The Kreutzer Sonata

I choose to take a closer look at how gendered violence functions in literature and in film. Furthermore, I wish to discuss how insecurity instigates aggression from male lead characters in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” and Leo Tolstoy’s “The Kreutzer Sonata” as a lens for understanding the figurative sexual trauma that female lead characters experience in these works. In an attempt to better understand the relationship between men’s physical pleasure and women’s physical pain, I asked a main research

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German pianist and composer who is widely considered to be the greatest of all time,whose compositions consisted combinations of vocals and a vast amount of instruments. Beethoven was born in Bonn,Germany in 1770. He was a crucial figure in the world of music connecting the Classical and Romantic ages of Western Music. The life of Beethoven was full of struggle especially because of his deafness,and most of his important works were composed during the last ten years of

His orchestral music includes around 30 symphonies and 12 cello concertos. Beethoven composed 9 symphonies, 5 piano concertos, 1 violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, 6 string quartets, his great Mass the Missa solemnis, and one opera, Fidelo. Beethoven devoted himself to study and performance and while working under Haydn’s direction; he sought to master counterpoint – counterpoint being the relationship between

traditions of Haydn and Mozart. For example, he composed the wonderful piece “Third Symphony, the Eorcia.” Columbia believes Erocia showed freedom and nobility through its harmonies and orchestration. Other famous pieces include Moonlight Sonata, Kreutzer Sonata for Violin, and 5th Symphony. The pieces showed pain, sorrow, or pure angst which influenced romantic composers and many afterward.

Pratt Carrol stated that “Music is the language of emotion, and emotions tend to be the same the world over, in spite of differences in social customs and language.” In other words, music is a fabulous expression of the human being no matter the culture or norms because it manages to immediately transmit different feelings and emotions that other forms of art may not transmit. For my Introduction to music class I decided, to write about the Seventh Symphony in A major (Op. 92) by Ludwig van Beethoven

which is now considered his earliest masterpiece. In the early 1800s, Beethoven went deaf. This is an utter travesty for any musician, but Beethoven persevered and created some of his best work. His pieces “No. 3-8, the "Moonlight Sonata," the "Kreutzer" violin sonata and Fidelio” are an “astonishing output of superlatively complex, original and beautiful music” that remain “unrivaled by any other composer in history” (“Ludwig”). Along with being deaf, Beethoven struggled with anger management,

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and a predominant musical figure that created the bridge from the classical era to the Romantic era. At a young age, Beethoven became interested in music, which gave his father, Johann van Beethoven, the idea of making him the next child prodigy like Mozart. Beethoven was brutally pushed to achieve the goal/dream of his father. However, at the age of 13 he had to take on the responsibility of providing for the family since his father was no longer able to

att Carrol stated that “Music is the language of emotion, and emotions tend to be the same the world over, in spite of differences in social customs and language.” In other words, music is a fabulous expression of the human being no matter the culture or norms because it manages to immediately transmit different feelings and emotions that other forms of art may not transmit. For my Introduction to music class I decided, to write about the Seventh Symphony in A major (Op. 92) by Ludwig van Beethoven

Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven is considered by many to be the best and most influential composer of all time. His imminence as a composer becomes even more remarkable when one considers the fact that he suffered severe hearing loss for much of his life and was totally deaf for the last decade of his life; the same time that he was composing some of his best-known and most highly regarded works. In order to understand how a man who could not hear the music he was creating became one of the best

Für Elise On December 17, 1770, one of the world’s most gifted and greatest composers was baptized by the name of Ludwig Van Beethoven. Born in Bonn, Germany, Beethoven was well known for expanding the ideas of symphonies, sonatas, quartets, and concertos. Moreover, the music of Beethoven paved a way, as he became one of the most predominant and influential musical figures within the transitional period of classical and romantic eras. Growing up, life wasn’t easy for Beethoven, he suffered from