Moonlight Sonata consists of three movements. The first movement is written in sonata form. The second movement is written in more of a scherzo and trio form. The third movement is in sonata form. The third movement is the heaviest of the three and normally receives the most attention. The modern day piano does not do Moonlight Sonata justice and some have recreated the piano of Beethoven’s day to find the meaning of what Beethoven was trying to represent.

Beethoven was born in Germany in 1770 and he has a long history of musical talent in his blood line. Both his dad and his grandfather had a great musical talent and his dad was his first instructor when it came to music. He later learned how to compose music and eventually became employed doing this. As he lost his hearing it became increasingly difficult for him to perform concerts and this caused some financial problems for Beethoven.

Beethoven composed many other famous pieces including Fur Elise, Piano Sonata No 8, and Minuet in G. Most of Beethoven’s works are still widely popular today with people from all over the World. Beethoven composed one opera Fidelio and even a chorus. He composed 32 piano sonatas and various other pieces. Beethoven also composed a great deal of chamber music pieces.

Beethoven was greatly influenced by Mozart and it is unclear on whether he ever met his idle, but he did follow in Mozart’s footsteps and followed some of the same path. Beethoven had some type of a breakdown when he realized his impending deafness. He took numerous trips to clear his mind that sometimes lasted for a year or more. This is also a time when he composed some of his most beloved pieces.

Moonlight Sonata is one of the most popular piano pieces that Beethoven ever composed. Many musicians have placed their own interpretation upon this piece of music and it is beloved by some of the most famous composers in the world. Moonlight Sonata was also very popular at the time of its release and this only added to Beethoven’s popularity. He was summoned to compose and work with Princes and Kings. One of his best friends was Archduke Rudolph. Rudolph enlisted in Beethoven to teach him about music and they were friends for many years. Rudolph inspired Beethoven to compose Archduke Trio. There were also 13 other songs that Beethoven dedicated to Rudolph.

The middle part of Beethoven’s life is when he received the most recognition. There were many rave reviews of the work he was doing and many people were very interested in what he would release next. Although his deafness prevented him from performing in front of an audience, he was able to make an meager living by composing and teaching.

Beethoven’s father was an alcoholic and his drinking problem worsened after the death of Beethoven’s mother. His father was never able to overcome this habit and it eventually led to his death. Beethoven was very close to both of his brothers and they are rumored to have stayed in close contact. His brothers were among some of the only close relationships he maintained in his life. It has been said that when one of his brothers feel ill, Beethoven immediately dropped what he was doing to rush to his brother bedside. Beethoven is also rumored to have taken care of his brothers after the death of their mother when their father was in a very bad state and could not take care of them due to his alcoholism.

Moonlight Sonata is a beloved piece that will remain popular forever. Beethoven has left his genius musical mark on the entire World.

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Beethoven was born on December 16, 1770 in Germany and he was the grandson of Lodewijk van Beethoven who was of Dutch origin. Ludwig van Beethoven was named after his grandfather. Beethoven’s grandfather was a bass singer and eventually music director and had a major influence on the musical influence of Beethoven. The only surviving record of Beethoven’s birth is his baptismal record and this is recorded on December 17, 1770. Many babies born in this area around the same time frame were baptized a day after birth and this is one of the reasons that many people believe that Beethoven was born on December 16. It is also said that his family celebrated his birthday on the 16th of December every year adding to the confirmation of this date.

Beethoven’s father was also involved in music and became his first musical influence. Beethoven also had many other musical teachers in his early years. Beethoven’s first musical performance was in 1778 when he was just 7 years old. After 1779, Beethoven began working with the most important musical teacher in his life, Christian Gottlob Neefe. Neefe is the person responsible for teaching Beethoven composition and helped him compose his first piece of music. Beethoven began working for Neefe without pay and eventually he got hired as a full time employee with pay. The first three piano sonatas he wrote were published in 1783 and were dedicated to Maxmilian Frederick who was one of the major influences on Beethoven at the time and strongly encouraged his musical talents.

Beethoven eventually traveled to Vienna to possibly study with Mozart in 1787. There are many discrepancies if Mozart and Beethoven ever met and it is unclear the status of their relationship if there was one at all. When Beethoven was in Vienna for just a couple of weeks he was informed that his mother had fallen extremely ill and Beethoven was forced to return home where his mother died shortly after his arrival. His father was already an alcoholic and the death of his mother only exasperated his father’s alcoholic condition. Beethoven remained in Germany for the next five years to care for his younger brothers.

