David Lee Cox Cactus Samuel Harris 1November 2016 Antonio Vivaldi: Master of Seasons Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was born March 1st‚ 1678 in the city of Venice‚ Italy‚ to mother Camilla Callicchio‚ and father Giovanni Battista Vivaldi‚ a violinist in the employ of Saint Mark’s Church. In addition to musical training from the elder Vivaldi‚ it was also rumored (but not proven) that the young Vivaldi received instruction from Giovanni Legrenzi‚ a composer. Antonio was destined for the priesthood at an early
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Beethoven Biography My composer Beethoven was born in Bonn‚Germany during the year 1770. His mom was Maria Magdalena and father Johann van Beethoven. Beethoven was first learning from his dad‚ who was a tenor. Beethoven’s father was very mad‚ angry‚ and aggressive. He also drank a lot. He did not share Beethoven’s love for music and did not support him. As Beethoven got older he began to study and performed very well. After that he started to become the best of his brothers and sisters. But soon
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Schoenberg (1874-1951) created String Quartet no. 3 (Op. 30) in 1927‚ after he better developed his twelve-tone technique. This twelve-tone technique was a significant part of atonal music. The twelve-tone technique is in not only the String Quartet‚ but also Perriot Luniare. Schoenberg shaped his pieces using the twelve-tone technique as well as some past feelings that he felt. String Quartet no. 3 (Op. 30) consists of four movements: 1. Moderato 2. Adagio 3. Intermezzo: Allegro moderato 4. Rondo:
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Did Salieri kill Mozart? Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died at 1 a.m. on 5th December 1791 at the age of 35. For the past two hundred years‚ Mozart’s death has been shrouded in mystery. The cause of Mozart’s death cannot be known with certainty. The official record say that he died of Rheumatic fever‚ he is known to have had three or even four attacks of it since his childhood‚ and this disease has a tendency to recur‚ with increasingly serious consequences each time‚ such as rampant
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Arnold Schoenberg was one of the greatest musical influences of the mid 20th Century. He was born on September 13‚ 1874‚ to a Jewish family in Vienna‚ Austria (Schoenberg 1). Schoenberg was a young Jewish man during World War I (WWI) living in Berlin. He was directly affected by the invasion of the Nazis. In 1933‚ he had to leave Berlin and desert his faith for Lutheranism later on taking on the faith of Judaism. At the early age of eight‚ he began violin lessons and almost immediately started
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Beethoven compositional innovations Beethoven compositional innovations all of which we will observe in his symphony no.5 are arrayed around a single Centro Beethovenian article of faith the music is that its essence a form itself expression. Beethoven attitude might have appeared too many of his contemporaries with the hindsight of the history can see at the time was right for the development of such an entirely egocentric attitude towards music‚ combine in equal parts one the enlightenment emphasis
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Claude Debussy By: Jackson Mikkelsen One of Debussy’s quotes that really caught my attention said‚ “Music is the space between the notes.” –Claude Debussy. I thought of music in a different way after reading this quote‚ when I heard the word music I always thought of a person singing or lyrics to a song. There is a lot more to music than that and I have learned that from researching Debussy and being in this class has helped me also. Claude Debussy is one of the most famous
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Benny Goodman really drew my attention after watching the film about him in Jazz class a few weeks ago. I was very surprised to see that his instrument of choice was the clarinet. I didn’t think the clarinet t was that influential in the musical world until I learned more about Benny. From the film I learned about how his father wanted his children to pick up music because he wanted them to make a career out of something they loved. Benny’s father was a tailor and according to the film he wasn’t
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The greatest composer who ever lived was Ludwig van Beethoven. He knew music spoke to the heart‚ creating emotions‚ no other language could. Beethoven conveyed his feeling through the power of his music and wasn’t scared to enter unfamiliar territory when it came to his work. People weren’t used to the type of music he brilliantly composed during his time and succeeded against all odds when he lost his hearing. One of my favorite time periods was from 1803 through 1814 which was referred to as “the
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Not only one of America’s Founding Fathers‚ Benjamin Franklin is one of the world’s most influential human beings. Most people recognize him as the face of a hundred dollar bill or the elementary school lesson of his kite in a storm discovering electricity. He was a scientist‚ an inventor‚ a printer‚ a philosopher‚ a musician‚ an economist‚ and of course a statesman. With his tremendous intellectual gifts‚ Franklin introduced devices to society that benefited America as a whole. Franklin’s most famous
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