duo pianos, or various solo instruments, such as violin, piano, flute, and cello with orchestra. Beethoven Cello Sonata in C major Op.102 No.1 It was composed in the summer of 1815 by this time he was almost deaf. The two Op. 102 cello sonatas were the only major works Beethoven wrote that year. More interestingly, it is also a milestone of the start of Beethoven’s “third period.” Brahms Cello Sonata No.2 in F major Op.99 This work is completed after the Fourth Symphony and
The names Beethoven, Haydn and Mozart are synonymous with the Classical period in music. Although each of the three were born in different cities but, their paths eventually did cross. The three composers crossed paths in Vienna Austria where Beethoven was able to travel to due to his popularity and successes as a performer for the wealthy. The trio was responsible for over 91 string quartets, 109 symphonies, many concertos, oratorios, sonatas and operas as part of their broad collection of works
204- Perspectives Sandeep Giri Dr. Thomas Huebar Date- October 4, 2015 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Born Jan 1756 – 5 Dec 1791), Salzburg, Austria was a famous composer who created strings of operas, concertos, symphonies and sonatas that deeply shaped classical music. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest composers in the history of classical music. Mozart was lucky to be born in musical family. His father Leopold was a court musician and composer who wrote a significant
The wooden legs make a scraping sound against the floor as I pull the bench into place. The old, yellowed pages murmur against each other. I sit before the crowd. A hush falls over the audience, the expectations rise in my gut-Will I mess it up? Can I make these people feel something? I place my hands over the black-and-white keys, take a breath, and begin. I start out slowly, pushing the keys deeply, trying to listen to the music that is in my imagination. What story do I want to tell today? In
different ways. The range of the movement was medium; difficult for the average singer, but still small enough that a well trained voice could manage. The second movement was Menuetto. This movement employed a broad dynamic range with a wide variance of surface rhythms; this, along with the polyphonic lines, gave the movement a whimsically dramatic feeling, like the feeling in your stomach when you watch a lion tamer stick his head in the beast's mouth. This movement used repetitive imitation as well