Being famous is subjective to what the people want and what they people understand and/or know. I gathered eleven surveys and averaged out their numbers to get the most famous composers. They are in order from 1st to 5th. As the first-most famous composer‚ Johann Sebastian Bach was consistently first place in online surveys. Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer who lived from 1685-1750‚ part of the Baroque Period. Bach wrote hundreds of pieces for organ‚ choir‚ as well as many other instruments
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FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN Dear President Schneider : On behalf of the great Franz Joseph Haydn‚ I write this letter of recommendation to support the admission of a great composer into the International Enlightenment Society. In order for a musician to be eligible for your society‚ I understand that he must embody the characteristics of the Enlightenment and more specifically‚ as a composer‚ his music must possess the characteristics of the Classical period. I assure you that what you will find
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ideals at the time‚ Barberʼs compositions were too astringent to appeal to the bulk of listeners‚ and not overtly “complex” enough to be taken seriously by the modernists (Felsenfeld). Much later in his life‚ his opera‚ Antony and Cleopatra‚ would go down as one of the biggest flops in opera history. Regardless‚ these hardships and failures helped shape Barberʼs career and‚ more notably‚ his music‚ which in turn has influenced and shaped the world. ! Samuel Osborne Barber II was born on March 9th‚ 1910
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Treitler‚ Leo (ed.). Strunk’s Source Readings in Music History. New York: Norton‚ 1998. Sadie‚ Stanley and Tyrrell‚ John (eds.) The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2nd ed.. London: Macmillan‚ 2001. ___________ The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. London: Macmillan‚ 1992. Heartz‚ Daniel. Haydn‚ Mozart and the Viennese School 1740-80. London: Norton‚ 1995. Hughes‚ Rosemary. Haydn (Master Musicians). London: Dent‚ 1974 (revised ed.). Landon‚ H.C. Robbins. Haydn. London: Faber‚ 1972. Wyn Jones
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for nearly every wind instrument. He was born in Nice on the 4th of April 1905. He studied the arts of composition‚ conducting‚ and playing the violin at the Paris Conservatoire. There‚ he won the Prix de Rome for his work La legend de Roukmani‚ a cantata based on an Indian legend. After completing his course of study in Paris‚ he moved to Valenciennes‚ where he would become the director of the École Nacionale de Musique. There he would remain until his
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to read music perfectly upon first sight. Mozart was considered a child prodigy for his abilities to improvise fugues and write minuets at this young age. At the ripe age of eight‚ he wrote a symphony; then at eleven‚ an oratorio. To top it off at twelve‚ he composes an opera (Kamien‚ 2015‚ p. 176). Mozart wrote in all the music genres of his time‚ this was unlike any other composure. What made him even more impressive‚ was the fact that he excelled in all of them. Mozart was on a constant tour
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of choral genres: mass‚ madrigal‚ oratorio‚ opera‚ musical theatre‚ pop‚ spirituals‚ gospel…” and the list goes on. There was versatility even within the choirs themselves. For instance‚ the first six songs were sung by the Choir of Lake County‚ but the first four pieces were sung in Latin‚ French‚ Russian‚ and Italian‚ with mezzo soprano Sheila Bondurant singing Carmen’s solo in Habanera‚ while the last two were excerpts from the musicals The Phantom of the Opera and Oklahoma. This is quite the contrast
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ever English opera. However‚ some scholars argue that the first English work in this genre was ‘The Siege of Rhodes’ (1656)‚ although the music has been lost. ‘Psyche’ (1673) by Thomas Shadwell and Matthew Locke mixes music and spoken dialogue‚ but the first English Opera in which everything was sung was ‘Venus and Adonis’ by John Blow. This was first performed a few years before Dido and Aeneas. Indeed‚ Purcell took John Blow’s work as a model for his own opera. Purcell composed his opera to a libretto
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Steven Bryant was born in 1972‚ in Little Rock‚ Arizona. He is the son of a professional trumpeter and a music educator. Bryant learned composition at The Juilliard School with John Corigliano‚ who won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize‚ at the University of North Texas with Cindy McTee‚ a composer‚ and at Ouachita University with Francis McBeth‚ a composer and conductor. His music has been played by many groups across North America‚ Europe and East Asia. He has won the National Band Association’s William
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Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was born in Venice‚ the capital of the Republic of Venice. He was baptized immediately at his home by the midwife. It is not known how the life of the infant was in danger‚ but the immediate baptism was most likely due to his poor health or to an earthquake that shook the city that day. Vivaldi’s official church baptism (at least‚ the rites that remained other than the actual baptism itself) did not take place until two months later. His father‚ Giovanni Battista‚ a barber before
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