The Piano Essay

School. I have a few hobbies that I do quite often one of them being playing the piano. I have been interested in the piano since second grade when we had a para come in and tell us all about specific activities that were available for elementary students. I raced right home to tell my mom about the news I had heard at school. She was just as excited as I was when I told her. She then made it her duty to find me a piano teacher and since then I have switched my instructors but my love and passion has

read about the achievements and life of Victor Hugo. He wrote symphonic poems. Franz Liszt died of pneumonia in 1886. The last composer is Vladimir Horowitz, he was a American pianist. He was recognized as the greatest piano virtuoso of the 20th Century. His mother gave him piano lessons at a young age. His father changed his birth year to 1904 so he could avoid military service so he could protect his hands. Vladimir was known for his technique and ability to create excitement in his music. Horowitz

family in the name of Jesus. When Mendelssohn was a child, his family moved to Berlin where he would meet Ludwig Berger. Felix took piano lessons from Berger and also studied from Karl Zelter on compositions. In the early 19th century, Mendelssohn quickly established himself as prodigy and displayed an interest in arts and music thru his ability to perform on the piano and violin, as well as painting. At the young age of nine, he made is public debut and during his childhood he had written five operas

     At the age of seven Robert received his first piano lessons, from Johann Gottfried Kuntzsch, organist at St. Mary's Church, and schoolmaster at the Zwickau Lyceum.

began when I was about six years old. At this point, my sister had began to start piano lessons and, even at my young age, I enjoyed hearing her practice. “Would you like for me to teach you something?” she asked one night. This night, in particular, would be the one that would affect many of the future activities that I’d pursue. Ever since this night, I have grown to get deeper into music, and actually began taking piano lessons myself when I was eight years old. While I am proud of my achievements

In the first movement of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, op. 2, the composer draws on a variety of stylistic strands that contributed to the evolution of the mature classical style. Through an analysis of specific musical elements, which include references to form and style, structure, harmony, thematic material, dynamics and textural considerations, I will show how Beethoven adheres to the formal and stylistic conventions associated with the sonata during this period, as well as how he

Robert helped Clara with the orchestration of her piano concerto; as both musicians were professionally active with a large family of 8 children. Robert suffered from depression, as his symptoms managed to increase, he was reported as being hallucinate, and seeing “angelic visions”, which were sometimes

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born on May 7th, 1840 in Kamsko-Votkinsk. His father, Ilya Petrovich, was a mining engineer and Chief Inspector of the metal works and his mother was Alexandra Tchaikovsky. It was from her that Tchaikovsky inherited his depressed personality. Tchaikovsky developed his love of music from listening to tunes from Italian operas played on the family’s orchestrion – a mechanical barrel-organ which roughly reproduced musical sounds. In September 1844, Tchaikovsky’s mother was

epilepsy and is right spastic hemiplegic which means the right side of his body doesn’t function that well. When it comes to playing the piano, it means he has only one good hand and one good foot with which to play the piano. In addition, John is severely retarded, functioning at the mental age of a two year old. However, John has a special gift, which is playing the piano expertly. This is what Jerry found out about him. Jerry is a music coordinator, and clients kept telling him to listen to John. Jerry

Recital Hall on Friday night, April 15, 2016. Anton Nel played piano and Bion Tsang played cello. The concert lasted about an hour and thirty minutes. The performers total performed three Sonata by different composers, but my favorite one is the first one, which is Sonata in C major, Op.102, No. 1, composed by Ludwig Van Beethoven. The pianist, Anton Nel, is first holder of the new Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Endowed Chair in Piano at the University of Texas at Austin since January 2010. When he