the school as a part of his organist position as well. With new music needed for services each week‚ Bach turned to writing cantatas. When compared to Handel‚ Bach did not write operas; although he had an instinct to create drama. This is shown through many of the oratorios that he wrote. Handel is very unique for the operas in which he explores the psychological progress of his characters through
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as well as suffered from rheumatic fever‚ hyper tention‚ and typhus which some believe ultimately exacerbated his depression (Hatzinger et al.). Through his bouts of depression‚ Mozart managed to compose over six hundred different works including operas‚ concertos‚ and sonatas. Mozart final work Requiem Mass in D Minor became an obsession to him. He believed he
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Pirates of Penzance - Critique The Pirates of Penzance was an opera performed by the Southwest Texas Opera Workshop. The Pirates of Penzance‚ composed by Gilbert & Sullivan‚ is a light-hearted parody of the traditional opera. This opera takes place somewhere in the British Virgin Islands. It is about a boy‚ Federic‚ who is to be apprenticed by his nurse‚ Ruth‚ to become a pilot. Ruth mistakes the word pilot for pirate and apprentices him to a band of pirates. She‚ too‚ remains with them
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During the baroque era‚ there were many prominent new artists‚ one of the most famous was a Venetian composer by the name of Antonio Vivaldi. He was very important during the baroque ear due to his mastery of the Italian concerto and his involvement in operas. Vivaldi remains relevant in modern times as the concerto is still a hugely popular genre for composers. A concerto refers to an instrumental work written specifically for a soloist or multiple soloists and a large ensemble. Vivaldi was born in Venice
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which revolved around opera. This style of music was very banal during Rossini’s time. During his lifetime‚ he wrote a total of 39 operas as well as sacred music‚ chamber music‚ and piano solos. Perhaps his famous works were “The Barber of Seville” and “William Tell Overture” (Encyclopaedia Britannica). These two pieces of music were efficacious in drawing large audiences because they were so well written. Rossini was and still is considered to be an innovator to the opera style of music. He made
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Fine Arts‚ division of music put on an opera entitled The Magic Flute. Originally composed by Mozart‚ the students in the production did an excellent job of bringing his composition to life. Going into the opera‚ my expectations were high as always‚ but I did not expect what awaited me during the performance. The talent the students had shown were so professional. I was absolutely blown away by the beautiful and incredibly powerful voices that made this opera come to life on stage. The acting was
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would talk about how he structures his compositions or about how easy he thought it was to compose a piece of music in only a short amount of time. Mozart’s mind is almost magical in my eyes. The precision he put into every one of his symphonies and operas emulates the passion he must have felt for his work. Of course it goes with out mention that he had his struggles every now and then‚ especially with matters of money. But through it all‚ he still managed to bring the world a wide array of music‚
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Symphony No. 40-Mozart Symphony No. 40 has been selected for this assignment largely for the fact that not a lot of essay papers were written over Mozart‚ along with Symphony No. 40 capturing the sadness of Mozart’s end in life. Even with the hardships Mozart was experiencing he was still able to produce this beautiful symphony. Symphonies that can introduce a more melancholy tone tend to rise to the top of the list for me. Why does Mozart reflect so much sadness in Symphony No. 40 after such a
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Haydn. Both men worked together and were very close friends while living in Vienna. Between the two‚ Joseph Hayden and Amadeus Mozart devoted much of their music for composing symphonies‚ minuets‚ librettos‚ sonatas‚ concertos‚ masses‚ oratorios and operas. While both men achieved popularity and status during their time‚ they also discovered that success must be earned rather than freely given. While both men enjoyed similar success during their lives‚ their character and personal lives contrast one
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Einstein who said that ’as an artist‚ or a musician‚ Mozart was not a man of this world’. His extreme talents enabled him to master a piano piece in half an hour at just 4 years old‚ write a symphony at five years old and complete writing his first full Opera at the age of 12. Was Mozart a genius or just a talented and hard working person? A scene in Amadeus the play written by Peter Shaffer uncovers Antonio Salieri’s realisation of Mozart’s Genius. This is discovered when Salieri see’s Mozart’s own work
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