Nationality: German • Contemporaries: Haydn‚ Mozart‚ Clementi • Works included: • 32 piano sonatas (including the ’Pathetique’; the ’Moonlight’; the ’Appassionata’); bagatelles‚ 6 sonatinas • 9 symphonies - including the ’Eroica’ (3rd); ’Pastoral’ (6th); the ’Choral’ (9th) • chamber music - including 9 piano trios‚ 5 cello and piano sonatas and 10 violin and piano sonatas • Opera - Fidelio • 5 piano concertos • 1 violin concerto • 1 triple concerto for piano‚ violin and cello Classical Period
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of the greatest musicians to ever live. He was born in Hamburg‚ and was a son of a double-bass player (Machlis 305). Johannes developed his music at a very early age. At the age of ten‚ Brahms helped increase his family’s income by playing the piano in the dance halls of the slum district where he grew up. Many believed he was the next great Beethoven‚ and he certainly lived up to those expectations. When Johannes was a teenager‚ he started to get noticed. He then visited the famous musician
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What did Mozart and Haydn do for the development of the concerto (5 pts)? They composed concerts for unusual instruments such as the clarinet‚ trumpet‚ bassoon‚ and French horn.This allowed to overcome and work around the limitations of wind instruments at the time. The works are with such high quality that they are often still played today. 4. As it relates to your learning; give a detailed response to what you heard in your active listening of: • Piano Concerto No. 21 Second Movement
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generations‚ like fashions in musical tastes. Lets first start with the classical music‚ Classical is an era; it is from about 1730 to just after 1800. A few people who contributed to the music in the Classical era are: Ludwig van Beethoven‚ Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The Classical period focused on the opposite types of sounds- music during that period was orderly‚ uncluttered‚ well planned and precise. Music was expected to be technically pleasing and grounded in certain traditions
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Haydn’s symphony no. 94 second movement Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) was born in Rohrau. He was exposed to a lot of folk music when he was younger and this had an effect on his later style. His talents were soon discovered and at the age of 29 he started working for a wealthy family in Hungary‚ where he worked for almost 30 years. Haydn composed his works extremely quickly‚ performing two concertos and two operas weekly‚ and chamber works daily. Haydn’s compositions became popular throughout Europe
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Composer and pianist Ludwig Van Beethoven‚ who is commonly considered the greatest composer of all time‚ was born on or about December 16‚ 1770. He was born in the city of Bonn‚ Germany to the parents of Maria Magdalena van Beethoven and Johann van Beethoven. However‚ his exact date of birth is uncertain‚ Beethoven was baptized on December 17‚ 1770. It was a law that babies be baptized within twenty-four hours of birth‚ however‚ Beethoven believed he was born in 1772 even when provided official
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Quiz 5/Study Guide 1. Which composer was born the farthest away from the city of Vienna? Answer-D (A) All about the same (B) Haydn (C) Mozart (D) Beethoven 2. Which of these was an innovation developed during the last half of the Eighteenth Century? Answer-D (A) the public concert (B) the salon (C) the coffee house (D) All of these 3. Who contributed to Neoclassicism with his operas Orfeo ed Euridice and Alceste? Answer-A (A) C.W. von
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studies‚ first with Haydn‚ but there was some clash of temperaments and Beethoven studied too with Schenk‚ Albrechtsberger and Salieri. Until 1794 he was supported by the Elector at Bonn: but he found patrons among the music-loving Viennese aristocracy and soon enjoyed success as a piano virtuoso‚ playing at private houses or palaces rather than in public. His public début was in 1795; about the same time his first important publications appeared‚ three piano trios and three piano sonatas. As a pianist
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comprises three or four movements For example‚ the classical era symphony‚ sonata‚ string quartet‚ and concerto all follow this cycle. THe Sonata-allegro form is a structural pattern used by composers first in the 18th century as a means to organize their music. Some people like to compare it to a basic essay format which has in introduction with a thesis‚ supporting body paragraphs‚ and conclusion that restates the thesis‚ sonata-allegro form organizes music through an initial statement‚ development
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Viennese Classicism. The mature music‚ distinguished by its melodic beauty‚ its formal elegance and its richness of harmony and texture‚ is deeply coloured by Italian opera though also rooted in Austrian and south German instrumental traditions. Unlike Haydn‚ his senior by 24 years‚ and Beethoven‚ his junior by 15‚ he excelled in every medium current in his time. He may thus be regarded as the most universal composer in the history of Western music. 1. Ancestry and early childhood. 2. Travels
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