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    Beethoven 1782-92 he was in Bonn‚ Germany (1st Period) (1770-1827) Path. in c minor op 13 1792-1802 he was in Vienna (2nd Period) His primary tool for composition was the piano 2/3 of his piano sonata came from the second period Was a student of Hadyn Technical demand to execute his compositions more rapidly Chamber and Symphonic music 1815-1827 (3rd Period) Starts to lose his hearing around 2nd period‚ he can still hear just losing his ability to hear String quartets were considered decades

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    Felix Zollicoffer Analysis

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    This is a historical fiction story is based on the life of Felix Zollicoffer during the mid to late 1800s. Felix Zollicoffer was born on a plantation in Bigbyville in Maury County‚ Tennessee. He worked as a newspaperman‚ a Congressman from Tennessee‚ and a man that worked his way up the ranks to a Confederate general. He received an education‚ even going to college. Not only that but he was editor of Republican Banner. On september 24‚ 1835‚ he married Louisa Pocahontas Gordon‚ and had fourteen

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    Justice Felix Frankfurter Justice Felix Frankfurter was born November 15‚ 1882 to a Jewish family that had a Jewish faith. His father’s name was Leopold Frankfurter and his mother’s name was Emma Winter Frankfurter. When Justice Felix Frankfurter was 12 years old they moved from Vienna‚ Austria to New York City‚ New York in the United States. Justice Felix Frankfurter was a student who spent a lot of time reading‚ playing chess‚ and attending public lectures. When thinking about how Justice Felix

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    Feiner does a fine job illuminating the challenges faced by Mendelssohn as a public Jewish intellectual. Mendelssohn’s philosophical acumen was both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand‚ he became wildly famous‚ and indeed‚ members of the Prussian Royal Academy of the Sciences elected him to become a member‚ although the King‚ Friedrich II‚ refused to grant approval to this appointment‚ ostensibly because Mendelssohn was a Jew. Mendelssohn was also widely sought out as a conversation partner by many

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    did not disappoint the wildest expectation. Jenny Lind traveled to Paris to study with Manuel Garcia‚ a famous Spanish vocal coach‚ who eventually agreed to train her. Her husband‚ Otto Goldschmidt‚ was a famous German pianist who trained with Mendelssohn; they married in Boston while on tour in the US. After her marriage‚ she appeared on the stage only at intervals and usually at concerts given for charitable causes. She was deeply interested in these charitable causes and we can easily add to

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    THE LATE-ROMANTIC GERMAN CELLO SCHOOL – AN INTRODUCTION TO JULIUS KLENGEL AND HIS COMPOSITIONS written by David Johnstone AN IMPORTANT NOTE FROM johnstone-music ABOUT THE MAIN ARTICLE STARTING ON THE FOLLOWING PAGE: We are very pleased for you to have a copy of this article‚ which you may read‚ print or save on your computer. You are free to make any number of additional photocopies‚ for johnstone-music seeks no direct financial gain whatsoever from any download; whether it be an original work

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    Robert Schumann

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    Robert Schumann Robert Alexander Schumann was born in the small riverside town of Zwickau‚ Saxony‚ in 1810.The youngest of five children‚ Robert Schumann was brought up in comfortable‚ middle-class respectability. As a child‚ he apparently exhibited no remarkable abilities. At the age of six‚ Robert was sent to the local preparatory school‚ run by Archdeacon Dohner. He had in fact already begun his education‚ with the young tutor who gave lessons in exchange for board and lodging at the Schumann

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    Raven Bransom Dr.Ring Music Theory 04/02/2015 Chamber Music Series: Matt Haimovitz Matt Haimovitz is cellist who started his solo career at the early age of 13 with Zubin Mehta and Israel Philharmonic. In the 2000’s Hamiovitz began to take his love of Bach cello compositions in his “Listening-Room”‚ to clubs in the United States‚ Canada‚ and the United Kingdom. These efforts to make himself well-known graced him with some great awards including a Juno

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    Bach Partita No 3

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    When Bach left the court of the Duke of Weimar and went to Köthen‚ his musical genius gets more clearly recognised. During 1717‚ Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen hired Bach to serve as his Kapellmeister‚ which is the director of music. Prince Leopold’s Calvinistic court required church music that is simple and plain in style in it’s worship. This caused Bach to take a break from composing organ music and devote himself more on secular music during his employment at Köthen in 1717 to 1723. As a skilled player

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    Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy‚ mostly famously known as Felix Mendelssohn was born on February 3rd 1809 in Hamburg Germany. Mendelssohn was one of four children growing up‚ the second oldest of the children right behind his sister Fanny. Mendelssohn was the son of a successful banker and the grandson of a well-known German Jewish Enlightenment philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. Even though his grandfather was Jewish‚ his father grew up his family to be Lutherans. Mendelssohn and his family

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