Symphony No. 9

Nicolo Paganini was born in Genoa Italy on october 27, 1782. He died in 1840. His parents names were Teresa and Antonio Paganini. Nicolo started learning music when he was only five years old. When he was seven his father taught him how to play the violin. He attended violin classes with famous violinists. He composed his first sonata in 1790. In 1795 he went to parma but was told that they could not teach him anything. He often played 15 hours a day. in 1797 he started his concert tours. From…

I attended the Symphony Orchestra Concert on March 10, 2017 at 7:30 PM in the SJSU Music Concert Hall. It was conducted by Yair Samet, and featured a solo performance by Dr. Sarah Jones. The SJSU Symphony Orchestra performed Mozart’s Impresario Overture, his Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 in C Major. The piece that I will be focusing on is Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1, particularly the fourth movement. During the actual concert, it was very interesting hearing…

In live production, there are many aspect that contributes to the outcome of the shows. The play Amadeus is a script written by Peter Shaffer. This story is about the history of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a musician with a god gifted talent who struggled to make a living, narrated by his rival Antonio Salieri. Salieri is a well-known court musician who became obsessed with Mozart which led to his jealousy and causes the downfall of Mozart. On the 18th of February, Seattle Public Theatre ran the…

The church sanctuary was dimmed except for the bright light shining above the grand piano on the stage. The pews were filled with parents, friends, and of course, the performers. Once a year, I would have to step on that stage, sit on the piano bench, and play a memorized piece. This is what many musicians fear: a music performance. Months before that fateful spring day, my teacher and I decided on a beautiful piece by Frederick Chopin. The waltz was technically and emotionally challenging for…

The Life of Franz Liszt (the Romantic Time Period) By: Alanna Hallacy Table of Contents Chapter 1: About franz liszt Chapter 2: Franz’s music Chapter 3: What makes his music enjoyable Chapter 1-About franz liszt Franz Liszt was born on October 22,1811 in Raiding, Austria. He died on July 31,1886 in Bayreuth,Germany. He died of pneumonia. Franz Liszt was a pianist who got his wonderful talent from his father. Franz Liszt only played piano, no contemporary instruments. His…

There are sonatas, symphonies, operas, pitch, dynamics, tone color and so on. “Pitch is the relative highness or lowness that we hear in a sound” (Kamien p. 4, 2010). Without pitch, a song would be flat and would not be enjoyable. The dynamics are the degrees of softness or…

Beethoven’s Leonore No. 3 overture can be evaluated the complete version of the Leonore overture like the magnificent symphonic work. This third version of overture also overture was composed in the sonata form like Leonore No. 1 overture, and Leonore No. 2. Further, its musical materials and structure also are developed from Leonore No. 1 overture. In other words, he kept using the excellencies of the previous overtures, and Complemented the Deficiencies of the previous overtures. Basically,…

The concert that I attended was the music at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Saint Cloud on November 15th. This concert featured the Saint Cloud State University concert choir, chamber singers, women’s choir, and men’s choir. The concert was primarily vocal with some instrumental features. The genre of this concert was mainly a concerto. The type of ensemble that this concert featured was chamber music. The historical era that was represented throughout this concert was the 20th/21st century. One…

Music has been invariably elucidated throughout history altering the definition of what is considered melodic, and revolutionizing the manner in which pieces are composed and one of the most prominent periods of musical transformations was the 17th century. It was during these influential times in which music was subjected to the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, both signifying turbulent times for the church and both fundamental in the salvation of polyphonic musical composition as…

born in Germany, died in Austria at the age of 57. He became deaf before he died, but that did not spot him from composing music. His work took time to complete and look than the other composers at his time. Throughout his career he completed nine symphonies, nine concert overtures, nine piano concertos, one violin concerto, sixteen string sonatas, and more. Beethoven’s career could be alienated in three different periods; the first period was based on assimilation of two great music composers:…