Fanny Mendelssohn is now considered to be one of the most important composers of the romantic era. This amazing composer’s birth date is November 14, 1805 and she unfortunately died 41 years later on May 14, 1847. She was the eldest of four musical children. Although all of her siblings were musical her and her brother Felix were both recognized as child prodigies. Fanny and Felix had a very close relationship because of their love of music. Felix privately encouraged Fanny to keep making music, even though female composers weren’t celebrated at the time. She listened to her brother and continued to make music.
Fanny Mendelssohn grew up in a well-situated home. Thanks to their parents, her siblings and herself received great academic and musical education. As they learned music Fanny and Felix, the two eldest were found to be prodigies. Fanny was able to learn how to play the piano through her mother’s guidance. And even then, their parents encouraged Felix more because of his gender and because of this, Fanny’s music career suffered. Her family still believed that women should focus on domestic work even though her talent appeared to
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Their teacher, Carl Friedrich Zelter is said to have favored Fanny over Felix. According to The Famous People Website, he commented about how special Fanny was and compared her to Johann Sebastian Bach from the baroque period. By the time Fanny was 19 years old, she had composed 32 fugues. The romantic era composer was greatly influenced by her great aunts Fanny von Arnstein and Sarah Levy, who were both lovers of music. But unfortunately her career was restricted by the time period and her father. After all, her father was merely tolerant about her composing, but he certainly didn’t believe it would be her profession. I find this incredibly sad because she was an extremely talented person who’s only obstacle was her
Mary Bryant a mother, wife and a convict on the first fleet to Australia. Mary Bryant was a well-known convict of Australia during the 17-1800’s. Mary Bryant had many failures, successes and important events that happened during her life. She has no specific birth date, but was baptized on the 1st of May, 1765 Fowey, Cornwall and was a daughter of a mariner named Broad who’s family was ‘eminent for sheep stealing’. As you can see by the last sentence she was born into a family of criminals from robbery to assault.
She has composed small pieces of compositions for instruments that are uncommon. Some instruments include the trombone, oboe, bassoon, horn, and more wind and horn instruments. She has also composed group concertos for two pianos but has also composed solo concertos for violins, pianos, and horns. The composer has many larger formatted compositions too.
In the late 1800s, nearly all women were viewed as subservient, inferior, second class females that lived their lives in a patriarchal and chauvinist society. Women often had no voice, identity, or independence during that time period. Moreover, women dealt with the horrors of social norms and the gender opposition of societal norms. The primary focus and obligation for a woman to obtain during the 1800s was to serve her husband and to obey to anything he said. Since women were not getting the equality, freedom, or independence that they desired, Kate Chopin, an independent-minded female American novelist of the late 1800s expressed the horrors, oppressions, sadness, and oppositions that women of that time period went through.
In the nineteenth century, many female musicians who were mainly from the upper class were born into a family that had a musical background leading them to partake in the musical field. The female artists who were born into an upper-class family were restricted by their social status. Throughout history, female artists dealt with many problems and issues since they were women that were playing music in the music industry. As a child prodigy, Clara Schumann’s became well known for her music but she had to go through the various problems of being a women composer. Libby Larsen is another musical composer who also had to deal with being a woman in the music industry.
Nina Simone was an iconic singer, pianist, and civil rights activist who made a lasting impact on music and society. Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon on February 21, 1933, in Tryon, North Carolina, Simone was the sixth of eight children in a poor family. Despite her family's financial struggles, Simone showed an early aptitude for music and began playing piano at a young age. Simone's talent soon became evident to her family and community, and they raised money to pay for her music lessons.
A German composer, wife, and mother; Clara Schumann paved the way for many female composers and musicians today. Amidst entering the music world at the age of five, Clara's' love for music enabled her to stay in the field of music for 61 years. Producing a total of twenty nine songs, three part songs, and twenty four compositions for piano; subsequently, enhancing her love for concert performance. Clara performed the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Bac, J.Brahms, and Robert Schumann, dedicating herself more to the interpretation of her peers music rather than her own. Surviving the deaths of her beloved husband and four children, while never loosing sight of who she was, Clara deserves to be recognized for being the powerful woman and musician that she was.
