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Playing for a gospel quartet

Playing Piano For a Gospel Quartet This is a specialized course designed for those who are or will be playing for a gospel quartet. Certain techniques are necessary, and Duane demonstrates these techniques in detail, based on many years of experience. Should you play the melody? What about intros? Endings? What rhythms should a pianist use while accompanying a quartet? Duane played for a gospel quarte..

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Piano Chord Inversions -- chords upside down This is the Secrets of Exciting Chords & Chord Progressions! newsletter that you (or someone using your E-mail address) signed up for when you visited our site. If you no longer want to receive these free weekly E-mail piano lessons, toggle down to the bottom of this E-mail and you'll see where you can take yourself off the list. We take your privacy (and ours) very seriously, so we don't want anyone receiving our stuff who do..

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How to hear far out harmonies and understand them

How To Hear Far-Out Harmonies! What makes a harmony far-out ? Extensions to the basic triad. You'll learn to listen for the root -- the bass line -- the tonal center. Then you'll determine whether the 5th is perfect, augmented, or diminished. Then you'll listen for the chief color tone, whether it be a 6th, 9th, or whatever. You'll learn to listen, analyze, listen, analyze, and then listen some more. Extensions of a tri..

Music as a hobby

Music as a hobby -- is it helping or hurting your family life? Music hobby. Ask a room full of people what hobby they have and you will get as many answers as there are people. Others will confess that they don�t have a hobby. They probably do; but just don�t label it as such. By definition, a hobby is an activity or interest pursued outside one's regular occupation and engaged in primarily for pleasure. And that goes for music as a hobby. Whether stamp collecting, chat rooms, trains..

Fun in music

Fun in music It�s no wonder Family Fun Magazine says �Victor Vito is really, truly neato� and Children�s Music Web claims Victor Vito to be the Best Recording for Toddlers. Laurie Berkner�s music is also a big hit with parents! Gone are the days when parents would cringe and reach for the pain relievers and ear plugs whenever the big purple dinosaur would sing �I love you, you love me!� Berkner has knack for writing and performing children�s tunes. Parents are popping in the CDs bec..

Piano sheet music

Piano sheet music sources online Click on the thumbnail below: Piano Sheet Music Piano sheet music -- people ask me all the time where they can get this song or that song -- popular songs, classical songs, gospel songs -- you name it. And the simple answer is -- all over the internet. There are tons of sites that offer sheet music for the piano, as well as for guitar, orchestra, bands, singers, and every other kind of musical inst..

Can learning music help you achieve goals?

Can learning music help you achieve your other goals? Part 4 Music Study & Goal Achievement New Research Proves Music Study Promotes Goal Achievement Part 4 - Continued The world's top academic countries also place a high value on music education. In a study of the ability of fourteen year-old science students in seventeen countries, the top three countries were Hungary, the Netherlands, and Japan. All three include music throughout the cur..

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Can learning music help you achieve your other goals? Part 3 Music Study & Goal Achievement New Research Proves Music Study Promotes Goal Achievement Part 3 - Continued A McGill University study in 1998 found that pattern recognition and mental representation scores improved significantly for students given piano instruction over a three-year period. The researchers also found that self-esteem and musical skills measures improved for the st..

Can learning music help you in other areas of life?

Can learning music help you achieve your other goals? Part 2 Music Study & Goal Achievement New Research Proves Music Study Promotes Goal Achievement Part 2 - Continued The March 1999 issue of Neurological Research published a report by another group of researchers, also at the University of California (Irvine), who found that second-grade students given four months of piano keyboard training, as well as time playing newly designed computer..

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Can learning music help you achieve your other goals? Part 1 Music Study & Goal Achievement New Research Proves Music Study Promotes Goal Achievement The idea that studying music improves the intellect is not a new one, but at last there is incontrovertible evidence from a study conducted out of the University of Toronto. The study, published in the August issue of Psychological Science was led by Dr. E. Glenn Schellenberg, and examined t..

Does music improve your personality - Part 3

Does music improve your personality? Part 3 Music Study & Socialization & Personality Are Musicians Really Better Citizens? Part 3 - Continued Just over half, (54 percent), of households surveyed had a member who plays a musical instrument. And in 48 percent of households where at least one person played an instrument, there were two or more additional members who also played Ninety-seven percent of respondents agreed that playing a musi..

