Felix Mendelssohn - Felix Mendelssohn Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (February 3, 1809 - November 4, 1847) was a German composer of classical music. He was perhaps the greatest child prodigy after Mozart. Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg, the son of a banker, Abraham, who was himself the son of the famous Jewish philosopher, Moses Mendelssohn. Felix's family, however, converted to Christianity, and moved to Berlin in 1812. His sister was Fanny Mendelssohn (later Fanny Hensel), who was a well known pianist and amateur composer herself. Mendelssohn began taking piano lessons from his mother when he was six, and at seven was tutored by Marie Bigot in Paris. From 1817 he studied composition with Carl Friedrich Zelter in Berlin. He probably made his first public concert appearance at the age.
Fanny Mendelssohn - Fanny Mendelssohn Fanny Cacilie Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (November 14, 1805 - May 14, 1847), later Fanny Hensel, was a German pianist and amateur composer. She is perhaps best known as the sister of Felix Mendelssohn, but her own achievements are being increasingly recognised as significant in themselves. Born in Hamburg, Fanny benefited from the same musical education and upbringing as her better known brother. Like him, Fanny showed prodigious musical ability as a child and began to write music. However, she was limited by prevailing attitudes of the time against women, attitudes apparently shared by her father and brother, who were tolerant, rather than supportive, of her activities as composer. In 1829, after a courtship of several years, she married the painter Wilhelm Hensel who was a good deal.
Mendelssohn - Mendelssohn Mendelssohn is the surname of a number of people: Moses Mendelssohn (1729 - 1786), Jewish philosopher Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847), composer, grandson of Moses Fanny Mendelssohn (1805 - 1847), composer and pianist, sister of Felix This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
Moses Mendelssohn - Moses Mendelssohn Moses Mendelssohn (September 6, 1729 - January 4, 1786) was a Jewish philosopher. He was the foremost Jewish figure of the 18th century, and to him is attributable the renaissance of European jewry. With this third Moses (the other two being the Biblical lawgiver and Moses Maimonides) a new era opens in the history of the Jewish people. He was born in Dessau. His father's name was Mendels and he later took the surname Mendelssohn ("son of Mendel"). Mendel Dessau was a poor scribe--a writer of scrolls--and his son Moses in his boyhood developed curvature of the spine. His early education was cared for by his father and by the local rabbi, David Fränkel. The latter, besides teaching him the Bible and Talmud, introduced to.
January 25 - wife Anne Boleyn. 1554 - Foundation of Sao Paulo city, Brazil. 1791 - The British Parliament splits the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada. 1858 - The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the (marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter and the Crown Prince of Prussia). 1881 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company. 1890 - The United Mine Workers of America is founded. 1890 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days. 1917 - The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million. 1919 - The League of Nations is founded. 1924 - The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps),.
Jascha Heifetz - Lithuania. His father was a violinist, and Jascha began playing the instrument at an early age. He was a child prodigy, playing the Violin Concerto by Felix Mendelssohn in public at the age of six. In 1910 he entered the St Petersburg conservatory to study under Leopold Auer. He played in Germany and Scandinavia at the age of twelve and visited much of Europe while still in his teens. His American debut came in 1917 when he played at Carnegie Hall. He stayed in the country and became an American citizen in 1925, making many public appearances and recordings. He had an immaculate technique and rapid vibrato. In later years, he taught at the University of Southern California. He died in Los Angeles. Heifetz commissioned a number of pieces, perhaps most.
John Field - form (as the minuet or fugue are) and which maintained a single mood throughout. These pieces greatly influenced Frederic Chopin, who went on to write 21 nocturnes himself. Inasmuch as Field's nocturnes were the first single-movement piano character pieces, they can be seen as important forerunners of many other Romantic composers' works, among them Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt and Edvard Grieg. Field also wrote seven piano concertos of which the best known is probably the second (1811) (although some feel the fourth (1819) is a better piece)..
