Antonio Blanco (1829 – 1899) Blanco was a Venezuelan lawyer and politician who ruled as dictator of Venezuela from 1870 to 1888. He was a flamboyant leader. He surrounded himself with sycophants and ostentatious wealth while the people of Venezuela suffered. His corruption was legendary. He took a personal slice off the top of every governmental project. He enjoyed traveling abroad and was eventually deposed in absentia by irate Venezuelans while visiting Paris in 1888. Blanco was the son of
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or bad is Catholicism. Such as‚ when Antonio was so lost in his life‚ he looked to his religion to give him guidance. “I hoped that in a few years the taking of the first holy communion would bring me understanding” (74). Antonio was feeling so out of place even his family was‚ after Eugene and Leon left them. Andrew help Antonio realize that he and his brother couldn’t fulfill their parents dream‚ it had to be Antonio. Eventually‚ after Narciso’s death Antonio starts to question how god let Narciso
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Composers report Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was a Baroque composer born in 1678 in Venice‚ Italy. He is known as one of the most virtuous violinist and is recognized as one of the best Baroque composers. His parents were Giovanni Battista Vivaldi and Camilla Calicchio‚ and he had eight siblings. Moreover‚ his father was a barber and then start playing the violin and become a violinist‚ teaching later his son how to play the instrument. One of his best and known work is a series of violin concertos
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Outline THESIS: Amadeus is a fictionalized account of the relationship between Mozart and Salieri. Mozart is shown as an exceptional musician considered today by some to be the greatest of all geniuses in his field having knocked out compositions for assorted solo instruments‚ opera and symphonic orchestras by the time he was thirty-five years old. Salieri was a talented composer and‚ had Mozart never lived‚ he albums might have been available for sale today. I. The film Amadeus
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MUS 111 Concert Report 5/5/11 I attended Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons concert on Sunday April 17‚ 2011 at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church performed by the SCC chamber orchestra. Vivaldi was a baroque composer and the Four Seasons is considered to be a great masterwork in all Western Art. The Four Seasons is a series of four concertos; Spring‚ Summer‚ Autumn‚ and Winter. Each season contains 3 movements and was composed in 1725‚ in a set of 12 concertos entitled “Il cimento dell’armonia
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Joshua Garcia Music 061 William R. Shannon Mon - Tue – Wed Antonio Salieri Antonio Salieri is a songwriter who composed classical music mostly in the 18th century. Antonio Salieri was born on August 18‚ 1750 in the little Italian town of Legnago‚ which was part of the Venetian territory (Hille). Salieri was always into music even at an early age. He would listen to his brother play‚ who was a very good violinist‚ and was always anxious to hear him play at mass or at town events. "Misfortune
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Today I will be talking about Vivaldi’s Four Seasons‚ particularly focusing on the first movement of “La Primavera” (Spring). For the purpose of this presentation‚ I will be focusing on each area of the piece‚ in particular focusing on how Spring is depicted throughout them. The Four Seasons is a four part concerto composed in 1723 and published in 1725 and the whole concerto‚ especially Spring‚ is considered to be one of the greatest works of the Baroque period. This work is also considered to
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When determining who is to blame‚ an obvious target that appears is the Coyotes‚ and more specifically Mendez‚ his real name being Antonio Lopez Ramos‚ the guide for the Welton 26‚ however much of the evidence supposedly proving Mendez’s guilt are weak testimonies or reasons that can be traced to issues on a larger scale. A common argument made accusing Mendez was that he did not prepare the Welton 26 for their journey‚ he did not warn them of the dangers‚ nor did he tell them to bring adequate water
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Claudio Monteverdi Claudio Monteverdi is considered to be a revolutionary composer in the musical world‚ yet so much of his life is a mystery. Even though biographers have made many convincing speculations and correlations about the events of Monteverdi’s life‚ they cannot be considered completely factual (Redlich‚ Preface). Most biographies are comprised of legends and unauthorized assumptions (Redlich‚ 1-2). There are some aspects of his life that are known with certainty‚ and the most relied
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Antonio Tempesta’s painting Hecuba a Graecis‚ Hamlet by Shakespeare‚ and Ovid’s Hecuba can have many different meanings to it. Everyone has a different interpretation of the Hecuba a Graecis. Interpreting art and poems can make you see the world in a way that you have never seen before. Tearing up and breaking down what artists and writers had to say is the best way to understand. Painters express their emotion through their paintings and writers express them through their writings. If we can figure
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