Does music improve your personalit y - Part 2

Does music improve your personality? Part 2 Music Study & Socialization & Personality Are Musicians Really Better Citizens? Part 2 - Continued Gardiner tracked people from birth through the age of thirty, and found that the greater the involvement in music, the lower the arrest record. Teens who had music education were less likely to get into trouble than students who didn�t. However, those who were also involved in playing a musical instr..

Will music make you smarter - Part 4

Will music make you smarter? Part 4 Music Study & Brain Development For Increased Brain Growth, Just Add Music? Part 4 - continued In a study conducted by Dr. Timo Krings and reported in Neuroscience Letters in 2000, pianists and non-musicians of the same age and sex were required to perform complex sequences of finger movements. The non-musicians were able to make the movements as correctly as the pianists, but less activity was detected in..

Will music make you smarter

Will music make you smarter? Part 3 Music Study & Brain Development For Increased Brain Growth, Just Add Music? Part 3 - continued In 1994 Discover magazine published an article which discussed research by Gottfried Schlaug, Herman Steinmetz and their colleagues at the University of Dusseldorf. The group compared magnetic resonance images (MRI) of the brains of 27 classically trained right-handed male piano or string players, with those of 27..

Will music make you smarter

Will music make you smarter? Part 2 Music Study & Brain Development For Increased Brain Growth, Just Add Music? Part 2 - continued As Rauscher explains in a later paper, the Mozart Effect was studied only in adults, lasted only for a few minutes and was found only for spatial temporal reasoning. Nevertheless, the finding has since launched an industry that includes books, CDs and websites claiming that listening to classical music can make ch..

Will music make you smarter? - Part 1

Will music make you smarter? Part 1 Music Study & Brain Development For Increased Brain Growth, Just Add Music? Will listening to music make you smarter? Will learning to play a musical instrument make your brain grow larger than normal? Questions like these ones have been popping up all over the place in the past few years, and not just in scientific journals either. In recent times the media has been fascinated by the research surrounding..

Musical moods and emotions

Music, Mood & Emotions Part 2 Music, Mood & Emotions How Does Music Impact Our Emotions? Part 2 -- continued Other researchers have found the sound of drums may influence how bodies work. Quoted in a 2001 article in USA Today, Suzanne Hasner, chairwoman of the music therapy department at Berklee College of Music in Boston, says even those with dementia or head injuries retain musical ability. The article reported results of an experime..

Emotions and the effect of music on them

Music, Mood & Emotions Part 3 Music, Mood & Emotions How Does Music Impact Our Emotions? Part 3 - Continued Just why humans developed such a biologically based appreciation of music is still not clear. The appreciation of food and the drive for sex evolved to help the survival of the species, but music did not develop strictly for survival purposes, Blood told Associated Press at the time. She also believes that because mus..

Music, moods & emotions - part 1

Music, Mood & Emotions Part 1 Music, Mood & Emotions How Does Music Impact Our Emotions? How many times have you turned to music to uplift you even further in happy times, or sought the comfort of music when melancholy strikes? Is there a link between music, moods & emotions? Music affects us all. But only in recent times have scientists sought to explain and quantify the way music impacts us at an emotional level. Researching..

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Eugene Ysaye Ysaye was born at Liege, Belgium, July 16, 1858. He studied first with his father, and then with Massart (viola) and Dupuis (harmony) at the conservatory, gaining a second prize with Ovide Musin in 1867. In 1873 he had an opportunity of studying with Wieniawski, and three years later he became a pupil of Vieuxtemps. Vieuxtemps was especially impressed with Ysaye's style, and besides giving him lessons obtained for him a three years' subsidy from the gov..

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Gasparo L. P. Spontini November 14, 1774 - 1851 Best know works: La Vestale, Fernand Cortez, and Olympie. He was for many years director of opera in Berlin. [ Piano Chords ] [ Piano Playing ] [ Gospel Music ] [ Play Piano ] [ Keyboard Chord Chart ] [ Beginning Piano ] [ Video Piano Lessons ] [ Piano Songs ] [ Piano Playing By Ear ] [ Piano..

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Lt. John Philip Sousa-Part 2 Written by Lt. Comm. John Philip Sousa, U.S.N.R.F When I was twelve or thirteen years old I was playing first violin in Ford's Opera House, Washington; and a traveling comic opera company came for a week's engagement. I took the first violin part of the opera we had been rehearsing to my teacher to mark some of the fingering and asked him if I would ever by able to write an opera. He smiled, and said, Philip, you will write a better..

