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…, was a musician, playing the piano and violin just well enough to give lessons. That and the income from his voice lessons was his salary. As a young man, he worked at the elector’s singing soprano and tenor. Johann wanted his eldest son to be a prodigy like Mozart…

…Mozart did not destroy Beethoven's talent or his love for music. He studied and performed successfully, despite becoming the main entertainment source of the family by the time he was 18. His father's increasingly serious alcoholism and the earlier death…

…? No, these are behaviors associated with giftedness. Where would we would be without science, sports, comedy and music. Look what Magic Johnson did for basketball. Whoopi Goldberg and Robin Williams who doesn’t laugh at their jokes? The music of Mozart and Beethoven is just…

…. In the end, of course, the devil is triumphant. In 1920, Stravinsky settled in Paris, and entered a period of neo-classicism, in which he composed music modeled on the styles and forms of Mozart and Haydn. Some of the works composed in this style are the opera…

…child-rearing books, explore over psychology articles, play Mozart in nurseries festooned with alphabet cards and the periodic table.” Parker shows good persuasive technique by describing an exaggerated scenario of what parents are doing these days to try…

…before, new piano pieces, and large extravagant compositions. Most of the large pieces were done by, Wagner, Berlioz, Mahler, and Strauss. The composers of the romantic period were looking for a way to combine the harmony of Haydn and Mozart with their own…

…represents a new era in which young artists of major operatic potential can develop through intensive training and performance. Fortunately, for the people of Southern California, these professionals came to us. Don Giovanni, a classic opera created by Mozart…

…. In other words, this music ceased to be performed after its time had passed and needed to be revived in our own era. This is not true of the “classical’ music of Mozart, Beethoven, et al. Which possesses a continuous performance tradition…

…what?” The next story is about a child who if was never born the world would never have heard the music of Mozart. The father of the unborn Mozart was crippled, his mother was deaf and blind, and his parents already had thir! teen other children…

…, at the age of seven, had already been described by many as ‘Mozart’s successor’. Chopin began to compose around this time, and continued to do so throughout his student years, but only a handful of these works were printed. In the autumn of 1826, Chopin began…