Felix Mendelssohn was born in Germany in 1809 in the Romantic Period. He moved a little after he was born because were he lived was dangerous. When he was little he had a relationship with music.His parents let him be a musician.
He had a great teacher whose name was Carl Friedrich Zelter. Zelter encouraged Felix to follow Mozart and Bach but did not do Beethoven. He started writing masterpieces at age 15. He finally showed a lot of appreciation for Ludwig Van Beethoven. His older sister Fanny influenced his development.
Chapter 2
A Midsummer Night’s
Dream: Scherzo
Felix’s song is called A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Scherzo.This song has a lot of flutes a and some percussion or drums and maybe a clarinet, trumpets,symbols, bassoons,
German composer and pianist, Ludwig van Beethoven, was born December 1770 and spent most of his life in Vienna, Austria. His first teacher was his alcoholic father, who worked as a musician at the Court of Bonn. Teaching him day and night, Ludwig suffered from his father's harsh and erratic behavior. For a time, he and his father played at the Church. As his father's alcoholism increased, Ludwig became the main musician.
Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg in 1809. His father Abraham Mendelssohn was a banker, while his mum Lea Mendelssohn was a highly educated artist and musician. Mendelssohn first had his piano lesson from his mum, but soon he was sent to study with the best teachers at that time such as Marie Bigot and Ludwig Burger. He also took composition lessons with Karl
In the late 1810’s, Felix Mendelssohn took part in the Singakedemie Music Academy, where he wrote numerous pieces such as multiple violin sonatas, a cantata, two piano sonatas, and a short opera. In 1821, Karl Zelter took Mendelssohn to the port, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Immediately,
Beethoven is one of the most famous music composers not only of his time but as of today also. Although he suffered from loss of hearing, he has composed some of the most beautiful pieces of music we can still listen to today. After reading Beethoven’s testament, I have more of an understanding of what he was and had to go through due to his deafness. The correlation I found between his lack of hearing and his music is the emotion he put into his Fifth Symphony. Different from the Baroque style a symphony expressed multiple moods because of the movements used in a symphony making it more “real”. Because of Beethoven’s tragedy, his music displayed emotions parallel to what he felt, making his music more relatable and memorable. The complexity
Fanny was the oldest born out of four siblings, one including the well-known composer Felix Mendelssohn. Both Felix and Fanny received their earliest music education from their mother, Lea, who taught them piano. However, Fanny continued her music education into her teen years when she began to study theory and composition. In 1820, Fanny enrolled at the Berlin Sing-Akademie. While studying there, it is believed that she composed about 500 works.
Felix Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg on February 3, 1809, in Germany. In 1819, he joined the Singakademie music academy and began composing non-stop. At age 9, he made his public debut in Berlin. At Singakademie, he also became a conductor, but continued to compose prolifically. Mendelssohn founded the Leipzig Conservatory of Music in 1843. He died on November 4, 1847, in Leipzig. He was a great composer and changed music for ever. In 1829 Mendelssohn also became a conductor. He conducted a performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion. The performance's success led to other great opportunities which included a chance to conduct the London Singing Society that same year.
Beethoven is perhaps the most famous musician of all time. His influence on later composers was extremely huge, to the extent where many composers were intimidated by his music. Ludwig van Beethoven was born in 1770 into a family of musicians. His father and grandfather were both musicians at the court of Elector in the German town of Bonn. His grandfather was very respected, but his dad not so much given that he was an alcoholic. At a young age, Beethoven was put in charge of his family’s finances and started a job at the court. He composed music and helped look after the instrumentation. Around the same time, he began to write music. In 1790, an important visitor passed through Bonn: this was Franz Joseph Haydn. He was on his way to London for a visit when he stopped to meet Beethoven and agreed to take him on as a student when he came back from London to Vienna. In 1792, Beethoven moved to Vienna to study with Hayden. Apparently, it did not go as planned. Hayden was old fashion and a little overbearing, while Beethoven was rebellious and headstrong. Beethoven found support among the rich arts who lived in Vienna. Prince Lichnowsky gave him board and lodging at his place for in return, Beethoven would compose music and preform at evening parties.
Gustav Mahler was born on July 7, 1860, in the German town of Igula. The family began quickly growing but with only six of the twelve children surviving infancy. His hometown of Iglau was a thriving commercial area with a rich musical culture.(Wikipedia) This is where Mahler was introduced to an eclectic variety
He was born in the German town of Bonn on the 16th of December 1770. His grandfather Ludwig and his father Johann were both musicians. Johann was to act as little Ludwig's first music teacher, but Ludwig soon changed to the court organist C. G. Neefe. Passing eleven years of age, Ludwig deputized for Neefe, and at twelve had his first music published. He then stayed as Neefe's assistant until 1787, when at seventeen, he took off for Vienna. Even though Vienna was to be his home for the rest of his life, this first visit was short. On hearing that his mother was dying, he quickly returned to Bonn. Five years later he finally moved to Vienna to live and work.
In Berlin, Felix began taking piano lessons from Ludwig Berger, and composition lessons from Carl Friedrich Zelter. He also had
It’s not really possible for me to discuss the group itself, as they weren’t shown as part of the film or the play. The style of the music was almost entirely incidental music (including a number of vocal pieces), written by Felix Mendelssohn, although there were also excerpts from his symphonies and piano pieces. The music was re-orchestrated by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Date and time are hard to place, except for during or slightly before the year 1935. Similarly, I can’t locate the place any more specifically than Warner Bros. Pictures. Going in, I had no expectations, but hoped to learn about the concert, what the music sounded like, and other things required to write a good report.
Felix Mendelssohn is a well-known German composer, pianist and organist of the early Romantic Era. At a very young age, Felix Mendelssohn quickly established himself as a musical prodigy and is now studied by people across the world. What many do not know is that Felix had an older sister who was also a musical prodigy; however, unfortunately, she does not get the same credit as her older brother. Due to the gender politics of this time, women who performed after the age of one who should be married were looked at negatively in society. Women were meant to serve their husbands and take care of the children, not to compose or perform at musical venues. Pieces from both Songs without Words composed by Felix Mendelssohn and Das Jahr composed by Fanny Mendelssohn have so many similarities. When taking a closer look at Felix’s compositional work, it is sometimes indistinguishable to the works of Fanny.
Ludwig van Beethoven was born in the town of Bonn, Germany on December 16 of 1770. Bonn is located in western Germany on the Rhine River. Beethoven showed an affinity for music at an early age. His father, Johann, taught Ludwig to play the piano as well as the violin. Johann did this in hopes that his son would become a prodigy, and then reach fame like Wolfgang A. Mozart. Unfortunately though Beethoven
Ludwig Van Beethoven was one of the most influential composers of his time. The decades around the 1800’s were years of many changes and Beethoven’s new approach to music was something that reflected that. “His symphonies, concertos, string quartets and piano sonatas are central to the repertory of classical music.” This essay will focus on the historical and theoretical aspects of the third movement of Sonata Op. 28 No. 15.
The characterization of the musical production of Felix Mendelssohn requires the acknowledgement of two key observations: the essentially classical structure of Mendelssohn’s compositions and the frequent romantic innovations Mendelssohn employed. Mendelssohn was a conservative fixture in an era of radical upheaval—the early nineteenth century. Intellectually in Europe, this was an era of transition, as the romantics sought to upend the enlightenment establishment across all areas of artistic, scientific and cultural production: whether the orderly structures of classical music, the faith in reason and scientific progress that animated Enlightenment tracts and polemics, the embrace of technological progress, or the vehement rejection of superstitions