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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was known for being the father of music. I would like to visit him because of what he was able to accomplish during his life. He was able to compose many musical works . Mozart also had the gift of imitating music. Lastly, his briliance in writing music. Mozart is an inspiration to me for his compositions, imitations of music, and his originality in writing music. To begin with, Mozart inspired me in many ways with his compositions. He wrote many compositions in his…

result of decades of voice use, and lots of singers develop vocal cord growths or nodules that often bleed and can scar, making the voice more hoarse in quality. Surgeries to remove such growths are much more common these days, but especially among opera singers, because of substantial demands on their voices. One voice surgical specialist has been developing a special gel that he hopes, when put to use, will allow restoration and preservation of the voices of…

Concert Make-Up Assignment Ludwig Van Beethoven was born in December 1770 in Bonn, Germany. His father was a musician in Bonn. Beethoven was interested in music from an early age and when his father was at home, his father would teach Beethoven music. He learned to play the piano and the clavier, an instrument like a harpsichord. His father would punish him when he made mistakes or hesitated and that affected Beethoven's life and future. On March 26th, 1778, when he was seven years old, he had…

Kirkendale with regard to the “birth” of opera, or how it truly originated. Kirkendale has written an article “The Myth of the “Birth of Opera” in the Florentine Camerata Debuked by Emilio de’ Cavalieri: A Commemorative Lecture” in effort to determine exactly where opera began and who created it. We will also compare Kirkendale’s article to Grout, Palisca, and Burkholder’s textbook “A History of Western Music” with their chapter that discusses the invention of opera. Indeed, this topic has…

Beethoven, according to Richard Taruskin, “became the protagonist and the beneficiary of an attitude that had been growing for almost half a century.” (Taruskin, 2005: 251) Beethoven’s infiltration into and position within the classical music sphere of Romanticist composition and development is described as essential and exemplary (Taruskin, 2005: 251). The connotations between the Romanticist ideologies of the “great artist” being humanities redeemer and Beethoven’s ability to superimpose his…

John Cage an Influential Minimalist John Cage is the epitome of a cutting edge composer due to the fact that he has an elevated appreciation for music, unmatched by any other. Cage enjoys everyday, naturally occurring sounds because of their dynamics and their lengths, rather than the sounds constrained by musical instruments, something other composers usually overlook. This gives him the advantage to compose music in a unique manner. Cage has had an impact not only on musicians, but dancers and…

renowned Wagner Conductor Hans von Bulow, Richard Strauss became the most Music director in in the Meninges at the young age of 21. One year later in 1886, the musician moved on to become the third Musical Director (Kapellmeister) at the Munich Court Opera (Muncher Hooper). He was Inspired by literature and his travels to Italy, and as well as by the composer Franz Liszt, Strauss he dedicated himself at this time to the study of the symphonic composition and he reached the peak in his art of…

Schuman wrote many popular songs in his youth but favored orchestral and choral music, as is evident by his impressive compositional output that includes orchestral works, music for band, and Choral works as he continued the strong American symphonic tradition. Recognized for his mastery of orchestration, Schuman favored distinct blocks of color with a vital rhythmic style full of variety and intensity. He was able to take old styles and forms and infused his own methods to achieve coherence in…

A musical instrument is often lamented as an expensive piece of equipment, easily costing thousands of dollars. However, did you know that there is such an act as Piano Burning? That’s crazy, some may think, maybe the person is absolutely insane- or just really hates the piano. However, that is not so. Piano Burning is an action of setting an acoustic piano on fire. It is usually ceremonial or for visual entertainment. How this tradition began is a mystery. Some say that this may have started…

Giacomo Puccini was an Italian composer who was widely regarded as one of the most significant exponents of the genre of operatic realism and one of the creators of some of the best-loved operas. Richard Wagner was a German-born composer known not only for his dramatic compositions, but it is said that his artistic philosophy extended and had an enormous influence on not only his contemporaries but to other genres such as painter, playwrights, and poets. It is said that few composers had such a…