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- 1261: Violins
- ... baroque period (circa 1600-c. 1750) in the works of many notable composer-performers, including Arcangelo Corelli, Antonio Vivaldi, and Giuseppe Tartini in Italy and Heinrich Biber, Georg Philipp Telemann, and Johann Sebastian Bach in Germany. The violin became the principal force in the instrumental genres then current—the solo concerto, concerto grosso, sonata, trio sonata, and suite—as well as in opera. By the mid-18th century the violin was ...
- 1262: Masters Of The Vineese School
- ... of Haydn and played all six Haydn quartets, composed by Mozart. Unfortunately, at a young age of 35, Mozart died. The third master of the Viennese School was Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven was born in Germany in 1770. Although Beethoven’s father was a singer for the prince, he had a difficult childhood. Beethoven’s father was an alcoholic and Beethoven was forced to support his mother and younger siblings. At ...
- 1263: Ludwig Van Beethoven The Incessant Sound Of A Fallen Tree
- ... before me in an apparently posture of complete silence leaving me to contemplate what, if any, true sound had been made as it fell. Every inquiry has its beginnings and Beethoven’s began in Bonn, Germany on December 16, 1770 (Cross 45). Though he had somewhat of a musical heritage with both his father and grandfather being performers themselves, it appears to have been that the emotion of greed more probably ...
- 1264: Johann Sebastian Bach 2
- ... his pieces. Bach’s mastery of all the major forms of baroque music (except opera) resulted not only from his genius talent, but also from his life long quest for knowledge. In some parts of Germany, the name, “Bach” became a synonym with the word, “musician.” Extremely talented in the art of baroque composition, Bach placed his heart, soul, and ingenuity in his music as it is clearly illustrated in his ...
- 1265: Gothic Art
- ... account for the concomitant development of the new polyphonic music that supplemented the traditional Romanesque plainsong. Romanesque architecture became old-fashioned, but its heavy forms pleased the Cistercian monks and, likewise, other conservative patrons in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Thus, buildings that were essentially Romanesque in spirit continued to be built, even when such extraordinary Gothic works as the Amiens cathedral were under construction (begun 1220). (see also ...
- 1266: Generation Ecstacy
- ... drug-tech interface gives "Generation Ecstasy" a narrative backbone that applies again and again, across continents and cultures from Texas, where Ecstasy culture first reared its head in the mid-‘80s, to Scotland, Holland, and Germany. The story starts with the initial, utopic discovery of Ecstasy and its boundary-lowering qualities, and ends, with varying degrees of speed, with the descent into polydrug abuse and depression. Resisting easy moralizing, Reynolds’ analysis ...
- 1267: Cassablanca
- ... comes right into the middle of the action successfully overcomes it. Laszlo's mention of his stay in concentration camps which was not a symbol, but rather a fictional tragedy that was taking place in Germany. It was brave to use mention to this since many feared the thought. It is no wonder that Casablanca is rated as a Classical movie. It has all it takes to stand up to any ...
- 1268: Beatlemania In The 1960s
- ... stores and movie houses, even in a converted church, nearly all of which are in proximity to the Mersey River. Out of all these groups came, somehow, the Beatles. And they had to go to Germany to do it. In order to better their Liverpool take-home pay of around $15. per week apiece, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo (so called because of his penchant for wearing at ...
- 1269: Andy Warhol 2
- ... as the electric chair pictures were being shown there were many other quite disturbing sets of pictures being shown. They were of race riots and many were taken directly from newspaper articles of the Nazi Germany and Castro’s revolution in Cuba. (Crone pg 29) One of the last serial sets that Warhol created before moving on from painting was of flowers. The flowers were produced in an extreme variety of ...
- 1270: Examination Of Music History
- ... love in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In France they were either jongleurs, itinerant minstrels who made a living from their songs, or troubadour and troueres, aristocrats who sang for the love of music. In Germany the poet-musicians were called minnesingers. Some two thousand minnstrel melodies are preserved in old manuscripts. The discovery that two voices could sing two separate melodies at the same time and still produce a pleasing ...
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