In 1796 Beethoven expanded his appeal by touring Europe and he closely followed the path where Mozart traveled before him. This is the time frame that Beethoven found great fame and he was even awarded with gold after composing music for a king. In 1797 Beethoven became extremely ill and it is unknown the exact condition he experienced, but it is assumed he was afflicted with Typhus. This is the time frame that Beethoven started noticing difficulties with his hearing. He eventually had to stop touring for concerts due to his increasing problems with his hearing. He described the problems with his ears as tinnitus or ringing in the ears. He eventually lost his hearing entirely and this made him very uncomfortable in social situations which he tried to avoid at all costs.

One of the most affluent people that Beethoven ever composed for was Archduke Rudolph who was the son of Emperor Leopold II. Rudolph studied under Beethoven for a couple of years in the early 1800’s and they had a very long friendship. Beethoven wrote many compositions for Rudolph including The Archduke Trio, and Missa Solemnis. Some of the letters that were exchanged between Beethoven and Rudolph are on display in a museum in Vienna.

The “Middle” period of Beethoven’s legacy was marked with mixed reviews. He returned to Vienna and composed Third Symphony In E Flat. Some people raved and called it expert work, while others were confused by the complexity. Third through eight symphonies were created during this time. The first version of Fidelo was a complete failure and Beethoven had to begin to make corrections on this piece before presenting it again.

In 1800 Beethoven was introduced to Giulietta Guicciardi and they had a relationship. He dedicated Moonlight Sonata to her. Her father prevented them from being together and she quickly married someone else.

Ludwig van Beethoven had a very interesting life in addition to his musical legacy. Beethoven died on March 26, 1827 after being bedridden for months. His music is still heard by masses of people each and every day. He has left a very strong imprint on the World that is hard to match.

His father had a great influence on his musical passion and development. He received his earliest training and teaching from his father. Following his father’s death in 1695, he moved to Ohrdruf where he lived and studied the organ with his older brother Johann Christoph. On top of that, he received prestigious training and education at schools in Eisenach, Ohrdruf and Luneburg.

He would move on to receive his first permanent positions in Anstadt from 1703-1707 and Muhlhausen from 1707-1708. Both of these positions were as an organist. He would perform, compose and teach throughout these years while also developing an interest in building organs. From there, he moved on as a court organist at Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Weimar from 1708-1713 and as concertmaster from 1714-1717. Many of his best organ compositions were created during this time.

Keeping with the frantic life that J. S. Bach led, he moved on to become Music Director for the Prince Leopold of Cuthen from 1717-1723. The compositions he created here were used for instrumental solo or ensemble and were used as court entertainment and for instruction. Some of the work he composed here included the Brandenburg Concertos, the first volume of Das wohltemperirte Clavier, the “French” and “English” Suites for harpsichord, and many of the sonatas and suites for other instruments.

Following this gig, Bach was appointed as cantor at the St. Thomas Church and School, and Director of Music for Leipzig in 1723. He would finally settle in and continue with these positions for the rest of his career. Both of these positions kept him busy and active.

He was responsible for overseeing the events that were sponsored by the municipal council where he would use pupils from the St. Thomas School, the city’s professional musicians, and university students. When working with singers he often divided them into four choirs. Typically his performing group would have around 16 singers and 8 instrumentalists.

His most impressive compositions during the first six years in Leipzig are arguably his sacred cantatas and the St. John and St. Matthew Passions. Following 1729 he began to tone down his composition of sacred vocal music. He began to re-use his own repertory of cantatas and turned to music of his contemporaries.

He became director of the Leipzig Collegium Musicum, which was an organization that was founded in 1704, in 1729-1737 and 1739-1741. This group of musicians performed weekly concerts.

In the 1730s Johann Sebastian Bach renewed his interest in keyboard compositions. This is where he would prepare the first three volumes of his Clavier-Ubung for publication and had his fourth volume appear in 1741-1742. The last decade of his life he completed and revised numerous large-scale projects that he had started earlier in life. This all took place in the 1740s including the Well-Tempered Clavier, a manuscript collection of chorale preludes and the B Minor mass. On top of this, he also continued his interest in building organs and stayed on top of the construction of harpsichords and pianofortes.

His health gradually declined as he became increasingly blind. The celebrated British eye surgeon John Taylor was unsuccessful with his operation on Bach while visiting Leipzig in 1750. Even before this, he there was a noticeable difference in his health.

On July 28, 1750 Johann Sebastian Bach died at the age of 65. The cause of his death according to a contemporary newspaper was “from the unhappy consequences of the very unsuccessful eye operation.” Some still speculate the real cause of death was from a stroke that was complicated by pneumonia.

