John Clubbe's Narrative Rivalry: Beethoven, And Napoleon

His unfulfilled hopes. His charred past, his extinguished future. He played that which he would never play again” (Wiesel 95). While Nazi order had forbidden Jews from playing Beethoven, as it was German music, Juliek plays it anyway. He sets his own boundaries with the music he plays and does not follow the ruling of others.

Chapter 15: 1. What are the dates of the Classical Period? Describe the Classical period of music (5 pts). The dates of the Classical Period are 1750 to 1820.

After the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars it affected composers in several ways. With the war many aristocrats could no longer afford orchestras, private opera houses, and the composers that were residence of those places. The aristocrats were considered the highest class in society at this time. When this happened, it left many composers who originally had steady incomes to now fighting to survive on what little money they could bring in. With the wars having such an impact on the economy composers had to find a way to adapt to the current living situations, and this meant changes to their audience.

Coming in 1809 Bonaparte defeated the Austrian army and won more gain for his land. After Napoleon would gain major power in all of Europe he would assign his siblings and the ones closest to him to be put in political power of the countries that he overthrew and ruled. Bonaparte would put his first son and heir to be the emperor or king of Rome. He put many other relatives in key political spots as well. These were high times in Napoleon's life.

However, one day one of his friends reintroduced Daniel to the classical sounds of Beethoven, and immediately being attracted to such music, Daniel was forever changed into a rebel, or so he thought. Listening to music in secret, it was unbeknownst to Daniel, that he wasn’t the only one that listened to classical music. As he grew older and developed his own piano playing abilities, Daniel met others like: himself, composers, teachers, and other musicians, who were inspired by classical music, just as he was. With the knowledge and support offered by these confidants and

This text along with that of Rufus’ other works are however, uniquely isolated and were most likely censored or prescribed by the respective senate or emperors in power at this time, adopting a bias nature. There is also reference to Alexander’s greatness by Roman texts, specifically within Titus Maccius Plautus’ play Mostellaraia. It is evident through both of these sources that the establishment and reasoning behind Alexander’s title is continually derived from his known ability to both defeat and succeed in the collection of military and expansionist battles he had fought in. The dismissal of such complex political components and concepts is foreshadowed by the emphasis placed on Alexanders approach to military conquest in which was uniquely unpredictable, and unusually lead the leader to success. The Phalanx approach to battle though, was a concept not even contrived from Alexanders analytical thinking rather an inherited tactic from his father king Phillip II.

Music Appreciation Analysis SSG River-Ayala, Sammy J. Columbia College Music Appreciation 122   Abstract We will cover Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony classically derived we will identified romantically inspired sections, comparing Beethoven as sonata form in the earlier symphonies of the Classical composer Mozart. Last but not lest we check the final three movements of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Beethoven A musicality is extremely identifiable, regardless of the possibility that the writer changes every one of the notes and the harmonies. Along these lines, Beethoven utilize the cadence of the Fate theme heaps of times all through the fifth orchestra, to entwine everything the main development

Beethoven wrote his Ninth Symphony in the course of his deafness. The Ninth Symphony remains well-known and popular to many, despite its diversity in comparison to his previous pieces. The Ninth Symphony often receives varied reactions by listeners, but it has been referred to as an inspiration to the methodology of musical analysis. The Ninth Symphony may have received mixed reviews, but there is no doubt

(2) 2nd period where Beethoven began to lose his hearing, his music changed as he expanded the traditional style forms and let it sounded emotionally more powerful and full of boldness. (3) He strived to search for new sounding and he restudied Bach’s work in hoping to absorb the polyphonic color infused in his later works. The Violin Sonata No. 6 was published in 1803 and dedicated to Czar Alexander I of Russia.

Their works changed through their careers and they used many different techniques to keep their compositions up to their standards and interests. Beethoven and Brahms influenced many composers years after their deaths and their works continue to be studied to this day. Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer during the classical period. He wrote 9 symphonies, 1 opera, 32 piano sonatas, 5 piano concertos and many other works.

From early on Napoleon was revered for his immense military prowess, admired for ending the destructive French Revolution. Although Napoleon was a triumphant commander early in his career, his following failures greatly detracted from his initial success. Other than military victories, success can be defined as achieving one’s goals; Napoleon’s main focus was power. Napoleon was extremely hungry for power, ambitiously elevating his position from a soldier to the Emperor of France, a position he created for himself. Napoleon successfully overthrew the dictatorial Directory in 1799, preventing France from falling prey to corrupt leadership.

Napoleon was not perfect and a lot of his men died, but that does not make him a bad man. Napoleon Bonaparte was born on the Mediterranean Island of Corsica and he had seven brothers and sisters. When he was 9 years old he went and joined a military school and did not get out until he was

Napoleon also, was a skilled military leader and became the first emperor of France. Napoleon was a French leader whom quickly rose through the ranks of military during the French revolution and drove his military to expansion and change in the western world. Although they cannot be compared in every way because Napoleon twice relinquished his authority in military leadership, in which Alexander would not have even dreamt of doing. SECTION IV: Alexander the Great should be placed in a time capsule because of his outstanding and notable achievements of brilliant commands and undefeatable battles. He was young and clever with his battle tactics so that he could save the world from imperial enslavement.

One of the favorite students of Beethoven, the pianist and composer Ferdinand Ries recalled: "This symphony was conceived in connection with Bonaparte when he was First Consul. Beethoven appreciated his exceptionally high and compared with the greatest Roman consuls. As I, and others of his coming friends often saw this symphony written in the score he had on the table top on the cover sheet stood the word "Bonaparte" and the bottom "Luigi van Beethoven," and say no more ... I was the first who brought him the news that Bonaparte announced himself emperor. Beethoven was furious and said: "This - is also an ordinary man!

Napoleon Bonaparte was born on August 15, 1769 on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. He attended school in France, where he learned French and graduated from a French military academy in 1785, where he became a lieutenant of the French Army. He became the husband of Josephine de Beauharnais in 1796, but got divorced since they did not have any heirs yet, he married Marie Louise in 1810 and had a son named Napoleon Francois Joseph Charles Bonaparte a year later. Since Napoleon had conquered the city of Rome, he gave his son the title of King of Rome. There are many facts that explain why Napoleon was considered one of the greatest leaders in history, but the main reasons why he is regarded as such is because he was helpful, charismatic, brave and brilliant.