philosophy of: Ideas: vs. Cathedral was the center of community life Originally worked for their after life and then switched to living here and now The Arts: vs. Paintings were done on walls, wood, and illustrations in books Sculptures done on wood and stone; mainly religious scenes, symbols, and persons Cathedrals were the crowning achievements of medieval art Com...
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Spell Of Tchaikovsky's Music The Year
2,662 wordsThe Life of Peter Tchaikovsky Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, also spelled Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, was born in Votkinsk, in the city of Vyatka, Russia, May 7, 1840. Second in a family of five sons and one daughter, to whom he was extremely devoted. Once in his early teens when he was in school at St. Petersburg and his mother started to drive to another city, he had to be held back while she got into the carriage, and the moment he was free ran and tried to hold the wheels. There is an anecdote of T...
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Vivaldi's Music
1,522 wordsAntonio Vivaldi was born in Venice on March 4th, 1678 to Giovanni Vattista Vivaldi and his wife Camilla Calicchio. Giovanni Vivaldi was originally a barber but, like his infamous son, was intensely in love with the violin and started serving both as a violin teacher at a school and as a part of the St. Mark Basilica orchestra (Antonio Vivaldi). The first born of nine children, Antonio Vivaldi was born so feeble and sickly that the midwife, fearing his death, had him baptized immediately (Vivaldi...
