Symphony

In this essay, I will discuss two specific symphonies, Symphony No.3 and Symphony No.5, which are composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) was a German composer that stood out as one of the most famous and influential composers, in both Classical era and in the entire history of music. Beethoven was born in a family of talented musicians, both of his father and grandfather. He composed nine symphonies, thirty-five piano sonatas, in which thirty-two are numbered, ten violin

THE NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY On May 6th 2016 at 8pm the New York University held a program in the Frederick Loewe of Theatre on campus. The orchestra was made entirely of students from the university and they performed pieces such as Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No.7 in A Major, Op.92, Claude Debussy’s Danses sacrée et profane and Paul Hindemith’s Symphony: Mathis der Maler (Matthias the Painter) with Adam Glaser as conductor. The performance of Debussy’s symphony was particularly moving

CONCERT REPORT 1 Bryan Ignacio Concert: “Symphony Orchestra” Kyle Szabo (conductor) Songs: “Divertimento No. 2 in B-flat Major, K.137” (W.A. Mozart) Psalm and Fugue for String Orchestra, Op. 40 (Alan Hovhaness) Voyage for String Orchestra (John Corigliano) “Symphony No. 8 in B Minor D. 759” (Franz Schubert) Genre: Classical October 13, 2017 FGCU, Naples, FL I. Identification/Historical Context 1a. The first piece of the concert was Divertimento No. 2 in B-flat Major, K.137, by Wolfgang Amadeus

projects in no fewer than 17 counties. The first stop is London, has spent 3 days showed a complete cycle of Prokofiev symphonies. Compare with the Prokofiev’s symphony no.4 and violin concerto no.2. The last piece Prokofiev’s symphony no.5 contained the strongest and certainly the most effectively and expressively played music of that evening. The lyrical theme with which the symphony open is cut from the same cloth of the film-score that Prokofiev had been working on just beforehand, the patriotic

Kinshasa Symphony is a documentary by German filmmakers, filled with magnificent imagery and camera work. The impoverished but proud town of Kinshasa is home to the world’s only all-black orchestra. Glassless windows, unstable electricity, and bare feet on dirt roads are all facts of life for it’s citizens, but the symphony brings beauty to a life of hardship. By examining the lives of three members of the Kinshasa Symphony, one can see that life in the Democratic Republic of Congo is filled with

94 “Surprise” Symphony. The genre of this musical composition is a symphony and it consists of a three movement minuet and trio. The piece has a stately dance feel to it with a very solid rhythm, nice melody, and a rich full sound. It is written in ternary form and “the entire minuet-trio-minuet

A Night at the Symphony “Real music is always, revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward,” claimed Dmitri Shostakovitch. Composers create music to influence but also to entertain people. On November 4, 2017, I attended the Midland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale concert at Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center, which was conducted by Gary Lewis. During the performance, the orchestra performed works by several composers: Giuseppe Verdi’s Overture to La forza

A Comparison of Haydn's Symphony No. 95 with Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 Introduction As noted by Robert Hughes, "Beethoven was not only the embodiment of all that was before him, but also of that which was yet to come" (Hughes 486). The truth of this may be seen by comparing Beethoven's 5th Symphony in C Minor to Haydn, the father of Symphony, and his 95th in C Minor. While Haydn's symphony is both playful and dramatic, Beethoven's symphony is grander both in terms of scale and vision. He expands

46-year-old Gustav Mahler was struck with inspiration unlike any he had ever had in his life. With this inspiration, he composed his Eighth Symphony in less than two months. Dedicated to “My dear wife, Alma Maria” and known as Mahler’s “search for redemption”, this symphony was the first of Mahler’s works to be an overwhelming success. Mahler’s Eighth Symphony connected two choral pieces, Veni, Creator Spiritus (early 9th century) and Goethe’s Faust, Part II (1830-1831). These two works were written

A symphony is an extended classical composition for an orchestra, found in Western Art Music. It often consists of four separate and unique, sections known as movements which are, in some way however, related to one another. The symphony as a genre began developing during the late 17th century and continued to do so up until the late 18th century. This important genre of Western Art Music is closely related to the development of the orchestra. It is therefore critical, in understanding the symphony