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  Franz Liszt Biography - famous Franz Liszt Classical collection and Franz Liszt Music Reviews.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
He was born in 1811 at Raiding in Hungary and moved as a child to Vienna, where he took piano lessons from Czerny and composition lessons from Salieri.
Liszt wrote a great deal of music for the piano, some of which was later revised, and consequently exists in a number of versions.
The violinist Paganini was the immediate inspiration for the Etudes d'exécution transcendante d'après Paganini, dedicated to Clara Schumann, wife of the composer Robert Schumann, and based on five of the 24 Caprices for solo violin by Paganini and on the latter's La campanella.
www.naxos.com /composerinfo/625.htm   (1409 words)

  
  Essentials of Music - Composers
"Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.
If music has one advantage over the other media through which a person can represent the impressions of the soul, it owes this to its supreme capacity to make each inner impulse audible without the assistance of reason...
His early talent in music was rewarded by the support of a group of Hungarian nobles who subsidized his studies in Paris.
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 FolkStreams » Sweet Is the Day » Sweet Is the Day Transcript
The music is from The Sacred Harp (orig.
Singers are quick to note that it is in fact a consequence of fellowship — a word singers use, both as a noun and a verb, to describe the particular manner of social and religious discourse that prevails at Sacred Harp singings.
The music of the revivals was characterized by the campmeeting refrain — an easily-memorized repeated phrase usually with evocative content.
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 Quotations: Music and the Arts 2
"Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh.
We sow seeds to music and we sing songs to the corn to make it grow and to the sky to make it rain.
"Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tones of that harmony."
www.janeellen.com /quotes/musicquotes2.html   (1327 words)

  
 A Short History of the Trombone: The Church Music Traditions
Bolognese composers and their music are not well known today, but they include Camillo Cortellini, a trombonist who also served as leader of Bologna's town band.
Trombones were a very important part of the music in both churches well into the eighteenth century, but were no longer used at either one after about 1730.
Leonard, Charlotte A. "The Role of the Trombone and Its Affekt in the Lutheran Church Music of Saxony and Thuringia.
www.trombone.org /articles/library/sh2-church.asp   (1212 words)

  
 Indian Heritage - Music - Musings on music - Composers
And in India, where music is perceived as a means to salvation, we find many compositions which excel in meaning, melody and technical efficiency.
His music and lyric share the honours equally and it is in padams, Kshetrjna excelled.
His divine musical hymns in Tamil are delightful and the lyric is magnificient.
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 A Short History of the Trombone: The Solo and Chamber Traditions
When those two types of music emerged as separate categories, trombone solos were not welcome in art music, but common in the popular orchestra tradition (5.12).
Most of this music was never published, and most of what was published is now out of print, but several of Arthur Pryor's have become staples of the repertoire.
Most of the early Baroque ensemble music discussed in Flashes in the Pan (8.5) was church music, for example.
www.trombone.org /articles/library/sh6-solochamber.asp   (1226 words)

  
 The New Classical Music Forums - Liszt Bio
Born on October 22, 1811, in the village of Raiding, near Sopron, Liszt studied the piano first with his father, then with the Austrian pianist Carl and Antonio Salieri.
A year later, he was the musical director at the grand ducal court at Weimar from 1848 to 1861 where he gave performances.
For his use of complex, chromatic chords and technique of thematic transformation (leitmotiv), Liszt is considered to be one of the 19th century's harmonic innovators.
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 Composer Biographies -Classical 102.1 KDFC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
He seems to have been seriously depressed, by his deafness and the resulting isolation, by the failure of his marital hopes and (from 1815) by anxieties over the custodianship of the son of his late brother, which involved him in legal actions.
The traditional four-movement scheme and conventional forms are discarded in favour of designs of six or seven movements, some fugal, some akin to variations (these forms especially attracted him in his late years), some song-like, some martial, one even like a chorale prelude.
Musical taste in Vienna had changed during the first decades of the 19th century; the public were chiefly interested in light Italian opera (especially Rossini) and easygoing chamber music and songs, to suit the prevalent bourgeois taste.
www.kdfc.com /new/composers_detail.cfm?id=32   (1218 words)

