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- 41: The Ideals of Instrumental Music
- ... conceptions of the expressive functions of music into the past, and read Romantic programs into the instrumental works not only of Beethoven, but also the likes of Mozart, Haydn, and Bach! The diffused scenic effects in the music of such composers as Mendelssohn and Schumann seem pale when compared to the feverish, and detailed drama that constitutes the story of Berlioz ...
- 42: Romantic Music: The Ideals of Instrumental Music
- ... conceptions of the expressive functions of music into the past, and read Romantic programs into the instrumental works not only of Beethoven, but also the likes of Mozart, Haydn, and Bach! The diffused scenic effects in the music of such composers as Mendelssohn and Schumann seem pale when compared to the feverish, and detailed drama that constitutes the story of Berlioz ...
- 43: Mozart
- ... displayed (1763-66) their talents to audiences in Germany, in Paris, at court in Versailles, and in London (where Wolfgang wrote his first symphonies and was befriended by Johann Christian Bach, whose musical influence on Wolfgang was profound). In Paris the young Mozart published his first works, four sonatas for clavier with accompanying violin (1764). In 1768 he composed his first ...
- 44: Joseph Hyden
- ... he had no formal training until his late teens, when he worked for Italian musician and composer, Niccolò Porpora. He avidly studied music, including the works of C. P. E. Bach, and held several music-related jobs in Vienna during the 1750's. His earliest composition, Missa Brevis in F, comes from this period, as does Der Krumme Teufel (The Lame ...
- 45: John Coltrane
- ... duration and complexity of his phrases, and his increasing use of overblowing techniques. The whole spectrum of Coltrane's music – the world-weary melancholy and transcendental yearning that ultimately recall Bach more than Parker, the jungle calls and glossolalic shrieks, the whirlwind runs and spare elegies for murdered children and a murderous planet – is at root merely a suffering man's ...
- 46: Jack Kevorkian
- ... a therapist to mediate final closure sessions with her family (Gutmann 21). ³The night before her death she stayed up past midnight in a restaurant with friends, and rhapsodized about Bach with Dr. Kevorkian² (Gutmann 21). In her suicide note that she wrote the night before she died; she said, ³I have decided for the following reasons to take my own ...
- 47: Igor Stravinsky
- ... health slowly deteriorated. Eventually, his bad health caused a slowing down of his compositional activity, but even as late as 1970 he was working on instrumental transcriptions of some of Bach's preludes and fugues. He died in New York City on April 6, 1971. He was buried in Venice on the island of San Michele. Overall, Stravinsky has given major ...
- 48: Franz Joseph Haydn
- ... where he gained more of an interest in music. Participation in a choir gave him the opportunity to go to Vienna and there, he studied the piano sonatas of Emanuel Bach and was given the chance to finally get a chance to compose; something he had always wanted to do. This is when the first string quartet was developed. Later on ...
- 49: Frank Lloyd Wright
- ... Wright’s life truly was a work of art. Wright was born on June 8, 1867, in Richland Center, Wisconsin. His early influences include his clergyman father's playing of Bach and Beethoven and his mother's gift of geometric blocks. Growing up, Wright spent much of his summers at a farm owned by his uncles; here, his favorite pastime was ...
- 50: Mozart 2
- ... including two weeks at Versailles, where the children enchanted Louis XV. In 1764 they arrived in London. Here Mozart wrote his first three symphonies, under the influence of Johann Christian Bach, youngest son of Johann Sebastian, who lived in the city. After their return to Salzburg there followed three trips to Italy between 1769 and 1773. In Rome Mozart heard a ...
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