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    Van's teaching methods were wrong, Beethoven became a prodigiously talented child from his earliest days which allowed him to reach farther than any composer's before or since. With his reputation already beginnning to flurish, Beethoven moved to Vienna in 1792 where he began to study with Joseph Haydn (Budden sec. 1). He started to become popular as a pianist, and as a composer on the side. Around the time that Beethoven was studying with Haydn and Mozart, he began to explore a new direction…

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    The speaker states that the snow falls of Tyrol and the transparent beer of Vienna aren’t clear or accurate. The speaker states that she might be somewhat of a Jew with her Romany ancestress and unusual good fortune. The speaker reveals that she has always been afraid of her father with his air force, clean facial hair, and shining…

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    The Holy Roman Empire was a feudal empire that contained present-day Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland , Austria, the Czech, and Slovack Republics. In 1512 "Holy Roman Empire" of the German nation became the title of the empire. It went through Central Europe between the Kingdom of France, the west, the kingdoms of Hungary, Poland, and to the East. On the North Side it was surrounded by the Baltic and North Seas, by the Danish Kingdom. The history of Holy Roman…

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    for the British. Which ultimately led his suicide in the end. Were in Marjane’s case she did things in more secrecy and did not want to get caught by anyone but as she grew older she began not to care as much. This is what led to her being sent to Vienna to live with her mother’s friend. In reality it was less of their actions that occurred during the time that made the difference but the impact and the legacy they each of them…

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    Death and life by the Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt, stared in 1908 and completed 1916, is an oil on rectangular canvas painting 178cm by 198cm, now housed at the Leopold Museum in Vienna. This painting is about how the life could be beautiful if death is not standing next to it. Death and life has two separated parts. Klimt shows death of the left side. Passing is delineated and the fantastic messenger of death, a smiling skull, secured in a dim robe secured with images. The principle…

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    Essay On Performance Art

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    I feel as though the most expressive form of art is performance art. The definition of performance art is live art. Throughout the 20th century, performance art has been allowing performers to express themselves, shock their audience, and reflect political agendas. Performance art of the 20th and 21st century reflected the political agendas of the time, like the rise of feminism, anti war activism and socialism. Most performance art it is meant to shock and appall it's audience. Guillermo…

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    Beethoven Accomplishments

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    In December of 1770, a man that was represented as the highest level of musical genius was born. Ludwig Van Beethoven was a very talented man but had several severe problems that harmed his music career. However, he did not let any of those problems stop him from doing things that he has an interest in. Beethoven was a German composer that created new worlds of music and influenced many other musicians. There were two conflicts that mainly interacted with his music career and those two conflicts…

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    The Tanzimat Reforms

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    The Ottoman Empire strengthened its diplomatic relations with the West. As mentioned in the book "Turkey, a modern history", for example, permanent Ottoman embassies were established in many major European cities such as Paris, London, Berlin, and Vienna. Nevertheless, the Ottomans also…

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    Captain Von Trapp Essay

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    Trapp is a retired naval officer and a single parent to his children after his first wife died five years ago. Captain Von Trapp faces being a widow and he raises his children with strict discipline, very military like. While he goes away to Vienna, Captain Von Trapp comes back with Baroness Elsa Schraeder, a lady of the same stature as him. The relationship between Captain Von Trapp and Baroness shows much of Eros in love two. They think that they are meant to be because they are of the…

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    No, Hitler built on and used antisemitic ideas that already existed. He was Austrian and grew up in Vienna where the mayor was extremely antisemitic and where hatred of Jews was widespread. His hatred of Jews cannot be tied down to a specific event in his life, for example a Jewish childhood friend, as many children think.” My understanding is that Hitler…

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