Introduction In this article I would like to talk to you in the most practical and concise way possible about the musician Frederick II, a side of his multifaceted personality that not everyone knows. I will try to show you in a broad way the context of the History of Music in which the great […]
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Introduction Very often those who listen to Music do not wonder why a composition is written in a certain way: the compositional phenomenon is considered popularly the product of mostly irrational decisions, which are not always translatable into words. When we answer this question in such a simplistic way, the process by which composers implement
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Introduction In the keyboard field, the first great musician who became famous for his link with instrumental practice was Girolamo Frescobaldi. Without Frescobaldi, the piano technique we know today would not be what it is. In this article I would like to introduce you in the simplest, most concise and practical way possible to his
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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 assassination of Alessandro Stradella, a famous Roman composer of the seventeenth century. I will try in the course of this page to avoid those notions that you could find anywhere online and offline, and
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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 Farinelli, pseudonym of Carlo Broschi, the most famous castrated opera singer that you can meet in the pages of the History of World Music. Also because of the fame he enjoyed in
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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 Robert Schumann, critic and scholar as well as composer and pianist: this fascinating figure of Music reveals the results of a marriage between letters and musical notes. Schumann in fact studied literature
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Introduction In this article I would like to talk to you in the most concise and practical way possible about the figure of Arcangelo Corelli. I will try to go straight to the point of the central issues in the author’s life and production, leaving out the dates and “catalog” notions that you could find
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Introduction In this article I would like to talk to you in the most practical and concise way possible about Franz Liszt’s attempt to get out of the field of tonality: he arrived at sounds that were in fact new and unusual for the compositional panorama of his time. The consequences of this attempt will
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Introduction In this article I would like to talk to you, in the most concise way possible, about the role that the figure of Franz Liszt played in the History Of Music. I will try to avoid all that information that you can find everywhere, such as his date of birth or death, and to
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Introduction In this article I would like to introduce you in the most practical and concise way possible to the two figures that illuminated the late Baroque: I am obviously talking about J. S. Bach and G. F. Haendel. I will try to avoid giving you all that series of obvious information that you can
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