Leipzig

Researchers that were led by Karline Janmaat from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany found that most chimpanzees checked most trees along the way." But 13 % were approached in a goal – directed manner". "These targeted approaches were unlikely initiated by visual cues and occurred more often when females foraged alone and…

Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 31st of 1685 in Eisenach, Germany. The youngest child of Johann Ambrosius and Elisabeth Bach. His father was employed as a court trumpeter and director of his town musicians. When Bach was only ten years old, both of his parents were dead and he was looked after by his eldest brother, Johann Chistoph, an organist at nearby Ohrdruf. Under the supervision of his brother, Bach received formal keyboarding lessons and eventually a position in the boys’ choir at…

The Atrocity of Obedience The Holocaust included the most heinous acts ever recorded in history. Under the leadership of Nazi-Germany president Adolf, Hitler over six million Jews were systematically captured, imprisoned, and murdered. But the Holocaust could not have been carried out by government alone, it required a unilateral effort from all segments of German society. How could the murderous, anti-Semitic ideals of a government compel so many everyday citizens to be complicit with such…

Brahe, originally Tyge Otteson Brahe, was born in Denmark into an aristocratic family. He was raised by a wealthy uncle and instead of pursuing law as his uncle requested, he chose to purse astronomy. He attended Universities in Copenhagen and Leipzig. In 1566, Brahe participated in a duel with another student to decide which was the better mathematician. During the duel, Brahe lost a large chunk of his nose and was forced to wear a metal prosthetic for the rest of his life. Tycho Brahe's…

woman is an incredible person. Though Clara was more of a concert pianist, she left behind many works composed by herself, some of which included the help of other composers. Clara Wieck Schumann was born on September 13, 1819, AD. She was born in Leipzig, Germany to Friedrich Wieck, her father, and Marianne Wieck, her mother, a…

In 1944 Dave Smith was born and rise in Derbyshire, England. At Derby College of Art, Smith studied art mainly taking commercial design courses before advancing to Hornsey College of Art in London where he pursued his post graduate studies. All of Smith’s work experience throughout his life was art influenced. The London based Electric Colour Company was founded in 1969 by Dave Smith and three other artists (Andrew Greaves, Jeffrey Pine and Roderic Stokes). He then left to teach at a college…

named Ludwig Geyer he was an actor, painter, and poet. When he was young he did not seem to be interested in playing a musical instrument. At 11 years old he wrote his first drama. At age 16 he wrote musical compositions. In 1831 he attended Leipzig University. When he got older he married and actor and singer Minna Planner. When he did some of his music he intertwined German mythical stories of there gods and goddesses. The theme…

Choral Performance Make-Up Project Composer-Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach was a famous composer and organist. He was born on March-21-1685. He was born in Eisenach Germany and died at age 65 on July-28-1750 in Leipzig Germany. Johann was a father of over twenty children. He had seven with his first wife but four out of the seven died. Johann also had 13 more children with his second wife Anna Magdalena unfortunately only six made it to adulthood the others died at…

15, 1843. His family had a history of musicians, including his Scottish grandfather and Norwegian mother who studied music at Hamburg. Edvard started to take piano lessons from his mother at the age of six, which later led him into attending the Leipzig Music Conservatory in 1858 after being advised to do so by famous violinist Ole Bull. Between 1858 and 1863, he was influenced by styles of Mendelssohn and Schumann, suffered a serious attack of pleurisy, causing permanent damage to one of his…

places throughout, along with the messages of the gospel reading that was used for the service that day. Christoph Wolff explains in Johann Sebastian Bach the Learned Musician the typical format of Bach’s chorale cantatas. He says that all of the Leipzig cantata texts that he used followed a standard pattern with the two parts of a Lutheran serman: the explicatio and applicatio.…