Year and place of birth: January 27‚ 1756 in Salzburg‚ Austria Year and place of death: December 5‚ 1791‚ in Vienna‚ Austria Composer is best known for: Mozart is known for many things‚ of which include piano pieces‚ as well as operas. I will be performing in one this winter‚ The Magic FluteJ He was one of the greatest music prodigies of all time/ A well-known musical contemporary of this composer is: Johann Adolph Hasse Background information on composer: Mozart was
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Classical Music Passion and determination are leading forces that can aid in conquering anything. A true appreciation and optimism arises when one can express themselves deep within. The ability to connect what one feels through music is rewarding. Classical music has changed the perspective of an average individual. The genre is very different compared to other genres of music; the music is elegant‚ expressive‚ and artistic. This genre of music is intricate‚ yet passionate and it shows a direct
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Rameau was one of the most important French Composers of the Baroque era.Little is known about his early life‚ only that he was able to play the harpischord at a young age and that he was studying to be a lawyer until his parents gave him the blessing to become a musician. H ewas a violinist in a troupe for a while. He did not get real acclaim until his publication of the Traité de l’harmonie‚ which is the foundation of studies of tonal harmony today. The Lully traditionalists were against him because
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Notable music composed for the clarinet in orchestral works includes Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue‚ Copeland’s Appalachian Spring and Salon El Mexico10. Handel too composed twice for the clarinet; The Overture in D and also he used chalumeaux in the opera Ricardo Primo11. Mozart did not use the clarinet till 1780 and even after that he did not include it in many of his compositions. This comes as a surprise because of Mozart’s remark in a letter to his father saying ‘Alas‚ if only we also had clarinets’
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Within the space of sixty-nine years‚ Shostakovich made an unforgettable impact on music and became one of the most important composers of the 20th century. During his career he wrote fifteen symphonies‚ fifteen string quartets‚ six concerti and two operas along with many chamber works‚ piano works and pieces for theatre and film. This is an incredible output for a composer but what makes them all the more remarkable is the situation under which they were composed. His whole musical career was spent
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music in which reason prevails over feeling. Composers thought more about creating beautiful and interesting works of music than pouring out their personal feeling in their music. Classical period is between 1750 and 1820. This type of music includes opera‚ chamber music‚ coral pieces‚ and music requiring a full orchestra. It is a music rooted in the traditions of western art. Notable of mentioning is Mozart who was considered a musical prodigy and wrote music of highest quality among which is symphony
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I’m doing my biography over Richard Rodgers an American Composer born in Queens‚ New York on June 28‚ 1902. He was a pioneer and crafting his musical world by integrating stories form books and plays and creating seamless story telling from some speeches to songs being sung. He was your idealist of a great musician‚ everyone loved to hear his music all over the world. He won all the musical awards that anyone can think of to show he was the great composer he is. Rodgers was the second child born
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Other musicians towards the end of this period were already stirring off in new direction. During the classical period‚ public concerts were becoming more popular and concert halls and opera houses were attended in all major cities. While classical music became more elite during the Enlightenment period. The Modern era had a new audience for popular music. Created by the birth of recordings‚ radio‚ and television. These new media had
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written by Australian prolific writer‚ Louis Nowra‚ is a play set in 1971 at a mental institution situated in Melbourne. The central protagonist‚ Lewis Riley‚ a young inexperienced director‚ endeavours to direct the inmates in a performance of Mozart’s opera‚ ‘Cosi Fan Tutte.’ Throughout ‘Cosi’‚ Nowra displays characters that are characterised as normal‚ but display rare various degrees of “insanity”. Over the course of the play‚ the playwright has encouraged his audience to question and understand the
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He was an individual who was gifted beyond the means of an average child. According to the play‚ the Venticelli I and II stated that “Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his first symphony at five. He did his first concert at four and a full opera at fourteen (I.3.20-21).” That has a lot to say about Mozart because at that young age he had achieved something great‚ and as they would say he was born as a gifted individual‚ a prodigy. Therefore‚ he felt that there was someone out there that might
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