According to classical.net on March 25, 1881 one of the most important composers during the 20th century was born, his name was Bela Bartok. Bela was born in the Romanian town in Timis County called Sânnicolau Mare. His nationality was Hungarian, considering where he was born, also the fact that the town is so close to the borders of Serbia and Hungary. “He was a child prodigy with great music skills, which his mother recognized very early on,” Says thefamouspeople.com. Bartok had many talents not only being a composer and pianist, he was also an excessively quick learner. He began to show his great love of music in his early years as a child. According to thefamouspeople.com “it was said that he shown this love before he even began talking he could distinguish between different tunes of dance rhythms his mother played on the piano.” By the age of four Bela had already learnt to play more than 40 piano pieces (thefamouspeople.com). Seeing this accomplishment his family made the decision to get …show more content…
He was born into a family that had quite the musical influence. “Bela’s father came from a lower noble family and he considered himself a thorough Hungarian.” Paula, his mother, came from a diverse Hungarian origin German being a part of it, but she was also quite fluent in Hungarian. Losing his father at the young age of seven, his mother played a very important role in his lifetime being his only parent, “it was she who gave him his initial lessons and encouraged his skills and she was also his first teacher who started teaching him when he was five years old.” After Bela’s father’s death, his mother took him and his sister, Erzsebet, to Vinogradiv, Ukraine. Where Bartok gave his first public performance at the early age of eleven. “The piece performed was named “The course of the Danube which was highly appreciated by the audience.” This performance started what was about to change Bartok’s life forever.
Imagine being stuck in a chair for five hours while someone transformed your face into some monster. John Matuszak had to tackle that challenge everyday of his acting job in The Goonies. John’s legacy still lives on for a few decades after his death in the role of Sloth. For him, it was nothing compared to his NFL career. John was an amazing defensive end, mostly for the Oakland Raiders. The phrase Renaissance man truly defines John Matuszak.
Frederic later attended the Warsaw Lyceum where his father was one of the professors. He spent his summer holidays in estates belonging to the parents of his school friends in various parts of the country. The young composer listened to and noted down the texts of folk songs, took part in peasant weddings and harvest festivities, danced, and played a folk instrument resembling a double bass with the village musicians; all of which he described in his letters. Chopin became well acquainted with the fol...
The Niitsitapi (also called Blackfoot Indians), reside in the Great Plains of Montana as well as Alberta and Saskatchewan located in Canada. Only one of the Niitsitapi tribes are named Siksika, also known as Blackfoot.
At the age of 17, Balanchine entered the Conservatory of Music. He studied piano, composition and th...
Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz was born on May 29, 1860 in Camprodón, the Catalan province of Gerona in northeastern Spain. As a child he was exceptionally gifted at the piano and gave his first public performance in Barcelona at the age of four. Two years later his mother took him to Paris where, for nine months, he studied privately with a renowned professor of piano at the Paris Conservatory. An attempt was made to enroll Albéniz at the Conservatory, but the boy was denied admission because he was too young. Upon returning to Spain he gave several concerts and published his first composition, Marcha Militar.
From the very beginning, Clara’s father, Friedrich Wieck, a well respected German music teacher, intended for her to become a famous musician (Harding, 9). At a young age, he recognized that Clara had the gift of music. According to Bertita Harding, who wrote a biography of Clara Schumann, Wieck took cues from Mozart, in hopes to turning his daughter into a well known child prodigy. He began to rigorously train and cultivate Clara’s natural talent at the age of five and turned it into something extraordinary (Harding, 12)....
Beethoven’s early life was one out of a sad story book. For being one of the most well-known musicians one would think that sometime during Beethovens childhood he was influenced and inspired to play music; This was not the case. His father was indeed a musician but he was more interested in drinking than he was playing music. When his father saw the smallest sliver of music interest in Beethoven he immediately put him into vigorous musical training in hopes he would be the next Mozart; his training included organ, viola, and piano. This tainted how young Beethoven saw music and the memories that music brought. Nevertheless Beethoven continued to do what he knew and by thirteen he was composing his own music and assisting his teacher, Christian Neefe. Connections began to form during this time with different aristocrats and families who stuck with him and became lifelong friends. At 17 Beethoven, with the help of his friends, traveled to Vienna, the music capitol of the world, to further his knowledge and connection...
