Following the first and second article in the subject, this part will be the last in discovering the basics of the concerto works. In this article we focus on the structural plan of a typical concerto music in the classical and romantic era. We established in the previous articles that for musicians the concerto was a vehicle for improvisation. The …
Following my first article published recently, we continue our discovery in concertos. In this part we interpret the cultural background, the associated second meaning of the music. In the early eighteenth century concertos were commonly played in churches or chambers. As decades passed it was more and more ordinary to hear a concerto in a new institution, the public concert. …
In a series of articles we will discover what is the origin of the concerto as musical genre. What does it mean and how Beethoven worked in this art form? What is tutti, what is solo? Why concerto was the show of real Masters? Let’s find out! The first form of a concerto music has origins in the early 1500s. …
This is a short essential coverage on Beethoven’s ancestry, who they were, where this family of musicians came from. Let’s dive in! As far as the family’s history is traceable (beginning of the seventeenth century) the Beethovens came from a Belgian village near Louvain. The family name originally was written as Biethoffen, meaning Beet-garden in English. |Related: What does Beethoven’s …
The Piano sonata no. 1. was written in 1795 and it was the first important own piece he played publicly. Beethoven dedicated it to Joseph Haydn (his teacher at the time) with simple words: dedicated to Haydn. In this article with the help of audio clips we will learn about this wonderful music, in depth. Legend has it that the …
Sonata is a compositional method and a term we often hear in classical music. In this article we learn the basics about sonatas and sonata form in music. Sonata is a composition method, most often for a solo instrument or small instrumental group. The Latin word sonare means ‘to sound’ and its opposite pair is the cantata, ‘to sing’. The …