Aaron Copland was a great composer throughout time and won many awards for it. He started playing instruments at a young age and progressed throughout his life.
Aaron Copland was born November 14, 1900 in Brooklyn, New York. His parents were Sarah Mittenthal Copland and Harris Morris Copland. Aaron was the youngest five children. Laurine, Josephine, Ralph, Leon, Himself. He was taught at Boys’ High School and American Conservatory in Fontainebleau. He lived in a house in Brooklyn, New York. He learned to play piano at the age of 12 from his sister. He later studied under Rubin Goldmark in Manhattan, and he regularly attended classical music performances. Aaron Copland had a pretty good early life.
Aaron Copland was an American composer,
John Philip Sousa was born in 1854, the third child of ten. He was born in Washington, D.C. His parents were immigrants. John
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, also known as W.A. Mozart, was a very well-known composer of the Classical Period as well as still to this day. Wolfgang Mozart was born on January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. He was known for his sonatas, symphonies, masses, chamber music, concertos, and operas. He set the standards high for all composers following in his footsteps.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven are very famous past composers that have created many pieces that have influenced not just people of their time, but people in modern times as well.
John Dowland (1563-1626) was a composer of Renaissance England and considered one of the most prolific and well-known composers of English lute song. A composer and accomplished lutenist, he is probably the most well traveled English composer of his time. Through his travels he was exposed to the musical elements of his Italian, French and German contemporaries. He developed his own musical language, in which he created a unique style for the lute song. As a composer, he focused on the development of melodic material and was able to elegantly blend words and music with a wide range of emotion and technique. For the purpose of this document we will focus on the influence of his Italian travels. John Dowland’s use of chromaticism in his lute songs as can be directly associated with such as “All ye whom love or fortune.” In these pieces, we can see the influence on this genre through his travels to Italy and encounters with such composers as Marenzio.
John Adam in his early age he studied and learnt clarinet, composition and music theory which he actually studied from his father. He use to play orchestra and performed in marching bands. In the era of late 1960’s Adams attended Harvard University and appeared as a Clarinetists along with the band named Boston Symphony.
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George Gershwin was an American composer and musician. Through his very successful career, he composed hundreds of popular, classical, and jazz pieces of music. His work was pivotal in the early 1900’s and has continued to make a lasting impact. Many of his songs and compositions continue to be very popular in today’s society. Some of his most famous works include “Rhapsody in Blue”, and “American in Paris.” Gershwin's ability to create timeless pieces like these are part of what makes him one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century.
"The Dean of American Composers,” Aaron Copland, born November 14, 1900, was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later a conductor of his own music as well as other American music. He became one of the century’s foremost composers with highly influential music that, according to bio.com, “had a distinctive blend of classical, folk and jazz idioms,” an expressive modern style. Some of Copland’s most well-known pieces included Fanfare for the Common Man, El Salon Mexico and Appalachian Spring, for which he won the Pulitzer. An Oscar-winning writer of film scores as well, Copland died on December 2, 1990. The open, slowly changing harmonies in much of his music represent what many people consider to be the epitome of American
The first thing I will talk about is the type of music he is know for which gave him that name. Most people listen to the type of music he composed but next to none know who or how it was composed. There seems to be an abundance of music fans who know little or nothing about the origin of their music. By discussing what he has accomplished it will explain why he is considered to be so important to his type of music.
Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, and Nadia Boulanger: the triumvirate of 20th century music. Igor Stravinsky, remains the century’s most shocking and versatile composer. Born in Russia in 1882, Stravinsky enjoyed a musically wealthy childhood. He was the son of a famous opera singer and well-educated in piano performance and harmony/counterpoint. His parents sent him to St. Petersburg University to obtain a Criminal Law/Legal Philosophy degree.
He began music at the age of five, having been taught piano by his mother – a school teacher and church organist. By a...
Kate Chopin was born February 8, 1850 in St. Louis. She was raised by a single woman; this impacted her views in the family at an early age. She began her own family at a young age; Kate had a different method compare too many women in her time. As time progressed, she developed
Andrew Lloyd Webber was born on the 22nd of March 1948 in Kensington, London and the son of William Lloyd Webber and Jean Hermione Johnstone. Webber was born into a musical family since his father was a composer and organist and his mother was a violinist and pianist. His younger brother, Julian Lloyd Webber, is a famous solo cellist. Andrew was an innate prodigy, he played learned to play the piano and the French horn at age 3, and the age of 6 he began writing his own music. He would out up his own productions with his bother Julian and his Aunt Viola in a toy theater that he built himself. His aunt was an actress and she influenced his interest in theater because she would take him to see a lot of her shows.
Mozart was born on Jan. 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria. His father was Leopold Mozart, a composer and a popular violinist. Mozart received his early musical training from his father. At the early age of 3 Mozart showed signs of being a musical genius. Then, at the age of five Mozart started composing. Beginning in 1762 Mozart’s father took young Mozart and his older sister, Maria Anna, on tours in Europe where they played the piano, harpsichord, violin, and organ, together and separately. Mozart learned to play the piano, harpsichord, and violin from his father. He gave public concerts and played at numerous courts and received several commissions.
When applause erupts for an orchestra in a concert hall, the audience is usually enveloped in admiration for the musicians’ talent. However, the composer of the music rarely receives recognition even though he is the actual mastermind behind the beautiful music. One of the most influential composers of the 18th century was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.