GERMANY
Johann Sebastian Bach | 1685-1750
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Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician. He lived from 1685 to 1750, and the style of his music is called BAROQUE music.
Bach composed baroque music. He was a great organist (organ player) and violinist and composer. Bach had twenty children by two wives. Many of his children became good musicians, too. Bach was part of a large musical family. Many of Bach's sons knew how to play piano and many other instruments including flute, organ, and violin. The music sheet here is in Bach's own handwriting. It is a sonata for violin, E minor. (information from http://www.pianolessons4children.com/composers/bach.php) |
This is sheet music in Bach's own handwriting. It is a sonata for violin in the key of E minor.
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Ludwig von Beethoven | 1685-1750
AUSTRIA
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 1756-1791
Mozart is one of the best-known composers ever! People have loved his music for hundreds of years, and still do.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) was born and lived in Austria. He was born into a musical family, and from small child, he was immensely interested in music. Starting at the age of six (in 1763), Mozart and his older sister Maria Anna (Nannerl) started playing piano and violin in major cities and in courts to royal families. The family traveled a lot in many European cities. They were so good that the audiences just loved them!
Wolfgang also started composing music at a very early age—since age 5! He was very talented both as a composer and as a pianist. He would compose all the time and anywhere, such as when traveling in a wagon, or while eating.
As an adult, he earned his living as a composer and as a pianist, sometimes holding a job at some court or city, sometimes just earning money from performing and composing. He married Constance in 1782 at the age of 26. They had six children, but only two of them grew to be adults (the rest died as infants).
Mozart died very young, at the age of 35, because he fell seriously ill with something (we do not know for sure what illness it was). He also died a pauper (poor) because he did not handle money very wisely, and he was not always earning lots of it.
Wolfgang-child is playing piano, his dad is playing the violin, and his sister is singing.The style of the music he wrote is called CLASSICAL. "Classical music", as people commonly call it today, comprises different time periods: first the Baroque style music in the 1600s to about 1750, then the Classical style music in the late 1700s to early 1800s, and then the Romantic style music in the late 1800s. So, the type of music Mozart wrote is in the "classical" style.
Mozart wrote a LOT of music of all kinds: symphonies (for the whole orchestra), operas, concertos for piano and violin, music for string quartet and string quintet, music for solo piano, etc. He wrote Catholic masses, and also short little pieces like dances and serenades. In all, he wrote over 600 pieces of work.
Some of his most famous pieces of music are: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Requiem, and his operas The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, and Cosi Fan Tutte.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) was born and lived in Austria. He was born into a musical family, and from small child, he was immensely interested in music. Starting at the age of six (in 1763), Mozart and his older sister Maria Anna (Nannerl) started playing piano and violin in major cities and in courts to royal families. The family traveled a lot in many European cities. They were so good that the audiences just loved them!
Wolfgang also started composing music at a very early age—since age 5! He was very talented both as a composer and as a pianist. He would compose all the time and anywhere, such as when traveling in a wagon, or while eating.
As an adult, he earned his living as a composer and as a pianist, sometimes holding a job at some court or city, sometimes just earning money from performing and composing. He married Constance in 1782 at the age of 26. They had six children, but only two of them grew to be adults (the rest died as infants).
Mozart died very young, at the age of 35, because he fell seriously ill with something (we do not know for sure what illness it was). He also died a pauper (poor) because he did not handle money very wisely, and he was not always earning lots of it.
Wolfgang-child is playing piano, his dad is playing the violin, and his sister is singing.The style of the music he wrote is called CLASSICAL. "Classical music", as people commonly call it today, comprises different time periods: first the Baroque style music in the 1600s to about 1750, then the Classical style music in the late 1700s to early 1800s, and then the Romantic style music in the late 1800s. So, the type of music Mozart wrote is in the "classical" style.
Mozart wrote a LOT of music of all kinds: symphonies (for the whole orchestra), operas, concertos for piano and violin, music for string quartet and string quintet, music for solo piano, etc. He wrote Catholic masses, and also short little pieces like dances and serenades. In all, he wrote over 600 pieces of work.
Some of his most famous pieces of music are: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Requiem, and his operas The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, and Cosi Fan Tutte.
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