Ivo Padilla
Music 7.1
Music #: 22
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt was born on October 22nd in Raiding, Hungary. Franz was a composer, pianist, conductor, teacher, and a Franciscan tertiary.
Like many famous composers from the time, Franz was raised as a child prodigy. His father who was an amateur composer taught him at first. When he was nine, he appeared in several concerts, which in wealthy people would often want to sponsor Franz. Even though he went to these concerts, he had been composing dance he was only eight years old, and he had been playing the piano since he was seven!
Franz moved to Vienna, and there he received piano lessons from Carl Czerny, who had been a student when he was little of Beethoven and Hummel. HE also received
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Then his father broke the affair between the two. Franz then felt very ill, and then since Franz was so famous in Paris, they even printed a newspaper about this. He composed nothing in these days. Finally the July revolution inspired Liszt to make a Revolutionary Symphony. On December 40, 1830, he met Hector Berlioz, one day before Symphonie Fantastique. This music inspired Franz even more, and he even inherited some of Hectors styles. He also helped Hector a lot to make his works famous. During this time he met another composer by the name of …show more content…
He directed a programme of sacred music on March 26, 1863. Then in 1867 he composed a Hungarian coronation for Franz Joseph and Elisabeth of Bavaria. Then after the coronation the Offertory was added and then the Gradual.
In 1869, Liszt was invited to Weimar to give Piano lessons. Then Budapest asked him to do t he same. Then he made this three-way journey from Hungary to Weimar, and back to Rome until the end of his life. He called it vie trifurquee. I say it was until the end of his life because in a Hotel in Weimar, he fell down some stairs on July 2, 1881. Liszt had feet swelling in his feet, which was possibly congestive heart flavor. He was immobilized for eight weeks after the accident, which he never really got the chance to recover from. He became super worried of preoccupation of death.
Many people saw Franz Liszt as the greatest pianist of all time, but he did not think that. He said that Charles-Valentin Alkan was the greatest pianist). There finally on July 31st, 1886 he died at the age of 74 becauseof pneumonia in Bayreuth, Germany.
So here ends the story, of in my opinion, the greatest pianist even today. The way he moved his hands to make such beautiful melodies just was amazing and brought joy to my heart. (I listened to his Hungarian Rhapsody #2, one of my
...as he paved the way for composers of the Romantic period like Ludwig van Beethoven, Gioachino Rossini, and Franz Schubert. No one can doubt the finality that mirrors Mozart’s life in his final symphony and his final farewell.
room and play then, he took piano lessons when he was seven. By the age of
It was not only until the spring of that year that he for first time left Hamburg professionally. He undertook a tour with the Hungarian violinist Eduard Remenyi for the purpose of introducing himself and his works. At Gottingen they gave a concert in which the young pianist made a deep impression upon the musicians present. He and Remenyi were to play Beethoven?s Kreutzer sonata, but at the last moment it was discovered that the piano was half a tone too low.
At the age of 17, Balanchine entered the Conservatory of Music. He studied piano, composition and th...
Tchaikovsky was born on May 7, 1840 in Vatkinsk, a town about 600 miles east of Moscow. His father, Ilya Petrovich, earned a profitable living by working as a director in the metal working industry and as a mine inspector. His mother Alexandra was a busy housekeeper and mother of six, with Peter being the second oldest. Peter began his studies of music when he was just five years old. Music had became an important pastime to upper-middle class. It was only a short while before Peter's talents began to shine. Peter, after taking some basic lessons, began to have a great feel for the piano. At the age of 10 he enrolled at a Russian boarding school called Jurisprudence in the town of St. Petersburg. There he would study the basic arts where he soon found a passion for music.
One of his very famous pieces of work was The Rite of Spring, last year in band class we had to write a paper about that marvelous performance. That was one of his greatest pieces that he ever wrote. That was a piece that he had worked very hard at for a long time.
Unfortunately, his lack of money was always an issue throughout his life. At age 22 he moved to Vienna and began his recognized career as a composer and directed his first symphony.
Franz Liszt, Hungarian piano virtuoso and composer. Among his, many notable compositions are his 12 symphonic poems, two (completed) piano concerti, several sacred choral works, and a great variety of solo piano pieces.
Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany in 1770 to Johann van Beethoven and his wife, Maria Magdalena. He took his first music lessons from his father, who was tenor in the choir of the archbishop-elector of Cologne. His father was an unstable, yet ambitious man whose excessive drinking, rough temper and anxiety surprisingly did not diminish Beethoven's love for music. He studied and performed with great success, despite becoming the breadwinner of his household by the time he was 18 years old. His father's increasingly serious alcohol problem and the earlier death of his grandfather in 1773 sent his family into deepening poverty. At first, Beethoven made little impact on the musical society, despite his father's hopes. When he turned 11, he left school and became an assistant organist to Christian Gottlob Neefe at the court of Bonn, learning from him and other musicians. In 1783 he became the continuo player for the Bonn opera and accompanied their rehearsals on keyboard. In 1787, he was sent to Vienna to take further lessons from Mozart. Two months later, however, he was called back to Bonn by the death of his mother. He started to play the viola in the Opera Orchestra in 1789, while also teaching in composing. He met Haydn in 1790, who agreed to teach him in Vienna, and Beethoven then moved to Vienna permanently. He received financial support from Prince Karl Lichnowsky, to whom he dedicated his Piano Sonata in C minor, better known as The Pathétique .
A disastrous episode with an unruly pupil was the last straw and Schubert, at age nineteen, left teaching and his home to pursue what he loved, composing. He moved into the family apartment of his friend Franz von Schober.... ... middle of paper ... ... Schubert's instrumental works show development over a long period of time, but some of his greatest songs were composed before he was 20 years old.
In 1829, he left his hometown and started his music tour to Italy, France and England. During this period of time, he published many significant compositions, which included the overture Die Hebriden (1829), the Reformation Symphony (1830) and the Italian Symphony (1832) etc.
He was a great young composer that transformed into a genius that was able to write music in the short periods of time he had during the day and was able to rewrite the musical rules. After being very successful in his early years, Mozart grew little older and started looking at things in a bigger picture. He tried to fit in on many different things including languages of others. The “Magic Flute” that was written at the end of his short life is known as the ultimate expression of Mozart’s ambition to connect with the human life and the human emotion through music as well as theater. At 25 years old, Mozart is no longer a prodigy but has not proved to be an amateur composer. In Provincial Salzburg is where Mozart is still living with his father and sister. Mozart is going to Munich because they have commissioned him to write an Italian opera in a serious style. Mozart’s father said he gave Wolfgang the advice to never neglect the popular style for the unmusical public as the musical ones. Leopold agreed to be Mozart’s middle man between the poets but he didn’t know that this would be his last detailed involvement in one of Mozart’s projects. Mozart’s father said they worked every day on the poems but Mozart was determined about something totally different than his father. He had problems with everything his father done. Whether it was too long or not dramatic enough, it would never suit his needs. His
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is often referred to as the greatest musical genius of all time in Western musical tradition. His creative method was extraordinary: his writings show that he almost always wrote a complete composition mentally before finally writing it on paper. Mozart created 600 works in his short life of 35 years. His works included 16 operas, 41 symphonies, 27 piano concerti, and 5 violin concerti, 25 string quartets, and 19 masses.
Franz Joseph Haydn was born in Rohrau, Austria, on April 1, 1732, to Mathias and Anna Maria Koller Haydn. Joseph Haydn's parents had twelve children, but, sadly, six of them died during infancy. His surviving siblings included two brothers, Johann Evangelist and Johann Michael, and three sisters, Anna Maria Franziska, Anna Maria, and Anna Katharina. Many references give March 31 as Haydn's birthday, but official records disprove this. It is rumored that his brother, Michael, was the source of this inaccuracy. Supposedly, Michael didn't want it said that his big brother came into this world as an April Fool.
As a youth he reluctantly studied law, as much bore by it as Schumann had been, and even became a petty clerk in the Ministry of Justice. But in his early twenties he rebelled, and against his family's wishes had the courage to throw himself into the study of music at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. He was a ready improviser, playing well for dancing and had a naturally rich sense of harmony, but was so little schooled as to be astonished when a cousin told him it was possible to modulate form any key to another. He went frequently to the Italian operas which at that time almost monopolized the Russian stage, and laid t...