After passing away, his estate was valued at 1158 thalers and consisted of five Clavecins, two lute-harpsichords, three violins, three violas, two cellos, a viola da gamba, a lute and a spinet. In addition, there were 52 “sacred books” he possessed including many by Martin Luther Muller and Pfeffer.

His abilities as an organist did not go unnoticed as he was greatly respected throughout Europe. Surprisingly, he was not widely recognized as a great composer until the revival of his performances of music in the first half of the 19th century. Some of his works include the Brandenburg concertos, the Goldberg Variations, the mass in B Minor, the St. Mathew Passion, the St. John Passion, and the Cello Suites. He is now referred to as one of the greatest composers of all time.

The story behind Jimi Hendrix began at the age of 15 when he acquired his first acoustic guitar for $5 from an acquaintance of his father. He grew quite fond of the instrument quickly as he was found practicing at all hours of the day. Between watching others play, listening to records, taking tips from more experienced players, and practicing on his own, he developed at a rapid pace.

After receiving his first electric guitar as a gift form his father, he really began to excel and add the acrobatic stage moves that became a major part to his act and the blues/R&B tradition in general. Fellow Seattle band mates of his say he learned to play with his teeth and behind his back from another young musician in Raleigh “Butch” Snipes.

His first gig came with an unnamed band in the basement of Seattle’s Temple De Hirsch. Coincidently, he was fired between sets for playing to wild and showing off. His first real band was The Velvetones as they performed regularly at the Yesler Terrace Neighborhood House.

Later down the road Hendrix found himself in trouble with the law on two separate occasions for riding in stolen cars. He was given the option to spend two years in prison or join the army and he enlisted on May 31, 1961. He was considered a sub-par soldier as he slept while on duty, showed no skill as a marksman, and had little regard for regulations. This led to his discharge after just a single year.

After his discharge, he picked up where he left off wowing people with his skills and showmanship. Over time he went through a number of different bands including The King Kasuals and Curtis Knight and the Squire.

It was in early 1966 that The Jimi Hendrix Experience was formed thanks to Chas Chandler. During this time, Hendrix met Eric Clapton and remained friends with him until passing away. After releasing their first album on May 12, 1967 the band toured the United Kingdom and parts of Europe. It was not until Paul McCartney recommended the group to the organizers of the Monterey International Pop Festival that they would gain fame in the United States.

After completing this festival, Hendrix headlined the 1969 Woodstock Festival and the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival. Often times he enjoyed raw overdriven amplifiers with high gain and treble. He was one of the musicians that was known to popularize the wah-wah pedal in which he delivered an exaggerated pitch in his solos.

Over time Noel Redding became frustrated that he was not playing the guitar and in 1968 he formed his own band Fat Mattress. In an interview with Nancy Carter on June 15, Hendrix announced he was replacing Noel as bass player with Billy Cox. The final concert from The Jimi Hendrix experience was on June 29, 1969 at Barry Fey’s Denver Pop Festival.

Hendrix certainly had his fair share of legal troubles including a contractual dispute with producer Ed Chalpin and his arrest at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport when heroin and hashish was found in his luggage. Fortunately, he would be acquitted of these charges after arguing the drugs were slipped into his bag by a fan.

As with any musician, Jimi Hendrix idolized numerous artists growing up and throughout his development. Some of his influences with blues included B.B. King, Muddy Waters and Elmore James. He was greatly influenced by guitarists Curtis Mayfield and Steve Cropper and he once said he wanted to do with his guitar what Little Richard did with his voice.

Over the course of his lifetime, Hendrix would win many of the most prestigious rock music awards available. Some of the posthumous awards he has won include being inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. He received his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1995 and Rolling Stone named him the top guitarist on the list of 100 greatest guitarists of all-time in 2003.

Jimi Hendrix died earl on September 18, 1970 in London under unexplained circumstances. It is known that he had spent the later part of the previous night at a party and was picked up by his girlfriend and driven to her flat. The doctor who initially attended to him said he had asphyxiated in his own vomit, which was mainly red wine that filled his airways and lungs.

Heitor Villa-Lobos had little training when it came to his music abilities and he used life experiences to create the music that many still love today. When Heitor was younger his dad, Raul, had many musical gatherings and this is one of the ways Heitor learned about music by observing these gatherings. He was often found at the top of the stairs in his home listening to all of the sounds his dad and many other musicians composed and played.

