The Two Act Comic Opera Barbier Von Bagdad

Stories like Sindbad, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp and other popular stories are very common today in the western culture. Animated movies were also made for the entertainment of kids on these popular stories. One might wonder that where these stories originated and how it came down and made place in the western culture. Although these stories are very popular in both the western culture and the eastern culture but the original literary work is not so popular in common people. Theses stories are some of the stories from the Arabic work "The Thousand and One Nights." The work of "The Thousand and One Nights" represents basically a female that is a strong and clever idol and

Arabian Nights, also known as One Thousand and One Nights, is a mystical group of stories centralized in the areas we call West Asia and South Asia. It is said that they were compiled during the Islamic Golden Age, which could be anywhere between the 3rd century and 13th century. One Thousand and One Nights is broken into several different parts, some translated into English, some not. The key theme of these stories is the power of storytelling. As Madeleine L’Engle, a well-renowned fiction author, once said “Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving”. For the heroine of One Thousand and One Nights, Scheherazade, her goal is to truly discover how powerful telling a story really is. One Thousand and One Nights is centralized on the idea that a person may accomplish the ability make a person better understand a given circumstance or even save a life, which is demonstrated through stories like Sinbad the Sailor, The Merchant and the Genie, as well as the main frame story starring Scheherazade herself.

Malotte was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 19, 1895. His father was the choirmaster and as a child Albert Hay Malotte was very interested in music. He was a choir boy in his father’s choir at Saint Joseph's Episcopal Church; he took lessons for both piano and organ as well. He was mentored by and studied under Victor Herbert, who was a well-known Irish-American composer, during the early part of his career. He later studied advanced composition as well as voice and organ in Europe.

Only a few composers in the history of time have ever successfully left their mark throughout our musical world we live in today. It’s been over two hundred years since the birth of Beethoven and his music still speaks to us today as he originally expressed and composed it. Ludwig Van Beethoven was born in the city of Bonn Germany on December 16th 1770 and has since been one of the most influential composers known to man. A common theme of early age learning and mastering seems to emerge in Beethoven’s life because while living in a musical family as a child, his father taught him how to play the piano, violin and in addition how to compose musical pieces since he was four years of age. A few short years later, he gave his first public piano performance at the age of seven. While Beethoven certainly gained a lot of knowledge from his peers, he also supported his family by giving music lessons and also by playing in the court orchestra. In the year 1792, Beethoven worked under an Austrian composer Franz Joseph Haydn and by the year 1800, his compositions established him as a strong Mozart successor.

Mendelssohn was a famous German composer of the Romantic period. Although he was born into a Jewish family and grew up without a religion he soon became a reformed Christian. Mendelssohn was born with the talent to be able to play instruments and make music, but his parents never really supported his talent and didn’t help him to improve his talent. He went on to pursue what he loved to do and that was to compose and conduct music. Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg, Germany, 1809.

Ludwig van Beethoven is a name that is common to most people and is synonymies with great classical music. He is known, quite loosely, as the German composer who created beautiful pieces with an incredible disability. Despite an unhappy family setting and the deafness that struck soon after, the man appeared to rise from his misfortunes and follow his passion. Mr. Beethoven created some of the most wonderful music and is considered one of the greatest musicians of all time. Ludwig, at a very young age, began his career as a marvelous piano player and composer of piano music. Beethoven continued his work expanding to string quartets and other kinds of chamber music, songs, two masses, an opera, and nine symphonies. The