  
 CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: More to My Taste (Part 3)
Obviously, it is to create music, and he does this using the material of his environment and the methods that have proved effective in the past.
The harmonic novelty of Debussy's music was a radical departure from German romanticism, but it was preceded by the late piano works of Franz Liszt (1811-1886), music that Debussy was, as a piano student, obviously familiar with.
An example of how the actual music is secondary to the revolutionary nature of a composition is the recent string quartet by Karlheinz Stockhausen in which he specifies that the performers are to be flying around, each in a separate helicopter.
www.classicalarchives.com /articles/edwards031.html   (1584 words)

  
 Penn Special Collections-Keffer-Carr
Benjamin Carr, composer, organist, and music publisher, was born in London on September 12, 1768.
It was the most ambitious musical publication issued in America during the period and the first major Ameri can music publication offered in magazine form.
Benjamin Carr was one of the founders of the Musical Fund Society in 1820.
www.library.upenn.edu /collections/rbm/keffer/bcarr.html   (1239 words)

  
 Polish Music Reference Center: May 1998 Newsletter
Recently, PWM has issued a new pamphlet on Gra¿yna Bacewicz and her music (in Polish and English) in anticipation of the 90th anniversary of her birth and 30th anniversary of death in 1999.
Graduates of the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, the quartet is studying at the Manhattan School of Music.
In 1811 Ogiñski participated in the creation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and became one of the supporters of the Tsar, who nominated him a senator.
www.usc.edu /dept/polish_music/news/may98.html   (3274 words)

  
 The Novello Quartet
With the publication of two volumes of sacred music (1811) he founded the publishing house of Novello & Co, and was a founding member and later pianist and conductor of the Philharmonic Society.
Among the musical luminaries the Novellos met on their journey were Mozart’s widow Constanze, and Abbé Stadler, who told them the story of Joseph Haydn’s commission from Spain by the Bishop of Cadiz for the Seven Last Words of Christ.
Cunningham studied history, German literature, and music at Johns Hopkins University and Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, MD. She continued her musical studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna, Austria, and graduated with a master’s degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Ian Swenson.
www.sfems.org /novello.htm   (2136 words)

  
 1811 in music - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
1811 in music - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about 1811 in music contains research on
1811 in music, Events, Classical Music, Births and Deaths.
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 Franz Liszt
He was taught the piano by his father and then Czerny (Vienna, 1822-3), establishing himself as a remarkable concert artist by the age of 12.
Not all the piano music is free of bombast but among the arrangements, the symphonic transcriptions (notably of Berlioz, Beethoven and Schubert) are often faithful and ingenious, the operatic fantasias (on Norma and Ernani, for example) more than mere salon pieces.
Although he failed in his aim to revolutionize liturgical music, Liszt did create in his psalm settings, Missa solemnis and the oratorio Christus some intensely dramatic and moving choral music, successful in his lifetime and well suited to concert performance.
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 1811 in music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
See also:1810 in music,other events of 1811, 1812 in music and thelist of 'years in music'.
All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
The more I had seen of the man the more I liked him and the more I Then we parted for the night, and I went home with a far happier heart.
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 Brass Music: Subject Guides: MIT Libraries
A good place to obtain overviews concerning the history of brass instruments along with their technical and musical development.
Includes special topics, covering the histories, acoustics, and music of the brass and other orchestral instruments.
Cansier, Philip T. Twentieth-century music for trumpet and organ: an annotated bibliography.
libraries.mit.edu /guides/subjects/music/brass.html   (326 words)

  
 Zeynep Ucbasaran, piano - The Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
One of the most influential American musical figures of the second half of the 20th century, Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) left an unparalleled legacy as a conductor, composer, pianist and teacher, he became the Musical Director of the New York Philharmonic in 1958, a post he held until 1969.
Sonata in C Major, K. Mozart was on a concert tour in Paris during the months of March through September of 1778 when his mother, who was accompanying him, died there on July 3, It is known that the tragic A minor sonata K. 310 was written in Paris during the summer of that year.
He remained in Berlin until 1811 as the music director to Frederick and was, at the same time, music teacher and music director to Frederick's nephew and immediate successor Frederic William II who ruled Prussia until 1797.
www.eroica.com /zu-music2.html   (4131 words)

