the Baroque Period (Sankey‚ 2012). The harpsichord looks similar to a modern day piano and is also played in a similar fashion‚ the exception is the sound. When a
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•Clarity‚ Purity‚ Logical •Age/Time of enlightenment •Value of Reason; Reason is the best guide to human conduct •People believed in progress •People attacked the privileges of aristocrats and the clergy Master Composers: 1. Franz Joseph Haydn >Father of Symphonies >100+symphonies >Skilled servant >Financially stable 2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart >Child prodigy >41 symphonies >Austrian >Died in financial need >Had sickness @ 35 >Lived in a pauper’s grave >tried his luck as a
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ATCL Recital (Piano) Karen Wing Yee Lai 11th May‚ 2010 11:15 am Parsons Music‚ Time Square Programme J.S. Bach Prelude and Fugue in D minor BWV 851 [duration] J. Haydn Sonata in E flat major Hob. XVI:49 I: Allegro II: Adagio e cantabile III: Finale: Tempo di Minuet [duration] F. Schubert Impromptu in G flat major Op. 90 No. 3 [duration] F. Poulenc Trois Novelettes No.1 and No.2 I: C major II: B flat minor [duration] [total duration] Prelude and Fugue in D minor BWV 851 (from the Well
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Pfeiffer taught him and he began to attend in classes with a musician called Christian G. Neefe simultaneously. Both teachers treated their pupil roughly‚ at times getting him out of bed and gain pressure on him to spend the whole night playing the piano. Surprisingly‚ Beethoven was never bitter about it. In 1780‚ Franz Rovantini taught Beethoven violin and viola. At the same moment‚ he was attending primary schools. In 1781‚ Beethoven left school due to he was overworked for a child of his age
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Oratorio‚ Fugue‚ Suite‚ Sonata‚ Concerto 4. Composers and their works/pieces: Purcell – Dido and Aeneas Vivaldi – The four seasons J. S Bach – Mass in B Minor Monteverdi – L’Orfeo Handel – Messiah Domenico Scarlatti – Keyboard Sonatas J. S Bach – The well – tempered clavier Romantic (1810 – 1900) 2. Instruments: Full Orchestra‚ Concert Grand Piano‚ Violin‚ Cor Anglais 3. Typical forms/structures: Opera‚ Music Drama‚ Programme Music‚ Song Cycles‚ Short Piano Pieces 4. Composers
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time‚ Beethoven met Joseph Haydn and began taking lessons from him. In order to receive the lessons‚ Beethoven moved to Vienna where Haydn currently lived. Haydn directed Beethoven for classes to Johann Albrechtsberger. During this time‚ Beethoven`s undeniable talent to play the piano was what made him shine. In Vienna‚ Beethoven wrote his famous works: “Moonlight Sonata and the Pathétique sonata” (Ludwig van Beethoven
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compositions of Ludwig van Beethoven marked the culmination of the 18th-century traditions for which Haydn and Mozart had established the great classical models‚ and his middle-period and late works developed so far beyond these traditions that they anticipated some of the major musical trends of the late 19th century. This is especially evident in his symphonies‚ string quartets‚ and piano sonatas. In each of these three genres Beethoven began by mastering the existing formal and esthetic conventions
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sponsorship by the Prince-Elector. Beethoven’s mother died when he was 17‚ and for several years he was responsible for raising his two younger brothers. Beethoven moved to Vienna in 1792‚ where he studied with Joseph Haydn and other teachers. He quickly established a reputation as a piano virtuoso‚ and more slowly as a composer. He settled into the career pattern he would follow for the remainder of his life: rather than working for the church or a noble court (as most composers before him had done)
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second violins‚ viola and cello. When writing for the string quartet‚ the composer had to overcome the lack of contrasting tone colours through the use of beautiful melodic and harmonic lines. Most string quartets included two allegro movements in sonata-allegro form‚ an andante and a dance movement. The Symphony: The symphony had its roots in opera overtures. It was the first monumental form written exclusively for instrumentalists. In their symphonies‚ usually longer‚
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will take his middle-period piano sonata Op.81a as an example to talk about performance practice in this piece‚ such as form‚ harmony‚ articulation‚ ornamentation‚ and tempo. I will explore what inventions he created‚ how he changed and transited to a new period. Ⅱ. The Background of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 81a in E-flat Major Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 81a in E-flat Major‚ known as the Les Adieux sonata‚ was written during the years 1809 and 1810. This sonata has three movements—“Das Lebewohl
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