Category: Composer

Biography Sir Arthur Bliss was until the time of his death a well respected and prominent English composer of the queens music. He was born as the eldest son on 2 August, 1891 in England. His mother was British but his father was of American origin that was by then working for the Anglo American…

Table of Contents Historical Background Chopins Minute Waltz: Background and Analysis Historical/Cultural Impact References Historical Background Chopin was born in the Grand Duchy of Warsaw in 1810, and this territory became a part of the Kingdom of Poland five years after his birth (Bellman & Goldberg, 2017). A son of an immigrant and a Polish…

This e-concert is amazing. There are three different orchestras playing some of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovskys best pieces: The Tchaikovsky concert program began with the 1812 Overture with full cannon and bells as done to celebrate the 150th birthday of the composer in a gala with Yuri Temirkanov conducting the Leningrad Philharmonic and the Leningrad Military…

Frederic Chopin was a great composer whose success in music was largely conditioned by his ability to accurately react, represent and reflect on the environment, and an inbuilt genteel, and graceful instinct of spontaneous creativity. Films which have attempted to recreate the Polish iconic composer Frederic Chopin have centered on romanticism and patriotism as the…