Joseph Haydn

trend of adopting opera sinfonia for concert use emerged in the 1720s and 30s and soon, composers such as Giovanni Battista Sammartini and Johann Stamitz began composing symphonies as an independent work. Three symphonies from Johann Stamitz, Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven will be used in this paper to compare four elements –movement structure, length of the first movement, instrumentation and the compositional techniques used…

Luigi Boccherini. Born 1743 in Lucca, Italy, and died 1805 in Madrid, Spain. He lived for 62 years. His body was buried in Pontifical Basilica of St. Michael in Madrid, until 1927 when Mussolini had him dug up and moved his body to the church of St. Francesco in his native place, Lucca, Italy. Luigi’s bloodline still goes on to live in Spain this day. Boccherini’s father sent him at a young age to study in Rome(1757). He later went on to Madrid, and worked for the younger brother of Charles…

Cherubini. Opus 50, No. 6 The composer of this piece, Franz Joseph Haydn, was one of the most influential composers of his time and among the creators of classical genres. Ludwig van Beethoven, Haydns most celebrated pupil. However, Haydn also played a major role in influencing composers such as Schubert, Mendelssohn and Brahms. Over his life he composed 106 symphonies and he became the principle architect for the classical style of music. Haydn shaped the world of classical music and is a…

This last Tuesday, September 20th the Fry Street Quartet performed at the Caine Performance Hall. I was in attendance at this even and my feelings about it are varied. I chose this performance for a few reasons, first was that despite it not really fitting into the rock or pop categories whatsoever I was curious to see if any type of message could be spread by a quartet playing classical music. It is a different type of music for the subject and as the performance went on it became clear it was…

relationship was put on the line and no good; so, Mozart left his position and relocated in Vienna. At some unknown time while moving to Vienna, Joseph Haydn and Mozart met up and became friends and they played string quartets together. Mozart’s six quartets were dedicated to Haydn and were said to be in response to Haydn’s Opus Set 33. Haydn’s role model was Mozart. Haydn declared to Leopold, “Before God and as an honest man I tell you that your son is the greatest composer known to me either…

The Hoboken catalogue is a catalogue of the musical compositions by Joseph Haydn compiled by Anthony van Hoboken. It is intended to cover the composer's entire oeuvre and includes over 750 entries. Alessandro Longo was born in Amantea. After studying at the Naples Conservatory under Beniamino Cesi, which began teaching piano…

Ludwig van Beethoven Every era in History has its challenges for society. It is easy to observe what people of their time throughout centuries went through. Whatever an individual faces in life usually gets depicted in a composers work. Whether it is a personal life, tragedy, war, or diseases, each of these factors play a major role in how and using what genre music was composed. Other than such facts, a persons’ surrounding, companions, to be exact, have an immense impact on an individual. One…

genre of chamber music, which increased in popularity during the classical period. The origins of sonata-allegro form were derived from older Baroque forms of the 17th and early 18th centuries. It played an effect on composers of the time including Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart. Sonata-allegro is typically used in the first movement of a composition, while it may also be…

Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II. It is now known as his earliest masterpiece that was overlooked at the time but is now a very highly profound piece of music in the classical world. In 1792 , Beethoven decided to leave his hometown and go back to Vienna once again. Mozart had passed away a year earlier.In Vienna, Beethoven dedicated himself almost entirely to musical studies with the most distinguished musicians of the century. He studied piano with Haydn, vocal composition with…

Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany, on December 16, 1770. He was the eldest of three children of Johann and Maria Magdalena van Beethoven. At an early age, van Beethoven took an interest in music and his father taught him day and night, on returning to the house from music practice or the tavern. Without a doubt, the child was gifted and his father Johann envisioned creating a new Mozart, a child prodigy. On March 26th 1778, at the age of 7 ½, Ludwig Van Beethoven gave his first…