“...to the cast majority of people suffering is still one of the
fundamental characteristics of life, and it is their realization that an
experience of suffering,...
Romanticism was a European cultural revolt against authority, tradition, and Classical order (the Enlightenment); this movement permeated Western Civilization over a period th...
The rise of Ludwig van Beethoven into the ranks of history's greatest composers was parallelled by and in some ways a consequence of his own personal tragedy and despair. Be...
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Born to a drunkard father and an unhappy mother, the young Beethoven was subjected to a brutal training in music at the hands of his father, who ho...
The rise of Ludwig van Beethoven into the ranks of history's greatest composers was parallelled by and in some ways a consequence of his own personal tragedy and despair. Begi...
Ludwig Van Beethoven was born in December 16, 1770 in Germany. His father, Johann van Beethoven, was his first music teacher. It is reported that Beethoven’s father was a v...
Ludwig van Beethoven was, and is still today, a Legend in the history of classical music. His influence on music is unequalled. Perhaps no other composer in histor...
Franz Peter Schubert (1797 1828) was the virtual founder of German lied and was the first to make song the medium for every shade of personal feeling. He wrote six hundred...
Richard Wilhelm Wagner
Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig, Germany, on May 22, 1813. His work was done throughout the romantic period. His father died soon after his birth,...