MUS 121 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Piano, Cyclic Form, Keyboard Instrument
28 Mar 2017
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No single composer has influenced the course of musical events more than beethoven. Continued to influence musicians and to have great public appeal. His greatest contribution was carrying forward the tradition of mozart and haydn, building on the structures they had developed and elevating them to new heights of power and expressiveness. Mozart never lacked musical inspiration, haydn had a regular schedule of composition but beethoven struggled. Regarded music as an art, only took the commissions that he personally wanted to fulfill. Choral fantasia for piano, chorus, and orchestra; and two masses. A time of assimilation of the classical tradition of mozart and haydn and includes his string quartets composed before 1800, the first symphony (1799), and his first three piano sonatas. Monumental ninth symphony (1823), the equally immense missa. Solemnis (completed in 1824), and his late string quartets and piano sonatas.
