Composer

works are powerful and merit performance, they are missing from today?s concert repertory. Most are out of print. A strategic question dominated Daniels?s life and compositional practice: how could she as a woman of her era join the ranks of serious composers in America? How could she compose works that…

between the years 1750 and 1820. During the Classic Period, there was three main composers that stood out from everyone else – Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. That textbook states, “Even those who know very little about art music usually know something about Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven” (“Music of the Classic Period”). Though each was successful alone, whenever the three crossed paths in Vienna, history was made. Each composer gave a unique quality to classical music that will never be…

influence folk songs. The world famous Russian composer "powerful group" and Tchaikovsky had to folk music has a strong interest in. A major factor in these composers writing is the folk song. They learned from the folk song in his works, folk songs which music language acquired unique incomparable. People in the "powerful group" and a Tchaikovsky symphony and opera works according to their own fantasies created gained new vitality."Powerful group" composers through a variety of ways, the first…

Many composers reuse or borrow featured materials from their previous works or even from other composers. While there is controversy about plagiarism and recycling, there are many movies that reuse the soundtrack of other movies. One example is James Horner, a famous American composer born in August 1953 and died at the age of sixty-one in June 2015 due to plane crash who is well known for Star Trek II (1982) and Star Trek III (1984), Jumanji (1995), Titanic (1997), Avatar (2009) and more.…

New German School, while vague, had a huge effect on the world of music. It is a group of musicians who aimed to expand upon the legacy of Beethoven and further the German narrative. The New German School was not a set “club” or meeting group of composers. Rather, they were musicians who Franz Brendel, a philosopher whose influential writings impacted the musical sphere, grouped together and praised. The three he frequently praised on high were Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, and Richard Wagner…

famous composers. The beginning and ending dates are difficult to pin down. Approximately, it started at 1820 and ended at 1910. During this period, a few major events greatly affected Europe. The American and French Revolution had just occurred and brought more freedom, the Industrial Revolution brought many people from the country to the city, and the Napoleonic Wars brought confusion and poverty to many. However, poverty and confusion did not affect the beautiful and elegant music composers…

evolutionary changes made by the composers were also appeared in the requiems of the time. Requiem was now an independent musical form; the form of the concert requiem, which replaced the traditional liturgical one. The romantic requiems were performing in the concert halls and opera stages, and that was mainly because of their extended length. Although some composers such as Gounod, Liszt, Faure and Bruckner followed the traditional requiem length, most of romantic composers wrote longer…

Andantino con moto Composer background: Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Him, along with Maurice Ravel were the most outstanding people related to Impressionist music. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His music is noted for its sensory and sonic content and the use of nontraditional tonalities. The French literary technique of his period was known as Symbolism. This movement inspired Debussy a lot as a composer. Debussy’s…

Ray Charles was a famous jazz composer. Because of being blind since he was 7 years old, he stood out even more to his fans. Charles was born on September 23, 1930 and he died on June 10, 2004. His music was a huge hit during the 1950’s. He was a great jazz composer to many because he was blind. He was able to play the piano extremely well for being blind. He loved composing making soul, blues, and jazz music and the people loved listening to it. Some people even called him “The High Priest of…

Assumptions of Homosexuality in 18th Century Composers Phillip Brett begins his article on issues of sexuality in 18th century music with an observation from 20th century composer Virgil Thompson, who noted that no one in music ever talked about homosexuality. This assertion is quickly contradicted with a quote from Havelock Ellis, who states that “It has been extravagantly said that all musicians are inverts.” Ellis uses the dated psychological term “inverts” to refer to those displaying…