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Lt. John Philip Sousa-Part 1 Written by Lt. Comm. John Philip Sousa, U.S.N.R.F The boy, who has not an inordinate desire to excel in whatever line of endeavor he may be placed, will have hard sledding as the days go on. Of course, he who is so unfortunate as to be misplaced in a trade or profession that does not meet with his sympathy is to be pitied; but if a youngster is in love with the career mapped out for him, if he lacks in ambition and makes his slogan &quot..

Haydn, Paderewski, John Phillip Sousa & other great composers

Site Map #4 of Great Composers & Their Life Stories Handel Part 10Handel Part 11 Handel Part 12 Handel Part 13 Handel Part 14 Haydn Part 1 Haydn Part 2 Haydn Part 3 Haydn Part 4 Haydn Part 5 Haydn Part 6 Haydn Part 7 Haydn Part 8 Haydn Part 9 Haydn Part 10 Haydn Part 11 Haydn Part 12 Haydn Part 13 Haydn Part 14 Haydn Part 15 Haydn's Life Lessons Part 1 Haydn's Life Lessons Part 2 Haydn's Life Lessons Part 3..

Lives and music of Edvard Grieg, Gounod,other great composers

Site Map #3 of Great Composers & Their Life Stories Georges BizetGevaert Gluck Godard Gounod Part 1 Gounod Part 2 Gounod Part 3 Gounod Part 4 Gounod Part 5 Gounod Part 6 Gounod Part 7 Gounod Part 8 Gounod Part 9 Gounod Part 10 Gounod Part 11 Gounod Part 12 Gounod Part 13 Gounod Part 14 Grieg Part 1 Grieg Part 2 Grieg Part 3 Grieg Part 4 Grieg Part 5 Grieg Part 6 Grieg Part 7 Grieg Part 8 Grieg Part 9..

Site map of lives of the great music composers

Site Map #2 of Great Composers & Their Life Stories Brahms Part 9 Brahms Part 10 Brahms Part 11 Brahms Part 12 Brahms Part 13 Burmester Busoni Chadwick Chaminade Cutter Part 1 Cutter Part 2 Cutter Part 3 Cutter Part 4 Cutter Part 5 Cutter Part 6 Damrosch Debussy Part 1 Debussy Part 2 Debussy Part 3 Debussy Part 4 Debussy Part 5 Debussy Part 6 Debussy Part 7 Debussy Part 8 Debussy Part 9 D'Hardelot..

Great composers and their music site map

Site Map #1 of Great Composers & Their Life Stories Albani Bauer Beethoven Part 1 Beethoven Part 2 Beethoven Part 3 Beethoven Part 4 Bellini Beriot Berlioz Part 1 Berlioz Part 2 Berlioz Part 3 Berlioz Part 4 Berlioz Part 5 Berlioz Part 6 Berlioz Part 7 Berlioz Part 8 Berlioz Part 9 Berlioz Part 10 Berlioz Part 11 Berlioz Part 12 Bizet Part 1 Bizet Part 2 Bizet Part 3 Bizet Part 4 Bizet Part 5 Biz..

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Henry Schradieck Schradieck was born at Hamburg, April 29, 1846. He received his first violin lessons from his father, and made his first public appearance at the age of six. He studied under Leonard, in Brussels, where he gained first prize. Afterwards he went to Leipsic, where he became a pupil of David. In 1863 he became a soloist at the Reinthaler concerts at Bremen. The following year he went to Moscow as Professor of the violin. In 1868 Schradieck returned to..

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Wassily Safonoff Safonoff was born at Itschory, Russian Caucasus, February 7, 1852, and is the son of a Russian officer of Cossacks. He was educated at the Lycee Imperial Alexandra, St. Petersburg, and at the St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music. He graduated as Bachelor of Laws, and won the gold medal of the Conservatory, where he studied, 1881-1885. He was also a pupil of Leschetizky and Zaremba. Safonoff was made professor of the pianoforte at Moscow Conservatory..

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Anton G. Rubinstein-Part 10 Among the earliest teachers in this conservatory were Leschetizky, later the well-known piano pedagogue of Vienna; Mm. Nissen-Salomon, the Swedish singer, a pupil of Manuel Garcia, and Wieniawski, who later accompanied Rubinstein to America, and whose wonderful violin-tone rang out with Rubinstein's piano-tone as though both were produce by one spirit. In the first graduating class were Tscaikowsky, the great Russian composer, and the favori..

