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Beethoven Classical Music

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On Friday 13th April, 2017, the Yale School of Music performed a symphony concert named ‘Beethoven Winds’ at the Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall. They played four pieces by Beethoven using aerophones which are wind instruments like the Oboe, English horn, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn. They are all classical style pieces which were written during the Romantic Period. These musical pieces were played by the faculty and alumni of the Yale School of Music. The Yale School of Music is an Ivy League, elite school which was established in 1894 in New Haven, Connecticut and has been instrumental in training many musicians and composers. The school’s chamber music is a renowned and acclaimed program and their graduates have created many chamber ensembles. …show more content…

The early period works were influenced by Haydn and Mozart. The middle period is when he developed his own individualistic style of music and it was also described as heroic because he produced pieces like the Third symphony and the opera Fidelio. And the late period is when his music began to evolve into difficult and complex type of music and included styles of Bach and Handel. He is most famous for his Fifth symphony in C minor, Ode to Joy from the Ninth symphony and his opera Fidelio. He was very contemporary with his style and structure of music, often using various instruments that have been never used before. At the age of 29, he started to experience signs of deafness but he produced some of the greatest works like the Missa solemnis, the Ninth Symphony when he was totally …show more content…

This is an example of chamber music which uses six wind instruments. Music with a small group of musicians where each person has their own part is known as chamber music. The sextet has four movements, adagio- allegro, adagio, menuetto. Quasi allegretto, rondo. Allegro. It uses two of each instruments such as Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon. The opening begins slowly (adagio) with grand music, The clarinets are mainly played for the first theme along with the fast movements (allegro). The second theme are played by the clarinet as well. The unique and characteristics of each instrument is used effectively in order to produce the maximum

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