Chamber music Essays

The Chamber Ensemble Concert took place in Corley Auditorium in Webster on Monday May Second at 5:30 PM. This was definitely my favorite concert, the music was so relaxing and smooth. I felt like I could just record it and play it at home, it was just so beautiful. I’m one of those people that loves music so, I like to experience new sounds, melodies, and tones. I enjoy all the sounds that one instrument can make and how people find inspiration to make something so beautiful. I find it amusing how

Rohrau, Austria, a composer by the name of Joseph Haydn would be known as the father of instrumental music by the end of his career. His compositions and style would be one of the few to be recognized within the classical period. Through his music he expressed his thrill of life and beauty, developing the form of strong quartet. This form would be the most vital form within classical chamber music. Besides his development of the string quartet, his collective works would be made up of 17 operas, 68

1833, in Hamburg, Germany. Brahms’s father was an innkeeper and a musician. When he was seven, he began to study piano with his father. When he was ten, he played a private concert to earn money to save for his future education. Brahms learned music theory and began composing at the piano. He began playing in dance salons in the area to earn money to help his family with expenses. At age fourteen, Brahms’s long hours had an ill effect on his health. He was offered a rather long holiday at Winsen-an-der-Luhe

108 symphonies, 68 string quartets, 62 piano sonatas, and numerous other works, which established him as a leading figure in the classical period. Hayden plays a huge role in the development of the classical style from a historical perspective. His music is known for its melodic inventiveness, harmonic richness, and use of humor and surprise. Haydn began his career in the middle

THE "Red Death" had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal --the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution. The scarlet stains upon the body and especially upon the face of the victim, were the pest ban which shut him out from the aid and from the sympathy of his fellow-men. And the whole seizure, progress and termination of the

My Experience with Revenge It is possible to say that I know quite a lot about the revenge. I saw its examples both in the literature (cinema) and the real life. First source showed global, more dramatic types of revenge, like the blood feud, Poe’s story The Cask of Amontillado or many action movies where the antagonist retaliates for the death of his/her parents, family or friend. The real life demonstrated more routine, down-to-earth cases. These small revenges appear both at home and work. For

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich is a 20th-century composer. She was born on April 30, 1939, in Miami Florida. She started out as a violinist, pianist, and a hornist, and earned a bachelor of music degree from Florida State University in 1960. And she also received a master's degree in music in 1962. She then taught in a small South Carolina town, but they moved to New York City. In 1975 Zwilich enrolled in Juilliard. She played in the New York City American symphony orchestra, under the composer Leopold Stokowski

who was raised into a musical family in Le Mans, France. Jean Françaix’s mother was a vocal teacher and his father Alfred Françaix’s was a composer, pianist, musicologist, and director of the Le Mans Conservtoire. Jean Françaix received his first music lessons from his father when he began composing at the age of six. In 1922 at the age of ten, Jean Françaix began studying harmony and later counterpoint from legendary teacher Nadia Boulanger. Boulanger went on to play and conduct many of the first

Arnold Schoenberg! When I flipped the guide to observe what else was in store for me, my eyes opened wide as I saw Mozart! I felt as if I wasn’t completely ignorant towards the classical music world, here I am in Carnegie Hall for the first time and I have a general background of the two original composers of Chamber Symphony No. 2 and Great Mass in C Minor. As Botstein started to conduct The Orchestra Now with Schoenberg, I was amazed at the beautiful sight of the orchestra in compliment to the beautiful

who told Schubert he was a musical genius. Schubert played the violin in the students' orchestra, was quickly promoted to leader, and conducted when Ruzicka wasn’t there. He also attended choir practice and, with his fellow pupils, practiced chamber music and piano playing, entertaining many critics thereafter in breathtaking performances. In addition to having those performances in 1812, Schubert's voice broke, forcing him to stop going to said college, though he did continue his instruction with

