(13 April 1816 – 1 February 1875) was an English composer, pianist, and conductor who became a leading force in musical education. As a student at the London Royal Academy of Music (RAM), he was admired by Felix Mendelssohn, who invited him to come to Germany. In three long visits there between 1836 and 1842 he performed as a pianist and composed, befriending Robert Schumann. In 1837 he began teaching at the RAM, with which he was associated for most of his life. His pupils included Arthur Sullivan, Hubert Parry, and Tobias Matthay. He performed throughout the 1840s and 1850s, returning to composition in 1858; by this time his works were considered old-fashioned, though they were still popular. He was Professor of Music at the University of
“ He continued his music lessons after high school graduation, in 1921 he went to France to study at the American Conservatory in
In 1703, he moved to Hamburg. There he met Telemann and began to have many of his works performed. He then traveled to Rome and numerous European capitals until he settled in England in 1714. He remained a world traveler his entire life which was a main contributing factor to his originality and probably was responsible for his well-known habit of "borrowing" music
19. Franz Schubert. Born in 1797, died in 1828 from Vienna. Wrote well over 600 works. Was the Master of the Art Song. He wasn’t financially successful and his symphonies were performed after he died. 20. Robert Schumann. Born in 1810, died in 1856 from Germany. Wrote piano pieces and symphonies. Known for his gift of melody. Eventually was committed and later died. 21. Clara Schumann. Born in 1819, died in 1896 from Germany. First well known female composer. Married to Robert Schumann. Stop composing at age 36. Mainly wrote piano pieces. After husbands death she dedicated the rest of her career to promoting her husbands work. 22. Frederic Chopin. Born in 1811, died in 1849 from Poland. Came to Paris at age 21, wrote exclusively for piano. Wrote free form preludes, nocturnes etudes and impromptus. Composed mainly chamber music. Had and affair
Menachem Wolfovitch Begin was born on August 16, 1913 in Brest-Litovsk, Poland. He was prime minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983. As a teenager, he was a part of the youth Zionist Revisionist movement, Betar, and at the age of 25, he became the leader of it. Later on, Russian authorities arrested Begin for being a Zionist and sent him to a Siberian labor camp because they believed him to be a “dangerous individual”. He was released in 1941 via an agreement between the Soviet Union and the Polish government, an agreement that also freed 1.5 million Poles. When World War II broke out, Begin was one of the 1,000 illegal immigrants that tried to cross the Romanian border on their way to Palestine. Unfortunately, the plan failed and Begin had
Who is the composer (full name and dates)? List three points about his life and environment.
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.
He remained a clerk for three years. He hated his job but he worked feverishly at it for he worked hard at every task he was given. He continued to be drawn into the music world and he took piano and theory lessons. Finally, in 1862, he quit his job and devoted the rest of his life to music which he began by entering the St. Petersburg Conservatory. He graduated with a silver medal in 1865. After graduation he was unsure of what to do until 1866 when Nicholas Rubenstein offered him the job of professor of harmony at the newly formed Moscow Conservatory. It was here that he wrote his first serious works which included AA Festival Overture on the Danish National Hymn,@ his First Symphony in G AWinter Daydreams,@ and his first opera AThe Voyevode.@ Showing his desire for perfection he tore up the opera because he was dissatisfied with it and it wasn=t until 1949 that it was revived.5
This post was a great help to Mendelssohn as he was lacking work. He composed his first oratorio, St. Paul, during his employment there. (Classical.net) He did not particularly enjoy his position as he, “complained that his musicians often appeared inebriated and could not play trumpets clearly.” (Todd 295) The latter part of his employment at Düsseldorf saw the death of his father, Abraham in 1835, which was another tragic loss to him. It was also during this year that he met his future wife Cécile Jeanrenaud in Frankfurt. He moved to Leipzig in the same year where he became the conductor of the Gewandhaus Orchestra. He remained in Leipzig until
Gustav Mahler was born on November 22 1913 and he died on December 4, 1976.When Gustav Mahler was 11 when he meet Frank Bridge. According to the article¨ A composer who had recently become interested in experimental styles and the work.¨ Bridge gave Britten a technical foundation on which to base his creativity and introduced him to a wide range of composers from many different countries.He then went to the college for his music and the college was called Royal College Of Music.He went there to study the piano and the composer Harold Samuel.He then eventually did not find the college useful so when he was
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.
Oil on wood panel, “Honey is Sweeter than Blood” was one of the first studies and attempts by Salvador Dali to move from Cubism to Surrealism. (Pixtot, A. “Presentation of the latest”, 1). The painting has a disturbing meaning of portraying the female body in a state of decay, connected to the present prostitution in Paris at the time. The symmetrical perspective is simple but effective, by using the naked female body as a center of focus. Color is on a high hue rich in blues and limited to a high contrast chiaroscuro skin tones over the background washed out skies. Psychological obsessions and struggle with preoccupations of decadence, death, sexual obscenities and immoralities were present in his works.
His father wanted him to follow his footsteps and work in medicine, and he decided reluctantly that he would follow through with this at the age of 17. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the Ecole de Médecine in Paris and grew to completely detest what would be his future career. Around this time, he fell in love with Gluck (who would later become his largest influence, along with Beethoven) after seeing his opera Iphigénie en Tauride (Macdonald). To his father’s disapproval he abandoned his medical studies and started at the Paris Conservatoire in 1826, studying composition under Le Sueur.
Ludwig Van Beethoven was one of the greatest musical composers of his time. Starting very young in his studies of music, he held many important positions they would develop him into the composer he became. Born in Bonn, Germany to a singer, he held his first position at the church. He later moved to Vienna where his composed several pieces, and even an opera. He created a new style of music, cyclic form.
Ralph Vaughan Williams was a British/English composer born in Gloucestershire, England on October 12th, 1872. He was the leader of the nationalist movement for English music during the 20th century. Ralph was introduced to music very young when his aunt gave him piano lessons at 5 years old. (He started to learn to play the violin as well.) During that year, he composed a four bar piece (his first) called “ The Robin’s nest”. At the age of 8 years old, he took a music course in Edinburg and although very young, passed all of the exams included in the course. In 1887, Ralph went to the ‘public school Charterhouse’ where he put together his first performances of one of his works (G major piano trio) on violin. At this school, Williams found that he identified as an agnostic although he didn’t tell many people, as to not offend his family. In 1890, he started to attend ‘ The Royal College of Music ‘ in London. It is here that Ralph studied with many influential professors including Francis Edward Gladstone and Walter Parratt. He also studied at Trinity College under the guide of Sir Hubert Parry and Sir Hubert Parry who were composers of the 19th century renaissance. After attending Cambridge for 3 years, Ralph fell in love with Adeline Fisher (who he eventually married after he received his degree at the school). Ralph did not enjoy playing the organ as much as the other instruments he had learned to play and that had been