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Anton G. Rubinstein-Part 9 This giant of tonal art, this Russian patriot, philanthropist and musician, wielded a mighty influence in the musical world of both Europe and the United States. To this day students of the piano owe him a great debt of gratitude. The value of the impulse he gave to music in Russia cannot be estimated. When he returned to the homeland, in 1849, after his several years of association with music-makers and performers abroad, he found so little..

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Anton G. Rubinstein-Part 8 Of Beethoven also, he spoke with reverence, and declared that the most marvelous ofhis master's works dated from the period of his deafness. His absolute concentration, his imagery, his tuneful soul, his complaining never before expressed in music, his tragic earnestness, this bound Prometheus can be explained only by his deafness. It is true he produced beautiful unrivaled works before this period, but the highest and most wonderful of..

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Anton G. Rubinstein-Part 7 Sayings of Rubinstein In a little volume entitled Music and Its Masters, many gems from the musical creed of Rubinstein are preserved. He has often been called the subjective artist, and of this he said to his interviewer, I do not know what people mean by the objective in performing. Every performance, if it be rendered by a person and not by a machine, is ,within itself, subjective. To do justice to the object (the composi..

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Anton G. Rubinstein-Part 6 Opinions of Others The Russian critic, Levenstein, says that the playing of Rubinstein creates an impression not unlike that produced by some magnificent display of the elements. He considers the spontaneity of this man of genius, combined with technical methods that are entirely his own, one secret of the deep impress he leaves on his hearers. Rubinstein's manner of playing the octave accompaniment in the Schubert-Liszt Erl-King is thus des..

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Anton G. Rubinstein-Part 5 Huneker on Rubinstein Other views on Rubinstein are those of the brilliant adn original critic of art and letters, James Huneker. In his essay on The Grand Manner in Piano Playing, he pronounces Rubinstein the greatest pianist in his long and varied list, and declares that no one could forget the music one heard when the great Russian's lion-like, velvet paws caressed the keyboard. Referring to Rubinstein's delivery of..

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Anton G. Rubinstein-Part 4 Taking his seat at the piano, he indeed presented to my eager senses the romantic Bach. The merry children, whom I had tried so hard to make frolic through the sunlit garden of the Prelude, became at his touch pulsating, eager youngsters. The invigorating voices of the delightful group, conversing so cheerfully and politely together in the Fugue, became life-giving as a draught from the Fountain of Youth. Through a long life I have endeavored..

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Anton G. Rubinstein-Part 3 Personal Memories In my much-prized interview with Rubinstein, during the period of his concerts in Philadelphia, in the season of 1872-1873, he spoke of Rubini, and told me how he had passed hours in listening to this Italian tenor's voice, with its purity, sweetness and power, and in trying to reproduce its timbre in his playing. It is only with labor and tears bitter as death that the true artist is developed, he said. Fe..

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Anton G. Rubinstein-Part 2 The teaching of this mother, as recorded later by her son, was strict and well-grounded; but she soon felt that in view of his great musical endowment, the boy needed more training than she was able to give him. A guide to this she found in Alexander Villoing, the best pianoforte teacher in Moscow at that time, who, because he loved to mold genius, undertook the gifted child's education free of charge. Correct Hand Position In his autobio..

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Anton G. Rubinstein-Part 1 November 28, 1829 - November 20, 1894 Best known works: Operas, Dimitri, Donskoi, Feramors, etc. Piano concerto in D Minor, and many smaller pieces including Melody in F and Kammernoi Ostrow. The Etude Magazine November 1912 Written by Aubertine Woodward Moore (1920) It was always a matter of interest to me that the first public concert of importance given by Anton Rubinstein took place in 1841, the year of my birth. He was twelve y..

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Rousseau-Part 4 This book is full of extreme, and sometimes absurd statements; but it set the world the thinking anew on educational problems. The great philosopher Kant paid our author the following tribute: The first impression which a reader derives from Rousseau is that this writer unites to an admirable penetration of genius a noble inspiration and a should full of sensibility, such as has never been met in any other writer, in any other time, or in any othe..

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Rousseau-Part 3 Emile This remarkable book is the story of an imaginary youth, Emile, with a detailed account of his education as Rousseau would have planned it. In this eloquent and absorbingly interesting book the author discusses almost every conceivable problem of education. Emile's student life is divided into three parts, from infancy to twelve years of age, from the twelfth to the fifteenth year, and from the fifteenth to the twentieth. During the first period..