Quartet’. This performance has a strong sense of togetherness and the performers give a sense of enjoyment through the performance. From research I have learned a lot about the background of this piece and about Haydn himself. Joseph Haydn wrote music for patron Nikolaus Esterhazy but also wrote pieces and works for sale to the general public. He composed six quartets of Op.33 in the summer and autumn of 1781 for the Viennese publisher Artaria. Haydn said in a letter to Artaria that the quartets

at a later age began to experiment in composition. Her father’s disagreement prevented her from attending the Paris Conservatoire, so instead she studied privately with members of its faculty, which included Benjamin Godard. She started composing music at the age of 8 and performed abroad at the age of 16. Chaminade became a successful composer and concert pianist in the early 1900s, with a tremendous popularity in the United States and was one of the first French female professional composers

Ever since Franz was a young boy he was always involved with music. From singing in the choir at the age of eight to becoming a street musician at the age of sixteen, Haydn would be a musician to his death teaching, composing, and playing music. Haydn, among other creators of the classical music era, was one of the greatest creating one hundred and four symphonies. Hayden also influenced many other composers. Hayden was born on March 31st 1732. His father Mathias Haydn was a wheelwright and his mother

Jacob opened his eyes. He looked around him inside the cryo chamber as his eyes were still adjusting to the bright lights from the ceiling. The loud, monotone loudspeaker blared, “All humans from Section 5 report to the recycling chamber!” The cryo chambers opened up and the people from Section 5 detached from their places. Jacob nonchalantly trudged into the organized square which Section 5 grouped into. They soon were marching down to the recycling room just like every other day in his life.

during his visit to Rome. He wrote many concertos (especially the piano concertos) and sonatas for his own virtuosic performance during the trip. Talent may helped in one’s musical journey but most importantly, it was Mozart’s passion in performing and music writing that won acclaim from the rich. Clara Wieck (1819-1896) is another example of a child prodigy born in a musically inclined family. Both parents played the piano and encouraged Clara to perform regularly at a very young age. She held concerts

I attended the Faculty Chamber Music Recital on Wednesday February 22nd. This concert featured three different musicians on four different instruments. Joseph Kromholz played the violin and viola, Alice Wang played the clarinet, and Cicilia Yudha played the piano. There was three different pieces between the three musicians. The first piece was the Sonata for Violin and Piano in G major, K. 379 by: W.A. Mozart. The second piece was the sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1962) by: Francis Poulenc. The

Over the past weekend, I saw the West Suburban Symphony Orchestra. This orchestra included, Violin 17, Viola 8, Cello 7, Contrabass 5, Harp 1, Flute and Piccolo 3, Oboe 2, English Horn 1, Clarinet 2, Bass Clarinet 1, Saxophone 1, Bassoon 2, Contrabassoon 1, French Horn 5, Trumpet 3, Trombone 2, Bass Trombone 1, Tuba 1, and Percussion 5. There was also some vocalists including Soprano 14, Alto 15, Tenor 11, and Bass 8. The two pieces that were being performed were, Symphony No. 1 - Winter Dreams -

How did you learn about this particular concert? Was it through e-mail, phone, or any other technology related devise? I learned about this performance through a few of my old music coaches at UINDY on Facebook 5. What was your own opinion of the concert? (Very Important.) I thought that this concert was amazing I have never attended, a piano concert in particular. I was blown away it was pure amazing and I was shocked at how

nobleman and received the highest fees of any musicians (Kamien, 2016), but they need to bear a pain surgery, incomplete body, arduous school life for music training. Therefore, the questions arise here and hope to find out the answers. Why they chose to be a castrato? How they became a castrato? What was their appearance after castration? How about their music? The reasons of castration As the historical perspective, the church need high range voice for the musical

When he was a young child he became interested in music. At the age of eleven, Dvorak dropped out of school. At this age, he became an apprentice butcher. At the age of twelve he went to Zlonice to live with his aunt and uncle and study German. There is where he took music classes which grew his curiosity for the knowledge of music. He learned to play the violin, organ, and piano. After learning how to play these instruments, he fell in love with music. He wrote polkas during the three years he lived