Chamber music

traditions that were normalized in classical music and I will offer varied examples of the many times Shostakovich has obeyed and dissented within music throughout his career. The career span of Shostakovich extends from 1926 when he presented his first major work, Symphony No.1 to 1970 when he presented Quartet No. 7. Born Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich on the 25th September, 1906, in St. Petersburg, Russia, the composer began his descent into classical music at the age of 9, before later moving on

In this paper we will go through the development of the keyboard through the nineteenth century in chamber music. We are going to look at three different composers, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Johannes Brahms. We are going to look and see how they treated the keyboard in their lives and compositions. For each of the composers we will look at one keyboard chamber piece so we can learn just a little more about how important it was to each composer and why. [introduction paragraph to be

Quartet in F Major, K 590 Mozart: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, K 478 Performed by the Orion String Quartet and the Nash Ensemble” (gardnermuseum.org) For the purposes of this assignment I choose this particular concert because I find Mozart’s music to be intellectual and engaging, requiring deep concentration and an open mind to be able the comprehend the depth of his musical visions. In this paper a will attempt to explore the qualities I like and dislike in the pieces presented in this concert

impoverished life was short in comparison to many people of the era – his death was on November 19, 1828 (two months shy of his 32nd birthday) – and his music was generally unrecognized and unappreciated during his time, but his exemplification of romantic lyricism and immense amount of composing, which encompasses approximately 600 liturgical music scores and lieder (lyric songs); nine symphonies that truly represent the era of classicism; several pieces for the stage; choral

their work may have been underappreciated at the time, their music is greatly acknowledged, if not well-known, today. Both composers were from Austria, and both created beautiful classical music. However, there are notable differences in their pieces. This could be due to their personalities, historical context, or instruments of preference. Franz Joseph Haydn is called the “Father of the Symphony.” He displayed talent in music from a very early age and at eight years old he was accepted

most versatile and prolific composers of the nineteenth century, reaching into almost all genres of music from piano miniatures to comprehensively conceived vocal-orchestra compositions. His output encompasses nine symphonies and fifty-five other orchestral pieces, eleven opera, eleven works for chorus and orchestra, nine small choral works, thirty-five sets of songs and duets, fifty-five chamber works for various combinations of instruments, and thirty-two sets of short pieces for piano. In each

Franz Joseph Haydn was an essential creator in the genres of classical music, and he played a huge role in influencing other great composers. Hayden was known for “The Creation of a new medium: the string Quartet” (Burrows 102), and the evolution of the Classical Era. At eight years old, Franz Joseph Haydn sang in the choir at St. Stephen 's Cathedral in Vienna. While at St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Hayden learned to play the violin and keyboard. Later after leaving the choir he studied counterpoint

over 600 songs (Burkholder 598). He was born in 1797 in Himmelpfortgrund, the suburbs of Vienna, Austria with the great talent in music (Brown). His father, Franz Theodor Schubert, was a schoolmaster and an amateur musician. Schubert’s father was teaching music to his own children by himself. Shubert started showing his great music talent and won a scholarship to study music in a boarding school in Vienna. At the school, he had private lessons from Antonio Salieri, a composer who is famous for his operas

In the first movement of Wolfgang Mozart’s piece Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, it presents numerous features of what is being used during the classical period of music. The recording that was made by the Prague Chamber Orchestra is a good way to hear all of the classical features in the first movement. The first movement is the first track on the album that was published in 1985. While it has an excellent recording of the movement, it is not a traditional quartet but a larger ensemble. Along with

in the Palace of Count Harrach before she married. Remarkably, neither of Haydn’s parents could read music, but his father was a self-taught harpist. Hadyn’s father and mother had 12 children. Anna Maria died in 1754 and Mathias remarried and had five more children, all of whom died in childhood. Luckily, Haydn’s parents recognized and supported his talent for music. At age five, he became the music students of a schoolmaster at Hainburg, Johann Matthais Frankh. At 8 years old, he worked at the Cathedral