Franz Liszt

	Franz Liszt was born on October 22, 1811 and lived until July 31, 1886. He was taught the piano by his father and then Czerny (Vienna, 1822-1823), making himself known as a remarkable concert artist by the age of 12. In Paris he studied theory and composition with Reicha and Paer; he wrote an opera and bravura piano pieces and went on tours in France, Switzerland and England before his bad health and religious doubt made him rethink his career. Intellectual growth came through literature

Assez lent, Modere, Assez anime, Presque lent, Vif, Moins vif, and Epilogue: Lent. The last piece Arredondo performed was Franz Liszt’s Sonata in B Minor, S.178. Scarlatti lived from 1685-1757 and the majority of his pieces were published after his death. Maurice Raval lived from 1875-1937 and his piece Valses nobles et sentimentales was published for piano in 1911. Franz Liszt lived from 1811-1886 and his Sonata in B Minor, S.178 was published in 1854. I thought Arredondo did a great job of

The third movement is entitled Scène aux champs, or “scene in the fields.” This pastoral setting alludes to Beethoven’s Am Bach from his sixth symphony, although with less serenity as Berlioz creates a “mood of sorrowful loneliness.” The piece is, like the second movement, in ABA form, with the idée fix attached at the end as a coda. The movement begins “with an echo from Berlioz's childhood: the sound of a cowherd's melody. Berlioz uses the huge orchestra to create the sense of suspension of time

The History of Western Music Music has been around since the dawn of time, ever since man first inhabited this planet we have learned to communicate in ways other then conventional speaking. Different Cultures all have there own specific way of communicating through music. Music is basically broken into two specific groups Eastern Music and Western Music. Eastern music is mainly derived from the orient and India. While, Western music first emerged from Europe. Western music has developed

Bedřich Smetana was born in Litomysl on 2 March, 1824. Franz Liszt first spotted his musical talent and gave him financial support. At the age of 42 he made his first success as a composer with his operas. In 1874 he suffered from a purulent genital ulcer and later on from a long-lasting throat inflammation and eczema over his whole body. First he had hearing problems and vertigo, and soon became deaf on the right ear and partly on the left. He was an introvert, depressed and gloomy, having hearing

traveling and many performances, together with a climate not good to his lungs, further hindered his health. In November of 1848, despite his frailness and a high fever, Chopin gave his last concert, playing for Polish émigrés in the Guildhall in London (Liszt). A few days later, he returned to

Polish Nationalism in Frederic Chopin’s Compositions Frederic Chopin was born in the year 1810, in Warsaw, Poland and died in 1849, at the young age of 39 (Thompson, 113). He was also known as “the Poet of the Piano” due to his nuance, his expressive depth and his ability to conjure up the melody of the human voice from the instrument’s keys (http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/poland503/chopin.html). “Chopin epitomizes the figure of the “Romantic Artist”: withdrawn, temperamental

Romanticism The Romantic Era was a movement in the fields of art, literature and intellect that began in Europe at the end of the 18th century. This cultural movement placed its emphasis on emotion, rooting itself in subjects such as the supernatural, the beauty of nature and the irrational. It was a period in which artists rejected the ideas of order and rationality, choosing instead to embrace individualism, imagination and emotional subjectivity; projecting their own personalities in their works

Frederic Chopin Frederic chopin was a Polish composer. He was famous for composing very beautiful piano solo pieces, such as “Fantasie" Impromptu, op. 66, Minute" Waltz , and op. 64 no. 1, "Funeral March". Chopin was famous for his emotional sonatas, waltzes, mazurkas, preludes and nocturnes. Being a child prodigy, he quickly rose to be one of the greatest piano composers. Frederic Francois Chopin was born in Poland to a middle-class family. His mother gave him exposure to music at a young age,

under. He is a very talented pianist who is able to capture the original composers’ essence with his recordings of the major pieces he does. He has various covers he has reordered, like Ludwig van Beethoven, Frederick Chopin, John Sebastian Bach, Franz Liszt, Erik Satie, Claude Debusssy, Edvard Grieg, Mozart, and many others (Niv Music). This transcription, a transcription being a rewritten composition for new instruments, was truly interesting. When clicking upon the video and seeing Les Objets Volants