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet - proven) that stated that for n > 2, the equation xn + yn = zn has no solutions, apart from the trivial ones in which x, y, or z is zero. He produced a partial proof for the case n = 5, which was completed by Adrien-Marie Legendre, who was one of the referees. Dirichlet also completed his own proof almost at the same time; he later also produced a full proof for the case n = 14. He married Rebecca Mendelssohn, who came from a distinguished Jewish family, being a granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, and a sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn. See also Dirichlet's theorem (number theory, 1835) Dirichlet characters (number theory, 1831) Dirichlet convolution (number theory) Dirichlet kernel (functional analysis, Fourier series) Dirichlet series.
Joseph Joachim - his family moved to Budapest, where he had violin lessons from the age of five. He went on to study in Vienna and Leipzig, where he was mentored by Felix Mendelssohn. It was with Mendelssohn that Joachim made his first visit to London at the age of thirteen. He was a great success there, and went on to visit the city many more times. Following Mendelssohn's death, Joachim moved to Weimar, where he became concertmaster and met Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner. However, when he moved to Hanover in 1852, he dissociated himself from their musical ideals, and instead became friends with Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms (who sometimes accompanied him at the piano in recitals). Brahms and Joachim jointly wrote a manifesto against the music of Liszt, Wagner,.
Joachim Raff - self-taught in music, studying the subject while working as a schoolmaster. He sent some of his piano compositions to Felix Mendelssohn who recommended them to Breitkopf and Härtel for publication. They were published in 1844 and received a favourable review in Robert Schumann's journal, the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, which prompted Raff to go to Zürich and take up composition full time. In 1845, Raff walked to Basel to hear Franz Liszt play the piano. After a period in Stuttgart where he became friends with the conductor Hans von Bülow, he worked as Liszt's assistant at Weimar from 1850 to 1855. During this time he helped the Hungarian in the orchestration of several of his works, claiming to have had a particularly big part in orchestrating the symphonic poem Tasso. In.
Incidental music - have musicians performing on-stage. The use of incidental music dates back at least as far as Greek drama. A number of classical composers have written incidental music for various plays, with the more famous examples including Ludwig van Beethoven's music for Egmont, Felix Mendelssohn's music for A Midsummer Night's Dream and Edvard Grieg's music for Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt. Parts of all of these are often performed in concerts outside the context of the play. More recently, incidental music has been written for computer games by thge likes of Michael Giacchino (the Medal of Honor series), Richard Jacques (Headhunter) and Jack Wall (Myst III). One of the best known incidental music composers for British television is Howard Goodall, who wrote music for The Gathering Storm, Blackadder and Red Dwarf as well.
Inki - lion. As such, it is very similar to "Little Hiawatha", a Silly Symphonies cartoon Thorson had worked on in 1937. Jones' officially named the character in the next film, "Inki and the Lion" (1941), another jungle hunting scenario. This cartoon introduces a strange, minimalist character in an expressionless mynah bird. The bird hops in time to Felix Mendelssohn's "Fingal's Cave Overture", totally oblivious to any obstacles or dangers. Inki once again runs afoul of a lion, only to be saved by the bizarre bird. The cartoon is still mostly cute Disneyesque fluff, but its more aggressive tone and unconventional humor show that Jones was already moving out of his "cute" phase. "Inki and the Lion" was a surprise hit, and Jones brought Inki and the mynah bird back in three more.
Violin concerto - to the present day. Many major composers have provided examples, with the best known including those by Beethoven, Brahms, Bruch, Mendelssohn, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky and Vivaldi. List of violin concerti John Adams Violin Concerto (1993) Johann Sebastian Bach Violin Concerto in A minor Violin Concerto in E major Double Violin Concerto (1731) - for two violins and orchestra Béla Bartók Violin Concerto No. 1 (1908) Violin Concerto No. 2 (1938) Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Concerto (1806) Alban Berg Violin Concerto (1935) Johannes Brahms Violin Concerto (1878) Max Bruch - wrote three violin concerti, with the first by far the best known Violin Concerto No. 1 (1867) Edward Elgar Violin Concerto (1910) Philip Glass Violin Concerto (1987) Paul Hindemith Violin Concerto (1939) György Ligeti Violin Concerto (1992) Felix Mendelssohn Violin Concerto (1844) Wolfgang.
