Johann Sebastian Bach The Great German Composer

Style of Western European music, of course, vary. This one, the others did. Johann Sebastian Bach the great German composer who managed to combine all that, how many flowers summed up in one pot. He's the best pinch of Italian, French, and German musical tradition, he managed to enrich in a beautiful blend. Bach in his lifetime is not so famous, even the most ignored people for
fifty years after his death. However, his fame rose decisively at the time of one hundred and fifty years, and now he's famous and considered one of the two or three greatest musicians of past centuries. In fact, according to some people, he is the greatest of the greatest.

Bach was born in 1685 in the town of Eisenach, Germany. Basic luckily he was born in an environment where musical talent and admired the work of award winning music creation. Bach family did those classified as known in the music world for years before Bach was born. His father was a violinist who can, both his uncle's famous composer-arranger, and many cousins also includes the people who are respected in the music world.

Mother Bach left the mortal world when nine years old and she became an orphan when ten years old. As a teenager, he gained a scholarship to school St. Michael in Luneburg, in part because his voice is good, partly for reasons of need. He graduated from the school year in 1702 and next year he can become a position fiddle music at a party room. More than twenty years he held assorted jobs. During his lifetime, especially Bach's organ known as a player extraordinary, although it coincided with him a composer, teacher and conductor. Years old in 1723 when twenty-seven years he could position the group leader of the church of St. singer. Thomas in Leipzig. This position is held for twenty years of his life. He died in 1750.

Although Bach's always a good position and can maintain his family, he is not semasyhur Mozart and Beethoven during his life (not even semasyhur Frederich Chopin and Franz Liszt). Not all assistants Bach insyaf of his genius. In Leipzig, the city council wants to hire a "first-class musician." Only when they do not get it, the position was offered to Bach reluctantly! (On the other hand, a few years later, when he wanted to quit from his position as the organist and leader of the concert at the palace in Weimar in order to move a new job, the Prince reluctantly passed a desire and Bach thrown in jail. Bach huddled for more than three weeks in Prince prison before finally softening).

Bach married his cousin when he was twenty-two years. No less than seven children from the marriage berojol, but his wife died while Bach was thirty-five years. He married again next year. The second wife was not only caring for and raising seven children, but she also gave birth to thirteen children. Only seven children who lived to Bach Bach died, but four of them became famous musician of his own results. Family really talented! Bach was a productive musician. His work includes approximately 3000 "contants" (short music sung by a choir and a Soloist); set of 48 "figures" or a musical composition that brought more than one theme and voice-changing and change is repeated in a difficult chart, and "Prelude" or beginners who form the piece "The Well-Tempered Clavier"; at least 140 "Prelude" other, more than 100 harp composition tool; 23 "concertos" or a musical composition for one or more solo instruments backed by an orchestra; 4 "overtures" or a precursor composition opera; 33 "sonata" or a musical composition for an instrument such as piano; 5 "Masses" or the collection of the orchestra are playing in unison; 3 "oratorios" or religious composition, and many others. Short stories, Bach created more than 800 serious music throughout his life.

He was a follower of Luther, and extremely devout. He wants his music to serve the interests of the church, and most of his work was religious music. He had no clue try to find something new musical forms, but simply raising the quality of existing music alone.

Within half a century after his death, Johann Sebastian Bach music is generally underestimated. (It should be noted, even so, the greatest musician at that time - Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven - Bach was considered a genius). Developing a new style of music, old-fashioned style of Bach and relaxed. However, after the year 1800 there was a revival of Bach, and since then he has kept up his reputation. In a secular age today is more popular than Bach in his own era. This is bizarre! Composers who are considered old-fashioned 200 years ago, either ancient or old-fashioned style of content issues, now just admired. Why is that? What causes a terrible reputation?

First, Bach is generally considered to be technically a "carpenter" best of all great composers. He was very friendly and know well all the music sources in his time and he could use with very perfect. For example, there is not a composer who was then able to match let alone beat the mastery of Bach on the so-called "counter point", the technique plays two or more melodies simultaneously at the same time. Add too, admired his work for logical and diversity orchestra performances, admired his argument on the theme of stability, admired rhythm-the rhythm of the expressive.

