Composer

Ludwig van Beethoven was born in 1770. He is one of the best and significant composers of western music. He overlooked the music transition from the Classical style which is full of poise, to the Romantic style which is emotion. Beethoven was a composer who wrote for very wealthy patrons, he also earned lots of money from lots of public concerts. He wrote nine symphonies, 32 piano sonatas, one opera, five piano concertos, and lots of chamber works including some amazing string quartets.…

La creation du monde is a 20-minute ballet for small orchestra composed in 1923, which outlines the Creation of the world, based on African folk mythology. Influences in the music come from blues and ragtime, particularly in the melodies, and African rhythms. The ballet is in six continuous dance scenes, as follows: 1) Overture 2) The Chaos before Creation 3) The slowly lifting darkness, the creation of trees, plants insects, birds and beasts 4) Man and woman created 5) The desire of man and…

A lot of the time, when composers have a mental illness, their music can be a result of it. We may not have a lot of symphonies if composers were treated with antidepressants. “These composers creative activity clearly served as a powerful coping mechanism in the absence of modern psychotropic medications.” Music therapy is actually something doctors are trying…

the author, Alexander Poznansky, informs readers about the life of the famous musical composer, Peter Tchaikovsky. The article begins with Peter’s early life which helps readers understand how he became utterly fascinated with Italian music, especially Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Giovonni. With a music passion already instituted, the article goes to explain how Peter became one of the most famous composers in history by discussing many of his earlier compositions that earned him great…

He knew that writers and composers in East Germany rarely compose when they are released from prison because, quite frankly, they have no hope left. The scene in which Wiesler completely changed his position was one where Dreymann played a piece of music on the piano that was dedicated to him by another composer. This composer had recently committed suicide because he was blacklisted by the Stasi and couldn’t perform. Dreymann…

I chose to discuss how Caroline Shaw’s Passacaglia piece exhibits characteristics from Edgard Varese’s piece even though the composers had different performance mediums. Throughout Shaw’s piece, you can hear a few characteristics of e experimentation. Shaw’s piece does not use a lot of synthesizers and is not a dramatic as Varese’s Poeme Electronique. Shaw uses some electronic sounds and characteristics of experiments within her piece, but her main sound was the use of whispers, shouts, and…

religion. Additionally, the oratorio has themes about the conflict between light and dark. It uses these themes by describing a destructive event in history and in the Reply states a “hopeful truth” from the Bible or religious figure. Moreover, the composer utilizes many elements of music such as the manipulation of musical instruments and the voices of the choir to convey the story of the movement. My favorite movement is Vignette 5: The Heart of a People. It is my favorite because of its theme…

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was known for being the father of music. I would like to visit him because of what he was able to accomplish during his life. He was able to compose many musical works . Mozart also had the gift of imitating music. Lastly, his briliance in writing music. Mozart is an inspiration to me for his compositions, imitations of music, and his originality in writing music. To begin with, Mozart inspired me in many ways with his compositions. He wrote many compositions in his…

Chapter 4 ? A Composer in the Making: Munich? And the maestro?who was a very great man?felt that she was the only one who understood. As it is always, it is to the one who understands to whom we turn, so after this the maestro found himself unconsciously teaching just that one person in class b. He would have scoffed at the notion had you been bold enough to accuse him of it, but nevertheless the truth remained. Mabel Daniels[footnoteRef:-1] [-1: Mabel Daniels, notebook…

left with a despairing tone as the famer’s sense of loneliness evokes a dark, quiet and relatively sad atmosphere. Moreover, the struggling spirit of the independent farmer is further explored in the film. This is shown in the scene, in which the composer adheres to the rule of thirds and portrays the farmer in one third of the scene and the empty snow field overpowering the rest of the scene. As a result, the farmer’s sense of isolation is emphasised in order to express the vanishing breed of…