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| 5. Debussy, Claude (August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918), a French
composer, was born in St. Germain-en-Laye and died in Paris. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire and as a prize winner went to Rome for two years. It was not only Italian music that influenced his work but also Oriental music and music by the German composer Wagner and poems by the French poets Baudelaire and Verlaine. His early works brought forward a fluidity of rhythm and colour quite new to Western music. Debussy’s main works are considered to be his orchestral pieces, piano sets and songs. Debussy began to associate his music with visual impressions of the East, Spain, landscape, etc. in a sequence of sets of short pieces. His last volume of Etudes (1915) interprets similar varieties of styles and texture as pianistic exercises and includes pieces that 138 develop irregular form to an extreme. Critics see in it some influence of the young Stravinsky. 6. Handel, George Frederick (February 23, 1685 – April 14, 1759) was a German-born Baroque composer who is famous for his operas, oratorios and concerti grossi. Born as Georg Friedrich Händel in Halle, he spent most of his adult life in England, becoming a subject of the British crown on 22 January 1727. His most famous works are Messiah, an oratorio set to texts from the King James Bible, Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks. Strongly influenced by the techniques of the great composers of the Italian Baroque and the English composer Henry Purcell, his music was known to many significant composers who came after him, including Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Handel was born in Halle in 1685, the same year that both Johann Sebastian Bach and Domenico Scarlatti were born. Handel displayed considerable musical talent at an early age; by the age of seven he was a skilful performer on the harpsichord and pipe organ, and at nine he began to compose music. His first two operas, Almira and Nero, were produced in 1705. Two other early operas, Daphne and Florindo, were produced in 1708. His Rodrigo was produced in Florence in 1707, and his Agrippina at Venice in 1709. Agrippina, which ran for an unprecedented 27 performances, showed remarkable maturity and established his reputation as an opera composer. In 1710, Handel became Kapellmeister to George, Elector of Hannover, who would soon be King George I of Great Britain. He visited Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici on his way to London in 1710, where he settled permanently in 1712, receiving a yearly income of £200 from Queen Anne. In 1723, Handel moved into a newly built house in 25 Brook Street, London, which he rented until his death in 1759, 36 years later. This house is now the Handel House Museum, a restored Georgian house open to the public with an events programme of Baroque music. Handel had a long association with the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, where many of his Italian operas were premiered. Handel’s Messiah was first performed in New Music Hall in Fishamble Street, Dublin on 13 April 1742, with 26 boys and five men from the combined choirs of St. Patrick’s and Christ Church cathedrals жүктеу/скачать 0,65 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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