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Cesar Frank Biography

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Cesar Frank was born on December 10th of 1822, in Liège, Belgium. He is a romantic composer and organist in the 19th century, who was best known for the movement to give French music an emotional engagement than German composers. Belgium became an independent state in 1830. It shares land borders with Germany, France, Luxembourg, and Netherlands. His father and mother are Germans. Ironically, out of four choices, Cesar Frank leaned more toward France music. According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Franck had a brilliant gift for music that he later entered the Liege conservatory as a young boy. He won his first prize for fugue in 1840 and his second for organ in 1841. His father was the reason behind his music. His father was ambitious to make his son …show more content…

As a result, his whole life was based around music. From an eight year old boy who attends gigs his dad arranges to a man who created his own work. His life was rounded by support from his family and his church people. They created a boy to be humble and passionate about his music. His musical styles consist of chamber, keyboard, choral, symphony, and vocal. In his work “Violin Sonata in A Major”, it is a keyboard and chamber music. His work was inspired by his marriage, which it was first performed at his wedding celebration. A violin and piano are used, which have a low and high beat throughout the song. Due to it being in Romantic musical period, and him getting married, this song is perfect. In the first movement on the song, it has a slow medieval start. As if love could be dangerous and he is on the verge to find out. Dynamically, it is at speaking voice and goes up higher then lower every time. The beat start off simple, with one by one keys. The second movement, the keys progress faster. Suddenly, a pause occurs in the song and again, keys start to go crazy fast and start off

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