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Composer Number 2: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

 0 Comments- Add comment Written on 13-Jul-2009 by James_Cook

Do I like Mozart? How can I not like Mozart.  As the Oscar-winning film Amadeus shows, he was a fun guy who was a workmanlike composer with extraordinary talents. When he was 12, he wrote his first opera. If it was any good, I don't know, but when I was 12 all I'd written was a few stories in English class. 

So hats off to Mozart. Have a listen here and buy some of those Mozart chocolates you get from the Austrian / German / Baltic airports - not only do you get chocolates, but you also get a box in the shape of a violin. Winner.

 

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Composer Number 1: Ludwig Van Beethoven

Written on 10-Jul-2009 by James_Cook

Wow - I actually really like Beethoven.

Some quick facts:

1. He was the most dominant composer of the 19th century

2. He brought about the birth of musical romanticism by developing the Viennese Classicism of Mozart and Haydn

3. Born in 1770, he was deaf aged 48, and died in 1827. 10,000 people attended his funeral. To put that number in perspective: 6.3m people watched Micheal Jackson's funeral on the BBC and 80,000 people turned out to see Christiano Ronaldo's unveiling as a Real Madrid player. Changing times eh

My favorite pieces (you can listen to it on the Classical.com site by clicking the link):

Symphony No. 5 in C Minor: 1st Movement

What's yours?! Let me know and I'll have a listen.

 

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 0 Comments- Add comment Written on 08-Jul-2009 by James_Cook

Hi!

Thanks for visiting my Classical Music Learnings site!

A lot of people are against the use of the word Learnings. I'm not one of them.

Jeffrey McManus reckons learnings is a stupid word. I disagree.

To quote The Old New Thing: "If things you teach are teachings, then things you learn must be learnings, right?" Right!

Please join my site and join me on my journey as increase my learnings on classical music from The Classical.com commuinity

 

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James_Cook wrote:
14-Jul-2009 - 16:55

Luke_Jeremy is such a big fan of my site that he decided to invite all of his Webjam friends to join my site!

eps wrote:
14-Jul-2009 - 16:46

yeay...glad to be here and thanks. Hey I didn't know this was your site..it was luke_jeremy who invited me so I thought it was his site. Teeheee

James_Cook wrote:
14-Jul-2009 - 9:59

Thanks for joining my site eps, and also thanks for your Vivaldi recommendation. I've added it to the list!

eps wrote:
14-Jul-2009 - 7:08

Thanks for the invite Luke..I personally like Antonio Vivaldi and Beethoven.

James_Cook wrote:
13-Jul-2009 - 11:17

Thanks Caroline! Bach is now on my list to listen to

CJones wrote:
11-Jul-2009 - 12:33

I like the header James! How about Bach...

James_Cook wrote:
10-Jul-2009 - 23:41

Yep, Luke, Beethoven is a gud'n

James_Cook wrote:
10-Jul-2009 - 17:59

Thanks very much for these suggestions!! I'm gona listen to them this weekend

10-Jul-2009 - 17:56

Anything by Mozart perhaps?

James_Cook wrote:
08-Jul-2009 - 13:20

Please recommend some classical music tracks I can listen to



 

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