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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…

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…

The boundless achievements of Leonard Bernstein qualify's as a standout among the most essential figures ever. As a television character, he acquainted established music with an era of viewers. As the arranger for WEST SIDE STORY, Bernstein upset the sound of Broadway. As a conductor, he has reveled idealization of traditional music beaus far and wide an uncommon circumstance for an American maestro. Constantly in people in general this effective and complex man has been seen as both a…

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…

This concert report will be on Esperanza Spalding Live at Austin City Limits. The venue mimics that of a outdoor auditorium by having a huge mural of downtown Austin behind stage, and if just seeing it for the first time from a video, one would think it was outdoors. The venue was pretty large, the size of a large auditorium, and the acoustics were good and there was little to no echoing.Though most of Spalding’s songs fall under the genre of jazz, she would rather not be called a jazz artist…

Classical style which is full of poise, to the Romantic style which is emotion. Beethoven was a composer who wrote for very wealthy patrons, he also earned lots of money from lots of public concerts. He wrote nine symphonies, 32 piano sonatas, one opera, five piano concertos, and lots of chamber works including some amazing string quartets. Beethoven was a difficult and very unsociable, he was isolated because of deafness which developed in his twenties and he never got married. Beethoven…

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…

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…

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…

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…