German Romanticism - Literary and philosophical figures 2 Musical figures 3 See also Literary and philosophical figures Friedrich Schlegel August Schlegel Friedrich von Schiller Novalis Heinrich von Kleist Heinrich Heine Ludwig Tieck Musical figures Carl Maria von Weber Franz Schubert Robert Schumann Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Franz Liszt Johannes Brahms Richard Wagner See also List of German language philosophers Intellectual, political, literary and cultural movements in German lands Austrian intellectual traditions.
Gregorio Allegri - and the added embellishments of the singers, account to a great degree for much of the impressive effect of which all who have heard the music speak. This view is confirmed by the fact that, when the music was performed at Venice by permission of the pope, it produced so little effect that the emperor Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor., at whose request the manuscript had been sent, thought that something else had been substituted. In spite of the precautions of the popes, the Miserere has long been public property. In 1769 Mozart heard it and wrote it down, and in 1771 a copy was procured and published in England by Dr Burney. The entire music performed at Rome in Holy Week, Allegri's Miserere included, has been issued at Leipzig by.
February 3 - 1966 - The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon. 1969 - In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestinian Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress. 1972 - The first Winter Olympics to be held in Asia open in Sapporo, Japan. 1984 - Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on the tenth space shuttle mission. 1988 - Iran-Contra Affair: The United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan's request for $36.25 million to aid Nicaraguan Contras. 1989 - After a stroke, P.W. Botha resigns party leadership and the presidency of South Africa. 1998 - Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984. 1998 - A United States Marine Corps pilot causes the death.
Franz Schubert - at a concert in the Kärnthnerthor (Feb. 8, 1821) that Anton Diabelli hesitatingly agreed to print some of his works on commission. The first seven opus numbers (all songs) appeared on these terms; then the commission ceased, and he began to receive the meagre pittances which were all that the great publishing houses ever accorded to him. Much has been written about the neglect from which he suffered during his lifetime. It was not the fault of his friends, it was only indirectly the fault of the Viennese public; the persons most to blame were the cautious intermediaries who stinted and hindered him from publication. The production of his two dramatic pieces turned Schubert's attention more firmly than ever in the direction of the stage; and towards the end of 1821.
Fugue - the 19th Century. Haydn, for example, taught counterpoint from his own summary of Fux, and thought of it as the basis for formal structure. The 18th century composer Johann Sebastian Bach is generally regarded as the greatest composer of fugues. He often entered into contests where he would be given a subject with which to spontaneously improvise a fugue on the organ or harpsichord. Bach's most famous fugues are those in the unfinished Art of Fugue, The Well-Tempered Clavier (keyboard), and his organ fugues, which are usually preceded by a prelude or toccata. The Art of Fugue is a collection of fugues (and four canons) on a single theme that is gradually transformed as the cycle progresses. The Well-Tempered Clavier is two volumes written in different times of his life, each.
Elijah - had not cast away his people. James (5:17) finds in him an illustration of the power of prayer. (See also Luke 4:25; 9:54.) Elijah was similar to John the Baptist in the sternness and power of his reproofs (Luke 9:8). According to Matthew 11:11, he was the Elijah that "must first come" (Matt. 11:11, 14). In John the Baptist one can see him we see "the same connection with a wild and wilderness country; the same long retirement in the desert; the same sudden, startling entrance on his work (1 Kings 17:1; Luke 3:2); even the same dress, a hairy garment, and a leathern girdle about the loins (2 Kings 1:8; Matt. 3:4)." How deep the impression was which Elijah made "on the mind of the nation" may be judged from.
Enigma Variations - of this variation is played by the viola Variation 7: Troyte - Arthur Troyte Griffiths, an architect, who attempted to play the piano, but was apparently not very good. The variation mimics his enthusiastic incompetence Variation 8: W.N. - Winifred Norbury, a friend Elgar regarded as particularly easy going, hence the relatively relaxed atmosphere. At the end of this variation, a single violin note is held over into the next one, the most famous of them all Variation 9: Nimrod - Augustus E. Jaeger, Elgar's best friend. It is said that this variation, as well as an attempt to capture what Elgar saw as Jaeger's noble character, depicts a night-time walk the two of them had, during which they discussed Ludwig van Beethoven. The name of the variation punningly refers to.
