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    Antonin Leopold Dvorak was born here on 8 September 1841 to Anna and Frantisek Dvorak, as the first of nine children. The family ran a business in house number 12, a cottage that had an inn on the ground floor. A fire broke out here in the summer of 1842 and the future composer was rescued by his father who carried him out to safety. All of Antonin’s predecessors were butchers or innkeepers, thus it was automatically assumed that the first-born child would inherit the business. In addition to the

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    Introduction to music class I decided, to write about the Seventh Symphony in A major (Op. 92) by Ludwig van Beethoven. The reason why I choose this symphony is because it’s an emotional piece of music, and it definitely catch my attention since the moment I heard it. I feel this symphony reach emotional situations that are above human explosions. Emotional areas that invade us through a contradictory fact between feelings. The Seventh Symphony in A major by Beethoven appears in 1813. The orchestra contains

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    The history of music would not be complete without the musical “fine art” that was created for the dominant minorities in Western Europe. Bergeron (1992) admits that it is quite a task to educate a two-term survey of Western Art music since students have no extra time for getting accustomed to the great musical masterpieces and their composers. It acquires the knowledge to distinguish which set of values will assist in selecting the pieces from the canon that are worth being carried from one generation

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    Symphony No.5 in C minor, ensembles work by German composer Ludwig Van Beethoven. Generally perceived by the unfavorable four note opening theme frequently translated as the musical appearance of “fate knocking at the door.” This hard-hitting piece included flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, trumpets, timpani, and groups of violins, piccolo, contrabassoon, and trombones. The rhythm of the 5th symphony was very important. Beethoven created a tempo allegro con brio (fast with spirit). I think

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    the Seventh Symphony in A major (Op. 92) by Ludwig van Beethoven. The reason why I choose this symphony is because it’s an emotional piece of music, and it definitely catch my attention since the moment I heard it. I feel this symphony reach emotional situations that are above human explosions. Emotional areas that invade us through a contradictory fact between feelings, towards a liberation unreachable earthly, especially in the second movement called Allegretto. The Seventh Symphony in A major appears

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    When Beethoven made a debut as a composer, he was writing a work that was bright and vibrant faithful to the classical style, without being bothered by ear disorders. It is pointed out that this style is under the strong influence of Haydn and Mozart. The first crisis in 1802 is the spiritual crisis that wrote the will. Beethoven escaped this crisis by rediscovering the form of the Viennese classical school. In other words, rather than the predecessors of the two Viennese classicalists, emphasis

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    Ludwig Van Beethoven, was the composer who changed music more than any other composer, the sound of music and what the other composers that were to come after him thought. He wrote nine symphonies, five piano concertos, an opera and many pieces of chamber music that jolted music right out of itself. (Landon) Beethoven changed music by creating a new era called Romanticism, influencing the other composers and changing the old methods by adding a special twist. The first way that Beethoven changed

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    Mozart Family Concert In late 2013, the Blue Ridge Orchestra was invited to be one of the featured ensembles in the Asheville Symphony’s Mozart festival – Asheville Amadeus. After discussions with ASO Executive Director David Whitehill, it was decided in February of 2014 that the BRO would present a Family Concert on March 21, 2015, the Saturday before the Finale concert with pianist Emanuel Ax. The challenge presented was to design a program that would appeal to both Mozart novices and Mozart

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    simply corresponds to Robert Schumann’s saying: “Mendelssohn is the one who most clearly sees through the contradictions (between the classical and romantic style) of the age and for the first time reconciles them.” Musical Form of the Work The symphony consists of four movements. The first movement, Allegro vivace, is in sonata form. In the first theme (Ex.1), many sequences were used to construct the melody. And being inspired by Italian opera, Mendelssohn here tired to delay the closure of the

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    Ludwig van Beethoven is a revered figure in the history of classical music in today’s world. Born in Bonn, Germany, he underwent strict guidance from his father who aspired to mold him into the next generation “Mozart.” Sailing through the tides of social, political and cultural revolution, Beethoven became a renowned composer and rose in ranks in the history of classical music. Although succumbed to deafness in his later years, Beethoven had left behind a phenomenon legacy which took the stage

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