Piano sonata

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere,” is a quote from Frank A. Clark that Ludwig van Beethoven can most likely agree to. Throughout his life, Beethoven wasn’t dealt the easiest hand and he was able to overcome this in order to become the success he is known as today. In turn, some may claim that Beethoven would have made it “farther” in life if it wasn’t for these “distractions”; however, without these “distractions, or obstacles, Beethoven wouldn’t have…

Sonata-allegro form Introduced during the classical period (1750-1820), sonata-allegro form became vastly used in most compositions. The three-section movement begins with the exposition, which leads into the development. The movement ends with the recapitulation, but often includes a following section referred to as the coda. The first fast movement of a string quartet, classical symphony, or sonata is typically in sonata form. Sonata-allegro form includes a great deal of significant music…

Camille Saint- Saëns. In this piece, Ha-Eun Song was accompanied by Ui-su Shin on the piano. Together these two magicians harmonized, flourishing as one with beautiful melodies. This next portion of the senior recital included four pieces for two violins and piano. Prelude, Gavotte, Waltz, and Polk all composed by Dmitri Shostakovich were played by Ha-Eun Song (violinist one), Eun-Ah Go (violinist two), and Ui-su Shin (piano). The audience thoroughly enjoyed this fragment of the recital,…

Claude Debussy, born August 22 1862and died at the age of 56 on the 25th of March 1918. He was born in France and is known as a very influential composer of the 19th century going into the 20th century. Debussy started piano lessons when he was 7 and at age 10 he left to go study many musically related things such as: music history, harmony, and composition. Debussy was considered to change music in such a way that no one had ever heard of. He did this through the development of dissonances…

potential as a musician and began piano lessons at eight years old. When he was fifteen he was taken by his mother to go study in Paris. He was a pupil of Antoine François Marmontel. In 1877 the Paris Conservatory awarded him a scholarship. However, after two years his interest in the conservatory faded and he left for Germany. MacDowell was a student at the Stuttgart Conservatory for a while, and then went off to the Frankfurt Conservatory where he studied piano and composition under Karl…

Franz Schubert was born on January 31, 1797, in Himmelpfortgrund near Vienna Austria. He was an Austrian composer. He himself wrote six hundred secular vocal works, seven complete symphonies, operas, sacred music and a large body of chamber and piano music. His appreciation was limited to a relatively small circle of admirers in Vienna. Schubert’s father, Franz Theodor Schubert, was a school teacher; his mother was what we call a modern day “stay at home mom.” Franz had three older brothers…

ability, the way they composed were very unique when compared to each other. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756 in a small city called Salzburg, Austria. He became known as a child prodigy very early on. He could play the violin, piano, organ, and harpsichord very beautifully at the age of only six. Mozart went with his father on several concert tours throughout many European…

On Sunday, September 11th, I attended Morehouse’s Department of Music’s Piano Recital. It was the first time that I had the pleasure of sitting in on a piano recital in the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center. The concert was held by Hyunjung Rachel Chung, a young lady from South Korea, performing eleven extensive pieces of music, including five vocal appearances from a virtuosic and lyrical tenor, Sungbae Kim. I was fortunate enough to be present to watch this piece of budding master at work.…

before he died, but that did not spot him from composing music. His work took time to complete and look than the other composers at his time. Throughout his career he completed nine symphonies, nine concert overtures, nine piano concertos, one violin concerto, sixteen string sonatas, and more. Beethoven’s career could be alienated in three different periods; the first period was based on assimilation of two great music composers: Wolfgang Mozart and Haydn. The second period would the happiest…

The first Horn Concerto, Op. 11, by Richard Strauss is one of the most notorious pieces in horn literature. The concerto was written in 1882 and is a standard example of the Romantic era. Strauss created both the piano and orchestral versions, with the orchestra score calling for solo horn, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani, and strings (Steinberg). The orchestral version was premiered on March 4, 1885. Richard Struss’ father, Franz, was the…