Symphony

Mr. Holland’s Opus is a film about a musician, Mr. Holland, who wants to compose a symphony; however, he must instead begin teaching at John F. Kennedy High School to ensure financial safety for his pregnant wife and soon-to-be newborn son. Mr. Holland initially believes that his new teaching position will allow him a plethora of free time to focus on his aforementioned passion project—to compose—but very quickly realizes that teaching is a full-time job, not a part time one. Mr. Holland…

Beethoven was a great German composer in earlier Nineteen Century, who covered both Classical style and Romanticism. He started to sketch the Symphony No.6 in 1802, and instead of related the title with friends or sponsor’ name, he himself named it ’Pastoral’ to express his love with nature. The symphony is divided into five movements and featured like a program music. It was first performed in the Theater an der Wien on 22 December 1808. Bela Bartok was one of the most important composers in…

in 1824. It is a romantic period drama. Beethoven is a legendary musician, and he is stone deaf. In last days of his life, he gets busy in preparing for his latest symphony. Beethoven is desperate to publish his “Ninth Symphony”. Beethoven’s publisher is Schlemmer, who is dying of cancer. Beethoven is in need to complete his symphony. So, Schlemmer sends the student Anna Holtz as copyist to complete Beethoven’s score. Anna Holtz is a Viennese music student. She is an aspiring composer and…

Gustav Mahler gained the majority of his success in the later years of his life. Some of the work that made him famous where works written and performed closest the time of his death. His funeral was attended by a smaller group of people than many of the composers before him. Even his wife Alma Mahler was unable to attend due to doctor orders. Johannes Brahms died many years before Gustav Mahler. Since he didn’t have a wife and his close friend had already passed, the funeral was much smaller…

31 in 1732. Haydn passed away in Vienna, on May 31, in 1809. So, if you put the math together he lived a whole 77 years. The reason he was so important was because he was one of the many people that helped establish the styles and forms of the symphonies and string quartets. Haydn was Married to Maria Anna Keller. With Maria, Joseph Haydn had 4 children, their names were Alois, Anton, Nikolaus and Polzelli. Joseph Haydn’s parents were Mathias Haydn and Maria Haydn. His dad was a wheelwright…

solo, duo, trio and quartets in a concerto and the symphony. Public concerts grew quickly with the rise of new venues: a concert hall. Small group ensembles are also known as chambers that consist of two to ten players. Haydn had sixty-eight string quartets; quartets always has two violinists, one violist and one cellist. The violin “soloist” may stand out by having a solo, but the quartet works as a team in each piece. The “father of the symphony” was established…

was definitely an innovator, as he employs multiple music topoi and unusual chords and modulations along with his highly repetitive melodic lines in the first movement of this sonata in F major. History has given him the titles of “father of the symphony,” “father of the orchestra,” and “father of the string quartet,” but he also deserves another one of “father of the piano…

as an orchestral cellist in Manlius Pebble Hill’s small, uninspired school orchestra. Fortunately for me, however, a superior artistic experience existed close by. At the urging of my private instructor I decided to audition for the Syracuse Youth Symphony Orchestra (SYSO) one sunny June afternoon in what would be the beginning of a two-year long, artistically satisfying relationship. My experience as an orchestral cellist in the…

“A symphony is like the world. It must contain everything.” (Gustav Mahler). This quote accurately describes Mahler’s outlook and perspective on not just his music, but the way he views life. Mahler’s artistic interpretation served as a stepping stone future musicians would be influenced by for generations to come. Because of this, Mahler has cemented himself in history by pushing the limits of the universal language that is music. Gustav Mahler was born on July 7, 1860, in the German town of…

During the 1942-43 concert season, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra performed 18 fanfares total, however Copland’s fanfare received the greatest success by far and is the only fanfare currently in the repertoire. Copland’s inspiration for the fanfare came from a speech entitled, “The Century of the Common…