Franz Liszt Research Paper

This paper discusses Mozart's life, his compositions and his importance to the world and the world of music. It explains how Mozart's music is still some of the most popular classical music played today and his life is still studied because his music is so well known and liked.

Ever since his father began teaching him as a child to play the violin and clavier, any keyboard instrument such as the harpsichord, Ludwig van Beethoven has been amongst the most renowned and influential composers of music. Despite the harsh punishments and mistreatment Beethoven suffered through while practicing with his father, he still managed to become a “prodigy” at a rather young age, having his first public recital at around seven years old. After his first recital role music played in his continued to grow, and soon after dropping out of school to pursue music “full time” he published his first composition.

The composer I chose is Clara Wieck Schumann. The piece that I chose to be analyzed is called "If You Love for Beauty's Sake". Clara Schumann was born in 1819, she is also known as one of the most talented musicians in the Romantic era. Being a skilled pianist at such a young age, she excelled throughout her career. Some people only know her as the wife of Robert Schumann, who was also a famous composer in this era. Like Robert, she composed her own music. Clara went through tough obstacles in order to obtain her status. There are many aspects of her life that influenced her and the person she became.

This paper will explain Beethoven’s impact during and after the Romantic Era. It will also emphasize the influence Beethoven had during the 1800s as well as the remarks he left and the ones that continue to grow. As known, the Romantic Era is one of the most classical pieces of history. This era was not like the others, meaning it wasn't about war but more of an artistic, literacy, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the eighteenth century. The Romantic Era was where all the composer we know today started.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born on May 7, 1840 in Kamsko-Votkinsk, Russia. He was the second born of six children. His parent’s names were Alexandria and Illya. His father worked as a mine inspector. His mother died while Pyotr was only 14 of cholera. Pyotr started playing and learning music when he was very young; he grew to be a very famous composer.

Joseph Haydn was born on March 31, 1732 in Rohrau Austria. He was one of three boys born to Mathias Haydn and Anna Maria Koller. Both of Haydn’s parents especially his father loved music. Haydn started to display his musical gifts at an early age. His parents sent him to live with their relative, Johann Matthias Frankh because he was

Music becomes a part in our daily life. We often hear music on radios, in the stores, or with our smartphone. I love music and want to investigate it more. Therefore, I chose a music composer in the 19th century, Frédéric François Chopin, in order to analyze the development or incarceration of ideologies to the current century. Frédéric François Chopin, who was born in 1810, was a Polish composer on the Romantic era. His talent appeared very early, which on the age of seven Chopin already composed two polonaises. Chopin then went abroad to Europe to learn about musical life and wanted to be renown. People acclaimed him as piano genius and great composer due to his extremely success performances. Chopin existed in Romanticism, which is an era

Mark Evans Bonds in “Absolute Music” discusses Liszt´s “Program” music. According with Bonds, Liszt in his “Harold” essay, he distinguishes between “¬¬specifically musical composer” and the composer driven by an overarching poetic image or narrative. In program music, the recurrence, variation, alteration, and modulation of motifs are determined by their relationship to a poetic idea. Liszt used the new term to identify a repertory of instrumental music which through an evocative title, a verbal program, or both, “draws the listener´s attention in advance toward a specific object”. Bonds analyses the opinion of Liszt in his program music, how he tried to convince that program music is the next step in music evolve, the necessity of break form rules to adequate the music into literature (in the case of Liszt) and the fact that he was reinforcing the first ideas of combining music with other arts, like Berlioz in his “Symphonie Fantastique”. Liszt proclaim himself as a Beethoven´s successor, he felt that he had the necessity to create something new, as we know, the Weimar period of Liszt was dedicated to him as a composer, leaving aside the achievements of other composers like Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. He looked that form and harmony were like a formula after Beethoven, because

The early piano sonatas of Beethoven deserve special mention. Although his first published examples of concertos and trios and the first two symphonies are beneath the masterpieces of Mozart and Haydn, the piano sonatas bear an unmistakably Beethovian stamp: grandiose in scope and length, and innovative in their range of expression. The sonatas were able to move expression from terrible rage to peals of laughter to deep depression so suddenly. Capturing this unpredictable style in his music, a new freedom of expression which broke the bounds of Classical ideals, was to position Beethoven as a disturbed man in the minds of some of his contemporaries. Furthermore, he was to be seen as the father of Romanticism and the single most important innovator of music in the minds of those after him. (Bookspan 27).

He transcribed for solo piano, a selection of works by various other composers, such as Berlioz, Paganini, J.S.Bach, Beethoven, and Schubert. In fact Liszt’s music is largely divided in two main categories; his transcriptions, which easily make up almost half of his works, and his original works which he composed himself. Regardless of the originality of the music, Liszt’s performance was often so improvised and embellished that it might as well have been his own. For this reason he was criticized to lack creativity. On the contrary, his execution of improvisation and embellishments of fluttering trills, cascading runs and trickling arpeggios, proved his extensive creativity, as the pieces he improved upon were often already masterpieces in themselves. As a composer, Liszt contributed significantly to the Romantic Period with his invention of the symphonic poem, a one movement orchestration that depicts a story or artwork of some kind. Liszt also incorported thematic transformation to combine differing

Joseph Haydn was born in a small Austrian town named Rohrau. His mother was Maria Koller a cook, and his father was Mathias Haydn who was a step under the village mayor in Rohrau. His Parents were hard working people his father would be the one who did have interests similar to his Mathias enjoyed performing folk music. Haydn would also discuss memories of his family singing and being very musically inclined with one another. He was very shart and extremely talented in the Musical Arts and his parents would notice and knew he needed a change of scenery to help him attain a better career in the art. Haydn's parents would send him with

Franz Schubert, the name defines an era and a genre. A rare composer who's symphonic works represent the best legacy of the classical tradition, while his songs define German lied and exemplify the height of romantic lyricism.

The reason why this composition is important is because it is an answer to one of the issues discussed in The War of the Romantics, which was about the sonata. Liszt chose to modify and develop the form instead of keeping to the form the composers used to compose by in the classical era (“Liszt, Franz”).

(2) Schubert was one of the most prominent composers in the Romantic era. He was the first composer to live off only the money he got from composing. He wrote many compositions during his short lifetime, especially art songs (“OnMusic”).

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