Pablo Picasso was the most influential artist in the early 20th century. He was born on October 25, 1881. His real name is actually Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Crispiniano de la Santísima Trinidad. He passed on April 8, 1973. He was born in Malaga, Spain and died in Mougins, France. His nationality was Spanish. His parents’ names were Jose Ruiz Blaso and Maria Picasso Lopez. Later on in his life, he dropped his father’s name and basically kept it
he immensely expanded the scope of symphonies, concertos, and quartets. 40 years after his death, Beethoven’s famous “Fur Elise” was discovered by a german music scholar. It is rumored that this song was dedicated to the girl he proposed to, Therese Malfatti. Towards the end of his life, he started to go deaf. However, this could not slow his determination to compose, and even after he had lost all hearing he started and finished his symphonies No. 3-8, the "Moonlight
Like stated above, his exact reason for deafness is not known. Beethoven himself had said to a close friend, in a journal excerpt, that the reason for his deafness was an illness that started with the belly. "The cause of this must be the condition of my belly which as you know has always been wretched and has been getting worse, since I am always troubled with diarrhea, which causes extraordinary weakness. Frank wanted to tone up my body by tonic medicines and restore my hearing with almond oil
Do you know the works Symphony 9 and Egmont these piano pieces were created and performed by the musical blessing known as Beethoven. The man who single handedly created the musical figure of piano in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras. To begin Ludwig van Beethoven was born on December 16, 1770 and left this world on March 26, 1827 but his time spent on earth was time the earth began to change its way the people living here learned how to listen to music and appreciate
Composed in 1801 and published in 1802 in Vienna as opus 28, "Grande Sonate pour le pianoforte", the nickname "Pastorale" was given quite late, towards 1838, by the Hamburg based publisher Cranz, the same who named the Sonata opus 57 "Appassionata". Carl Czerny reports that the composer said to his friend Krumpholz: "I am not satisfied with what I composed until now. I will go now to other directions." Yet, still after Czerny, the Andante of the Pastorale Sonata, was one of the composer's favorites
Imagine, you’re in Vienna, and it’s the year 1808 on December 22nd. You have been privately invited to a benefit concert for Ludwig van Beethoven at the Theater an der Wien. Beethoven is newly famous and you heard that he is debuting his new Fifth Symphony. You sit down in the red velvet seats and your heart starts racing with anticipation as the lights come down and the curtain opens. There he is, Ludwig van Beethoven. He raises his hands and with a wave of his arms, it starts with four heart-pounding