Transcript Music Appreciation

Music Appreciation
Romantic Era (1825-1900)
Background
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Deals with emotion
Started by Beethoven
Increased dynamics from ppp to fff
Brought in the start of programmatic music
Program music- music written for a purpose
Rubato- stretching of music
Composers
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Franz Schubert
Robert Schuman
Clara Week
Fredric Chopin
Franz Liszt
Felix Mendelssohn
Hector Berlioz
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Johnnes Brahms
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
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Earliest master of art song
Wasn’t famous as a teacher/performer
Born in Vienna
Prodigy
Died in the middle of a symphony
“unfinished symphony”
Robert Schuman (1810-1856)
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Wrote autobiographical music
Pianist
Born in Germany
Wanted to be a lawyer
Stopped halfway through school
Tore muscles in fingers
Married Clara Wieck
Was committed to insane asylum
Clara Wieck (1819-1896)
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Daughter of Fredrik Wieck
Good piano player
Friend of Brahms
Played husbands music
Composed a little (hated female composers)
Fredric Chopin (1810-1849)
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Composed piano music for home setting
At age 21, moved to Paris
Went to Paris Conservatory
Friends with Hugo, Balzer, and Dalkroy
Good player
Played for rich people
Preferred to perform in houses over concert halls
Had an affair with novelist “George Sands”
Frail
Died of tuberculosis
Put many moods and thoughts into music
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
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Handsome
Pacesetter
Very quick/ accurate
Loved to play in concert halls
Born in Hungary
Dad worked for the Esterhazy family
Meet Schubert and Beethoven in Vienna
Later moved to Paris
Heard Paggnaini (superman of violin)
Practiced 8-12 hours a day
Created symphonic peom
Symphonic Poem- one movement orchestral composition based on
literary or pictorial ideas
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1845)
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Conservative romanticist
German
Rich
Brilliant piano player at age 9
Child prodigy (made symphonies, operas, etc at age 13)
Had orchestras play his works
At age 20 conducted St. Matthew Passion by Bach
Responsible for revival of J. S. Bach
Was successful before death
Happily married( 4 children)
Died at age 38 (stroke)
Known for elegance and personality
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
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Dad wanted him to be a doctor
Went to Paris to study music
Wrote diabolical music (Stephen King of music)
Met and married Harriet Smithson
Heard his autobiographical “Symphony Fantastic”
Divorce followed shortly there after
Popularized idee fixe (fixed idea)
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
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Greatest Russian composer
Started working in government at age 20
Studied music theory at age 21
Good composer (couldn’t play)
Became professor at Moscow Conservatory
At 30 composed Romeo and Juliet
Married at 32 to conceal homosexuality
2 weeks later tried to commit suicide
Died 9 days after finished “Pathetique”
Johnnes Brahms (1833-1897)
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Best romantic composer
Breathed new life into classical forms
Born in Hamberg, Germany
Dad was musician
Studied piano/ music theory
Played at brothels
Good arranger/composer
Schuman called him “musical messiah”
Died of cancer