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Rousseau-Part 2 Living in a century of discontent, Rousseau became its mouthpiece. He was the supreme interpreter of the ideas, feelings, and passions that were fermenting in the decomposition of the ancien regime. His was the fierce spirit of negation. He was plebeian by birth and preference. He disdained all the ideals of the aristocracy, and all strong assumption of authority in church or state. He was skeptical, unsocial, and violent. His..

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Rousseau-Part 1 1712-1778 True inaugurator of modern romantic naturalism. Rousseau was the son of a watchmaker of Geneva. His mother died at the..

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Moriz Rosenthal Ronsethal was born December 18, 1862, at Lemberg, where his father was professor at the chief academy. At eight years of age he commenced his piano studies under Galoth, who did not pay much attention to technic, but allowed his pupil the greatest freedom in sigh reading, transportation, and modulation. The method is curious, and not to be recommended, though in this case it does not seem to have been harmful. In 1872 he became a pupil of Mikuli, the..

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Nicholas Andreivitch Rimsky-Korsakoff Rimsky-Korsakoff was born March 18, 1844, at Tikhvin, in the government of Novgorod. The son of aristocratic parents, his early manifestations of musical genius were not greatly encouraged, and in 1856 he went to the Naval College at St. Petersburg, where he remained until 1862. At the same time, however, he contrived to learn a good deal about music, and when, in 1861, he made the acquaintance of Balakirev, he became, with Cui,..

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Hugo Riemann Dr. Hugo Riemann was born at Grossmehlra, near Sondershausen, July 18, 1849. He was educatedin law and other subjects at Berlin and Tubingen. After going through the Franco-German war he decided to devote hislife to music, and studied accordingly at the Leipzig Convervatory. He then went to Bielefeld for some years as a teacher, but subsequently returned to Leipzig as privatedozent at the University. Riemann went ot Bromberg in 1880, but 188..

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Josef Gabriel Rheinberger Rheinberger was born March 17, 1839, at Vaduz, Lichtenstein, and died Munich, November 25, 1901. when only seven years old he was organist at Vaduz Parish Church, and his first composition was performed the following year. In 1851 Rheinberger entered the Munich Conservatory, eventually becoming professor of of pianoforte playing, and later, professor of composition at the institution. When the Munich Conservatorium dissolved he was appointe..

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Sergius Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff The birth of Rachmaninoff took place at Nijni-Novgorod, April 2, 1873. In 1882 he entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory and studied under Demjanski until 1885, when he prodeeded to Moscow. At the Conservatory in this city he studied under Siloti for pianoforte. Composition he studied under Arenski and Taneieff, and in 1891 he wond the grand gold medal . He then distinguished himself as a concert pianist, and spent some..

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Giacomo Puccini This brilliant composer was born at Lucca, Italy, June 22, 1858. Angeloni, of Lucca, was his first instructor, but he subsequently studied under Ponchielli at Milan Conservatory. The success of his Sinfonia-Capriccio prompted Puccini, on the advice of Ponchielli, to attempt an opera. Le Villi was the result, and met with favor. Subsequently is was enlarged and produced at La Scala, Milan. Puccini's next opera, Edgar , failed, bu..

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David Popper David Popper was born June 18, 1846, at Prague, and studied music at the conservatory in that city. He studied the violoncello under Goltermann, and soon attracted attention. He made his first tour in 1863, and after charming the German musicians - especially Hans von Bulow - he extended his tour to Switzerland, Holland and England, where he was equally successful. He made his debut in Vienna in 1867, and was made solo-player at the Hofoper. After a few..

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I. J. Paderewski Born November 18, 1860 As a pianist he is to-day unrivaled. His compositions include the opera Manru and several piano pieces, notably the Menuet in G. The Etude Magazine November 1912 [ Piano Chords ] [ Piano Playing ] [ Gospel Music ] [ Play Piano ] [ Keyboard Chord Chart ] [ Beginning Piano ] [ Video Piano Lessons ]..

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Paste 300 word article here from http://www.web-helper.net/PDMusic/Biographies/default.asp Use this as a template -- just copy the entire page and then rename the new page according to the composer's name; i.e., Bach-3 (Please put a hyphen between the name and the section number -- thanks). [ Piano Chords ] [ Piano Playing ] [ Gospel Music ] [ Play Piano ] [ Keyboard Chord Chart&n..

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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartoldy--Part 12 Lessons From Mendelssohn's Life Resuming, we find in Mendelssohn's career the following salient points: The great opportunities offered to him by the unlimited wealth of his parents, especially the eminent teachers in all branches of knowledge, to whom his education was entrusted. The intimate association with the most prominent men of his time and the preference he gave in choosing his friends to older, more experie..

