Ana Vidovic, Croatian Virtuosa

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Ana Vidovic
Coming from a very talented family, Ana has been known through her music since the age of 5 with her father and brother being guitarist themselves. She later explained that her brother influenced her on playing the guitar. She was born in a small town in Croatia, November 8th 1980. She was so popular, at the age of the thirteen she became the youngest attendee of a very high-status musical institute. By her early twenties, Vidovic had already received numerous prizes. Her well-kept status resulted in Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore offering the opportunity to study in the U.S.A. I listened to the famous Asturias composed by Isaac Albeniz. The Spanish composer is known for his work on the piano. Isaac Albeniz was born on May 29th 1860 and lived only 48 years on this earth dying a week before turning 49 on May 18th 1909. He was diagnose with Bright’s disease which is an old term form kidney disease. Albeniz was a child prodigy who started playing the piano since the age of 4. Isaac married Rosina Jordana and later had three children. He composed and wrote pepita Jiménez, merlin, Iberia, suite Española being his more famous compositions. The Asturias was a piece created in 1892 for piano as a prelude to a three movement set named chants d’Espagne. It was created during the modernism period which was a time change in every aspect of music. a dated of diverse responses in exciting and reinterpreting older types of music, novelties that lead to new ways of forming harmonic, melodic, sonic, and rhythmic aspects of music, and changes in aesthetic worldviews in close relation to the larger identifiable period of modernism in the arts of the time.

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...at the age of sixteen. Nicolas also played the flute and the violin which later his wife, played the piano, and him will give Frederick lessons. In 1935 Frederick took a trip to Paris and never will he returned to Poland. In Paris, he received to the chance to showcase his talent and earning money while doing it. He gave piano lessons to wealthy student all over Europe. His first concert was held at la sale pleyel and became an elite composer in the eyes of many. He composed his most famous and best work during the 1830s before having health issues. On October 17th 1849 Frederick Chopin died with tuberculosis. La grande valse brillante was composed in 1934 during the romantic era in music. It has melodic aspect to it. It was originally composed for piano. Chopin also gave the title Grand valse brillante to the next three waltzes in the Op. 34 set, published in 1838.

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