Classical Music

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria on January 27th, 1756. He was born to Leopold and Anna Maria Pertl. Leopol was a very successful composer, voilinist, and the assistant concertmaster at the Salzburg court. Mozart showed musical talent at a very young age. By age five he was composing minuets.And at age six…

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“Tchaikovsky is not only one of the corner stones of Russian musical culture and world music. It’s at the same time creative and technical encyclopedia to which every Russian has reference in the course of his own work”, said Dimitri Shostakovich. Peter Iltich Tchaikovsky is considered one of the best of all time. In this…

Hector Berlioz wrote the Symphonie fantastique at the age of 27. He based the program on his own impassioned life and transferred his memoirs into his best- known program symphony. The story is about a love sick, depressed young artist, while in his despair poisons himself with opium. His beloved is represented throughout the symphony…

Boethius Throughout history, every society has searched for some way to express its feelings and beliefs. Music has been an integral part of virtually every culture, so it is quite natural for people to have written about this subject. More literature has survived than actual music, which leaves modern scholars with the job of translating,…

Though they were all highly-developed and prolific composers from the Baroque era, the three seemed to explore their own respective specialties in ways that made them very distinct. Bach is known for his highly developed contrapuntal style. In this way, he is truly peerless and innovative. He is known as a master of the fugue…

Chopin is known to be one of the greatest composers of piano music of all time. He spent most of his life in Paris and was good friends with famous artists such as Ingres and Delacroix. His music is considered to be romantic in content, but very different from the romanticism of the time. In…

Neoclassicism, impressionism, primitivism, and nationalism. They are all important movements that play a big role in the history of music. Neoclassicism is an ism that teaches about music in history. It takes the style and traits of music from past century. In particular it takes the traits of classical music from the 18th century. It…

Music is the most powerful vehicle of human expression. As the embodiment of love, disapproval, happiness, experience life, music speaks to us, because it comes from us. Each people, in each paradine of the human experience instinctively and systematically change the music of the past to represent the realities of the present. In this century,…

I will be talking about his life and his music. I will tell you a little bit about his father, wife, and son. Mozart was the leading composer of the Classical Age. He wrote many different types of music. He was the best composer of his time. Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria on January…