Benjamin Banneker was a mostly self educated mathematician, astronomer, and civil right’s leader that was alive in the 18th and 19th century. Banneker was born on November 9, 1731 in Baltimore County, Maryland. Banneker lived on his father’s farm with his father and mother. His mother’s name was Mary Banneker and his fathers name was Robert. Both of his parents and himself were free African Americans.
Antonin Dvorak was born on September 8, 1841 in the small village of Nelahozeves. Dvorak began his early music education training when he was eight years old at the local school in his village. When he was 14 he trained with the church choirmaster in the nearby town of ZIonce. At the age of 16 he studied at the German municipal school briefly and a year later, in 1857, he began his studies at the Prague Organ School, graduating in 1859. (Stefan 25-30).
Ferenc Farkas was born in Nagykanizsa, Hungary, in December 1905. He studied composition with Albert Sikós and Leó Weiner at the Budapest Academy of Music and continued his studies with Ottorino Respighi at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Ferenc Farkas was Professor of Composition at the Conservatory of Kolozsvár from 1941 to 1944 and also served as its director during his last year there. In 1949 Farkas was appointed Professor of Composition at the Budapest Academy of Music, a post which he held until his retirement in 1975. His pupils included Attila Bozay, Axolt Durkó, György Kurtág, György Ligeti, Emil Petrovics, Sándor Szokolay and many other prominent Hungarian composers.
The brilliant composer Clara Schumann was born as Clara Josephine Wieck on 13 September 1819. Even before her birth, her destiny was to become a famous musician. Her father, Friedrich Wieck, was a piano teacher and music dealer, while her mother, Marianne Wieck, was a soprano and a concert pianist and her family was very musically gifted. Her father, Friedrich, wanted to prove to the world that his teaching methods could produce a famous pianist, so he decided, before Clara’s birth, that she would become that pianist. Clara’s father’s wish came true, as his daughter ended up becoming a child prodigy and one of the most famous female composers of her time.
Early life Anton Zalavski began playing for the German band Dioramic when he was 13 years old. However, he interested in producing electronic song after listening by French duo Justice. At that time, he was 20 years old. Anton Zaslavski was born in Saratov, Russia on 2 September 1989. He moved to Germany at three years old and grew up in Kaiserlautern.
I’m writing about a great Bohemia Composer named Antonín Dvořák. Mr. Dvořák was born September 8, 1841 in a Bohemian village of Nelahozeves which is now in the Czech Republic. He was oldest out of nine children. His father was named František Dvořák who worked as an Inn Keeper as well as butcher. His mother was named Anna, née Zden. He came from a long family line on Inn keepers or butcher so being the first-born child, he could inherit the family business. While being an Inn keeper, Antonín’s father was also professional music player playing the Zither (part of the string family). And this is where, Antonín wanted to purse his passion for music than to become a butcher.
The Lebensborn was a well hidden and organized program. Lebensborn, meaning source of life was started by Heinrich Himmler with the intent to increase the population and encourage SS officers to have many children. Lebensborn was introduced on December 12, 1935. It was the main base for creating the Master Race, the people produced by it were expected to dominate Europe in Hitler's “Thousand Year Reich”. The first of 20 Lebensborn homes was opened in 1936 in Steinhöring. The homes were furnished with the finest goods stolen from the homes of Jewish families who had been sent off to concentration camps. Women who wanted to be involved with the program were tested and measured for the right features, no mental illness, and had proven to be racially
Alfred Blalock was a 20th century surgeon. He was best known for his research on shock and the development of the Blalock -Taussig Shunt. Blalock was born on April 5th of 1899 in Culloden, Georgia. Since from a very young age he has always considered getting into a medical domain. At the age of 14, Blalock enrolled himself into the Georgia Military Academy, which later help him get into the University of Georgia. After he graduate High school he attended and graduated in 1918, at the University of Georgia with a bachelor of Arts degree. He was 19 at the time.