Almost miraculously‚ despite his rapidly progressing deafness‚ Beethoven continued to compose at a furious pace. From 1803-1812‚ what is known as his "middle" or "heroic" period‚ he composed an opera‚ six symphonies‚ four solo concerti‚ five string quartets‚ six string sonatas‚ seven piano sonatas‚ five sets of piano variations‚ four overtures‚ four trios‚ two sextets and 72
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violin had remained popular in chamber music‚ the viola was very much neglected. It was not until the end of the eighteenth century‚ when Mozart and Beethoven promoted the viola to a position of equality with the second violin and the cello in the string quartet‚ that the viola was given more interesting soloistic part-writing to play. The question then is: why did the viola fall out of favor in chamber music from the time period following its birth to the end of the seventeenth century? At the
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Beethoven MUS HST 70 Mindy LaTour O’Brien Listening Journals #1 Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 1 in F Major (1st movement) I enjoyed listening to this piece. All throughout the first movement‚ I constantly felt tension rising and relaxing (tension rising because of the repetitive melodies with crescendo and changing the melody key to a minor key and tension relaxing when it has descend or a key changes to a Major); I think this was Beethoven’s intention to have the audience
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India and the Himalayas‚ he decided to return to New York and began to apply the eastern techniques to his own work. By 1990‚ Glass was regarded as an established star of Minimalist music. Glass mainly worked with and on percussion ensembles‚ string quartets‚ orchestral works‚ operas and soundtracks. Another important composer of Minimalism was John Adams who was born in 1947. After graduating from Harvard University in 1971 he moved to California‚ where he taught and conducted at the San Francisco
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On December 17‚ 1770‚ a life began in Bonn‚ Germany that would change the change of music for an era. Ludwig van Beethoven was born into a family of musicians. His grandfather‚ whom he was named after‚ was a bass singer and Kapellmeister at the electorate of Cologne. Beethoven’s father‚ Johann‚ was a court tenor and music teacher. His mother‚ Maria Magdalena Leym‚ came from a family of wealthy landowners and senators. When Beethoven was only three years of age his grandfather passed away‚ leaving
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scene in Vienna. Beethoven had arrived in Vienna in 1792 to study composition with Haydn. Mozart and Hayden were the two most influential people on Beethoven’s musical style. In comparison Haydn and Mozart‚ Beethoven had a later start to writing symphony music at the age of
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Jr. (a mentally ill homeless musician) portrayed by Jamie Foxx. This film follows Steve Lopez a journalist working for the LA times and while looking for a good story to write stubbles upon a street musician who is playing a violin with only two strings. The journalist goes on a great journey with the musician as I will explain more in detail as the review goes on. In this review I will explain the great story this movie told. As well as what music period it represented; what I learned from this
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Scherzo: Allegro non tanto- Trio Track 8: Finale: Allegro giusto- Allegro vivace By Alexander Borodin Track 9: Allegro moderato Track 10: Scherzo: Allegro Track 11: Notturno: Andante Track 12: Finale: Andante- Vivance Played by the Emerson String Quartet: Eugene Drucker‚ 1st Violin (Dvorak‚ Tchaikovsky) 2nd violin (Bordin); Phlip Setzer‚ 2nd violin (Dvorak‚ Tchaikovsky) 1st violin (Bordin) ; Lawrence Dutton‚ viola/alto; David Finneckle‚ violincello Find information and interesting stories about
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The impressions of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) as a person‚ as discussed by Greenberg (2005)‚ may lead one to believe he was a deeply troubled and conflicted individual‚ a great artist and. a product of his times. “There were‚ my friends‚ internal and external factors that shaped the development of Beethoven’s music‚ personal issues on one hand‚ and societal issues on the other. He was‚ very simply‚ the right man at the right place at the right time. And his music gives voice and substance to
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Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 21‚ 1635 in Eisenach‚ Thuringia‚ Germany. At a young age‚ his father‚ Johann Ambrosius‚ taught Bach how to play violin‚ considering he was the town musician in Eisenach. He attended a school with religious instruction and studied Latin. Lutheran faith later influenced his music. After the death of both of his parents‚ he became an orphan at the age of ten. Luckily he was taken in by his older brother Johann Christoph. Living with his brother‚ he was enrolled
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