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- 91: Ben Franklin 2
- ... to him building his own glass armonica. This interment was played by touching the edge of a spinning glass with a dampened finger. The armonica produced beautiful tones that even appealed to great composers like Mozart and Beethoven. Ben Franklin was a mild-mannered widely loved, jack of all trades. Of all Franklins accomplishments none stand out more than others because they are all amazing and in different fields. Leonardo da ...
- 92: The Life of Adolf Hitler
- ... immense consequences in the future. Hitler is Homeless in Vienna The beautiful old world city of Vienna, capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, with its magnificent culture that had seen the likes of Beethoven and Mozart, now had a new resident, a pale, lanky, sad looking eighteen year old named Adolf Hitler. Vienna was a city alive with music and full of diverse people who loved the arts and felt lucky ...
- 93: Similarities Between Franz Liszt and Kurt Cobain
- ... Franz Liszt was one of many classical composers. In some ways, he can be compared to a modern rock and roll star. Franz Liszt was born in Raiding, Hungary, on October 22, 1811. Much like Mozart, he was a very great piano player at a very young age. Liszt composed an opera called Don Sancho at the age of fourteen. Professionals of Liszt's time thought that he was only a ...
- 94: Robert Schumann
- ... grand piano for his son, and soon four-handed arrangements of the classics were heard in the Schumann home. With a friend named Friedrich Piltzing, another pupil of Kuntzch's, Robert started to explore Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. As a child, Schumann took part in several concerts at the Zwickau Lyceum. He once played Moscheles' Alexander March variations, which demanded considerable dexterity. At the public Lyceum Robert was active as both ...
- 95: George Frideric Handel
- ... He was a very bright man not only was he a prodigy in music, but he also was trained in law. Handel played the organ, violin, harpsichord, and composed songs. His music influenced that of Mozart and maybe even Beethoven. The other famous composer of Handel's time was Bach. They made an attempt to work with each other but they never did. The irony between both Handel and Bach is ...
- 96: Benjamin Franklin Was A Man of Many Accomplishments
- ... clothes pressing machine, improvements in the printing press, a pole with a manipulable grasp at the end to take down books from high shelves, laboratory equipment, and a musical instrument called the glass harmonica which Mozart and Beethoven wrote music (Meltzer 134). In 1748, Franklin was elected office and voted into the cities Common Council. In 1751 he was elected into the Pennsylvania Assembly (Meltzer 141). Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Sherman, and ...
- 97: Similarities Between Franz Liszt and Kurt Cobain
- ... Franz Liszt was one of many classical composers. In some ways, he can be compared to a modern rock and roll star. Franz Liszt was born in Raiding, Hungary, on October 22, 1811. Much like Mozart, he was a very great piano player at a very young age. Liszt composed an opera called Don Sancho at the age of fourteen. Professionals of Liszt's time thought that he was only a ...
- 98: The Life of Franz Liszt
- ... one of many classical composers. Insome ways, he can be compared to a modern rock and roll star, such as Kurt Cobain. Franz Liszt was born in Raiding, Hungary, on October 22, 1811.Much like Mozart, he was a very great piano player at a very young age.Liszt composed an opera called Don Sancho at the age of fourteen.Professionals of Liszt's time thought that he was only a ...
- 99: Edward James Hughes
- ... exotic imagery and impression, while Hughes work is marked by deeper semantic meaning. His poetical principals are fully displayed in the poem Thrushes - spontaneous, intuitive glorification of life, akin to a bird's song or Mozart's music (4:162). The four main sources of Hughes's inspiration mentioned are Yorkshire landscape, where he grew up as a son of a carpenter, totemism studied by the poet at Cambridge and theories ...
- 100: George Frederick Handel
- ... a more flexible and dramatic treatment of recitative, arioso, aria, and chorus. His ability to build large scenes around a single character was further extended in the dramatic scenas of composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the Italian Gioacchino Rossini. Handel's greatest gift to posterity was undoubtedly the creation of the dramatic oratorio genre, partly out of existing operatic traditions and partly by force of his own musical imagination ...
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