Piano Concerto No. 1

and performance was great. 1. “Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber” was composed by John Cage and performed by himself. The style of music is Lieder or art song music. The melody goes by the piano and the harmony goes by the other special piano strings created by John Cage. The tempo for this song is slow and fast…

For the final project I decided to attend two piano concerts at the University of Colorado Boulder. The two piano concerts I attended were Hsing-ay Hsu (with Madoka Asari) as part of the Faculty Tuesday Series, and Andrew Ramos’s Doctor of Musical Arts Recital. Both of these recitals were a new experience due to the fact that I had never been to a piano recital at the University of Colorado before. Each piano performance was different, whether it was the music performed or the type of style of…

Development of Beethoven’s Compositions though his Piano Sonatas The Flemish Pianist and Composer, Ludwig Van Beethoven (Dec.16, 1770- March.26, 1827) is perhaps regarded as the greatest composers who have ever lived. He is considered the transitional composer from Classical to Romantic period. Beethoven’s innovation’s through his lifetime has impacted the classical music remarkably. His genius can be traced down through all his compositions. Unlike Mozart and Haydn, Beethoven’s keyboard…

Maria Anna Mozart was the family’s first prodigy and at one point was considered the finest pianists in Europe, until her younger brother, Wolfgang Mozart, came along. Maria’s father, Leopold Mozart, boasted about how well she played the piano, but it wasn’t long before she was overshadowed by her brother. Maria Anna Mozart, also known as Marianne and nicknamed Nannerl, was born on July 30th 1751 in Salzburg, Austria. Maria is the oldest of 7 children, however only she and her brother Wolfgang…

‘finest piano virtuoso in Vienna’ (Suchet, “1770-1802” & Morris, 56). 1794 brought about Beethoven’s first publication, the Op. 1 trios, which he dedicated to Lichnowsky. Artaria, a popular publishing company, had to remake them three times to meet the wants of the people (Morris, 67-68). By 1795, Beethoven debuted his first piano concerto in Vienna and published the Op. 2 sonatas (“Ludwig van Beethoven”). Within the span of one year, he wrote ‘five trios for strings and a trio for piano,…

Sir Edward Elgar was an English composer born in Broadheath, Worcestershire to “a Worcester piano tuner and music-shopkeeper and his Roman Catholic wife” in 1857 (Kennedy). He learned the violin, piano, and organ at a young age (Kennedy). Beyond his violin lessons he had no formal training. However, he received much “praise as a child for piano improvisations” (McVeagh). After the age of 16, he left his father’s business and was freelance musician for the rest of his life (McVeagh). He took on…

History and/or Manufacturers: According to violin maker William Bartruff, the violin first appeared in Italy in the 16th century. While the very first violin is maker is not precisely known, scholars debate between Andrea Amati and Gasparo di Bertolotti da Salò. However, debates lay in Amati’s favor. He was considered a lute maker at the time and as the violin was not well known, he would not be documented as the maker of such. Also, the first four string violin as well as the oldest surviving…

company of the leading violin virtuosi of his day, as another standard-setter” . Even when compared to guitarists of the present day Giuliani remains exceptional. It is rare to find recordings earlier than 1970 of guitarists performing the concerto without abridging the…

essay, for question 1, I will be describing symphony, concerto, sonata and quartet in relation to their historical background. By using multiple similarities and differences in order to compare and contrast each of these things. According to an online dictionary, a symphony is defined as “an elaborate instrumental composition in three or more movements, similar in form to a sonata but written for an orchestra and usually of far grander proportions and more varied elements.” A concerto is “a…

octaves, and it has the inner voice in the right hand part of the piano. When Rachmaninoff established a solid big phrase, and the tempo was not too fast, he would still play all the details clearly, just as he performed bars 109 to 112 from the first movement of his Piano Concerto No.2. From bars 121-124 and 126-130, the extended measures after the variation canonically repeat at the octave (played by oboe and clarinet) while the piano continues the canon (Chung, 1988). Cliburn's emphasis is on…