In 1905 Villa-Lobos began to experiment and went out to journey Brazilian life deeper. He came home with a wide assortment of tales that have not been confirmed to this day. He told about his adventure where he escaped from cannibals and this amused many that heard it. When Villa-Lobos returned he started playing music with local street bands. He played with many different street bands over the course of his career. He also explored cinema and dabbled with improvising. He soon returned to his love of music and became a cellist with an opera house in Rio de Janeiro. He met Arthur Napoleao a pianist with the opera company, and Napoleao is the one that encouraged Villa-Lobos to compose music seriously.

Around 1912 Heitor Villa-Lobos married Lucilia Guimaraes a pianist. He then decided to concede traveling and focus on becoming a serious musician and composer. By 1913 Villa-Lobos music was beginning to be published. He was involved with chamber concerts until 1921 mainly in Rio de Janeiro. Artur Rubinstein was a lifelong friend he met in 1918 and he was then more interested in composing piano music because of this friendship.

During Heitor Villa-Lobos first major performance he presented A Prole do Bebe, and the piece was booed. Heitor did not let this affect him and he approached this criticism in a vey positive manner. Many people would have given up right then, but Villa-Lobos took this criticism with stride and conceded that the population was not ready for this type of music yet. This attitude may be one of the things that helped Villa-Lobos to become so successful in the music industry.

After the disappointing performance in Rio de Janeiro, Villa-Lobos decided to tour abroad and made one of his first appearances in Paris. Paris accepted Villa-Lobos with open arms and they were truly ready for the musical experience that Villa-Lobos brought with him. Heitor Villa-Lobos stayed in Paris off and on during his career and he met very famous and inspirational individuals in Paris.

Around 1930 Brazil passed a law which did not allow money to be transferred out of the country and this kept Heitor Villa-Lobos in Brazil for a few years. He began to compose music and present it in Brazil once again and he became involved with composing music for SEMA. It was mostly patriotic music and he did this for a few years. In 1936 Heitor and his wife separated.

In 1945 the war ended and Heitor Villa-Lobos was able to travel abroad again and returned to Paris. He also started traveling to the United States, Great Britain and Israel. This helped to spread the word about his music and thus exposed many more people to his compositions. In 1958 MGM studios approached Villa-Lobos to compose music for the film Green Mansions which starred Audrey Hepburn and Anthony Perkins. He conducted the recording without any assistance. The soundtrack for Green Mansions became intensely popular and this prompted a recording for the public to purchase.

His recordings involved many types of instruments and they are still very popular today. His work can still be heard on the concert scene this very day and there are also many compact discs available that feature some of Villa-Lobos best works. As time has gone by Villa-Lobos has become more popular by connoisseurs of classical guitar music everywhere. Many people will continue to enjoy his music many years from now and this makes him a legendary composer.

Born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples, Domenico was the sixth of ten different children. It seemed as if 1685 was the year of greatness as the likes of Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel were also born in this year. All three grew famous over time and are still greatly remembered today.

Domenico was not the first musician in the family to arise. It is believed that his father, Alessandro Scarlatti, was the one to get him hooked on music. Alessandro was a composer and teacher himself and had an influence on his children’s musical side of life. It was Domenico and his younger brother Pietro Filippo Scarlatti that continued on to become musicians.

Although it was his father who first taught him the love of music, other composers that had an impact on his development include Gaetano Greco, Francesco Gasparini and Bernardo Pasquini. It is no surprise he continued to develop and become a composer himself with so many composers and teachers guiding him through the early years.

At just 16 years old, Domenico Scarlatti became a composer and organist in 1701 at the royal chapel in Naples. Just three years later he would revise Carlo Francesco Pollarolo’s opera Irene where he performed at Naples. This was a critical time in his life and the development of an extraordinary career ahead. Unfortunately, he would soon after be sent to Venice where there was little record of what occurred over the next four years.

History of Domenico picks back up in 1709 where he began a wonderful life in Rome. This is where he met Thomas Roseingrave and things really took off. Many take note of a trial of skill that took place at the palace of Cardinal Ottoboni in Rome between Scarlatti and George Frideric Handel with the harp. While many believed he was superior to Handel on the instrument, he was far more inferior on the organ.

While in Rome he composed numerous operas for Queen Casimira’s private theatre and was even Maestro Di Cappella at St. Peter’s from 1715 to 1719. Eventually, he decided it was time to direct his own opera where he did so in London at the King’s Theatre. The opera was titled Narciso.

There was life for Scarlatti outside of music as well. After a 7 year stay in Lisbon, he would leave for Rome on January 28, 1727 where he would later find the love of his life. On May 6, 1728 he married Maria Caterina Gentili. The two moved to Sevilla a year later where they lived for four years. It was in 1733 that he went to Madrid to become music master to Princess Maria Barbara.