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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartoldy--Part 11 After the first performance of his Midsummer Night's Dream in London, the score was left in a hackney coach and thus lost. Mr. Atwood, who had it in charge was in despair, but Mendelssohn did not mind it in the least and wrote it all over again promptly. How much he was beloved by the public is evident from the fact that at the Gewandhaus concert which followed his engagement with Cecile the directors placed on the programme He Who..

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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartoldy--Part 10 Sir Julius benedict in his sketch on Mendelssohn writes: In society, apart from musical subjects, nothing could be more entertaining or animated than Mendelssohn's conversation on literary topics. The works of Shakespeare and other eminent British poets were quite as familiar to him as those of his own country, and although this accent was slightly tinctured by his German origin, he spoke as well as wrote the English language w..

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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartoldy--Part 9 A noble feature in Mendelssohn was his treatment of other artists, particularly those whose gifts differed widely from his own. Liszt was heartily welcomed by him at his first appearance in Leipsic in 1840. Another instance of Mendelssohn's magnanimity occurred in 1843, when Hector Berlioz came from Weimar, to Leipsic. Berlioz knew that his won musical ideas diverged fundamentally from those of Mendelssohn, and he feared that his rece..

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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartoldy--Part 8 How the Conservatory Began In the year 1842 Mendelssohn wrote to Moscheles; Now or never must a conservatorium come into being in Leipsic. In order to procure the necessary funds Mendelssohn applied directly to the King of Saxony, who had the control of a large sum of money left at the decease of a wealthy Leipsic citizen, Blummer by name. The king granted the money, and in 1843 the Leipsic conservatory was inaugurated. Me..

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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartoldy--Part 7 Mendelssohn's Tribute to Bach After his marriage, Mendelssohn resolved to commemorate in a worth manner the one of his predecessors to whom he most resembled in the severity of his studies. Johan Sebastian Bach, the great cantor of the Thomas School at Leipsic, ought to have a monument in the city in which he had labored so long. Mendelssohn undertook to erect such a monument out of his own means, and he resolved in addition to make..

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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartoldy--Part 6 The wish of his friends to have him appointed as a conductor ofthe famous Berlin sindakedemie was not ignored, though the place was given to Rungenhagen, an assistant of Zelter. Mendelssohn was, later, fully compensated by his nomination as director of the Gewandhaus concerts in Leipzig, an event which resulted in Leipsic becoming soon the musical center of Germany. The death of his father in 1835 matured Mendelssohn's de..

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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartoldy--Part 5 At this point Fanny's engagement to Hensel the painter was announced, and Felix felt deeply grieved at the coming separation from his beloved sister, to whom he had been so affectionately attached. Never surely did brother and sister understand each other more perfectly than these two. To relieve his mind Felix went to London where he conducted all his most important works. The English people were especially delighted with his Midsumm..

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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartoldy--Part 4 According to his biographies Felix was one of the most charming of beings. At eighteen he had the grace, the courtesty and the brilliancy of a cultivated man of the world. He loved outdoor life, rode horseback, was fond of swimming and indeed had a special passion for water as shown in three of his concert overtures; Fingal's Cave, Meerestille and Die Schone Melusine, Medelssohn declared once; I think I love the sea better than..

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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartoldy--Part 3 All four children showed decided talent for music. Fanny became an accomplished pianist; Rebecca sang, and Paul played the violoncello. Soon, however, the exceptional gifts of Felix attracted general attention and although the prudent father consulted Cherubino in Paris, 1825, as to the future career of Felix the choice of his vocation had at that time already been made. The unlimited wealth of his father made it possible to engage a..

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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartoldy--Part 2 See the life of other famous musicians - see poor Schubert not being able to buy music paper to write down his inspirations and being compelled to teach reading and writing to the children of the poor for his daily bread; see poor Chopin who died in Paris without a grave - un-knell'd, uncoffin'd and unknown! What a contrast to Mendelssohn, whose musical talents were carefully and systematically cultivated from early child..

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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartoldy--Part 1 Has anybody realized that Mendelssohn is the most popular composer in America? Why, no marriage takes place, without him, or at least not without his famous Wedding March. Its theme is synonymous with nuptial benediction for better for worse! In the movies, in Vaudeville a few notes from that composition brings better than any other suggestion a complete picture of the hymeneal altar before your eyes. Mendels..

