RCHUMS 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Johann Peter Salomon, Kapellmeister, String Quartet
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Group of instruments grouped off- wind on top, brass in middle, percussion, voices, strings always on bottom. All instruments will be named at beginning at each movement. Modulating is very common in sonata form. How classical period maps onto the most frequent aesthetics. Pleasant, light and delicate, no big surprises. More fluid- moves in expected path, no harsh transitions. Makes you filled with awe, can be terrifying. Aesthetics is the science of the feelings. Awaken keen sense of the good and the true. Writes a lot about the fine arts and how science becomes subjective. Sublime makes everything else seem small in comparison to it. Born in vienna, trained in st. stephen"s cathedral as a choir boy. Made a living in vienna, became kapellmeister in 1759. Esterhazy were equivalent to millionaires in their time. Joined the same masonic lodge as mozart in 1785. Played violin and conducted orchestra at the same time.
