Piano Concerto No. 1

talented child from his earliest days which allowed him to reach farther than any composer's before or since. With his reputation already beginnning to flurish, Beethoven moved to Vienna in 1792 where he began to study with Joseph Haydn (Budden sec. 1). He started to become popular as a pianist, and as a composer on the side. Around the time that Beethoven was studying with Haydn and Mozart, he began to explore a new direction with his music and gradually expanding the scope and ambition of his…

I learned many things in experiencing three performances. I attended the King Stephen Op.117 by Beethoven, Piano Concerto No.1 in C major, Op.15 by Beethoven, and lastly The Firebird by Stravinsky. These three pieces of music have many different and similar characteristic. In this paper I’m going to discuss how the different instruments are used to make different tones. How these different tones can create different images and how these images can create different emotions and tensions. My…

started the concert by playing “Calm sea and Prosperous Voyage, op. 27” by Felix Mendelssohn and this piece was played as the overture. After which “Violin Concerto no. 1 G minor, op 26” by Max Bruch was played by the orchestra , this was also the piece where Danielle Belen played as a violin soloist; the second piece was played as a concerto. “Become Ocean” by John Luther Adams was the last piece and it was played as an orchestral piece. All the three pieces were played brilliantly by the…

The third piece was a concerto from below list : Carl Maria von Weber, Concerto No. 1 in F minor op. 73 Carl Maria von Weber, Concerto No. 2 in E-flat major op. 74 
Louis Spohr, Concerto No. 1 in C minor op. 26
 Louis Spohr, Concerto No. 4 in E minor WoO 20 Bernhard Henrik Crusell, Concerto in F minor op. 5 Above five concertos were composed during early romantic period. The three composers have contributed to clarinet…

attire, and the orchestra wearing white and black. As in any other concert, the audience behavior before the start of the program was settling down and reading the little pamphlet that was placed on top of their seat preparing for the show. After the concerto finished, the audience rose…

On Sunday, September 11th, I attended Morehouse’s Department of Music’s Piano Recital. It was the first time that I had the pleasure of sitting in on a piano recital in the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center. The concert was held by Hyunjung Rachel Chung, a young lady from South Korea, performing eleven extensive pieces of music, including five vocal appearances from a virtuosic and lyrical tenor, Sungbae Kim. I was fortunate enough to be present to watch this piece of budding master at work.…

In a letter to Bailli Du Roullet sent on 1 July 1775, Gluck had this to say about the work, “ The opera is a cask of frozen wine, the spirit which has withdrawn to the centre; it is truly exquisite but with too much body to be drunk in any quantity” . The opera’s librettist is Bailli Du Roullet…

born in Hungary in 1811 and started learning piano at the young age of 7. After many years of practicing and performing in 1832 he saw Paganini, a violin virtuoso perform. This sparked his desire to become a virtuoso on piano, he practiced almost 8 years straight 10-12 hours a day. He then toured all through Europe, Russia and Portugal performing for kings and anyone else you could think of. After his “tour” ended he began to compose pieces for piano and give free masterclasses. Lastly he passed…

the 64th concert of the Musical Arts Concert Series. It was held on Monday, 16th March 2015, beginning at 7:30 in the evening. The 240-seat hall was filled to capacity with music lovers who came expecting a good musical experience. The concert was a piano competition, which captured the hearts of the audience and brought both their body and souls into the music. Several participants, who are musical students from several universities across the country took the stage and showcased their musical…

1870 with Claude to his aunt's home in Cannes to flee the Franco-Prussian War. This is when and where Debussy at the age of seven began piano lessons paid for by his aunt with Italian violinist Cerutti. In 1871 he got the attention of Marie Mauté de Fleurville, (Leon Vallas (March 2007). Claude Debussy: His Life and Works. Lightning Source Inc. pp. 4–. ISBN 978-1-4067-5912-9. Retrieved 27 April 2011) who claimed to have been an apprentice of Chopin. Although there is no real evidence to…