Essays Tagged: "Violinist"

Mozart

Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. His father Leopold Mozarteducated him and was a violinist, author, and composer. He began composing minuets atthe age of five. When Mozart was six, ...

(1 pages) 151 1 3.8 Jan/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Music History - Biography on Johannes Brahms from 1870. Includes Musical Output, and works by Opus no.

he capital of European classical music, and had acquired two more powerful advocates, the Hungarian violinist Joseph Joachim and the Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick.(*) Both men saw Brahms as the last ...

(8 pages) 140 1 4.2 Mar/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Daniel Hale Williams

worked his way through Janesville Classical Academy in Janesville, Wisconsin, as a barber and bass violinist. In 1893 he received a medical degree from Chicago Medical College, now part of Northweste ...

(1 pages) 40 0 4.6 Jan/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History

Biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 943 words. His family, childhood, and works are mentioned in this relatively short bio.

mself Wolfgang Amade or Wolfgang Gottliet. His father, Leopold, was a composer, author, and a great violinist in the Archbishop of the Holy Roman Empire's orchestra. He taught him to play the piano at ...

(4 pages) 146 0 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Johann Sebastian Bach

holarship to the Michaeliskirche in Luneburg. When his voice broke, he continued to make music as a violinist and organist and its said that he studied with Georg Bohm another well known organist and ...

(4 pages) 80 0 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Ballet in Western Europe.

cial effects was presented in France at the court of Catherine de' Medici in 1581. Organized by the violinist Balthasar de Beaujoyeux, it was entitled Le Ballet comique de la Reine. This production wa ...

(2 pages) 51 0 4.0 May/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts

George Balanchine.

musical family (Aloff). His father was a musician and composer, his brother a pianist, and sister a violinist. Even with all the music in his home, Balanchine believed he would become one of the Tsar' ...

(8 pages) 43 0 3.3 Jun/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts

A comparison between the three movements from Vivaldi's L'estro Armonica, Op.III. Used for Advanced higher. Would be usefull to have a copy of the score to accompany this essay.

(1678-1741) and taught music at an all-girls orphanage for most of it. He was also an accomplished violinist and performed most of his works. He composed many Concertos, Concerto grossos, Religious w ...

(5 pages) 29 0 3.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Andrew lloyd webber.

theory and composition at the Royal College of Music in England. His mother, Jean, was a singer and violinist at the same school. They married on October 3, 1942, six years before their first child, A ...

(4 pages) 58 1 3.9 Dec/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Summaries of the greatest composers in MUsic (Sebastian Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Joseph Haydn, Handel, Monteverdi, Brahms)

. He studied music until the year 1703 and then decided to go professional. His first job came as a violinist for the orchestra at Weimar. He later became an organist for the Church in Arnstadt from 1 ... e in the same conservative style as his teacher. In 1853, Brahms went on concert with the Hungarian violinist Eduard Reményi. During this period Brahms met a German composer named Robert Schuma ...

(7 pages) 124 0 4.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

A Brief Discussion on the Definition of Art

r responds emotionally, if the work provokes thought, humor, passion, compassion, then it is art. A violinist who has mastered his instrument cannot compare to the violinist whose playing, though flaw ...

(2 pages) 108 1 4.8 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

Introduction to Music Concert

hony No. 2. The Conductor and Music Director Designate was Stefan Sanderling. The Concertmaster and Violinist was Amy Schwartz Moretti. The three compositions played this evening were Symphony No. 25 ...

(3 pages) 73 0 3.7 Jul/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Beethoven

nata, he was a self-confident utterances of a composer and wrote his music in his originality. As a violinist himself, Beethoven had the knowledge of using the modified bow and violin and took the adv ... ten sonatas are one of the Beethoven's main chamber music.Although Beethoven was not an outstanding violinist, he had the love for the instrument and knew very well about the advantages of using the m ...

(4 pages) 45 0 5.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

History of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

. He was born to Leopold and Anna Maria Pertl. His father, Leopold, was a very successful composer, violinist, and the assistant concertmaster at the Salzburg court. Mozart showed musical talen ...

(3 pages) 39 0 0.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Tragedy or Comedy

chekhov is a play about three prozorov sisters living with their brother, Andrei, who wants to be a violinist and scientist. After the death of their father, one of them, Masha, married with a school ...

(5 pages) 35 1 4.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

A Comparison of the Musical Styles of Vivaldi and Corelli

ented musicians were Antonio Vivaldi and Arcangelo Corelli. Both Italian artists were distinguished violinists as well as accomplished composers. "Corelli was the greatest violinist-composer of the Ba ... In 1675, Corelli spent four years in Rome where he undertook subordinate positions among orchestral violinists. He soon became one of the foremost violinists in Rome. "On 9 July 1687, Cardinal Pamphil ...

(15 pages) 54 0 5.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Compare the lives and works of Bach and Handel

e University of Halle, he put his law career aside, and went to Hamburg. While in Hamburg, he was a violinist and a harpsichordist in the orchestra.According to the text, so many members of the family ... e University of Halle, he put his law career aside, and went to Hamburg. While in Hamburg, he was a violinist and a harpsichordist in the orchestra. All in all, many musical advancements were made by ...

(8 pages) 95 0 4.4 Apr/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Tchaikovsky

. (Kuenning) Tchaikovsky then escaped to Switzerland where in early March 1878 Yosif Yosifovich*, a violinist and former student of Tchaikovsky, visited him. (T.V.C.) After playing Lalo's Symphonie Es ...

(2 pages) 16 0 0.0 May/2001

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, the Italian composer, and violinist may have been one of the most influential of his age. He was born in Venice on March 4th, ... playwright Carlo Goldoni gave a portrait of Vivaldi and Giraud. It said, "This priest, an excellent violinist but a mediocre composer, has trained Miss Giraud to be a singer. She was young, born in Ve ...

(6 pages) 44 1 4.0 Jul/2001

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Azula

ess my teacher. She told me that it would take many practice hours to shape up to sound like a real violinist. This insulted me because judging me on how I interpreted the music is, in my opinion and ...

(3 pages) 1513 0 3.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies