Leopold Mozart - Leopold Mozart Johan Georg Leopold Mozart (November 14, 1719 - May 28, 1787) was a composer, music teacher and violinist. He was born in the City of Augsburg, in the Swabian part of the Dukedom of Bavaria, was legal citizen of the Diocese of Salzburg, but spent a lot of time in Vienna, Austria, (all within the Holy Roman Empire). He is best known today for being the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but was a well-known figure himself in his own time. Leopold Mozart was born on November 14, 1719 in Augsburg (today Germany), the son of a bookbinder. He studied theology at Salzburg University, but was more interested in music, becoming violinist and valet to one of the university's canons, Count Thurn.
Piano Sonata No. 12 (Mozart) - Piano Sonata No. 12 (Mozart) The Piano Sonata in F major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is K. 332 in Ludwig von Köchel's catalogue of Mozart's works (K. 300k in the 1964 revised edition). The sonata was written at the same time as the Piano Sonata, K. 330 and Piano Sonata, K. 331 (Alla turca), Mozart numbering them as a set from one to three. They were once believed to have been written in the late 1770s in Paris, but it is now thought more likely that they date from 1783. Vienna has been suggested as a possible place of composition, with other believing they were written during a visit to Salzburg where Mozart introduced his wife, Constanze, to his father, Leopold. All three sonatas were published in Vienna in 1784..
Mozart - Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 - December 5, 1791), composer. (Johann Georg) Leopold Mozart (1719 - 1787), composer, performer and instructor. Father of Wolfgang. "Mozart" is also the name of an open-source implementation of the Oz programming language 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.\n.
January 27 - raping a 1991 Miss Black America Contest contestant. 1996 - Colonel Ibrahim Bare Mainassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger Mahamane Ousmane in a military coup. 1997 - It is revealed that French museums had nearly 2,000 pieces of art that were stolen by Nazis. 1998 - American First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appears on the Today show calling the attacks against her husband were part of a "vast right-wing conspiracy." 2001 - A chartered Beechcraft King Air 200 crashes after takeoff from Boulder, Colorado killing 10 2002 - Several explosions at a military dump in Lagos, Nigeria kills more than 1,000. Births 1585 - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (†1634) 1741 - Hester Thrale, diarist (†1821) 1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer (†1791) 1814 - Eugene.
Johann Sebastian Bach - works, noted for their intellectual depth, technical command, and artistic beauty, have provided inspiration to nearly every musician in the European tradition, from Mozart to Schoenberg. Formative Years J. S. Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany, in 1685. His father, Ambrosius Bach, was the town piper in Eisenach, a post that entailed organizing all the secular music in town as well as participating in church music at the direction of the church organist, and his uncles were also all professional musicians ranging from church organists and court chamber musicians to composers, although Bach would later surpass them all in his art. In an era when sons were expected to assist in their fathers' work, we can assume J. S. Bach began copying music and playing various instruments at an early age..
Vibrato - of vibrato in some folk musics is rare, or at least less pronounced than in other forms of music, although in Eastern European gypsy music, for example, it can be very wide. Most jazz players through the 20th century and up to the present day have used vibrato more or less continuously. From around the 1950s, however, some players in more avant garde styles, many following the example of Miles Davis, began to use it more selectively, playing without vibrato as a rule. Davis, however, frequently used a mute, which also alters the tone of the instrument. Vibrato is sometimes thought of as an effect added onto the note itself, but in some cases it is so fully a part of the style of the music that it can be very.
Viola d'amore - are now thought of as the most characteristic element of the instrument, it is thought that some early examples may have lacked them. There is no standard tuning scheme for the strings as there are with modern string instruments. Players will frequently need to change the tuning from one piece to another. However, the range of the instrument is usually from the D below middle C to the D two octaves above it. Largely thanks to the sympathetic strings, the viola d'amore has a particularly sweet and warm sound. Leopold Mozart, writing in his Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule, said that the instrument sounded "especially charming in the stillness of the evening." The instrument was especially popular in the late 17th century, although even then a specialised viola d'amore player would have.
Villain - seldom have much choice but to respond, and little choice in how; for villains, all paths are wide open. Many believe that Satan, for Christians perhaps the ultimate villain, is the most interesting character in John Milton's Paradise Lost, for all that he is the embodiment of evil. Perhaps in the nefarious acts of many villains there is more than a hint of wish-fulfilment fantasy, which makes some people identify with them as characters more strongly than they do the heroes. Still, the writer's task in creating a villain is not an easy or a trivial one; a convincing villain must be given a characterization that makes his motive for doing wrong somewhat more convincing that Mephisto's gleeful but seemingly pointless mischief. See also: anti-hero; antagonist; stock character Some well known.
Giovanni Battista Martini - were trained; as a teacher he consistently declared his preference for the traditions of ‘the old Roman school of composition. Padre Martini was a zealous collector of musical literature, and possessed an extensive musical library. Burney estimated it at 17,000 volumes; after Martini's death a portion of it passed to the Imperial library at Vienna, the rest remaining in Bologna, now in the Liceo Rossini. Most contemporary musicians speak of Martini with admiration, and Leopold Mozart consulted him with regard to the talents of his son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Abt Vogler, however, makes reservations in his praise, condemning his philosophical principles as too much in sympathy with those of Fox, which had already been expressed by P. Vallotti. His Elogio was published by Pietro della Valle at Bologna in the same.
Gregorio Allegri - at Rome. It is written for two choirs, the one of five and the other of four voices, and has obtained a celebrity which, if not entirely factitious, is certainly not due to its intrinsic merits alone. The mystery in which the composition was long enshrouded, no single copy being allowed to reach the public, the place and circumstances of the performance, 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.
Grammy Awards of 1966 - Your Smile" (Love Theme From The Sandpiper) performed by Tony Bennett Best New Artist Tom Jones Children's Best Recording for Children Marvin Miller for Dr. Seuss Presents "Fox in Sox" and "Green Eggs and Ham" Classical Best Classical Performance - Orchestra Leopold Stokowski (conductor) & the American Symphony Orchestra for Ives: Symphony No. 4 Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance Erich Leinsdorf (conductor), Leontyne Price & the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Strauss: Salome (Dance of the Seven Veils, Interlude, Final Scene)/The Egyptian Helen (Awakening Scene) Best Opera Recording Karl Bohm (conductor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Evelyn Lear Fritz Wunderlich & the German Opera Orchestra & Chorus for Berg: Wozzeck Best Classical Choral Performance (other than opera) Robert Shaw (conductor) ,the Robert Shaw Chorale & the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra for Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms/Poulenc:.
Frederick William II of Prussia - of the land-grave Louis IX of Hesse-Darmstadt. Although he had a numerous family by his wife, he was completely under the influence of his mistress, Wilhelmine Enke, afterwards created Countess Lichtenau, a woman of strong intellect and much ambition. Frederick William was a man of singularly handsome presence, not without mental qualities of a high order; he was devoted to the arts - Beethoven and Mozart enjoyed his patronage and his private orchestra had a Europe-wide reputation. But an artistic temperament was hardly that required of a king of Prussia on the eve of the French Revolution; and Frederick the Great, who had employed him in various services - notably in an abortive confidential mission to the court of Russia in 1780 - openly expressed his misgivings as to the character.
Daniel Barenboim - to take part in Igor Markevich's conducting classes. During that summer he also met and played for Wilhelm Furtwängler. In 1955 he studied harmony and composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Barenboim made his debut as a pianist in Vienna and Rome in 1952, Paris in 1955, London in 1956 and New York in 1957 under the baton of Leopold Stokowski. Regular concert tours of Europe, the United States, South America, Australia and the Far East followed thereafter. Barenboim made his first recording in 1954, and later recorded complete cycles of the piano sonatas of Mozart and Beethoven and concertos by Mozart (as both conductor and pianist), Beethoven (with Otto Klemperer), Brahms (with John Barbirolli) and Bartók (with Pierre Boulez). Following his debut as a conductor with the Philharmonia Orchestra in.
Antonio Salieri - student of Tartini. After the death of his parents, he moved to Padua, then to Venice, where he studied thoroughbass with Giovanni Pescetti. In 1766 Salieri met Florian Leopold Gassmann, who invited him to attend the court of Vienna and there trained him in composition based on Fux's Gradus ad Parnassus. He remained in Vienna for the remainder of his life, and in 1774, when Gassmann died, Salieri was appointed the court composer by Emperor Joseph II, and Imperial Royal Kapellmeister in 1788. During his time in Vienna he acquired great prestige as a composer and conductor, particularly of opera, and also of chamber and sacred music. The most successful of his 43 operas were Les Danaïdes (1784), which was first presented as work of Gluck's, and Tarare (1787). He wrote.
