Classical Music and Musicians
By Faith Lehr and Kristen Cherry, Grade 6
Alexander Scriabin
Piano Sonata No. 5
Born in Moscow
Died in Moscow
Composer and pianist
Music belongs to the Romantic Era
Born on christmas day
He wrote music for piano and orchestra
Had a favorite chord
The "mystic chord"
Mozart
Jupiter Symphony
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wrote more than 600 musical works
Young, he showed incredible talent in music
Music like Haydn
Bach
Concerto for Two Violins
Came from a very musical family
3 of his siblings became pretty famous composers
In 1714 the Duke made Bach a concertmaster
The Duke put Bach in a prison once because he didn't want him to leave (he left anyway)
Wrote the collection of fugues called The Art of Fugue
Bach's burial building was destroyed in a Word War || Allied bombing
They took his remains to St. Thomas Church
Chopin
Nocturnes in B flat minor
Near the end of his life he sold his compositions and taught piano
Was called, the poet of the piano
Wrote a piece to Polish lyrics
Died of tuberculosis
Paganini
Caprice 24
Italian composer
Maybe one of the best violinist who ever lived
Once he broke all of his strings except the G string, and played a piece only on the g string
Invented some techniques
Good friends with Liszt
Once they (he and Liszt) came together and composed La Campanella or the clock in English
Vivaldi
The Four Seasons
Italian composer; born in Venice
Known as the "One Hit Wonder" even though he has hundreds of concertos
Worked at the Ospedale
Produced several operas
Although many are not known Antonio Vivaldi produced over 400 concertos
Wrote music mainly for the violin
Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake
Russian composer
From the romantic period
Born 7 May, 1840 died 6 November 1893
Famous for Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, The 1812 Overture, etc.
Also wrote operas, ballets, orchestra music, chamber music
One of the most famous German composers
Brahms
The Piano Quintet in F minor
7 May 1833 - 3 April 1897
German composer
Started his career as a composer
Wrote 4 symphonies
Most famous piece was Brahms Lullaby, the song you went to sleep to as a child
Wagner
Ride of the Valkyries
22 May 1813 in Leipzig - 13 February 1883 in Venice
German opera composer
Most important German opera composer in the romantic period
Wrote operas about German mythology
Had a huge influence on opera composers that time
Clara Schumann
The Piano Concerto
13 September, 1819; died 20 May, 1896
Father taught her piano
She was a piano prodigy
Studied not only piano but violin vocal chords and music composition
Clara Schumann is a very amazing composer, but so few people know about her it's terrible. She was admired by some of the most famous composers and best composers like, Goethe, Mendelsohn, Chopin and Paganini
We asked people if they could think of a composer off the top of their head, and these are the results!
"Haydn" "Vaughner"
"Mozart" "Vivaldi"
"Sibelius" "Offenbach"
"Bach" "Mendelssohn"
"Paganini" "Boccherini"
"Boccherini"