The Piano Lesson

Claude-Achille Debussy, born August 22, 1862; Debussy was a composer is a born and raised in the Country of France. Claude Debussy was born and grew in a poor family in France of 1862; he was the oldest of five children. At the age of seven Debussy began piano lessons with an Italian violinist named Jean Cerutti. “When Debussy was 22, he won the Prix de Rome, which financed two years of musical study in the Italian capital. After the turn of the century, Debussy established himself as the…

on April 29, 1899 In Washington, D.C. At the age of 7 he started learning piano and got the nickname duke. He wrote his first composition ‘soda fountain rag’ at the age of 15. He was awarded an art Scholarship in the Pratt institute in Brooklyn, New York, Ellington followed his passion for ragtime and began to play professionally at the age of 17. When Ellington was 7 years old, he began his piano training He took lessons for the same from Marietta Clinkscales. His Friend Edgar McEntree gave…

as she puts it. If you aren?t one of those, you might get her to unspool her full title: Ruth Carol Bartholomew, Founder and Headmistress of Miss B?s Garden of Music for Budding Talents. And bud they do--we do, actually, me being one of her piano students. Most of us make it into music programs like Juilliard or Eastman. And all from a school in Tampa that nobody?s ever even heard of, unless they happen to be savvy to the local music scene.…

pieces during his life, so his piano sonatas turned out to be very influential pieces in the realm of classical music. Beethoven grew up in Bonn, Germany with an abusive alcoholic father and a mother that he loved dearly, but unfortunately died early in Beethoven’s life. Trying to escape from his father, Beethoven moved to Vienna, Austria to pursue performance and composition and learn from Haydn who lived in Eisenstadt. Because of this transition, he wrote most of his Piano Sonata’s in Vienna,…

the youngest of five children to Harris Morris Copland and Sarah Mittenthal Copland, both of whom were Jewish immigrants from Russia. Copland's earliest musical training came in the form of piano lessons which he received from his sister Laurine. When he was only nine, he started to invent tunes on the piano. At the age of fifteen he decided he wanted to become a composer. Then went to a boy only high school and learned more about harmony, counterpoint, and composition. In June of 1921,…

was introduced to music by his mother. Music was introduced to him at a really early age. When Chopin was six he had already playing the piano and composing tunes. Chopin got lessons from Wojciech Zywny after his family noticed his talents. Chopin was own compositions and he was also performing in salons by 1818. When he was about 16 he had composed many piano pieces in different styles. A couple…

of their marriage, they had five children. Career[edit] Like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart before him, Mendelssohn was regarded as a child prodigy. He began taking piano lessons from his mother when he was six, and at seven, he was tutored by Marie Bigot in Paris. After his family moved to Berlin, all four Mendelssohn children studied piano with Ludwig Berger, who was a former student of Muzio Clementi. From at least May 1819 Felix and his sister Fanny studied counterpoint and composition with…

two-step along with syncopation. This style was given a new genre called Ragtime. Ragtime music became widely popular in the United States around 1890’s through the 1900’s and was a precursor to Jazz. Ragtime is a musical genre that is composed for the piano typically in a duple meter. It contained a syncopated lead, which is played with the right hand, played over a rhythmically steady bass. The composition of Ragtime usually consists of three or four contrasting sections and each of these…

Jing Mei’s mother tries to provide every opportunity she can to help her daughter become successful. She exchanges house cleaning services with Mr. Chong for piano lessons. Even though it was difficult for Mr. Chong because is blind and deaf he teaches Jing-Mei the basics to playing the piano. Jing Mei would purposely play as bad as she could to try and prove a point to her mother. Despite the fact Jing Mei was uncooperative and fought the thought of being a successful…

was a famous Norwegian nationalist composer of the Romantic era, born in Bergen on June 15, 1843. His family had a history of musicians, including his Scottish grandfather and Norwegian mother who studied music at Hamburg. Edvard started to take piano lessons from his mother at the age of six, which later led him into attending the Leipzig Music Conservatory in 1858 after being advised to do so by famous violinist Ole Bull. Between 1858 and 1863, he was influenced by styles of Mendelssohn and…