Essays on Composers

No one has to be a passionate listener and follower of classical music to have heard or to be familiar with this piece. Nor does anyone need to be a firm follower of this music to know the name of Mozart. Having said that, there...

On the 27th of January in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria (Lüsted, 2017). However on the 28th of January the same year, he was baptized at St. Rupert’s Cathedral in Salzburg and was given the baptized name of Johannes Chyrsostomus Wolfgangus...

Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time. There are few activities in life that utilize the brain, and music is one of them. As a matter of fact, it is scientifically proven that listening to music while...

The German composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was not only a musical genius but was also one of the pre−eminent geniuses of the Western world. He defined in his music a system of musical thought and an entire state of mind that were unlike any previously...

Music has always been one of the biggest contributors to our artistic world since the beginning of time. Every year there’s always new music that’s released for the world to hear and have critics share their opinions about it. However, in today’s society music is...

Introduction  Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67, also called ‘Destiny,’ was composed by Ludwig Van Beethoven in between 1804 and 1808. This work described as one of his famous classical works in his life, which expresses the positivity and striving spirit of humanity as they...

Moonlight Sonata can be said to be a song that marks a big change in the musical composition style of the genius composer Beethoven. It has something like grief, loss, prayers, and stormy intensity. Behind this famous sonata are many stories. This sonata is C#...

An Overview Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, nicknamed as “Moonlight Sonata”, is a solo piano piece in sonata form, composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. The reason it was nicknamed as the ‘Moonlight Sonata’ is due to its traces to the 1830s when the...

Mozart composed his Sonata in E-flat major, K. 282 during the period where the Harpsichord was being displayed by the Pianoforte. This sonata stands apart, due to the significant use of dynamics and its slow and lyrical ‘Adagio’ first movement, which creates a powerful statement...

Born on January 27th, 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart grew up in a musical home in the oldest city of Salzburg. His father was an exceptional violinist within the City Court Orchestra and a composer whilst his mother was also a music lover who plays several...

Sonata form represents a large-scale structure that can be traced back to many works done in early classical works back in the 18th century up to the late 19th-century romantic period. Sonata forms are easily located in almost every first movement on works of Beethoven,...

Abstract This paper includes a look at cultural generalizations in the past to the present of music and how it damages the perception of the community at heart who presents it. In particular, the reader will learn about the ideology of German Composer Richard Wagner,...

Richard Wagner was a composer and conductor from the 1800s in Germany. He was well known and had many popular orchestras and other forms of media. For most of his life, he wasn’t involved in any controversies regarding his music or any notions of racism...

Introduction The purpose of this essay is to describe the plot, two scenes, and my overall thoughts about the play Amadeus. Amadeus had to do with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. Salieri was also a composer who also was jealous of the natural gift...

Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550 is a sheet of music that composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and there’s two versions that was separated composed by 1788 and 1780. This is one of the two Minor Symphony that was written by Mozart in...

I stopped dead in my tracks. I had just heard the most appalling sound. I rushed toward the bedroom, and I stood in the doorframe. I knew what I was looking at, but I just couldn’t believe it. Electrical wiring dangled from the remains of...

The music world is occupied by both the memory and current life of the musical equivalent to Albert Einstein. Often times these musical geniuses are grouped together based on their style, where they are from, or even their personal lives. An unfortunate example of this...

John Sebastian Bach was born during the year of 1685 and died during the year of 1750. He was a German organist and the most modern composer of the first half of the eighteenth century. Bach composed his music during Baroque period of European classical...

Igor Stravinsky, often hailed has one of the greatest and most influential composers of the 20th Century, influencing other legendary composers such as Aaron Copeland, remarked that “conducting, like politics, rarely attracts original minds.” His strong rhetoric undoubtedly conveyed the idea that conductors may be...