Archbishop of Salzburg - the only remaining Archbishops of the Holy Roman Empire who were not also electors. The most famous Archbishop was probably the last with princely authority, Hieronymus von Colloredo, who was an early patron of Salzburg native Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In 1803, the Archbishopric was secularized and made an Electorate for the former Grand Duke Ferdinand III of Tuscany (brother of Emperor Francis II), who had lost his throne. The territory was annexed to Austria in 1806, then to Bavaria in 1809, and finally returned to Austria at the Congress of Vienna in 1815. Archbishops of Salzburg, 798-1803 Arno 798-821 Adalram 821-836 Leutram 836-859 Adalwin 859-873 Adalbert I 873 Dietmar I 873-907 Pilgrim I 907-923 Adalbert II 923-935 Egilholf 935-939 Herhold 939-958 Friedrich I 958-991 Hartwig 991-1023 Günther 1024-1025 Dietmar II 1025-1041.
Authentic performance - their modern equivalents. The tonal difference is perhaps less than is found among the woodwinds and strings. However, the playing of early trumpets and hornss was very different and indeed much more difficult, since versions of these instruments incorporating keys or valves were only invented around the end of the 18th century. The players of the earlier type of instrument had to use mostly just lip control to determine pitch; the early French horns also had their pitch altered by the placement of the player's hand in the bell. Anthony Halstead is widely considered to be among the finest modern exponents of the "natural horn". The earlier trombone of course offered manual pitch control, as did its similar predecessor the sackbut. The effect of these instruments in their original form is.
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor - There is little doubt, however, that Bach did in fact originally write it--the perhaps most likely possibility is that it was originally written for unaccompanied violin. Although the whole composition is very simple for a Bach organ work, it is very advanced, and highly idiomatic, for the violin. Moreover, there is a clear case elsewhere in Bach's work in which a solo violin work was retranscribed for organ: the Prelude first movement of the Partita in E major for solo violin BWV 1006 was recycled by Bach as the solo organ part of the opening movement of the Cantata BWV 29 Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir. In Williams's view, Bach's original violin work was most likely arranged for the organ by someone else (possibly contemporary to Mozart, or even.
Symphony - stage work, although for much of the 18th century, the terms overture and symphony were used interchangeably, and a piece originally written as one was sometimes later used as the other. The vasy majority of these early symphonies are in a major key. The early three-movement form was eventually replaced by a four-movement layout which was dominant in the latter part of the 18th century and throughout the 19th century. The movements tend to be: Quick, in a binary form or later sonata form Slow Minuet and trio (later developed into the scherzo and trio), in ternary form Quick, sometimes also in sonata form or a sonata-rondo It should be noted, however, that even in the mid-18th century, variations on this layout were not uncommon - in particular, the middle two.
P. D. Q. Bach - give their youngest son a real name, and settled on "P.D.Q" instead. (In vernacular English, "P.D.Q." stands for "pretty damn quick".) Johann Sebastian did not give any musical training to P.D.Q. After his death, the only earthly possession Johann Sebastian Bach willed to his son was a kazoo. In 1755 P.D.Q. Bach was an apprentice of the inventor of the musical saw, Ludwig Zahnstocher. In 1756, P.D.Q. Bach met Leopold Mozart and advised him to teach his son Wolfgang Amadeus how to play billiards. Later on P.D.Q. Bach went to St. Petersburg to visit his distant cousin Leonhard Sigismund Dietrich Bach, whose daughter Betty Sue bore P.D.Q. a child. Finally, in 1770, P.D.Q. Bach started to write music, mostly by stealing melodies from other composers. P.D.Q. Bach died on May 5,.
Pizzicato - Britten's Simple Symphony, or the fourth movement of Bela Bartok's String Quartet No. 4. The first known use of pizzicato in classical music is in Claudio Monteverdi's Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (around 1638), in which the players are instructed to use two fingers of their right hand to pluck the strings. Later, in 1756, Leopold Mozart in his Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule instructs the player to use the index finger of the right hand. This has remained the most usual way to execute a pizzicato, though sometimes the middle finger is used. The bow is held in the hand at the same time unless there is enough time to put it down and pick it up again between bowed passages. If a violinist or violist has to play pizzicato for.