For the students in the field of serious music, the depth and intricacies of Bach's composition presents the structure of their appeal durable than other composer's work is easy to understand. Many music enthusiasts consider Bach a composer of difficult, but it can also prove that his followers are not composed of a small group of elite music alone. Recordings sold may be more than the work of composers other than Beethoven. (Of course, in the long run by Bach or Beethoven's more is heard and listened to the composer's work than the "popular" that if the newly emerging "bright," but his popularity quickly faded).Michael H. Hart,One hundred most influential figures in the history.

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Ludwig van Beethoven, King of kings composers

King of kings composers Ludwig van Beethoven out of a newborn baby in 1770 in the city of Bonn, Germany. Childhood evident musical talent and exceptional musical creation book first appeared in 1783. In adolescence he visited Vienna and was introduced to Mozart but the encounter was brief second. Year 1792 Beethoven returned to Vienna and while he studied music with Haydn
who was then famous Viennese composers (Mozart died a year before). Beethoven settled in Vienna, the music Mekkahnya time, for the rest of his life. Beethoven's music taste is highly impressive as a piano player every audience and he managed both as players and teachers. Soon he became a productive composers as well. His work can be welcome. Since the age of mid-twenties to the top, he was able to publish and sell books music creation with no difficulty whatsoever.

When Beethoven was at the end of two decades, the signs of deafness began to appear. No doubt this is very troubling phenomenon of the young composer. Create a deaf composers really a disaster. Once desire arises to kill myself.

The years between 1802-1815 is often considered the mid-career Beethoven. During the break, due to her deafness intensified, he began to withdraw from social interaction. Deafness makes people have the impression not convinced that Beethoven was completely anti-human, anti-society, hate mix. He was involved with the romance that often with young girls but it seems that all these relationships are unhappy ending and never married.

Beethoven's own musical works crazy productive. The years keep going but the attention it receives more and more popular shrinkage which should create a composer like him at that time. However, his success continued to climb.

At the age of forty to one hundred percent of Beethoven deaf. As a result, he never again appeared in public and getting away from the community. Fewer handiwork and understand it more difficult on. Since then he created especially for himself and a few listeners who have an ideal future. He once said to a music critic, "this invention is not for you but for the period after you."

This is a cruel irony of a fate that the most talented composers of past centuries must be stricken by such deafness. Had Beethoven with the strength of non-human determination - the deafness was - continued while maintaining the quality of the music composition, this would be a fascinating thing and brilliant. However, the reality is more surprising than that envisioned in the years of total deafness, Beethoven did not just Setarap creation of what is produced before, but is generally considered the greatest work. He died in Vienna in 1827 at the age of fifty-seven years.

A lot of Beethoven's 9th symphony was included, 32 piano sonatas, 5 piano concertos, 10 sonatas for piano and violin, a series of stunning string quartet, vocal music, musical theater, and much more. But more important is the creation of quality aspects. His work is an extraordinary combination of depth of feeling to the layout plan of perfection. Beethoven demonstrating that instrumental music could no longer be considered just a second artistic value. This is evidenced from the composition of which has been drawn up the instrumental music to the level of artistic value is very high.

Original manuscript Ludwig van Beethoven.

Beethoven was truly an original creator of the excellent and many of the changes made and the introduction of a lasting influence. He expanded the size of an orchestra. He adds length symphonies and expand coverage. By demonstrating the possibility of almost limitless to be made by the piano, he helped make the piano a musical instrument of the most prominent. Beethoven's opening round of the transition from classical to romantic music and his style is a source of inspiration for the romantic style.

He put the power of influence on self stabbing composers who came later, including the characters who have different styles such as Brahms, Wagner, Schubert and Tchaikovsky. He also paved the way for Berlioz, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss and many others.

Real right, Beethoven must be placed above any other musician in this book is a chronological list. Although Johann Sebastian Bach is featured almost equal, Beethoven broader and more often heard than Bach. Moreover, a number of improvements have conducted Beethoven's more profound influence on subsequent development of music than the work of Bach.

In general, the ethical and political ideas more easily described in words rather than music and literature. Spheres have a wider impact than the music. On the basis of this consideration Beethoven - despite excellent figures in the history of music - was placed in a lower order than Shakespeare. In terms of comparison between Beethoven and Michelangelo, I am very influenced by the fact that more people generally use the time to listen to music rather than looking at a painting or sculpture sculptures, and for this reason also I think the music composers are generally more influential than the painter or sculptor fame in each field equivalent. As a result, it seems quite reasonable to place Beethoven in sequence between Shakespeare and Michelangelo. Michael H. Hart,One hundred most influential figures in the history.

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