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Joseph Haydn By: Allyssa Moeder Who is Joseph Haydn? Joseph Haydn was a Austrian composer. He was one of the most important classical music composers in the 18th century. Joseph Haydn was born in Rohrau, Austria on March 31 in 1732. Haydn passed away in Vienna, on May 31, in 1809. So, if you put the math together he lived a whole 77 years. The reason he was so important was because he was one of the many people that helped establish the styles and forms of the symphonies and string quartets.…

Hi, I am Franz Joseph Haydn, an 18th-century Austrian composer of the Classical period, and I played a major role in the development of chamber music. As one of the most prominent composers of my time, I am often referred to as the "Father of the Symphony" and the "Father of the String Quartet" in recognition of my immense contribution to musical form. I was born on March 31st, 1732 in Rohrau, Austria. My dad, Mathias Haydn, was a wheelwright and my mom, Maria, worked as a cook before marrying…

(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. Also, he has written piano songs for symphonies, operas, solo concertos, chamber music, especially string quartets and string quintets, and the piano sonata, during the classical period. Furthermore, the classical period is between the baroque and romantic era, and approximately between the years 1750-1820. Also,…

In the modern days, there are various levels of clarinet competitions. They have played significant roles in clarinet development. The top talented young clarinet performers are usually discovered from these competitions. From the participants’point of view, they tend to gain experience and learn from other participants. For those competitions which have crucial influence internationally, it is an unwritten rule that organizing committee always invite a prestige composer to compose a new piece…

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a great and famous Austrian musical prodigy of the seventeenth century who wrote a wide range of symphonies, operas, concertos, and sonatas, and has left behind a legacy for people to embrace. Proposed into a life of music, the virtuoso was born on January twenty-seventh, 1756 in the city of Salzburg, Austria. His father, Leopold Mozart, was a violinist that served as an inspiration for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his musically inclined older sister, Maria Anna…

Austin 1Lesma Taylor-AustinHumanities 1101- 41751Final Research Project Part 3Dean FeldmanApril 12, 2016Ludwig van BeethovenA Composer, Pianist, moody, brilliant musician, one name comes to mind… LudwigVan Beethoven! A protégé of a musical family, Beethoven has a natural touch inexploring the ins and outs of music that will be hard for anyone to follow in years tocome. He has transformed music by exploring the passionate and romantic side incontrast to the classical music (Sayre, 407). Beethoven…

THE MORNING RAGA (VARIOUS THEMES) - BY DHANANJAY ARORA “The Morning Raga” is a film based on the play written by Mahesh Datani. This story basically revolves around music. In this story there are two best friends Swarnlata who is a Carnatic singer and Vaishnavi is shown as a violinist. On getting an opportunity of singing in the concert Swarnlata dominates Vaishnavi on accompanying her with their children. On the way their bus met with an accident with the car on the bridge of their village and…

Paper #1 The two songs that I picked were A River Flows in You by Yiruma and Come on Eileen by Dexys Midnight Runners. A River Flows in You was released in 2011 by a South Korean pianist and composer. The genre is New age, which is a soothing and relaxing. The next song Come on Eileen was released in 1982 and came from the album Too-Rye-Ay. The genre is a mixture of alternative and indie. Both A River Flows in You and Come on Eileen have identifiable elements of music that are found throughout…

Even though Johannes Brahms is ordinary well-known a master of symphonic genre, he composed only four symphonies in his life. Further, Brahms completed the symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68, called “Ludwig van Beethoven’s tenth symphony” during around twentieth years from sketches since 1855. In the regard, the compositional process of the first symphony includes a long and mysterious history because of self-critical fastidiousness to make himself destroy his early works. On the other hand,…

Claudio Monteverdi Claudio Monteverdi was an Italian composer who was vital in making the transition from the Renaissance period to the Baroque period. Monteverdi was also one of the most important developers in the new style, opera. He is also recognized for bringing a “modern” style into church music. This resulted in considerable fame during his lifetime. During his long life he composed many works including 8 books of madrigals and forty operas. Claudio Monteverdi was born in Cremona…