Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The performance I attended to fulfill the requirements for this paper was “Celebration at the Station,” an annual concert put on by the Kansas City Symphony honoring veterans and celebrating America. The concert was held outside Union Station, on the grounds of the National World War I Museum, in downtown Kansas City on May 24th, 2015 at 8pm. The concert was concluded by a magnificent fireworks display above the World War I Museum tower. Michael Stern is the conductor of the Kansas City Symphony…

Hi, I am Franz Joseph Haydn, an 18th-century Austrian composer of the Classical period, and I played a major role in the development of chamber music. As one of the most prominent composers of my time, I am often referred to as the "Father of the Symphony" and the "Father of the String Quartet" in recognition of my immense contribution to musical form. I was born on March 31st, 1732 in Rohrau, Austria. My dad, Mathias Haydn, was a wheelwright and my mom, Maria, worked as a cook before marrying…

after his father died, He met Cecile Jeanrenaud a clergyman's daughter, in Frankfurt. She was just 16 when they got engaged. They married on March 28, 1837. Over the course 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…

The composers who dominated the Classical period were: Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Joseph Hayden, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. These composers were important in making advances in genre styles impressively after being under patronage. This era was also labeled as the Age of Enlightenment because of the philosophers who were popular during this era. Voltaire, Rousseau…

Music is an art form that we as humans listen to because it engages our brains. It gives us a sense of euphoria, much like a drug. Throughout history, music has always played a large role in our lives, whether we recognized it or not. One reason we are attracted to music is because “it is the rhythm of the human species” (Music moves the world: The power and passion of rhythm, melody, and dance [Video file]. (2004). Through the use of rhythm and melody, we as humans use music as a way to…

Classical Period and in the Romantic period, but for this excerpt, I will consider him to be a part of the Classical Period, even though he was more progressive and lived later than many of the famous Viennese Classical composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Franz Joseph…

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the very famous and well known composers in the music history. He was just five years of age when he began making music. During his lifetime, he wrote numerous sonatas, concertos, symphonies, and few operas for the music industry. Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major is his most famous piano concerto. Similarly, Ludvig Van Beethoven is another well known composer, who had given numerous famous piano and violin concertos, ensembles, string quartets, and…

Boccherini, Gluck, and Johann Sebastian Bach’s children: Johann Christian, Wilhem Friedmann, and Carl Phillip Emanuel. Another two contributors whose names are well known and who played a very important part in the Classical era: Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. This type of music from the classical period flowed into the Early Romantic era, which took place between c1830 and c1860, but at this point it began to change. Classical music during the Early Romantic period began to have…

On Monday, October 19th at 7:30pm, I attended the USA Piano Ensembles “Fall Concert” at the Laidlaw Recital Hall. The concert contained five different pieces of music. The first piece of music performed was called “Die Fledermaus Overture.” This piece was composed by Johann Strauss (1825-1899) and it was arranged by Makoto Goto. The piece was played by Tracy Monk and Tobin Nelson on one piano. One person was seated next to them and they would turn the page while they played the piece. The piece…

Beethoven had a traumatic childhood even if he grew up surrounded by music. Ludwig van Beethoven was born around December 16, 1770, and baptized on December 17 in Bonn, located in the now-nonexistent Electorate of Cologne (“Ludwig van Beethoven”). His parents, Johann van Beethoven and Maria Magdalena van Beethoven, had to bury two children before Ludwig, and celebrated his successful birth. Maria bore Johann two more sons after Ludwig: Caspar Carl, born in 1774 and Nickolaus Johann, born in 1776…