Composer

Richard Wagner is known to be an influential and controversial composer. Richard was born in Germany on May 22, 1813. He is famous for his operas and writings. His operas were very complex and his writings were very famous. Surprisingly, as a young boy, he did not show an ability to play music. However, he was very ambitious and worked very hard to be a great composer and writer. At the age of 11, he wrote his first drama. By the time he was 16 years old, he was writing musical composition…

(2010) reported that composers borrowed this melody more often for religious purposes than any other piece of music. Pierce (2011) asserted that the composer of the original monophonic melody L’homme armé, while unknown, created the piece around the 10th century near Burgundy, east-central France and later discovered in the 14 century. Although the cantus firmus L’homme armé formed the basis for masses of the renaissance era, this French secular song continues to inspire composers of the 21st…

organ pieces, which many of the other composers did not do that much. He also used the simultaneous juxtaposition for an instrumental ensemble. Doubling the instruments was a common composition technique in the Baroque orchestra. Bach was thinking more of the interesting sounds of the combination. Another juxtaposition he used is the temporal juxtaposition. Similar to imitative counterpoint where it begins with one…

to further her education by focusing on the piano, but that is not what happened. Instead of staying for only a year like she had planned she ended up staying for about eight years. This allowed her to become a composer by studying Adolf Weidig. Adolf helped Ruth see her future as a composer and helped her to start paving her way during the year of 1924 where she began to develop her voice known as “ultra modern”. While Crawford continued to study theory and composition with Weidig at the…

Charles Ives was an outstanding composer of the American Modernist Period. He made many types of music that a lot of people were inspired by. Ives combined church-music traditions with European art music, and was among the first composers to engage of experimental music. Charles Ives had a rough childhood. Ives was born on October 20, 1874 in Danbury, Connecticut. His mother was Mary Parmelee and his father was Joseph Moss Ives. His father died suddenly of a stroke. Although Ives was…

I agree with Mr. Ross’s view that the modern classical-music performance have too much of a rigid set of etiquettes. Concerts must become more flexible “in order to accommodate the myriad shapes of music of the past thousand years.” I’ve only been to a single concert in my life and that was when I was young during an elementary music class school trip to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for a viewing of “Peter and the Wolf.” As such I cannot say that I remember having experienced any rigidness and…

history lasted from 1750 until 1820. In that time the view of musicians greatly changed. Everyone of all class was enjoying music. Three of the world greatest composers came from this time period -Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven- who greatly impacted the world with their musical talents. The three composers worked in a time of very violent political and social upheaval. Hayden served most of his life as a servant for a very wealthy aristocratic family were he was…

atonal and tonal composers felt that their style was correct, and along with that thought process came disagreement. People who continued to write tonal music felt their style was being overtaken by the new style of writing music. There was tension, disagreement, and slight disgust for one another, more so against atonal composers. Tonal composers felt they were forced into a box, and were supposed to write atonal music, just to keep the reputation that they had built. Atonal composers felt they…

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…

The conditions that composers had to work under during the Baroque era were very difficult. Johann Sebastian Bach had to overcome many obstacles to get to where he wanted. Some of them were that he was not free to create his own music, the Duke Wilhelm only wanted him to practice the Hymns he did not think that they needed new music he just liked the old hymns. Also, the concertmaster was about to retire and he was the most qualified person to fill his position but they only lied to him. They…