Chamber music

Music has long been my biggest passion. As a child, it was always around me: Beethoven sonatas and Chopin concerti would fill my house, so much so that I begged my parents to start me on piano. I began the piano at five, but as I grew older, I discovered the beauty of chamber music and the allure of playing in an orchestra, compelling me to start on the clarinet. Since then, I have developed a love for performance. Onstage, I feel perfectly at home with the excitement and passion. I strive to make

brighter tone. The brass then played their melody until the end of the movement. The twelfth variation, Andante, alternately tiled B.G.N, is another lyrical variation. This variation was named after Basil G. Nevinson, an amateur cellist who played chamber music with Elgar. It starts with a sad, slow, lyrical, and smooth cello solo with long durations. The melody contains many small intervals with occasional jumps. The idea is then repeated and expanded upon throughout the variation. The quiet dynamic

Music has been apart of society since the beginning of time. Before a structured choir existed, people would gather together and sing chants. Music notes or sheet music were not relevant. All that was need back then was a conductor and willing participants. 21st century choir music has evolved drastically. Now, choir music can range from two to twenty-six page compositions. Choir unites people who love music, like me. I was in my high school choir for four years and those four years forever changed

baroque, often used interchangeably with chamber pop/rock, is a pop rock music subgenre that originated in the United States and United Kingdom. It emerged in the 1960s as a fusion of pop rock, classical music, orchestral pop and baroque music.” - urbandictionary.com As creative and willing to experiment as anyone in music, the man responsible for penning the soundtrack to my life, Ben Folds, has reinvented himself once again, this time taking a crack at chamber pop with the backing of New York-based

Baroque chamber orchestra, a type of ensemble today that can vary greatly from group to group, is involved in a type of performance many musicians remain confused about. For a modern musician, the confusion surrounding the Baroque style stems from a notion that spending time learning a style of instrument that is no longer commonplace is something that is not worthwhile or is even detrimental to a modern instrumental career. Much of this stems from the idea that the romantic era of music is the most

the 19th century, who was best known for the movement to give French music an emotional engagement than German composers. Belgium became an independent state in 1830. It shares land borders with Germany, France, Luxembourg, and Netherlands. His father and mother are Germans. Ironically, out of four choices, Cesar Frank leaned more toward France music. According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Franck had a brilliant gift for music that he later entered the Liege conservatory as a young boy. He won

father, he received his training in music from his older brother Johann Christoph. Bach's soprano voice when he was a young boy won him

The Music of Johannes Brahms and Frederic Chopin Johannes Brahms and Frederic Chopin were two of the most significant and influential musicians of the Romantic era, which extended from approximately 1820 until 1900. Romantic music built on the ideas that were developed in the preceding era, the Classical era, and had even greater ranges of tone color, dynamics and pitch, as well as greater emphasis on dramatic, unstable chords (Kamien 1998, p. 210). Chopin, who only lived thirty-nine years, was

period but are not widely recognized today. Carlo Maria Michelangelo Nicola Broschi, who is better know by his stage name, Farinelli, is an Italian vocalist of the 18th century and one of the remarkable singers in the history of music. According to Charles Burney, an English music historian, Fairnelli “set off with such brilliancy and rapidity of execution that it was difficult for the violins of those days to keep pace with him… [he] could

Ludwig van Beethoven, born in Bonn Germany, December 17, 1770, was a composer of some of the most influential pieces of music ever written. Beethoven is one of the most widely recognized and admired composers in the history of western music (And an important bridge between the Classical and Baroque era styles.) Beethoven was a very prolific composer, producing many symphonies, concertos, piano sonatas, violin sonatas, an opera, masses and several overtures. Beethoven is best known for nine symphonies