Franz Liszt As A Hungarian Pianist From The Romantic Period

Haydn lived with his parents in Rohrau. They knew Rohrau couldn’t offer him the musical training that he needed so they talked with a relative and let Haydn move to Hainburg. In 1738, he lived with Johann Frankh. Johann Frakh introduced him to the world of music. He was somewhere between the ages of six-ten years old when he left his parents. In 1740, Haydn moved to Vienna. He went to Vienna after he auditioned for Georg von Reutter. Georg von Reutter liked him. Georg Reutter choose Haydn and enrolled him at the St. Stephen’s Cathedral. At the institution, Haydn played a variety of instruments. He played violin, the clavier, the harpsichord, and other small percussion instruments. He trained for several years and then worked as a chorister for a few years. Once

Born Wofgang Amadeus Mozart in 1756, he was considered a genius when he was just a child. He taught himself how to play the violin, clarinet, and trumpet. At age nine, he composed a full symphony, and at fourteen he wrote his first opera. During his life, he accomplished and composed fifty symphonies, twenty-five piano concertos, twelve violin concertos, twenty-seven concertos arias, twenty-six string quartets, one hundred and three minuets, fifteen masses, and twenty-one works of opera. Mozart was so talented that after only hearing a piece of music once, he would be able to play it perfectly even without the music. He was able to write music before words. He was excellent in math and could speak a few languages. It would take you 1500 years to listen to all of his music if you listened to it every day for 8

Ludwig van Beethoven’s father, Johann van Beethoven was a musician, teacher, and a singer. His father started giving him piano lesson’s at the age of 4 or 5. Beethoven’s father was all about exploiting his young son’s talents; he even lied about

did not always like the piano. When he was a small boy he liked the drums, his father

Igor Stravinsky was third of a family of four boys. He grew up hearing his father practicing his opera and attending local ballets. He also started taking piano lessons when he was 9 years old and continued on with musical notation and composition instruction. All throughout his early life he studied music. However, although he had been brought

‘The Pianist’ is a cinematic masterpiece by the Polish director Roman Polanski. One of the key ideas that appear throughout much of the film is that of ‘hope being instrumental in our survival’. This idea is portrayed through Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish pianist, as he struggles for survival in Warsaw as everybody that he once knew and everything that he once had is lost. The idea of ‘hope being instrumental in our survival’ is worth learning about as it allows the audience to realise the importance of hope in todays society – and to understand how Polanski uses music to symbolise ‘hope’ for Szpilman in the film. Polanski effectively utilises an array of visual and oral text features such as music, dialogue, and lighting to build further

Then at age 25, Mozart broke free from Salzburg and became a great freelance musician in Vienna. This is where Mozart found and started some of his success. Mozart earned his living giving lessons to people and holding concerts. Mozart later wrote his piece “Don Giovanni” and then “The marriage of Figaro” and these were great pieces for his time. Eventually, Mozart's popularity disapeared and his music was found to be very complicated and hard to follow. Mozart's music was very versatile and his masterpieces had been in many forms. His piano concertos were and

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in Vyatka, a town in Russia’s Ural mountains, on May 7th, 1840. He started taking piano lessons at age 5, although he had no history of composers in his family, he had a very early start with music. When he was 8 years old, his family moved to St. Petersburg, Russia. Even though he was considered a good musician as a kid, it wasn't considered an acceptable occupation. His parents ended up making him study law. While he was in law school, he studied music in his free time. After deciding that law wasn’t for him, he became one of the Russian Musical Society’s first students, when he was 21 years old. Soon after, he enrolled in St. Petersburg conservatory and gave private lessons to students. He really wanted to learn how to compose music for

Franz Schubert was an Austrian composer, a native of Vienna. His early musical training in piano and violin lessons came from his father, and his older brother, who were both school teachers (Brown p. 752). Later, he studied under the Viennese court composer Salieri (Brown p.753). After college he became a teacher at his father's school. He detested the teaching profession because it took time away from his compositions. His most prolific year was 1815 during which he wrote 145 songs, including the famous Erlkönig.

Furthermore, At the age of 4 Tchaikovsky made his first recording attempt at composition, which a song written with his younger sister Alexandra. In 1845,(when he was 5) he started taking piano lessons with a local tutor which he became familiar with Frédéric Chopin’s

When it comes to remarkable violinist of the romantic era, there is none better than Niccolò Paganini. Born on the 27, of October 1782, in Genoa, Italy, he was a man know for his incredible talent and skill. His father taught him how to play the mandolin at the age of five, he then picked up the violin two years later when he was seven. Even as a child his potential was immediately noticed, therefore he was offered various scholarships for violin lessons. As he matured and the French invaded Italy, he began playing concerts with his father in Livorno. The next couple years for Paganini included recognition for his technique and his incredible musicianship despite his hand deformation.. With works such as his Concertos No. 1-4, Paganini was

Beethoven's talents were discovered at an early age, and he was sent to Vienna to study under different teachers including Mozart and Hayden. There, Beethoven quickly adopted a reputation of a great piano player, a child prodigy. He gave his first public performance at the age of eight and published his first

At the age of three, Wolfgang showed signs of remarkable musical talent. He learned to play the harpsichord, a keyboard instrument related to the piano, at the age of four. Wolfgang began composing minuets at the age of five. When he was only six years old, he and his older sister, Anna Maria, embarked on a series of concert tours to Europe’s courts and major cities. They played for the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa

Johann Beethoven was a tenor singer in the same place has his father. Johann gave piano and violin lessons in his spare time to assist his income. Johann fell in love

In the course of the development of music, many great composers have contributed their brilliance towards the revolution of music. To be a great composer does not necessarily mean that they have reached a vast amount of fame. However, it means that their compositions have ingenuity and value. The melodies they have cleverly created have reached a point of worthiness in the world of music. For it is the sweet harmonies a composer creates that defines who he is. One of these gifted composers was Frederic Chopin, born on February 22, 1810 in Zelazowa Wola, Poland. Young Chopin was already composing by the age of eight and as his musical career developed he became known as a master of piano composition. Although he was often misunderstood