The Legacy Of Alexandre Cesar Leopold

The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Brian Selznick, 2007) tells the story of a mysterious young boy named Hugo, living in the walls of a Paris train station in 1931. It follows Hugo’s adventures, dreams, thoughts, and most of all, his quest to answer the many questions he has about his past. The Invention of Hugo Cabret “is a graphic novel that successfully alternates slabs of written texts with pages of black and white illustrations” (Lawn, 2012, Para 4). It is discovered firstly, how words and images work together to portray action and suspense. And secondly, how the words and images together arouse emotion from the reader and draw in the audience. These tools and techniques

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

She was fortunate to have a musically gifted father, who was known to be an excellent piano teacher. She studied piano under her father and by the age of nine she began performing as a solo artist. Her formal education was slight, but she had a lot of music education, including education on

His father Leopold, was very supportive of his son’s music ability and provided him the opportunity

The musical talent of Frederic became apparent extremely early on, and it was compared with the childhood genius of Mozart. Already at the age of 7, Frederic was the author of two polonaises, the first being published in the engraving workshop of Father Cybulski. The prodigy was featured in the Warsaw newspapers, and little Chopin became the attraction and ornament of receptions

Alexandre Dumas was born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie in Villers-Cotterêts, France. He was born on July 24, 1802, the son of Marie Louise Labouret and General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas. According to Biography, “The Dumas family name was adopted from Alexandre’s grandmother, an enslaved Haitian woman named Marie-Cesette Dumas” (Biography 1). At the age of four, his father died of cancer, and although his family was poor, Dumas was able to advance in life due to his father’s reputation and aristocratic rank. He attended Abbe Gregoire’s school, until he left at the age of eleven to work for a local notary. When he turned twenty, he left home to move to Paris, where he worked as a scribe for Louis-Philipe, the Duke of Orleans, at the Palais Royal.

In Berlin, Felix began taking piano lessons from Ludwig Berger, and composition lessons from Carl Friedrich Zelter. He also had

In 1828 he began to take violin lessons from Müller but he soon found harmony and counterpoint boring and useless (Jacobs 7). However; he soon learned that he needed counterpoint and harmony and so he took music lessons from Theodor Weinlig who was a successor to J. S. Bach (Colles 206). Weinlig was the Cantor of St. Thomas Church (Jacobs 9).

5 years later, Belgians began to revolt and demanded for independence, one of the reasons was because of their religion. To understand this revolution you have to start in the beginning when the Spanish ruled the Low country areas, they forced their ideals onto the region. Then came the time where the French took over but the Dutch community along with the Dutch themselves revolted against French occupation. Ironically in the Belgian revolution, the Belgians received support from the French. You see, the Belgians were and still are strong Catholic believers and the Dutch reign was Protestant. The history of this revolution sparked social turmoil and created the current borders, political parties and linguistic. After Belgium's independence,

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

At age of 5 Zimerman started studying the piano with his father. After two years of being taught by his father he began taking lessons with Andrzej Jasiński. He then attended and studied at Conservatory in Katowice, Poland until he was done with his training. By the age of 18

Firstly, two of the world’s greatest composers have similarities and differences in their early lives. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – baptized as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus – was born on January 27 in Salzburg, Austria. (Solomon) In regards with his name, he – and most people with long names – went through variations of names. However, most of the time, he signed his name as W.A. Mozart, or Wolfgang Amadé Mozart. (Wates) Out of seven children, he was the youngest child and one of the two survivors past infancy; his sister was named Maria Anna. While growing up, his first teacher was his father. On the other hand, Ludwig van Beethoven was born on December 16, 1770 in Bonn. (Fischer) He was named after his grandfather, who is also

Debussy was born on August 22, 1862, in the town of Saint Germain-en Laye, France. Debussy was the oldest of five children, where growing up in the suburbs of Paris, his family was quite poor. Although his family was poverty stricken, along with neither of his parents being musicians, Debussy was able to begin playing the piano at age seven and started to gain success at the age of nine. One of his teachers, Madame Maute de Flerville, who also taught the Polish composer Frederic Chopin (Lockspeiser), was able to provide Debussy with great knowledge and skill of the piano. Then at the age of only eleven, Debussy enrolled in the Paris Conservatory where he was able to express his musical talent and knowledge. At the conservatory, in addition to the artists studying their instrument, “performers received training in music theory and harmony, and participated in ensembles” (Jensen 9). Debussy’s musical talent benefited greatly from

A smallpox inoculation gave the infant Bartók a rash that remained with him until he was five years old. As a result he spent his early years detached from other children and people and spent many hours listening to his mother play the piano, which would have resulted in early musical stimulation. Bartók showed early musical aptitude and began to compose dances at the tender age of nine. Born in Romania, his mother, Paula moved

“He received piano lessons from Tobias Friedrich Pfeiffer, and Franz Roventini gave him violin and viola lessons” (Aaron Green).