Introduction In this article I would like to talk to you about the figure of Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) and his relationship with the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. The Hamburg-born composer is sometimes associated with Mozart for the precocity of his talent, and we know that he was admired by almost all his contemporaries, in […]
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Introduction In this article we will talk in the most practical and concise way possible about the augmented sixths, otherwise called augmented sixth chord. These chords are found throughout the whole musical repertoire, from Pop to Jazz to Blues and Classical (think of Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt etc.). If we were to consider all
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Introduction In this article I would like to talk to you in the most practical and concise way possible about the figure of Franz Schubert (1797-1828), considered by many great musicians, including Vladimir Horowitz, the greatest compositional genius in the History of Music; we will talk about his impromptus, which encroach on the margin of
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Introduction In this article, I would like to talk to you most practically and concisely possible about the figure of Fredéric Chopin, a composer who profoundly contributed to the birth and development of contemporary pianism. I would like to spare you all those encyclopedic notions that you could find everywhere and offer you some original
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Introduction In this article I would like to talk to you most practically and concisely possible about František Xaver Dušek (1731-1799): given the small volume of research on the author, it may be the first time you hear him mentioned. This is due in large part to the fact that he worked almost exclusively for
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Introduction In this article, I would like to talk to you most practically and concisely possible about the figure of Gioachino Rossini, a composer from Pesaro. Popularly, he is not compared to the most relevant figures of the eighteenth century, such as Niccolò Paganini, because in recent years the idea that Rossini is a Romantic
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Introduction In this article, I would like to talk to you most practically and concisely possible about Franz Joseph Haydn, Master of Ludwig Van Beethoven, who with him and Mozart composes the so-called Vienna School. When we talk about this school, we are referring not to a physical building or a place where the three
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Introduction In this article we will talk about the context of birth of the Opera (otherwise called Melodrama). We will start from historical considerations to gradually understand that the emergence of such a musically complex style was not sudden, but required a long preparation that lasted several centuries. When was opera born? The Opera was
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Introduction In this article I would like to introduce you most practically and concisely possible to the Italian trilogy of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a person in the History of Music that needs no introduction: we will talk about the works Le Nozze Di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così Fan Tutte tracing a small historical introduction.
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Introduction In this article I would like to talk to you in the most practical and concise way possible about the figures of Christoph Willibald Gluck, initiator of musical Classicism and opera composer of the eighteenth century, and Raineri De’ Calzabigi, poet and central figure of the processes of musical reform implemented by the German
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