Music History

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 […]

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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