Opera composers

In opera, the composer is the dramatist. In opera the music interprets, crystallizes, and intensifies the expressive meaning of the words, far beyond anything with the words alone are capable of (Greenberg, 2009, L11, 8:35). During the transitory period of the Renaissance and Baroque eras, the tremendous increase in the popularity of secular stage drama punctuated by musical intermezzos (music played between the acts of stage plays) invariably ignited opera into existence. As discussed by…

by Verdi, Schubert, and contemporary composers Nigel Westlake and Lior Attar. The evening began with Verdi’s Nabucco from his opera that follows the plight of the Jews as they were subsequently exiles from their homeland by the Babylonian King Nabucco. The next piece was Franz Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony, Schubert started this piece in 1822 but wasn’t finished after the first two movements. After the intermission, the evening concludes with film composer Nigel Westlake, who was awarded a…

Hans Christian Andersen once said, “where words fail, music speaks.” I believe if we could speak with any of the composers from the Medieval, Renaissance, Classical, and Romantic periods that they would say the same also. One of the composers from the Romantic period whom I believe would agree with this statement is Bedřich Smetana. He, along with many other composers, have a way of speaking through their compositions. Bedřich Smetana was born on March 2, 1824 and died on May 12th, 1884.…

unknown. A student will learn about the many composers and discuss the most influential to music history. There are different musical time periods full of numerous types of music. There will be different things that influence and change the way each individual hears music. Taking a music class opens up a new world that may not have been known, had the class not been selected. Most Influential Composer Ludwig van Beethoven was the most influential composer in music…

Italian opera. This style of opera is known to be closely related because the focus is exclusively on the solo voice and on a lyrical, beautiful voice line. The lines orchestrated in the Italian opera are harmonic and more simplistic than of what a German opera orchestrates. As stated, "For Italians, music and voice are almost one and the same." The Italian opera composer aims not at musical and dramatic subtlety but, rather, at banner headlines of emotion as stated. In this particular opera…

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, Mozart was not only a pianist he also wrote many operas such as “The Magic Flute”, ‘The Marriage of Figaro”, “Don Giovanni”, “Cosi fan tutte”…

Franz Peter Schubert was born around January 31, 1797, in Himmelpfortgrund what was near Vienna. He was an Austrian composer and also wrote something has much as six or seven hundred romantic songs. His works included operas, symphonies, sonatas and many other works through his life time. As a young boy he was mainly focused training his voice and becoming a vocalist but he was skilled in many other things as well. he rarely played his music in the public eyes. He died in November 19,1828, at…

influence folk songs. The world famous Russian composer "powerful group" and Tchaikovsky had to folk music has a strong interest in. A major factor in these composers writing is the folk song. They learned from the folk song in his works, folk songs which music language acquired unique incomparable. People in the "powerful group" and a Tchaikovsky symphony and opera works according to their own fantasies created gained new vitality."Powerful group" composers through a variety of ways, the first…

Shostakovich Successful Soviet Composer and Pianist was known to be a bit controversy portraying music in expressing, Anger and Tragedy. His performances and being a first-time criminal that isn’t until Stain got in the way in taking over hated Shostakovich’s opera many believe he wrote and composed, Population in fear of Stalin’s terror. In his own way, he could relate. Shostakovich was exposed to so much in Soviet Union where He grew up. Under orders people were imprisoned others were arrested…

Micaëla who was portrayed as a “sexless white middle-class woman who espouses family values” (Frisch). Carmen’s foreign ethnicity was highlighted through Bizet’s use of Spanish-style music while Micaëla was conveyed using a musical style more similar to Opéra-Comique (Frisch). Bizet use of exotic music was intended to differentiate the subject, the gypsies, from his own group or people. Because of Bizet’s desire to display Carmen as an outsider to the French bourgeoisie, primarily based on her…