Information from the world of classical music
This composer, born in 1819 in Ubiel, began learning to play the piano at the age of 8 with August Freyer in Warsaw. He then went to Mińsk, where Dominik Stefanowicz gave him lessons. In 1937, he went to Berlin to improve his skills and expand his knowledge in the areas of...
The Renaissance is a completely new period in all of art. With the decreasing influence of the Church on the cultural life of Europe, music flourishes, becoming entertainment, as concerts can be heard not only in churches, but also in palaces and castles.
This artist was born in Vienna in 1797. From a young age, he studied music with his father until his potential was recognized and he was enrolled in lessons with a church choir conductor.
This French composer of Italian origin came into the world in Florence in 1632. He came from a poor family, but caught the attention of a nobleman from Guise, who took young Lully to Paris. There he began his service at the court of Louis XIV...
This Soviet composer and pianist born in Sontsovka in 1891 is one of the best examples of the Soviet composition school. His work influenced later artists from his side such as Aram Khachaturian or Dmitri Kabalevsky.
This Italian composer and cello virtuoso was born in Lucca in 1743. His father was a double bass player in the local chapel. While studying in Rome, he met Gluck and Sammarini. Nevertheless, in the classical era he was an underrated artist, despite the fact that...
The son of the esteemed violinist Giovanni Battista Vivaldi was born in Venice in 1678. At the age of 25, he was ordained as a priest and became known as the "red priest". He became a violin teacher at the Hospital of Mercy and a conductor of the orchestra in Venice, which was highly renowned at that time.
Romanticism in music is an era that covers the period from the beginning of the 19th century to the first decade of the next century. It is a stage in art that values fantasy and feelings over reason, liberalism over the absolutism of the Enlightenment, originality over Greco-Latin tradition...
This German composer, born in Zwickau in 1810, is one of the typical representatives of Romanticism in music. He was the son of a bookseller, so from an early age he was connected with literature to such an extent that at a certain stage of his life he hesitated between this field of art and music.
Alongside Beethoven and Mozart, a great representative of Viennese classicism. Considered the father of the symphony, sonata, and string quartet, he contributed to the flourishing of these musical forms, which survived almost intact until the beginning of the 20th century.
This composer was born in Halle (now Germany) in 1685, but at the age of 42 he obtained English citizenship and settled permanently in London. Although he did not come from a family with musical traditions, he was a young talent whose teacher was Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, teaching the boy to play the harpsichord and organ.
This composer and theorist, active in the Romantic era, was born in Leipzig in 1813. He became interested in music after listening to the works of Beethoven and Weber. His first work - an orchestral overture, could be heard in Leipzig when he was 16 years old.
Oboe is a wooden double reed instrument in the shape of a slightly conical whistle with a scale of b-f2. The sound of the oboe is very soft, slightly nasal, reminiscent of the sound of folk instruments.
One of the three Viennese classics, a representative of late classicism Ludwig van Beethoven had a huge influence on Romantic music. Born in 1770 in Bonn, he had a difficult childhood. His father forcibly wanted to turn his son into a musical genius, so he enrolled him in piano lessons from an early age.
An era in which the primary task of art was to describe the perfection of the world. Man was to be depicted as an ideal being, and the entire society as a perfect community. Consequently, music in the classical era was to be clear, transparent, excellent, and above all, it was supposed to serve people, which meant a departure from religious music, although it did not mean it was not created at all.
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