Transcript Classical 3 - midworld productions

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Joseph Haydn
Born in tiny Austrian village of Rohrau
Til age 6 learned folk songs
At age 8, talent was recognized
Sent to Vienna for training in choir at St.
Stephens
• Voice change dismissed from choir
• Gave music lessons and taught himself
composition
• Lived in poverty for a time and worked as a
street musician
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• Joseph Haydn
• At 29 landed position of service to most
powerful Hungarian Noble Family worked
there 30 years
• Constant daily and weekly out put of
music
• Word spread among nobles and began to
travel late in life as a celebrity
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• Joseph Haydn
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His famous “The London Symphonies”
(from a successful trip to London)
Return to Vienna rich and famous
Late in life took it “easy” and wrote
masses and oratorios
• Mozart and Beethoven very influence by
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• Joseph Haydn
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Music is folk flavored and optimistic
Master of Theme Development
Wrote 104 symphonies
Wrote 68 string quartets
***believed to have invented the
String Quartet during summer chamber
performances
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Child Prodigy
At age six could play harpsichord & violin
He could improvise & write music
Could read music perfectly at 1st sight
& had perfect pitch
@ 8 writes first symphony
@ 11 1st oratorio
@ 12 1st opera
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• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Father was court musician eager to show
him off
• Took him on tour at age 6 til 15
• Acclaim as boy wonder across Europe
• This makes working for Archbishop in
Salzburg, Germany almost unbearable
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• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• 25 leaves to go to Vienna as freelance
Musician & Composer
• 1st years success
• Working for the emperor and nobility
• Formed friendship with Haydn
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• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Later Vienna fans are fickle and do not like his
dark opera “Don Giovanni” as opposed to his
usually comic operas
• Mysterious stranger commissions requiem
(death mass)
• Later believes it is meant for him
• Really another noble wants to steal it as his
own piece
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• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Last year of life has some success with a new
comic opera but….
• Poor health and lifestyle lead to early death at
age 36 leaving requiem mass unfinished
• Wrote master pieces in every type of music in
classical age
• Opera & Piano Concerto among greatest
pieces
• (Mozart was soloist in piano concertos)
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• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• DVD VIDEO on CD #5
• DON GIOVANNI
• K.527, ACT I Introduction
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• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
• Opened & expanded Mozart & Haydn,
• Influenced musicians into the 20th
century
• Born in Bonn Germany to family of
musicians
• @ age 11 served as assistant court
organist
• @ age 12 compositions begin to publish
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• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
• @ age 16 played for Mozart who was
impressed by him
• @ 22 left Bonn for Vienna studied with Haydn
• Rebelled against social convention in that he
believed the artist deserved as much respect
as nobility
• The same artistocrat’s who shunned and
allowed Mozart to die penniless gave
Beethoven salaries
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• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
• Salaries were only on condition he stay and
work in Vienna
• (unprecedented in Music History)
• Even before salaries was never tied to noble
• Made $$ by……..
• Playing concerts
• Giving Lessons
• Publishing his music
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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
@ 29 starts to go deaf
Never married
Leads mysterious personal life
Force to quite performing because of deafness
but still conducts (even when he really
shouldn’t)
• In 1818 has creative outburst of …
• Piano Sonatas, String Quartets,
• and his 9th Symphony while totally deaf.
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• AMADEUS (1984)
• Bio film = Mozart
• Decent representation of life in this time
period and life in Vienna
• -keep in mind its mostly factual account of
Mozart’s life but not completely…it is
Hollywood after all 