Going back to theClassicalera, andHaydnis the first of the trio of composers that get called the ‘Viennese School’ – alongsideMozartandBeethoven. The Austrian composer was the son of a steelmaker, and went on to become the ‘father’ of the symphony – he wrote 107 of them, alongside ...
Plus, of course, his music has had a wide impact – Peter and the Wolf (one of the best pieces of classical music for children) and Romeo and Juliet in particular have become part of the global musical canon beyond just the realms of classical music. Where to start with Prokofiev Romeo...
With an ability to tackle some of the most demanding works in the piano literature, Arrau's influence on the classical music community continues to be felt today. Also ranks #16 on The Best Pianists in the World Also ranks #17 on The Greatest Classical Pianists of All Time Also ranks #...
The cello is one of the most classical and most beautiful stringed musical instruments in the world. This instrument in particular has permeated throughout dozens of genres of music, lending itself to help create some of the most moving and emotional pieces of music in history. The talented pe...
The great Indian epic is one of the longest pieces of literature of all time, but its exhausting length has not stopped it from being a pivotal literary text in the formation of Hindu identity. Narrated by the sage Vyasa, the 220,000 line poem follows a human incarnation of the god Vishn...
Now, let’s begin the countdown for the 135 Greatest Paintings of Modern Art! La Ville de Paris by Robert Delaunay 135. La Ville de Paris (1912) Robert Delaunay Robert Delaunay was a proponent of Orphism—similar to Cubism—was an art movement emphasizing the use of vivid color and geomet...
A Dream of the Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin reached the __[填空1]___ of classical Chinese novel. It has long been _[填空2]___ as the greatest novel in Chinese literature. Cao Xueqin, one of great writers of the Qing Dynasty, was born into a noble and powerful family, which was...
On finishing his first series ofImages, in 1905, Debussy wrote to his publisher, Jacques Durand: ‘Without false pride, I feel that these three pieces hold together well and that they will find their place in the literature of the piano… to the left of Schumann, or to the right of Cho...
Another reassuring thing is that the rate of success is 99%, or close to. A decade ago, I considered getting Lasik surgery to get vision up to 20-20 without glasses. But when the literature claimed a 95% satisfaction rate (which sounds quite good), I was like … hey, that means that...
musicians such as Ludwig van Beethoven and Joseph Haydn shadowed him. When Mozart passed, he left quite a few pieces unfinished, but the pieces that were finished are still performed today. His music heavily influenced Western art music and he is easily one of the most popular of classical ...