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Henri Marteau Marteau was born at Rheims, March 31, 1874. His father was a well known amateur violinist of that city, and took a great interest in musical affairs. His mother was an excellent pianist, who had studied under Mme. Schumann. Through the influence of Sivori, Marteau's parents were easily persuaded to allow their son to adopt a musical career, and he showed remarkable aptitude in his studies, first under Bunzl, and later under Leonard. His professional de..

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Ludvig Van Beethoven Beethoven was born at Bonn, December 16, 1770. His father was attached to the orchestra of The Elector of Bonn, and proved a strict, even tyrannical, teacher of his son. Beethoven soon became attached to the Elector's musical household himself, and composed much music. He was further instructed by Pfieffer, Van den Eeden, and Neefe. When on a visit to Vienna in 1787 Beethoven met Mozart, who prophesized that Beethoven would make a noise in..

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Gustav Albert Lortzing Lortzing was born in Berlin, October 23, 1801, and died there January 21, 1851. His father was an actor, and the wandering life prevented him from getting an adequate musical education, through he studied for a time under Rungenhagen. However, he acquired some skill with the piano, violin and violoncello. He studied the works of Albrechtsberger and soon began to compose, at the same time singing and acting on the stage. He produced his first o..

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Franz Lachner Franz Lachner was born April 2, 1803, at Rain, on the Lech, in Bavaria. He was a member of a large family, many of whom attained distinction as musicians. Franz was well educated in other things besides music, but music was the study which interested him most. He went to Vienna in 1822, and studied under Stadler and Sechter, at the same time becoming very intimate with Schubert. He became capellmeister of the Karthnerther Theatre, and held this post u..

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Reginald De Koven Mr. De Koven was born at Middletown, Conn., April 3, 1859. His education was received mainly in Europe, whither he went in 1870. He graduated at Oxford University, England (St. John's College), in 1879. His musical studies have been very various, and were undertaken at Stuttgart with Speidel, and with Lebert and Pruckner. At Franfort he studied with Dr. Hauff for composition, and after staying there for six months moved on to Florence, Italy, where..

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Karl Klindworth Klindworth was born at Hanover, September 25, 1830, and was in early youth a skillful violinist. For a time he conducted a traveling opera troupe, but settled in Hanover as a teacher and composer. From there he went to Weimar, 1852, and studied the piano under Liszt. He also became on friendly terms with Wagner. Among his fellow pupils were von Bulow and William Mason. In 1854 he went to London, where he remained for fourteen years, studying, teachin..

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John Philip Sousa Mr. Sousa was born at Washington D.C., November 6, 1856. His father was of Portuguese origin. Sousa's earliest lessons in music were received from J. Esputa, and later he studied composition and harmony with G.F. Benkert. At the age of seventeen he was a conductor of an orchestra in a traveling theatrical company. In 1876 he joined the orchestra of Offenbach, which was then touring the country. In 1878 Sousa became director of the famous Philadelph..

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Music Composers: John Phillip Sousa Band leader & composer John Phillip Sousa was born at Washington D.C., November 6, 1856. His father was of Portuguese origin. Sousa's earliest lessons in music were received from J. Esputa, and later he studied composition and harmony with G.F. Benkert. At the age of seventeen he was a conductor of an orchestra in a traveling theatrical company. In 1876 he joined the orchestra of Offenbach, which wa..

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Johannes Brahms Brahms was born at Hamburg, May 7, 1833, and died in Vienna, April 3, 1897. His early musical education was cared for by Cossel, and later by Marxsen, Cossel's own teacher. Brahms went on tour with Remenyi, the violinist, in 1853 and became acquainted with Joachim. This meeting had a great influence on Brahm's career. For a time Brahms lived with Joachim, who was much impressed with his ability. Through Joachim he became acquainted with Liszt and S..

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Engelbert Humperdinck Humperdinck was born at Siegburg, in the Rhine provinces, September 1, 1854. In 1872 he entered the Cologne Conservatory under Ferdinand Hiller. In 1876 he won a scholarship which enabled him to go to Munich, where he studied with Lachner and later with Rheinberger. He won the Mendelssohn Stiftung (foundation) of Berlin in 1879, and went to Italy, and became acquainted with Wagner in Naples. Wagner invited him to go to Bayreuth, and during 1880..

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Hector Louis Berlioz Berlioz was born near Grenoble, France, December 11, 1803, and died in Paris, March 9, 1869. He was sent to Paris to study medicine, but his love of music caused him to throw up his medical studies, and with them went his allowance. He earned a bare living by singing in the chorus of the Gynmase Dramatique. His unusual genius, accompanied by his own eccentricities early brought him into conflict with authority. He soon left Reicha at the Conserv..

