This comprehensive guide to the Ninth Symphony offers insight into more than just the composition and structure of Beethoven's monumental work. It explores the controversial realm of period instruments and performance techniques, and challenges old assumptions about the sound and meaning of the music....
Beethoven had arrived in Vienna in 1792 to study composition with Haydn. Mozart and Hayden were the two most influential people on Beethoven’s musical style. In comparison Haydn and Mozart, Beethoven had a later start to writing symphony music at the age of… ...
Whatever the composition of the public, it always reacts to great musical conceptions in the same way as that bitch and her pups. There are nerves that react to certain vibrations, but this ability to respond, incomplete as it is, is not equally disseminated and is subject to innumerable ...
also studying piano and composition. After his 1891 public cello début in Barcelona he earned money performing in cafes, before an introduction to Count Morphy by Albéniz helped him finance further instruction in Madrid, then Brussels. Having argued with the professor in Brussels, however, Casals...
Generally considered as one of the greatest music pieces ever composed, the Ninth Symphony told the story of Beethoven’s strenuous period of life which was illustrated by his loud banging of the piano, during its composition, in order to listen to the notes. Several of his most celebrated mu...