To slave a person is the most inhumane act one can commit, and unfortunately was very popular during the 18th century. However, have you ever wondered the different impacts slavery caused between men and women? Both Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs showcase, through their writings, the horrors of slavery, and contrast the many similarities and import differences between the experience of slavery between genders. One of the similarities of slavery for both genders was their allowances. Both men and women were only allowed a certain amount of food and clothing to survive throughout a year.
There was a lot of stress put on her, especially at her young age. But it only motivated her to keep pushing and to write more and this was around the time of World War II. Going through grief was a rollercoaster of emotions for her. She had to live the rest of her life without her father.
There are many differences and similarities between the fourth movement of Beethven’s Fifth symphony and the fourth movement of Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, whether it is the orchestrastion of the pieces, the dynamics, form and period. Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the most well known Classical composers in music history, born into a family of musicians and was seen by his father as a profitable prodigy and had several of his piano compositions published by the age of twelve. He was the first successful freelance composer and changed the way music was composed and performed as he composed pieces that defied the standard ways of composing during the Classical era by using an expanded form structure, larger orchestra, dramatic themes and replaced minuet and trio with scherzo and trio making the third movements of his symphonies faster than traditionally performed. He also treated instruments as individuals instead of grouping them together such as the bass instruments which originally formed the Basso continuo. Beethoven experimented with the ways an instrument could be played , creating new sounds, and would have large pitch ranges between instruments which aided in the expressiveness and drama of his pieces.
Billie Holiday was one of many influential jazz singers during the period known as the Harlem Renaissance. Billie Holiday was born on April 7, 1915 as Eleanora Fagan and began singing in local clubs and renamed herself “Billie” after the film star Billie Dove (“Billie Holiday Biography”). At age 18, Holiday was discovered by producer John Hammond who was impressed by Holiday’s performance at a jazz club in Harlem (Charles). Billie had a thriving career as a jazz singer until she died at age 44 due to heart and liver complications. Although she lost her battle of addiction that led to her death, Billie Holiday is not remembered as a tragic figure of the Harlem Renaissance, but she is remembered as one of the best jazz singers that ever lived.
His father, Leopold, noticed his son’s extraordinary musical gifts when Mozart was only five, because he could not only play but also compose music. Leopold took his son to the Bavarian Court, the first place Mozart performed
Mother and wife are also not her will; she feels restrained and loses her liberty of being that. After she heard the playing from Adele, she feels the solitude and loneliness, it seems same as her position in this era, no one understands her and feels depress toward the people, the family she encountered. On the contrary, she is touched after hearing the pianist Mademoiselle Reisz plays. It is full of power and passion, and Mademoiselle is a woman that she wants to be, independent with alternative performance in this society, she is separated and not the one of them. Edna wants to know more about her and try to be like her, but the most essential element that a independent artist should has is bravery, this is what the pianist told Edna.
In the mid to late 1800’s women are viewed as homemakers, “Men demonstrate their dominance over women by generally confining them to the devalued registers of the home and the kitchen” (Brightwell 37). This is an era of raging patriarchy, if a woman is devoting time to something other than raising a family, she is looked down upon. Chopin emphasizes this through the social contrast between
Ludwig van Beethoven was a famous composer of the eighteenth-century classical music and the nineteenth-century romanticism style of music. Beethoven is still remembered for his spectacular pieces in modern times. Beethoven’s music led others to take the art of music as a serious topic. His symphonies and sonatas were revolutionary to the music world, because of this, many people today are not aware of his deafness. His deafness eventually caused him to make sacrifices in his music career.
Classic Musicians such as Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), and Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) had either died or lost their creative energy during and after