Beethoven was known for his masterful composition of classical music, but his life was not as one would expect of such a brilliant composer. When 50 personnel were asked what they knew about Beethoven each person responded that he a composer that was deaf. What was not generally known was that Beethoven had a troubled childhood and led a chronically stressful and harsh adulthood. These two things are often not associated with Beethoven. What did Beethoven compose that made him a musical genius of all time? While reading this paper the following things will be discussed: Beethoven’s childhood, introduction to music, his adulthood, and becoming the brilliant composer he is known for to the classical music world.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific European Composer during the 18th century where he made a lasting change on the musical world through his numerous compositions and excellence in his capabilities of playing many instruments perfectly. Mozart was born on January 27th, 1756, in Salzburg Austria. His father was Leopold Mozart who was a violinist, a minor composer, and Vice-Kapellmeister at the court of the Archbishop of Salzburg. His mother was Maria Anna Pertl. By the time Mozart was around four his father gave his sister music lessons, but without anyone knowing Mozart would absorb what they were talking about, and he started to awaken his gift. He started memorizing and playing songs just by hearing them and reciting them after. Mozart was four years old when he composed his first concerto for the clavier. On January 24, 1761, three days before his birthday, he learned a scherzo by Georg Christoph Wagenseil between nine and nine thirty at night an unusual time for a small child to be practicing in an age of no electric lights as Jeremy Siepmann says in Mozart His Life and His Music (5).

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.

During the time living in Vienna he went to school until 1889. In 18990 the family moved to Graz due to his father job, four years later moved to Klagenfurt. At the time when he moved to Klagenfurt he attended the school Klagenfurt Humanistisches Gymnasium. He studied traditional courses in humanities he got very high grades. Anton studied Peter Rosegger work in which influenced him in his music career. He graduated in 1902 from Klagenfurt Humanistisches Gymnasium. As a celebration he went to Bayreuth Festival in which he heard Richard Wagner's operas after that event he was very deeply inspired. 1902 he went on to attend Musicological Institute at the University of Vienna where he studied musicology with Guido Adler. Webern has always

1. Andrew Lloyd Webber is an English composer known for famous musical theatre hits such as Cats, Evita and The Phantom of the Opera. In the early years, he was born on March 22, 1948 in London. Many say that he was born with musical blood going through his veins, his father is the director of the London College of Music, his mother was a piano teacher and his younger brother (Julian) was a cellist. He started playing the piano and violin at the age of three, then he started playing the French Horn and began to write his own music at the age of six. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s childhood dream was to become England’s Chief inspector of ancient monuments, at 1965 he entered Westminster school as a queens scholar and began learning history at Magdalen College in Oxford. His best friend led him to another direction to study at the royal college of

In 1832 he published his first composition which was a piano sonata and symphony that were influenced heavily by Beethoven (Bonds 464). However; in attempting to write these kinds of music he realized he loved theatre music (Bonds 463). Wagner spent a lot of time with the theatre he was able to see Geyer preform and see all the inner workings of the theatre (Jacobs 3). Through his experiences with the theatre he began to develop his own ideas of music. He only valued music for the operatic images that struck him (Jacobs 6). His image of music from the beginning seemed to be very narrow

Stories like Sindbad, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp and other popular stories are very common today in the western culture. Animated movies were also made for the entertainment of kids on these popular stories. One might wonder that where these stories originated and how it came down and made place in the western culture. Although these stories are very popular in both the western culture and the eastern culture but the original literary work is not so popular in common people. Theses stories are some of the stories from the Arabic work "The Thousand and One Nights." The work of "The Thousand and One Nights" represents basically a female that is a strong and clever idol and continuously imaginative and creative. It is an anonymous work

Anton Bruckner was born on September 4 1824 in the village of Ansfelden, Austria to a family known for being craftsman and farmers. Bruckner was the first of 11 children. Bruckner’s father was the village schoolmaster in charge of teaching music and also was an organist. Bruckner’s first music professor was his father, but unfortunately his father died when Bruckner was just thirteen years old. He later worked as a teacher assistant and at night worked in village’s dances to supplement his income. An interesting fact about Bruckner according to Floros Constantin author of the book “Anton Bruckner: The Man and the Work” is during the time he was a teacher assistant, he was known as a prankster. This is an interesting fact because, in his later years he was a serious and focus man. Bruckner when to school to become an organist and attended the Augustinian Monastery in St Florian where he study and work for many years until his 40’s. Bruckner study the works of Haydn, Wagner and many other composers. This composer are the biggest influencer of his work. (Constantin 3-6)

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.