Life and works of Pyotr Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in Kamsko-Votkinsk‚ Russia‚ on May 7‚ 1840. He was introduced to music at age 5. His father was a Ukrainian mining engineer and his mother died when he was 14 - an event that may have stimulated him to compose (http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/5648/Tchaikovsky.htm). He was forced to deal with the cold atmosphere of a military boarding school after his mother died. As such‚ he shied away from the harsh and brutal world and found
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He was denied admittance by the council because he was a foreigner. His father was relentless in continuing to support his son’s education. He eventually went to Ferdinando Paer‚ who taught him advanced composition. Franz wrote his first and only opera‚ Don Sanche. At the age of fifteen Franz’s father passed in 1826‚ this impacted him to the utmost extreme to where he fully lost interest in music all together. He moved into an apartment with his mother and sunk into a deep depression. He read books
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Life in Italy in the 1930’s Life in Italy in the 1930’s caused difficulty to some Italians during that time period. During the 1930’s a large number of Italians who had opposed the fascist rule of Benito Mussolini arrived in the United States. After the news spread in Italy about the bombing of Pearl Harbour almost all Italians supported the war against Benito Mussolini. At this point‚ Italy was slowly becoming under the Nazi rule‚ the significance of a woman’s role in Italy was emphasised as
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schoolboy and later moved over to the cello. Most of his achievements as a practical and theoretical musician was self-taught. Composer and friend Alexander Zemlinsky taught Schoenberg counterpoint and introduced him to Brahms. Beethoven‚ Strauss‚ Wagner and Brahms would be his influence for composition tonality and forms in his early works. ! ! Schoenberg started composing at the age of nine. He wrote music for himself to play‚ and with friends. The urge to write string quartets came from
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Week Ending September 12‚1999 | Production | Gross This Week | Gross Last Week | Annie Get Your Gun | $572‚885 | $671‚363 | Chicago | 536‚852 | 523‚106 | Fosse | 566‚644 | 605‚993 | The Lion King | 880‚717 | 875‚772 | The Phantom of the Opera | 601‚218 | 594‚636 | Totals | $3‚1‚158‚316 | $3‚270‚870 | Source: Theatre.com. www.BroadwayNow.com/public/boxoffice.asp (13 September 1999). | Selected Works by American Authors | Author | Life | Works | Robert Lee Frost | 1874-1963 |
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Reed wrote‚ "Elgar’s genius rose to its greatest height in his orchestral works”‚ and saying that even in his plays and operas‚ the orchestral parts still shone through. Despite being introverted and solitary in nature‚ Elgar flourished by playing at the Worcester and Birmingham Festivals and he soon began composing for them as well. For the Birmingham Festivals‚ he wrote
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ritual in an attempt to revitalize the theatre. Although realism continues to be dominant in contemporary theatre‚ its earlier functions are now better served by television and film. The originator of many antirealist ideas was the German opera composer Richard Wagner.
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This paper will analyse the first movement of The Wasteland titled‚ “The Burial of the Dead” by employing Eliot’s “theory of impersonality” and certain principles of New Criticism. It seeks to examine how Eliot subverts his personality and emerges as a catalyst in the Burial of the Death by using various element such as as paradox‚ unity of structure and contrastive imagery to ensure the organic unity of the poem. To Eliot‚ a poem or a work of art is thing in itself . Following The New Critics tradition
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As a composer‚ Mahler all his life stood in a shadow of his far more famous friend and rival‚ Richard Strauss (1864-1949). While the audience in Europe saluted Strauss’ tone poems and his operas with enthusiasm‚ Mahler received recognition as an up-and-coming director/conductor of the Vienna Court Opera‚ but remained controversial as a composer. Although Mahler failed to win a well-deserved recognition as a successful composer during his lifetime‚ Mahler’s symphonies have become a firmly established
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Ackermann family lives in Zurich at the golden coast of Switzerland‚ and they have a secondary and a tertiary residence in London and New York. Ackermann is a colonel of the Swiss Army and an educated tenor who loves Mozart and Verdi. He plays the piano and supports the Zurich Opera with his private means. When he was young‚ he did javelin 4 Education After his Matura‚ Ackermann started to study business and social sciences at the Swiss University of St. Gallen. In 1973‚ he finished his studies with
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