As soon as the Princess became Queen of Spain, Domenico Scarlatti settled in the country for 25 years. Over the course of this time he and his wife had five children. Sadly, his wife would pass in 1742 leaving him lost and heartbroken. He would later move on to marry a Spaniard by the name of Anastasia Maxarti Ximenes.

While in Madrid Domenico composed some of his best work that he is known for. This included a number of the 555 keyboard sonatas that grew on many and are still around today. However, there were few compositions of his that were actually published throughout his life. One of the most recognized pieces to be published came in 1738; this was his 30 Essercizi.

The 555 keyboard sonatas are mostly in binary form and are all intended for the harpsichord. He also had an influence of Iberian folk music which included the likes of his use of the Phrygian mode. In addition, his figurations and differences appeared to be similar to a guitar.

After 71 years, Domenico Scarlatti passed away in Madrid. The harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick produced an edition of the various sonatas from Scarlatti in 1953. Kirkpatrick said that Farinelli’s correspondence provides “most of the direct information about Scarlatti that has transmitted itself to our day.”

Although Domenico has passed on, there is much of him still around today. His residence on Calle Leganitos has a historical plaque and his descendants remain in Madrid. However, it is his music that will forever live with many of his sonatas appearing in print irregularly over the past two and a half centuries.

Josep Ferran Sorts I Muntades was born on February 14, 1778 to a family that was certainly not struggling to say the least. Despite the family history of soldiers, his father had other plans for the young man. He wanted Fernando to live the life of opera and grow to love the beauty behind it.

This was not the only musical side that was introduced to Fernando. His father also taught him the guitar, which was not nearly as recognizable as orchestral instruments at the time. The guitar was an instrument that was heard nowhere outside of taverns; that is until Fernando redefined it.

After falling in love with music shortly after his father introduced him to it, Fernando began studying music at a monastery on the slopes Montserrat. This was a mountain near Barcelona. Unfortunately, after his father died his mother could not finance his studies and was forced to withdraw him. However, this monastery was the beginning of a long career for the young man.

As with any other musician, he took personal experiences and real life happenings and inserted them into compositions. When Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Spain in 1808, he began changed the way music was heard with his nationalistic music on the guitar. Often times he added onto this music with patriotic lyrics that were profound and heartfelt.

After defeating the Spanish army, F. Sor turned to the government where he took an administrative post. A changing point in his life happened when the Spanish repelled the French in 1813. Many artists and aristocrats had already befriended the French. Naturally, all of the artists including Sor fled fearing retribution from Spain. Upon arriving in Paris, he never returned to his home country.

This move proved to be quite beneficial for F. Sor as he quickly made a name for himself thanks to his impeccable skills of composition. His ability to play the guitar like no one else led to his touring across Europe where things really began to pick up. By 1827, he decided to take a step back and calm down where he settled in Paris.

While many feared this was the end of a career from an incredible artist, this retirement period actually proved to be a remarkable time for Fernando. This is the time where many of his most recognized and acclaimed pieces of work were composed.

Although he is best known for numerous guitar compositions, he also composed music for opera and ballet throughout his lifespan. Some of his guitar pieces included Variations on a Theme of Mozart and a praised ballet piece titled Cendrillon. He gave several concerts throughout Europe pleasing crowds in the likes of England, Paris, Berlin and Warsaw.

Many considered him to be the best guitarist in the world at the time considering what the guitar was. Because of his skills and what he did with the instrument, he truly evolved and transpired what the instrument would become today.

His last work was a mass honoring his daughter following her death in 1837. She meant the world to Fernando which slowly led to his demise. Despite already being sickly, the serious depression took toll on Sor as he died in 1939 from tongue and throat cancer.

There is no question his compositions had an impact on the Classical music world. Many of his works for guitar have been and continue to be widely played and reprinted today.

His Methode pour la guitarre, which was published in 1830, continues to be one of the most important books on guitar technique. On top of that, he wrote a number of boleros and seguidillas for voices and guitar. If that were not enough, he wrote numerous songs in Spanish, Italian and English while composing duets for voice and piano.

His stage music inspired many with acts like his opera Telemaco nell’isola de Calipso being staged in Barcelona in 1797. Between the guitar, vocal music, and stage music, Fernando made sure he left it all out on the stage while leading an incredible career. This is precisely why he has made such an impact on the music world and will be forever remembered for the contributions he made to the development of the guitar.