10 Most Famous Classical Music Composers In The World [part 2]

in art •  7 years ago 

Previously i have discuss about Chopin, Handel and the others. They are 5 from 10 most famous classical music composers in the world. Now today i will discuss about the rest of them. Are you curious who are they ? Now, here's the 10 most famous classical music composers in the world part 2, let's check it out.....

6. Domenico Scarlatti

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Domenico Scarlatti is an 18th-century musician in the Baroque era. His full name is Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti and is the son of Alessandro Scarlatti who infects his musical talents to him. He was born in Naples on October 26, 1685 and died on July 23, 1757. Domenico is a musician from Rome who helped create cymbal music. Proven when he was sixteen years old, he had become a musician in the royal chapel at the time. He later learned from famous musicians in Rome at that time such as Francesco Gasparini and Bernardo Pasquini. With the provision of this teacher he can develop his music. He also served as a maestro in the chapel in St. Peter's Vatican Basilica of Rome for five years and has created dozens of oratorio. He has also produced several works such as Sonata in A major, K208, L 238: Adagio e cantabile, Cat fugue, Stabat Mater and many more.

7. Johann Sebastian Bach

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Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany, March 21, 1685 and died July 28, 1750 at the age of 65 years is a German composer. He composed music for musical instruments organ, harpsichord, clavichord, and also for orchestra. His father was Johann Ambrosius Bach, he was a trumpet player and the conductor of the city's orchestra. The musicologists divide the entire composition of Bach in five periods, each composition showing a quite specific style difference when compared to the year of manufacture. What makes the style of Bach song different from the others is that all the songs he made either the Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring song or the song he mostly made were aimed at God. Examples of great works from Bach are Brandenburg Concertos, Ave Maria, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, St. Matthew Passion, and many more.

8. Ludwig van Beethoven

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Ludwig van Beethoven is a German composer and pianist. He was baptized on 17 December 1770 in Bonn and died March 26, 1827 in Vienna. Beethoven was the most prominent figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic periods, and one of the most famous classical music composers of all time. Some of his best works include the 9th symphony created after he is almost completely deaf. Other notable works by Beethoven include Sonata No. 14 (Moonlight Sonata), Symphony No. 5, Symphony No. 6, Bagatelle No. 25 (Für Elise) and Piano Concerto no. 5 on E-flat major, Op.73.

9. Antonio Vivaldi

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Antonio Vivaldi or Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, nicknamed il Prete Rosso (Red Reverend) is a priest, Italian Baroque composer and violin virtuoso who is constantly admired around the world for his work, especially for his instrumental concert for violin. He was born in the Republic of Venice, March 4, 1678 and died in Vienna, July 28, 1741 at the age of 63 years. His greatest work was a series of violin concerts called Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons). In total, Vivaldi composes more than 500 concerto of more than half for solo and string instruments, especially for violin. Other works include opera, sacred choir music, symphony, sonatas and chamber music. This is probably the most famous chorus composition of Gloria.

10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is an Austrian composer who has impressed his contemporaries since childhood, at 5 years old, he mastered the keyboard and violin, and entertained the social elite including royalty across Europe. His real name is Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Gottlieb Mozart, born in Salzburg, January 27, 1756 and died in Vienna, Austria, December 5, 1791 at the age of 35 years. Mozart presents more than 600 works in all genres of music known in his time. Much of Mozart's work is considered a standard repertoire of classical concerts and is recognized as the masterpiece of classical music. Some of Mozart's most famous and most featured works include Requiem, Symphony No. 40, opera The Magic Flute and The Marriage of Figaro, Piano Sonata No. 16 in C Major, Symphony No. 25, Piano Concerto No. 21 and Piano Sonata No. 11 (MOV 3 - Turkish March).

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education ftw ;)

  ·  6 years ago (edited)

Georgian Pianist Ketevan Nakashidze Played Domenico Scarlatti Sonata h-moll