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E.T.A. Hoffman
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composer/philosopher/writer
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Romantic period
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analysis is born/ Composers write with intent-music is for the 20th century man not royalty/ conductors are introduced/
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what happened and how were the composers different
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Franz Schubert
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wrote textual songs/ beginning of a new genre of music-art song instead of opera/moved from orchestra music to chamber music
wrote 9 symphonies wrote 600+ songs born in 1797 died in 1828 died of syphilis 25 operas 1. broke into sections 2. much less momentum 3. More lyrical 4. Wrote German Opera 5. Failed as an opera composer 6. Only heard 2 of them |
what he did?
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nature
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represented in the music/ feeling of connection to music
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what does it have to do with the romantic periods music
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Schumann
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master of his genre. Wrote 4 symphonies/ would wake upand for 2 hours would write music (was writing a book also and would put his music to it. broke his ring finger trying to invent a way to stretch the finger to reach higher more notes.
Schumann compositions 1830s piano music, 23 op. in al 1840s Year of songs, Over 125 songs (more then ½ his total output) 1841 symphonies ½ his total output, the other two in 1846 and 1850 1842 chamber music 1843 Das Paradies und die Peri (secular oratorio) 1848 Genoveva 1850s 3rd symphony cello concerto 2 violin sonatas, opp. 105 & 121 scene from Goethe’s Faust |
who is he and what did he do?
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Clara Schumann
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Wife of robert schumann. She was a very highly accomplished pianist. Would improve for 2-3 hours ever morning. was the first to memorize music for performances. would take 3 hour walks everyday. longest career (60 years)
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Who was she?
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robert and clara schumann
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wrote the opus 39 as a wedding gift to clara. Clara was constantly pregnant and was upset with it since it was hurting her career. They basically adopted Brahms
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what did they accomplish
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Johannes brahms
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helped revive the schumanns career. When Robert schumann was in the mental hospital Brahms was the go between for clara and robert. He loved clara but she would not leave robert
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schumann's carnival
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a piece that musical illustrated other composers and people around schumann. It mimicd thier styles of playing. (Chopin, Paginni, Chiarina , Florestan, Eusebius)
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what was it and who was it for?
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Paginni
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A tall dark and mysterous man. It was said that his violin playing was to please the devil. He would play with a fan blowing at him so that his hair would blow around him as he played.
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Franz Liszt
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started his career at the end of Schumanns. He loved to perform. moved from hungary, and kept the tradition even thou he never remembered the culture. Hs wife was his mistress (she left her husband to be with Liszt) her music was published under his name.
Genres of Liszt include transcendental etudes Hungarian rhapsodies |
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chopin
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was nervous to perform. from poland. wrote etudes or finger exercises for piano to help stretch the fingers to play more notes faster.
Genres Hungarian rhapsodies etudes nocturnal polonaise marzurka waltz |
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George Sands
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Wife of chopin. She was the real head of the house. Found chopin to be delicate and feminine. Smoked cigars and was a "free"person. Took care of chopin until he died.
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Hector Berlioz accomplishments and life
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french composer. After going to college he decided that he wanted to be a musician instead of a doctor or lawyer like his parents wanted him to do. His father was fine with it but his mother pleaded with him to not become a musician. (musicians were seen as modern prostitution rings.) He would not give into his mother and so she cut him off financially. He returned to paris to work as a critic.
Accomplishments made the soft head mallet added pedals to the harp moved the percussion section to the floor His ideal orchestra had about 400 singers and 1000 instruments |
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Hector Berlioz and love and compositions
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fell in love with a woman from the Shakespeare players. She was english and he did not know any english. He wanted to tell her he loved her so he wrote a 5 movement piece for her telling the way he felt about her. This piece is the earliest form of program music. This music had a story that was told trough the music and not through any words. After hearing the piece she went back stage and they agreed that night that they wanted to get married. They were divorced 5 years later. Romantic period focused on the obsession of having someone but not the marriage in long term.
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program music
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is a descriptive form of music that tells a story strictly through the notes and the theme association.
Common ideas for themes Obsession place person |
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the romantic opera
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focused on common people and mostly love between them
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Carmen french opera
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in this opera carmen is a gypsy that is in love with a military officer. She seduces him and finally gets him to leave the army. after he leaves though she is not as interested in don jose and now more interested in a bull fighter. Don jose sings more on the beat and slowly changes to have more passion in his singing. Carmen sings more freely and dance like rhythms . The dances in the opera are variations of different spanish dances. the music has many ranges sometimes having carmen go lower then don jose.
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la traviata Italian opera
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in the opera violetta is a prostitute who is in love with a man named alfredo. he also loves her but his father does not like her. Alfredo father pursued violetta to leave alfredo so he can be everything he wants to be. she leaves alfredo and goes to an old boyfriend of hers. he humiliates violetta by publicly trough money at her. she misses alfredo and is dying. alfredo then shows up and they sing for 20 minutes before she dies.
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