Baroque composers

Scarlatti was a musical composer born in October 26, 1685, in Naples Italy. His parents are Antonia Anzalone, and Alessandro Scarlatti. When he turned fifteen, he became a pianist in Naples. When he was eighteen, he had produced his first operas called L’Ottavia restituita al trono and Il Giustino. When he turned age twenty, he was sent off by his father to Venice to study with a composer known by the name of Francesco Gasparini. Domenico Scarlatti had lived during the Baroque era and had…

in the tonic key. Although the origins of the string quartet can be traced back to the Baroque trio sonata, it was not until the work of an Austrian composer, Joseph Haydn, of his sixty-eight composition that the development of the string quartet had finally come about and rose to the public interest during the 18th…

The features of music in the Middle Age were very different from the music that society listens to in today’s time. The main form of music in the Middle Ages was the Gregorian chant. This style of music was often listened to in churches during that era. The Gregorian chant was composed of Latin language and performed without instruments. The chants came in various genres all depending on their religious purpose. Some of them consisted of monotone with a slight change in pitch, while others…

Have you ever heard of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? Mozart is one of the greatest composers in history. Some of his famous pieces include Don Giovanni and the Magic Flute. He is so well known that a film was based on the life of Mozart called Amadeus. In the film Amadeus, it contains a story line that is not completely true because it is historical fiction. In the film Antonio Salieri was the Court Composer to Emperor Joseph II. In real life Salieri and Mozart were never close but this film…

greatest composers in Western music. He had a lot of influence on other composers in his contemporaries even through succeeding time spot. Today, his compositions are the most frequently performed ones among the keyboard repertoire. So in my paper, I’d like to figure out how much contribution J.S Bach made to the keyboard music and how many composers were influenced by him. I will put emphasis on his The Well- Tempered Clavier which is a good example to illustrate this point. How great a…

Johannes Brahms is considered the greatest composer of the Romantic period. Being the son of a musician and forced to play music to earn money for the family bills, Johannes grew a very strong connection to music and eventually made music and composing for his entire career. Johannes Brahms was viewed as the leader of music and best at composing in the Romantic time period while on the same skilled level as Mozart, Beethoven, and Hyden. Johannes Brahms was born May 7th, 1833 in Hamburg, Germany…

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer: Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, better known as just Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer’s life span: Born in January 27, 1756 and died in December 5, 1791 Location: Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria, son of Leopold Mozart and Anna Maria Perti. Mozart was raised in Salzburg, Austria along with his only sister Maria Anna. Mozart did a good amount of traveling before finally settling in Vienna, Austria with his wife Constanze Weber. Genres:…

Joseph Haydn was one of the composers from the eighteenth century whom worked mainly for courts, churches, teaching, performing and composing on commission or publication for a living. Haydn was known as the “Father of Symphony” for wide publication of his symphonies. Symphonies, instrumental sonatas and string quartets are the most well known works, which made him a prolific composer in the classical period. Haydn was born in Rohrau and started to learn music in singing, playing the harpsichord…

to the world. Jazz music greatly influenced all kinds of music that is popular today. One of the types of music that was inspired by the elements of jazz was classical. “In the early 20th century, a number of prominent European and American composers became intensely interested in Jazz…

The classical period in history falls between the baroque and romantic periods. It was a time of huge change for music because it brought out some of music’s most famous composers such as Beethoven and Mozart. Along with these legendary composers, is Johann Michael Haydn, the brother of another famous classical composer Joseph Haydn. Many historians focus on Joseph’s life, but fail to recognize his younger brother’s famous works and successes. Often, Michael Haydn is known as “the younger…