Sonata

conditions that he was still able to continue his creative work (Slonimsky 135).Even with his deafness, he continued to compose music; from 1803-1812 he composed six symphonies, an opera, five string quartets, four solo concerti, seven piano sonatas, six string sonatas, four overtures, five sets of piano variations, two sextets, 72 songs, and four trios ( Biography.com Editors 4). “By the turn of the century, Beethoven struggled to make out the words spoken to him in conversation (Biography.com…

The History A Requiem is sung at a funeral mass to give the soul entry to heaven. They were mostly personalized because mostly wealthy people would hire someone to create a Requiem when they were dying. John Rutter John Rutter was born in London in 1945. He first studied music as a chorister at Highgate School. He finished his education at Clare College, Cambridge. There he wrote and published his first compositions. He also conducted his first recording while still a student. Some of his…

The Life of Ruth Crawford Ruth Crawford Seeger was born in Jacksonville, Florida where she grew up with her father until he passed away. Ruth began writing poetry at an early age and as a teenager had aspirations to become an "authoress or poetess". In 1914, Ruth went to Foster's School of Musical Art to study musical art by learning the piano. After she attended the Foster’s School of Musical Art, she began attending the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago to further her education by…

in Irvine, Dr. Rauscher and her team conducted an experiment to understand the effects of Mozart on college students. The test included thirty-six students who took the spatial IQ test twice one in silence and the other after listening to Mozart’s “Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major” (K.448). The pilot study concluded that the undergraduates scored eight to nine points higher and “that the relationship between music and spatial reasoning was so strong that simply listening to music can make a…

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…

Bonaparte crowned himself the emperor of France, Beethoven was infuriated, and consequently, he changed the name of this symphony to Heroica. Although Beethoven only wrote nine symphonies, many of his piano sonatas and string quartets sounded like symphonies. He wrote thirty-two piano sonatas, and sixteen string quartets. Many of his work was so original, so unusual from that period of time that it demanded a all new techniques of piano and string playing. He…

Beethoven is a well-known composer for his great work and symphonies that are filled with intensity and emotion. “Some of Beethoven’s most famous works mirror this sense of struggle to overcome an adversity imposed by fate.”(Bonds) Like Beethoven, many other composers of this time began expressing intense feelings and emotion in music. Romantic music is an era of Western classical music that started during the Romantic period around the late 18th or early 19th century. During the Romantic period…

Debussy was the oldest of five children, and his father Manuel-Achille Debussy, owned a china shop in and his mother, Victorine Manoury Debussy, was a seamstress. In 1867 the family moved to Paris but Debussy's pregnant mother fled in 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,…

Cosi fan tutte was written by Mozart during the Enlightenment Period. This was a time of scientific, political, and philosophical change that made society more democratic. A more democratic society meant that the middle class was being able to make decisions that affected their financial situation. In return, the middle class was able to afford to enjoy art and music such as Cosi fan tutte. Cosi fan tutte was one of three of Mozart’s masterpiece works. Mozart used this opera buffa to display his…

for a female music ensemble at Ospedale della Pietà, an orphanage where he worked at as a priest for 39 years of his life. Part of Vivaldi’s works included 12 sonatas that he wrote for violin and basso continuo. These works would have been performed by small ensembles consisting of the above mentioned instruments, (At that time.) Sonata no.9 consists of four movements the first of which (Preludio) is in this program. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th movements are substantially faster than the 1st…