Leipzig

of Schumann’ s injury is vague, its accurate that it ended his aspirations to have a career as a concert pianist. He then devoted himself to composition. He started to study music theory with a German composer, Heinrich Dorm the conductor of the Leipzig opera. During this time, Schumann began to consider composing an “Hamlet” themed…

Robert Schumann is known as one of the greatest German composers of the Romantic era. His contributions to the world of music are not only vast in numbers, but they span a very broad range of composition including his piano sonatas and lied. Although this output is grand and very influential, it is important to keep in mind that Robert Schumann was fighting with mental illnesses throughout his life. With the knowledge of his struggles with depression and other illnesses, one must look deeper…

Germany and across Europe. Clara was self conscious about her gender is the music business, but she didn’t let that stop her. As a child prodigy, Clara’s career took off at a young age and flourished for sixty years. Clara Schumann was born in Leipzig, Germany on September 13, 1819 to her mother, Marianne Wieck, and father, Friedrich Wieck. Her mom was a concert pianist and her dad was a piano teacher and music dealer; both had their minds set on her becoming a musician, and almost…

Heidelberg, in 1874 he accepted a professorship in inductive philosophy at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. A year later he accepted an appointment to teach scientific philosophy at the University of Leipzig which he undertook for 45 years. Wundt had a longing to teach experimental psychology at Leipzig in 1875, but due to the lack of space for his equipment, his request was declined. He ended up teaching courses in anthropology, logic, and language. However in 1876, he obtained enough…

for the king, making up a new composition on the spot. Back in Leipzig, Bach refined the piece and gave Frederick a set of fugues called "Musical Offering." In 1749, Bach started a new composition called "The Art of Fugue," but he did not complete it. He tried to fix his failing sight by having surgery the following year, but the operation ended up leaving him completely blind. Later that year, Bach suffered a stroke. He died in Leipzig on July 28, 1750. During his lifetime, Bach was better…

At the time of the Enlightenment, many people’s views on religion were changing. Most of the views you see that change are those of the philosopher’s. Because this was the age of reasoning, many viewed religion and God as a concept that could not be applied to reasoning. Many found that religion did not fit in with their idea of reason. They found that the definition they grew up with about God did not have any reasoning to it. Many philosophers in the Enlightenment period did happen to be…

gentium (Lee, 28). The text from this chorale first appeared in Erfurt, Germany in 1524. “This hymn was most popular because it was the hymn for the first Sunday of the four Advent Sundays from around 1600, given both in Latin and German in several Leipzig hymn books. The text is a song of praise, the Lutheran doxology expressing gratitude for the journey of Christ from God the Father, to human form, to his descent into hell, and finally back to God the Father” (Lee,…

chorale cantata is in multiple movements or parts. Most chorale cantatas were written between approximately 1650 and 1750. By far the most famous is by J. S. Bach, especially the cantatas composed in his second annual cycle of cantatas started in Leipzig in 1724. The dates of the Classical period in Western music are generally accepted as being between about 1730 and 1820. However, the term classical music is used in a colloquial sense to describe a variety of Western musical styles from the…

The composer i am writing about is Richard Wagner. Richard was a German composer and he was born in Leipzig, Saxony and on May 22, 1813. He died February 13, 1883 and his cause of death was heart failure. The genre of his music was classical. He began in the 1830s to write his music. He was the ninth child in the family of Carl Wagner, a police clerk. Richard was only six months when his father died. Wagner studied piano from the age of 7 and soon developed ability to…

Charles V was the Holy Roman Empire from 1526 until his death in 1558. He was born in Country of Flanders on February 24, 1500. His father was Philip I also know as Philip The Handsome was the first member of the house of Habsburg to be King of Castile. His mother was Joanna of Castile also know as the Mad. After Charles father died in 1506 he was sent to go live with his aunt Margaret of Austria. When Charles turned 15 in 1515 he became duke of Burgundy and gained rule over the Netherlands. On…