her twenty-first birthday. They worked together‚ composing and performing and raising their eight children. In Clara’s childhood‚ she met‚ performed for‚ and was admired by performers and composers such as Goethe‚ Paganini‚ Louis Spohr‚ Chopin‚ Liszt and Mendelssohn. She was influenced by each of these men and made an impact on them as
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Franz Seraphicus Peter Schubert is a founder of Romantics and one of the four great pillars of Classicism – along with Haydn‚ Mozart‚ and Beethoven. Although he only lived for thirty-one years‚ he produced a large number of masterpieces during his short but prolific career. Today people recognize Schubert’s greatness‚ but he was unknown and poor for whole life. In total‚ he composed over six hundred secular vocal works‚ seven complete symphonies‚ sacred music‚ operas‚ incidental music and a large
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Introduction Franz Marc was a German artist and printmaker‚ and also one of the key statistics of the German Expressionist movement. Franz Marc was born in February 8‚ 1880 in Munich and past away in March 4‚ 1916‚ eventually Marc was only 36 years old. Wilhelm‚ the father‚ was an expert landscape painter; his mother‚ Sophie‚ was a strict Calvinist. Marc began to study at the Academy of Fine Arts‚ Munich in 1900. In 1903 and 1907‚ he spent time in France‚ intensely in Paris‚ visiting the city’s
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having the general and piano instruction‚ his interest started to blossom‚ making Schumann have devotion for music. Not only did Schumann developed an interest in the music field but was also influenced by the great works of Ludwig van Beethoven‚ Franz Schubert‚ and Felix Mendelssohn. By the time he was 16‚ his father died and that same month
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from a poor family he found his love for music at an early age. As a gifted child he began writing and composing his own pieces and has his first published by the age of seven. After realizing his fragile stature couldn’t last with composers like Liszt he was left to teach for most of his wages while playing in smaller concerts. Before he even set foot in high school Chopin had already written four polonaises‚ a variation set‚ and a rondo though most of his work was concentrated on virtuoso piano
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Gregor Samsa’s sister‚ Grete‚ in The Metamorphosis‚ by Franz Kafka‚ seems to undergo a metamorphosis that is parallel to her brother’s. As Gregor takes on the characteristics of an insect‚ Grete gains her independence and maturity. Before Gregor’s transformation‚ Grete seems to be his only close companion. She writes letters to him while he is away from home‚ and her first words to Gregor in the story are kind and caring: "Gregor? Aren’t you well? Are you needing anything?" (368). Later in the story
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painting‚ literature and artistic style‚ his music is structured full of vivid and intense emotional expression. This characteristic of music and symphony can be seen in other composers during that time most of whom befriended Berlioz: Schumann‚ Liszt to name just a few. The strong yet desperate feeling infused into his Symphonie came from Berlioz’s ongoing but unfulfilling courtship to Simthon‚ which coupled with widely-spread social negative comments on him had later turned into a spell for
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Franz Schubert (1797-1828)‚ the earliest master of the romantic art song‚ was unlike any great composer before him: he never held an official musical position and was neither a conductor nor a virtuoso; his income came entirely form composition. "I have come into the world for no other purpose than to compose‚" he said. The full measure of his genius was recognized only years after his tragically early death. Schubert was born in Vienna‚ the son of a schoolmaster. Even as a child he had astounding
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Franz Kafka was different‚ a man bent on portraying changes everywhere. Kafka was also a man consumed by death‚ consumed by the fact that he might eventually die. One man who was greatly affected by his fathers negligence of him‚ and a social deviance about him which held him back from interaction. Such a man was so afraid about what society thought of his writing‚ that he never widely published his works‚ and even asked a friend to burn all manuscripts. Not only was Kafka Jewish‚ he resented
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Schumann and the Kinderszenen Robert Schumann‚ composer throughout the early- to mid-nineteenth century‚ is probably best known for his songs and piano works. Before injuring his finger most likely through the use of a chiroplast (an instrument that guides the hands while playing; highly controversial)‚ Schumann was an avid piano player‚ if not a proper concert pianist and virtuoso[1]. But due to this ailing finger‚ Schumann had to eventually find other means to support his life. Thankfully
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