  
 Used Book Central Search / keyword(s): liszt
The long, colorful history of the concerto is surveyed in precisely the kind of musical criticism and history that means something to the lay reader as well as to the specialist.
She published fiction, articles on literature, music, art, and politics, and a history of the revolution of 1848, and she was an eloquent advocate for democracy, the eradication of poverty, and the emancipation of women.
Courted by many important figures of her day, she married a nobleman and became a member of the court of Charles X. Her passion for music eventually brought her into contact with Liszt, with whom she moved to Italy and had three children.
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 'The Oxford History of Western Music,' by Richard Taruskin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Taruskin's writing style is partly his personality and partly his approach to music historiography, namely that the social framing should always be considered in any discussion of the art within.
Taruskin is a brilliant man. He's also an apt, if mean-spirited and self-righteous, policeman for the field of musicology and an advocate for reform in that field, journalism and performance.
He uses music examples liberally and effectively, keeping the volumes grounded in the art form.
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 Gmane -- Mail To News And Back Again
Downtown Music Gallery got a lot of complaints about it--such that they offered an apology in a newsletter.
As ubiquitous as Bill's musical presence seems to be, > for all intents and purposes his is (albeit an intensely prolific one) > a career forged well beneath the radar.
I've supported his music over the years and own a number of his CDs.
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 Quotations: Music and the Arts 3
Music needs air, sunlight and liberty to be alive.
Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God because they induce a kind of contact with the Creator and Ruler of the Universe."
"Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting
www.janeellen.com /quotes/musicquotes3.html   (1491 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The Trombone: Its History and Music, 1697-1811 (Monographs on Musicology): Books: David M. Guion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Many standard musicological reference works document the use of the trombone from its beginning to the middle of the 17th century, and then from Mozart to the present, but few deal with the intervening years.
It provides an overview of the use of the trombone during that time in America and seven European countries and examines its use in choral music, opera, symphonic music and military music.
Most standard reference works on musical instruments have little or nothing to say about the trombone in the eighteenth century. Read the first page
www.amazon.co.uk /Trombone-History-1697-1811-Monographs-Musicology/dp/2881242111   (406 words)

  
 Musical Timeline
Through the links below the whole history of classical music can be browsed.
A timeline offers a unique viewpoint in studying the history of music.
Note - The history of music for the 20th century is still under construction.
www.classicalworks.com /his.pages/timeline.html   (77 words)

  
 Used Book Central Search / keyword(s): liszt
Music G. Schirmer New York (1924) Reprint Softcover Score clean and complete.
Drawing on newspapers, music manuscripts, popular accounts and other sources, the author traces the history of the piano from its predecessors, the clavichord and the harpsichord, to the modern spinet and concert grand.
A collection of biographies of well-known composers, their lives and their music, with illustrations of the composers.
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 1811 article - 1811 1808 1809 1810 1812 1813 1814 Decades 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
1811 article - 1811 1808 1809 1810 1812 1813 1814 Decades 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s - What-Means.com
March 25 - The Great Comet of 1811 is discovered by Honoré Flaugergues.
1811 article - 1811 definition - what means 1811
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 Low Brass Research Aid - Music Library and Sound Recordings Archives - BGSU Libraries
Unless otherwise stated, all the titles on this Research Aid are available in the Music Library, 3rd floor of Jerome Library, Bowling Green State University.
An annotated bibliography of written material pertinent to the performance of brass and percussion chamber music, 1960.
The trombone: its history and music, 1697-1811, 1988.
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 Hickeys Music Center - All Textbooks - by AUTHOR
A complete musical analysis of one of the greatest jazz masters of all time.
Music Teaching Style is an exciting, balanced approach to student performance, music learning and personal change.
Written in an informal, engaging style, the text is highlighted by anecdotes, quotations, challenges for self-reflection, and techniques used by the author and top professionals in the field.
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 Joshua Hutchinson (1811-1883) - New England Music Scrapbook
By 1816, they were marching through the fields, roads, and paths near the old Mont Vernon homestead, Caleb bugling and Joshua beating the double quick on an old tin pan.
Joshua had done much to teach music to his younger brothers and sisters; and he, more than anyone else, encouraged their efforts.
The great Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864), according to legend, composed music for "The Popular Creed." The words, originally known as "The Popular Credo," were written by Foster's friend, abolitionist and poet Charles Peter Shiras (1824-1854).
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 1841 in music -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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