Composer Essay

He was not only the most important person in the world, to himself; in his own eyes he was the only person who existed. He believed himself to be one of the greatest dramatists in the world, one of the greatest thinkers, and one of the greatest composers. To hear him talk, he was Shakespeare, and Beethoven, and Plato, rolled into one. And you would have had no difficulty in hearing him talk. He was one of the most exhausting conversationalists that ever lived. An evening with him was an evening spent

Jonathan Perez Period 1 10-15-14 Ludwig Van Beethoven Ludwig Van Beethoven, a widely known pianist and composer, was born on about December 16, 1770 in Bonn, Germany. He was baptized on December 17, 1770. The actual date of his birth is unknown, but because most babies were baptized within 24 hours of birth, December 16 was his most likely birthdate. Beethoven, however, insisted that he was born 2 years later. Although he was presented with official papers of his birth, he still stubbornly objected

“The instrumental music of the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven forms a peak in the development of tonal music and is one of the crucial evolutionary developments in the history of music as a whole.” ~ Unknown Mozart aside, Ludwig van Beethoven is the most famous classical composer of the western world. Beethoven is remembered for his powerful and stormy compositions, and for continuing to compose and conduct even after he began to go deaf at age 28. The ominous four-note beginning to

William Byrd A Shakespearean Age Composer Born in London, England, William Byrd would become one of the most famous composers in England's history. At the age of seven, young William was taught how to compose music by a man named Thomas Tallis while in a royal group called the Chapel Royal, which was a group of priests and religious leaders who played music for the King and Queen. He started his career in 1563 at the Lincoln Cathedral where he was the Master of Children and an organist, a job

as an organist than a composer. Bach had an extraordinary ability to improvise on the organ and was able to compose various style of music. He wrote educational works for his pupil and his duties were mainly to provide the weekly worships of cantatas. And also, his publication of keyboard pieces had very little to do with his duties. However, his pride as a composer was determined to publish these partitas. He also competed with Johann Kuhnau, who was a well-known composer at Germany at this time

There was a sense of optimism and excitement. Composers were finding inspiration in popular sources, circus music and jazz which was being heard for the first time. Les Six were a group of six young French musicians during this time; Arthur Honegger, Darius Mihaud, Francis Poulenc, Georges Auric, Louis Durey and Germaine Tailleferre, the group’s only woman. They were brought together by their adverse reactions to the impressionism of French composers such as Debussy and Ravel. The music critic Henri

Composer Report: Bach Jalen Beasley Georgia Military College Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany in 1685 . Bach came from a generational family with many musical talents, for at least

Johann Sebastian Bach was a magnificent classical composer from the Baroque period. Bach was born on March 31, 1685, in Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany and died July 28, 1750, Leipzig, Germany. Johann came from a family full of musicians. Johann Ambrosius, his father, worked as the town musician in Eisenach. Bach went to school at age seven to study Latin and receive religious instruction. At age 10, Bach’s parents died and he became an orphan. Johann Christoph, his older brother took him in. Johann

Johann Sebastian Bach, a composer from the Baroque period, is one of the most influential and famous composers of all time. Examples of some famous musicians he has influenced are, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, and Robert Schumann. Bach wrote over a thousand works, and many of them are masterpieces which people still listen to today. This paper covers his life and upbringing to see what he went through as a composer. A list of Bach’s surviving works is provided at the end of the paper. We will

Renaissance was a time of innovation in music. Composers of the Renaissance Period contributed much too musical theory, and they have many musical revolutions that radically changed the nature of music from the Medieval Period. Some of these influential composers of the era were Leonel Power, John Dunstaple, Gilles Binchois, Bartolomeo de Bologna, and Johannes Ockeghem, Josquin des Prez, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and Carlo Gesualdo. These composers Renaissance style typically started out with