MUSIC 27 Study Guide - Final Guide: Col Legno, Heinrich Heine, Overblowing
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Sunday, april 7, 1805 - vienna - theater an der wein the first public performance of beethoven"s symphony no. This hydrogen bomb of a symphony ushers in the romantic era the eroica changed the course of western music. Ludwig van beethoven (1770 - 1827) born in bonn, germany not a major talent as a youth; became a promising young composer by 1790. Bonn was an outpost of the hapsburg empire, with a strong connection to vienna his father was a mediocre musician in the bonn court his grandfather was fairly successful as a composer and musician. Beethoven went to vienna to study with haydn in 1793 worked with salieri, neefe, and albrechtsberger as well. Haydn"s influence can be heard in beethoven"s compositions. Schnabel was the first pianist to record the sonatas project began in 1931 and was completed in 1935 recording had to split into four-minute sections on the 78 rpm discs. Schnabel often valued musical quality over technical perfection.
