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Classical MusicClassical music has its origins in Italy’s Renaissance. It defines several different but related musical genres such as avant-garde music, ballet music, orchestral music film music, symphonic music. The term of classical music also refer to people and genres outside this époque in Europe such as Persian music, Indian music or Chinese classical music.Basically, classical music is composed and performed by highly trained professional artists and it is a written tradition, being composed, written and transmitted via scores. Great composers highlight their talent through a privileged instrument, the organ, aspiring to the title of bandmaster. In the late sixteenth century it appears a new genre, the opera illustrated in 1607 by Claudio Monteverdi composed by Orpheus. The opera gains success shortly after apparition with Rameau and Lully in France and in England with Purcell. Later on the classical concerts modify by the apparition of violin and harpsichord. The classical music at that time was always present in aristocratic circles at balls and different events. One of the most famous classical composers of all times is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Despite a very short and unhappy life, he enriched classical music with his talented work. He truly gave evidence of an inexhaustible inventiveness and genius. Unfortunately his music had to wait until the mid-twentieth century to receive the recognition it deserved, especially through the great musicologist, Alfred Einstein. Mozart left a great legacy consisting of sonatas, concertos, symphonies and opera music as the most recognizable are The Marriage of Figaro, Don Juan and The Magic Flute. Another great composer is Ludwig van Beethoven, a genius with a very good command of instrumental composition, with romance and lyrics had eclipsed all his contemporaries. The extent of his work makes Beethoven the maestro of the genre in the beginning of the nineteenth century. The most played and famous creations were the 9 sonatas, the end of the 9th is called Ode to Joy and with the lyrics of Friedrich von Schiller is now the official hymn of the European Union. |