Franz Joseph Haydn was a classical music composer,who was also referred to as “The father of Symphonies, during of course the classical music period. The classical music period was from 1750-1820. Haydn was born on March 31st in 1732. Haydn was the second child of the family. His mother 's name was Maria Haydn,she was a cook for the lord 's and his father name was Mathias Haydn, he was a wheelwright. In his early years,Haydn quickly discovered he had rare musical talents. Haydn 's cousin who was the head of a choir as well as a school principal took him in and trained him when he was only six years old. By the time he was eight, he was recruited to sing in the St.Stephen 's Cathedral in Vienna. As well as being recruited into sing in the …show more content…
He started writing more pieces for the public as well as the family. He had composed some pretty big pieces in which were from abroad, such as pieces like the Symphonies from Paris and The seven last words of Christ. Soon after the newest Esterhazy family fired Haydn, he started to feel lonely because he was missing his friends, so he quickly accepted the invitation to write and play/conduct peices in England. While in England, Tons and tons of viewers and fellow ‘fans’ attended his concerts. From about 1768 to 1774, that was kind of a time period for Haydn to mature and write more pieces as a composer. During that time frame,he wrote the music from The Stabat Mater to Missa Sancti Nicolai. He wrote a lot of operas during this period which of course made him much more popular. Some of the pieces from this period of his life include string quartets of Opus 20 and the farewell …show more content…
The next 15 years played a big role in making Haydn more famous. In 1775, Haydn composed and played his first Oratorio, for the Society Of Musicians in Vienna, called ‘II Ritorno Di Tobia’. Nine years later, Haydn revised Tobia for another Viennese performance, within the revision he add more pieces to it and cut some of the dacapo structures out of it. Haydn 's personal home life did not related to one another. Haydn 's wife (Maria Ann Keller) in which he married in 1760, didn 't understand or like his musical works. Maria showed no interest in it. Haydn had affairs on his wife with other women, but he had an affair with Luigia Polzelli for years. Pozelli was a soprano in the prince 's
In his position as the Gentlemen of the Royal Chapel he sang, played the organ, led the choir, and composed. He was very talented and was able to compose in Latin, English, Italian, French and a couple other languages. In 1575 Queen Elizabeth gave him and William Byrd a monopoly on printing music in England. This was 21 year monopoly on printing and publishing polyphonic music. With knowing so many different languages he was able to print music in the many languages he knew.
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.
Samuel Morse was a famous artist and inventor who changed the world as we know it today with the invention of the telegraph. Samuel Morse was born on April 27, 1791 in Charleston Massachusetts. His father, Jedidiah Morse was a renowned geographer and congregational priest. Morse went to Yale University to study electricity and art. After he graduated from Yale, Morse went on to study art in England in 1812.
McCandless just liked to do what he wanted and on his own terms. In the early 1790, Mozart emerged from the deep depths of his depression, and went through a period of great music productivity and selfhealing. Some of Wolfgang Amadeus’s most recognizable and admired pieces were composed during this period.
He started learning the piano (and other instruments) from his father, but was eventually sent on to better teachers. His father, George, had hopes for Charles to be a great concert pianist, but Charles was drawn more to the organ. He began holding payed organ positions in churches by the age of fourteen. All
He started young because he was a child prodigy. He was an absolute genius. At the age of five he composed “Minuet and Trio.” It is beyond excellent for a five year old. It was a great foreshadow of what Mozart was going to become.
Years later he was appointed concertmeister, the head violinist. He had seven kids; two, twins, of the seven died in 1713. He was becoming very well known; he was always being offered to try or even just check out different organs. One new organ, in Halle, he was attracted to and offered himself as a organist. He was accepted and made a cantata on the spot.
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
He would soon begin to take private music lessons with Rimsky-Korsakov. Whom became like a second father to Igor Stravinsky. Teaching him all about composing and teaching him new different sounds. They would do these private lessons twice weekly, but soon also the man who he became very close with would also pass away in the year of 1908. Not all things were bad for Igor Stravinsky, he has did something that would be extremely unusual now, but what is quite common back in the day.
He adopted the role father in his family and four years later his mother also passed away which had a deep impact on him. He moved to Vienna to pursue arts in Vienna academy of arts but failed to clear the entrance exam twice. At that time he was poor and had a
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.
Another composer who played an important role in the development of the Symphony is no other than Joseph Haydn, the ‘Father of Symphony’. One of his works, Symphony no. 92 in G Major, Hob I:92, composed in 1789, will be reviewed. “Oxford” Symphony was commissioned by Count d’Ogny for the Loge Olympique Concerts in Paris. It is known as “Oxford” because Haydn presented this symphony at the Sheldonian Theater at Oxford University in July 1791, where he was awarded a honorary doctorate degree. This symphony displays Haydn’s mature style of composition, presenting his capability to utilize thematic development, counterpoint and a mixture of distinctive moods.
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.
He was born into a middle-class family which allowed him to be able to have the ability to have access to music at an early age. His mother was a key figure in his life when it came to music. She encouraged him to seek out a musical instrument when he was young. He started playing the piano very early in life, around the age of six, and it soon became clear to his family that he had a natural talent for it. He went on to study the piano and take piano lessons, per his family’s suggestion, soon after his talent was discovered.
Beethoven showed his musical talents at his young age. In 1792 he moved to Vienna and spent rest of his live there. He studied with Haydn and soon he gained his reputation as a virtuoso pianist that often showing his ability of improvisation during performance. Beethoven’s career as a composer can be categorized into three periods: (1) the peak of Classical period where most of his works shown influences of his teacher Joseph Haydn, as well as influences from other great musicians of all time such as Mozart.