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Franz Joseph Haydn-Part 8 April 1, 1732 to May 31, 1809 Lessons From Haydn's Life by Henry T. Finck His Last Days The last of his great works, The Creation and The Seasons , were received as they deserved to be, and Haydn was so wealthy in his last years that he was able to liberally repay the families of those who in his early struggles had helped him. He died on May 31, 1809 - the same year in which Mendelssohn and Chopin were born, as if t..

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Franz Joseph Haydn-Part 7 April 1, 1732 to May 31, 1809 Lessons From Haydn's Life by Henry T. Finck The London Period Haydn was no exception; he wrote most of his works with an eye on the Count, and with no thought of the world at large, hence so many of them are now obsolete. A change fortunately came in time. In 1790 Prince Nicolaus died and the orchestra was disbanded. Haydn moved to Vienna and at last felt at liberty to accept an engagement to appear in London..

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Franz Joseph Haydn-Part 6 April 1, 1732 to May 31, 1809 Lessons From Haydn's Life by Henry T. Finck Here we have the chief lesson from Haydn's life. He might have become a great composer under other conditions, too, but it is not likely that he would have been able to do as much as he did to develop the modern symphony and chamber music had he not had that orchestra laboratory, so to speak, at Esterhaz, for three decades, for making his musical experiments. If we n..

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Franz Joseph Haydn-Part 5 April 1, 1732 to May 31, 1809 Lessons From Haydn's Life by Henry T. Finck Period of Development By way of compensation for his conjugal misfit, Haydn was so very fortunate as to secure an engagement as kapellmeister of the private orchestra of Count Paul Anton Esterhazy, who had heard one of his symphonies at Morzin's Palace. The Count lived at Eisenstadt, in Hungary, which thus became Haydn's home from 1761 to 1769, when Prince Nicolaus..

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Franz Joseph Haydn-Part 4 April 1, 1732 to May 31, 1809 Lessons From Haydn's Life by Henry T. Finck With Porpora Another lesson. Medieval ballads and romances tell us of the humiliations to which the Knights were willing to subject themselves to win the favor of a fair lady. Just so did Haydn temporarily debase himself for the sake of serving his muse. He cleaned the clothes and blackened the shoes of a famous musician that he might benefit by his company, his ins..

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Franz Joseph Haydn-Part 3 April 1, 1732 to May 31, 1809 Lessons From Haydn's Life by Henry T. Finck His voice, at this time, was so beautiful that it aroused the special attention of the Imperial family; but the day came when it began to break and sound more like the crowing of a cock , as the Empress remarked jocosely; and not long afterward young Josef took the opportunity of trying the edge of a new pair of scissors by cutting off the pigtail of one o..

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Franz Joseph Haydn-Part 2 April 1, 1732 to May 31, 1809 Lessons From Haydn's Life by Henry T. Finck This trick brought him luck. While at it one day he was observed by a distant relative named Frankh, to whom it naturally suggested the idea that the boy might be a born musician. His home was at Hainburg, where he was a schoolmaster, and he succeeded in persuading Josef's parent to let him take their son along, for regular instruction. He was very strict and kept th..

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Franz Joseph Haydn-Part 1 April 1, 1732 to May 31, 1809 Lessons From Haydn's Life by Henry T. Finck The genealogy of genius is one of the puzzles of modern science. Why should three women whose humble occupation was the cooking of meals three times a day have given birth to three of the world's greatest musical geniuses - Beethoven, Schubert, and Haydn? We do not know; we only know that genius, like meteors, appears when and where it chooses. But is there not comf..

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Josef Haydn-Part 15 Bland, a London publisher, had been sent over to Vienna by Salomon (7\\1787) to coax Haydn into an engagement. When he was admitted he found the composer in the act of shaving, and complaining of the bluntness of the razor. I would give by best quartet for a good razor! Bland immediately ran back to his lodging and returning with his own razors of good English steel, presented them to Haydn, who gave him in exchange his latest quartet sti..

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Josef Haydn-Part 14 The Seasons bears signs of mental effort. Perhaps the subject was not congenial to the author. The Emperor Francis Joseph once asked Haydn which of the two oratorios he himself preferred. The Creation, he answered, because in this work angels speak, and their talk is of God. In the Seasons no one higher speaks than the farmer Simon. Both oratorios, however, added considerable to Haydn's fame and fortune. The effort was too mu..