INTRODUCTION Johann Sebastian was a German composer who became a great violinist, violist, pianist and harpsichordist of the Baroque period. Bach wrote over eleven hundred music compositions in all different genres. His music became the essential part of the education today for every musician. Bach was an influenced composer and was an inspiration to many leaving a great legacy behind after his death. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Childhood & Place of Birth Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21, 1685 to Johann Ambrosius Bach and Elizabeth Lämmerhirt Bach in Eisenach, Germany.…
Who Was Sousa? John Philip Sousa, also known as the “March King” lived from November 6, 1854 to March 6, 1932. Sousa was born in Washington D.C. and died at age 77 in Reading, Pennsylvania of a heart failure in his room at the Abraham Lincoln Hotel. The day before, he had conducted a rehearsal with the Ringgold Band.…
Lauren Lancaster Lisa Qualls MUS 241 October 11, 2015 Favorite Composer There are a lot of fantastic composers in our world. The music that these people are able to produce is so beautiful and so incredible, it was hard to choose a favorite. After thinking about it, I have decided that the best composer had to be the famous one and only Johann Sebastian Bach. Now I’d like to tell you a little about Bach’s legendary life. He was born on March 31, 1685 in Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany.…
John Philip Sousa was born in Washington, D.C. on Nov.6, 1854. His father John Antonio Sousa was born in Spain, Portuguese and his mother Marie Elizabeth Trinkaus was born in Bavarian. His fame wasn’t an accident. His father was a trombonist with the United States Marine Band. By the time he was six, his musical talent had become apparent and he was enrolled for a year of solfeggio with a local Italian teacher.…
Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart was an Austrian composer and pianist that created a variety of concertos, operas, symphonies, and sonatas. Many of these changed the way classical music was written and even performed. Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart was capable of playing many instruments and he began playing in public at the age of six. In the years following years Mozart composed hundreds works of art that were marked both by fascinating emotions, and sophisticated textures. Mozart was born into the world of music being as his father was a successful composer himself.…
Sir Peter Paul Rubens was born on June 28th 1577 in the town of Siegen in Westphalia (now Germany). “He is one of seven children of a wealthy lawyer. Juan Rubens and while his mother Maria Pypelincks was cultured and educated & . Rubens father was a legal adviser and lover to Anna of Saxony who was the wife of William I of Orange.…
Johann Sebastian Bach was a genius composer. His influence was felt everywhere. But a little over a century and a half ago, his music and reputation suffered from anonymity, practically unknown to all except a few professionals, and both Bach and Felix Mendelssohn’s families. Over the second decade of the 19th century in Berlin, Bach’s sons, along with Sarah Itzig, a talented musician and Mendelssohn’s great aunt, obtained his manuscripts and contracted Bach’s work. Meanwhile, Bella Salomon, Mendelssohn’s grandmother, supported Bach’s work “the story of St. Matthew Passion” in her salon.…
His parents, Leopold and Anna Maria were of middle class birth. Mozart and his sister Marie Anna were the only two of their parent's seven children that survived, not uncommon of the period. Mozart could be named as one of the greatest examples of child prodigies in music there ever was. At the age of three he was playing the harpsichord and at the age of five he was composing music. At the age of six, Mozart and his sister played in Munich at the Bavarian court.…
The one and only. One of the greatest musicians of all time. This man is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart was born on January 27, 1756 in Getreidegasse, Salzburg, Austria to Anna Maria Mozart (mother) and Leopold Mozart (father). Wolfgang has been playing the piano in public since the age of 6 and he doesn’t only play the piano, he plays the violin, oboe and trumpet.…
Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer, pedagogue, and virtuoso pianist. He was born on October 22, 1811 and died July 31, 1886. For many years, up through the 19th century, he was regarded as the world’s best pianist. Liszt was renowned for his unparalleled piano technique.…
Later, Aibne elected to play a Celestial Violin Concerto known as the “Pillars of Creation” at the conclusion of a harrowing interment of two children in London. Only the canorous melody seemed to articulate the inexpressible grief of the bereaved family. In fact, with the help of the music, the mourners’ souls grew wings to soar across the solar system and into the interstellar space to seek refuge among the stardust. After all, they were made of stardust too and would one day return to their origins in the stardust. The “Pillars of Creation” violin concerto struck a chord in those turbulent times.…
It is no surprise that Beethoven liked to write, whether music or notes to himself. He even wrote letters to his friends, lover, and business associates. Though, the way he talked to these people is very confusing. In his letters, his personality is varied and unpredictable. There is also a shift as the years go on and he treated every letter differently, depending on the person.…
On January 27, 1756, Salzburg, Austria was graced with the birth of one of the most influential composers of the Classical Music Era; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Parents; Leopold and Maria Mozart struggled to have a son, making Wolfgang the only sole surviving son. Leopold was a successful composer, violinist and concert assistant. Wolfgang’s older sister, Maria Anna was taught by their father to play piano. Through observation and fascination at the young age of 3 Wolfgang began to master the concepts of chords and melodies.…
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the very famous and well known composers in the music history. He was just five years of age when he began making music. During his lifetime, he wrote numerous sonatas, concertos, symphonies, and few operas for the music industry. Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major is his most famous piano concerto. Similarly, Ludvig Van Beethoven is another well known composer, who had given numerous famous piano and violin concertos, ensembles, string quartets, and sonatas to the music industry.…
Franz Joseph Haydn is widely known as one of the creators of classical music, as well as being dubbed the “Father of the Symphony” and “Father of the String Quartet. He is also one of the greatest and most celebrated composers of all time. Haydn once remarked, “Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.” And it was the truth.…