As brought to you through our newspaper every month we have a new composer to introduce. Now let me give to you a detailed yet brief summary of our composer.
Georg Philipp Telemann was born in Magdeburg in 1681. He belonged to a family that had long been connected with the Lutheran Church. His father was a clergyman, his mother was the daughter of a clergyman, and his older brother also became a clergyman. If it had not been for his musical abilities Georg also would have followed in his father's footsteps. As a child he mastered the violin, flute, zither, and keyboard by the age of ten. At the age of twelve he composed and opera called Sigismundus. His family disapproved highly of his success in music. This resistance though reinforced his determination to persevere in his studies through transcription and modeling his works on composers such as Agostino Steffani, Johann Rosenmuller, Corelli and Antonio Caldara. At Leipzig University he majored in law at his mother's insistence in 1701.
While he was a student at Leipzig University a career in music became inevitable. Within a year of being in the university he founded the student Collegium Musicum with which he gave public concerts. In 1703 he wrote operatic works for the Leipzig Theater and became musical director of the Leipzig Opera. He was also appointed organist at the Neue Kirche in 1704.
In 1705 Georg accepted an appointment as Kapellmeister to the cosmopolitan court of Count Erdmann II of Promnitz at Sorau. The vogue for the French and Italian styles of this area provided him with a new challenge. Georg's career there was cut short by the imminent prospect of invasion by the Swedish army, which caused the Court to be hurriedly disbanded.
His next place of appointment was at Eisenach as court Konzertmeister in charge of the singers. Georg assumed that his time there would be a period of relative stability. Therefore he plunged into composing church cantatas, occasional pieces, and orchestral and instrumental chamber music.
Another possibility is that being a composer doesn't limit you to just woods and winds, you may work and produce pieces that end up as pop music, film soundtracks, and anything between! For example your music may wound up in a famous artists song. ... The music will be all mine and no one else's. Today the music industry, Tomorrow the world! ... It could take you months to just finish one composition. ...
Paul Hindemith was a violinist, violist, teacher, conductor, and composer. ... In January 1935, Hindemith was given a six-month leave from his teaching job, but was eventually able to return in 1937, the year the boycott was endorsed by the music division of the Nazi party. ... Wolf-Ferrari was an Italian composer and teacher. ... The composer won an open scholarship for his works in 1897. ... Dunhill gave a concert of music by British composers in Belgrade in 1922, and in 1924 contributed Serbian articles to the Dent Musical Dictionary. ...
He was a famous composer and skilled bandmaster. ... His parents could not afford to send him to Europe to study music, but later Sousa said "I feel I am better off as it is...for I may therefore consider myself a truly American composer." He was taught a variety of music by John Esputa, his music teacher. ... Except for a period of six months, Sousa remained in the band until he was 20. ... He wrote the words to these as well as the music. ...
This was a break through in music. ... With the tape recorder being invented in the late 1940's, this opened a new window for composers modifying sound. ... He was one of the most important concrete composers. ... Pieces that lasted only a few minutes could have taken months to record because of cutting and splicing. ... I also hope you can appreciate the way the sounds are made and the time and patients it took many composers to develop the natural sounds....
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was unlike most other composers of his time. ... During the 1700s, people knew him as a talented musician, not as a composer, as we do today. ... Bach was content as long as he could play music. ... Bach and Handel are the two most famous composers of the Baroque era. ... After three months, Bach died on July 28, 1750. ...
Less then three months after his father remarried, Ambrosius Bach passed away after suffering from a serious long-term illness. ... The Duke of Weimar loved Bach's organ music and as a result the majority of Bach's organ music was written in Weimar (Wolff). ... The majority of his music composed in Leipzig was energetic church music. ... He stayed active throughout the last months of his life, but on July 28, 1750 music lost one of its greatest composers who passed away after a stroke. ... One composer he watched and imitated was the Italian composer, Antonio Vivaldi, who used r...
On December 5, 1791, Mozart died, about a month away from his thirty-six birthday; perhaps from various illnesses as opposed to just one. ... Three famous thriving composers belonged to this school, Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart. ... These composers were known for their elegant, lyrical, symmetrical melodies. ... Mozart's influences included peers as well as other great composers of his time. ... To Mozart, Haydn was a great composer. ...
Many people believe that music has the power to entertain, but seldom to educate. ... They do not put the entire music process into consideration such as composing, reading, listening and playing music. ... Classical music for example is a very intricate type of music that takes weeks, months or years to compose or learn how to play one piece. It comes from the human mind and you have to wonder how composers like Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart were able to create such exquisite symphonies. ... Reading music can be a challenge in itself. ...
