Mozart?s Piano Sonata No. 2 (K.280) Mvt. I is a rarity in that it follows almost every rule of sonata-allegro form to a ?T.? I consider this a most striking find‚ since there really wasn?t anything called sonata-allegro form in the classical era. It just happened to be that music was very set in ratio now that we look back on it. Mozart wrote this piece in 1775 when he was just 19 years old‚ and it was his second piano sonata (as the title suggests). The exposition starts out in F Major with a small
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (German: [ˈvɔlfɡɑŋ amaˈdeus ˈmoːtsaʁt]‚ English see fn.[1])‚ baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart[2] (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791)‚ was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works‚ many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic‚ concertante‚ chamber‚ piano‚ operatic‚ and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers. Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart is truly the most remarkable composer who ever lived. He composed in the classical style and there is no other composer to fairly compare him to. Although he died at the age of 35‚ he left the world with more than 600 of the most amazing compositions ever written. Throughout his life‚ he composed with an ease of melody and a blend of grace and precision that arguable no one has ever excelled (Duiker 478). He was an amazing musician and composer whose legend continues
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Mozart to his wife‚ Constanze Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‚ one of the finest composers the world has ever known‚ had two great loves in his life; the first was music; and the second was Constanze Weber‚ whom he married in Vienna on August 4‚ 1782. She was 20‚ he was 26. By the time they married‚ Mozart’s life had already been a long succession of journeys in search of a patron who would free him from financial insecurity and allow him to devote all his energy to composing music. His concert
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Examining The Pathetique Sonata At the start of the nineteenth century‚ the world of music made a transition from the Classic Period of composition to what is now known as the Romantic Era. Composers experimented with more expressive and songlike melodies while pianists developed higher skill levels to match the increased technical demands of the pieces. One man who embodied this particular transitional period was Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven was one of the first composers to stray from
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Piano In the early 1700s‚ a new modification to a classic favorite‚ the harpsichord‚ changed the world of music across all genres. In 1709 a new instrument‚ classy and sophisticated‚ yet loud and dynamic was brought into the world by Bartolomeo Cristofori. The piano has continued a well loved legacy of many instruments predating it‚ while changing its mechanics significantly. The mechanics of the piano consist of three main components. They are: a stretched string made from high-carbon steel
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Spain and Portugal as music master to the princess Maria Barbara who later became Queen of Spain. The Scarlatti’s Sonatas Form and Tonal structure In the works of Scarlatti there are no sonatas that may be considered completely typical. Generally there is a single movement in binary form with both a varied and expressive range. Formal devices are utilized‚ in which each half of a sonata leads to a pivotal point that the Scarlatti scholar Ralph Kirkpatrick termed “the crux‚” and that is sometimes underlined
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Personalities of F. J. Haydn and W. A. Mozart The relationship of Haydn and Mozart has been the subject of much comment‚ most of it because Mozartians have always considered Haydn to be a second-rate composer. But contemporary and near-contemporary documents and Mozart ’s own compositions make it clear that Mozart treated the elder composer and his music with loving attention. Their close relationship both musically and personally makes the Mostly Mozart Festival ’s: Haydn Week appropriate.
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Classical Period: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In this essay‚ I will be detailing how‚ through his career as both a performer and composer‚ Mozart is directly responsible for further developing the standardized instrumentation of the orchestra. By looking
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Macfarlane December 17‚ 2012 Music Theory III Music Theory III Final Paper Beethoven Sonata No. 27 (e minor) This piece is highly unusual for Beethoven Sonatas. One‚ although it was written at the start of his late period‚ this sonata had only two movements‚ the first being extremely short. Secondly‚ this was the first that Beethoven started writing his tempo markings in German‚ as though implying that this Sonata was more personal. Beethoven has also remarked on this piece that he considered titling
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