colleagues heard an 11 year old Handel playing an organ and convinced his father to let the boy pursue music. Handel joined an orchestra at an opera center in Hamburg. He spent his teens in Germany before traveling to London‚ which at the time was beginning to rival Paris. As stated in (http://www.smithsonianmag.com) at the age of 18‚ Handel had composed his first opera‚ Almira‚ which was initially performed in Hamburg in 1705. (Kerman & Tomlinson‚ 2011‚ page 145.) Handel was a big‚ vigorous man‚ hot-tempered
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During this time his new opera‚ The Abduction from the Seraglio‚ had great success following his marriage with Constanze. While in Vienna‚ Wolfgang wrote many operas including Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro. Joseph Hayden was a close friend of Wolfgang and they influenced each other’s work. Wolfgang worked closely with Lorenzo Da Ponte‚ an excellent opera librettist. Don Giovanni was an opera that had music by Wolfgang and Italian libretto by Ponte. This opera has both comic and dramatic
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On 1st September‚ 1725‚ I attended a performance of “The Four Seasons”‚ a concerto by the Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi at the Pieta. The composer‚ often known locally as the “Red priest” (Heller‚ 1997) for his ostensibly red hair and ordainment‚ wrote the piece in 1723 in Mantua; Italy’s music sure seems to be increasing in its grandeur. However‚ I would doubt the sincerity of Vivaldi’s concertos; ever since Corelli these instrumental pieces are pumped out massively for the aristocracy (Michalik
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Heinrich Schutz 1585-1672 Born in Bad Lostriz in 1585 and moved to Landgrave in 1598 where he served as the choir boy and studied with Georg Otto. Schutz studied law at the Universtiy of Marburg‚ but was advised to instead study music with Gabrieli and Landgrave gave him the finanical means to do so. Heinrich Schutz studied with Giovani Gabrielli from 1609-1672. He composed a polychoral psalm setting that is much in the style of his teacher‚ Gabrielli. During this time Schutz was employed
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first student to learn composition. And he later become the professor at the Moscow Conservatory. As a composer‚ his work of symphony‚ opera and concerto was well received. After he resigned from the Moscow Conservatory on 1878 he spent whole his life composing his music. He composed 169 pieces in total‚ including symphonies‚ operas‚ ballets‚ concertos‚ cantatas and songs. Symphony No.2 was succeeded and it was also praised by the group of nationalistic composers‚ “The Five”. The piece was nicknamed
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The answers to the Review & Critical Thinking questions are worth 10 points. Module Five: Text Questions Review Questions What are figured bass and basso continuo? How are they related? What is ornamentation? What is an oratorio? How does it differ from an opera? What is an orchestra? How did the development of orchestras influence Baroque music? What is an instrumental suite? Critical Thinking Questions What are the characteristics of Baroque music? How would you describe Baroque
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Opera had become an iconic artistic genre of the baroque era; full of glamor‚ adventure‚ and not to mention influential. Opera is categorized as drama that is presented in music; with characters singing instead of speaking. It combined a vast array of arts‚ including: music‚ poetry‚ drama‚ acting‚ scene design‚ set and costume design‚ and choreography. In operas‚ they tend to have series which consisted of recitatives and arias.
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As a composer‚ Mahler all his life stood in a shadow of his far more famous friend and rival‚ Richard Strauss (1864-1949). While the audience in Europe saluted Strauss’ tone poems and his operas with enthusiasm‚ Mahler received recognition as an up-and-coming director/conductor of the Vienna Court Opera‚ but remained controversial as a composer. Although Mahler failed to win a well-deserved recognition as a successful composer during his lifetime‚ Mahler’s symphonies have become a firmly established
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Music in the Baroque Period Music is in everyone’s lives these days. You always see people with headphones in their ears or jamming out in their cars. Many people listen to music in the privacy of their homes‚ where they can listen to music as loud as they want and can sing along and not have anyone look at them funny. But do all these people who listen to music on a daily basis really know where it came from? A lot of people will say that Michael Jackson is the king of pop or that Elvis was the
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composers to actually replace singers as the focus of the music. Instrumental music therefore quickly replaced opera and other sung forms (such asoratorio) as the favorite of the musical audience and the epitome of great composition. However‚ opera did not disappear: during the classical period‚ several composers began producing operas for the general public in their native languages (previous operas were generally in Italian). Along with the gradual displacement of the voice in favor of stronger‚ clearer
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