World Famous Music Composers(Classical Music)

Flanz Joseph Haydn (Pron: Hide-n)

            This Austrian composer was born on 31^st March 1732. He was brought up to thrifty, hard working and god fearing. It was an uncle who persuaded the parents to send Joseph Haydn on the path of musical training. He sang in church played the violin and keyboard and soon became a composer of string quartets and symphonies. He was nicknamed the “Father of the Symphony” having composed 104 symphonies. He died on 31^st May 1809.

His works include…

      Orchestral Music-        

§         104 Symphonies

§         The surprise No.

§         13 keyboard Concertos

§         3 violin Concertos

§         1 cello Concertos

§         2 horn Concertos

§         1 trumpet Concertos

      Stage Works-  

§         10 Operas

      Oratorios-       

§         8 Oratorios(creation)

§         12 Masses

§         2 Solo Cantatas

      Chamber Music-

§         84 string Quartets

§         31 piano Trios

§         56 string Trios

      Keyboard Music-

§         52 Sonatas

§         5 sets of variations

      Songs-

§         47 songs

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (mo-tsart)

                 This Australian composer was born on 27^th January 1756. His father Leopold Mozart was also a musician, who taught his son Amadeus and daughter Mari Anna, and took them on concert tours. Son Amadeus showed early signs of musical talent and began composing at 5 year. On his 6^th year he was taken on a concert tour along with his sister, and was acclaimed a “child prodigy” by the time he was ten years he had composed his first tree Symphonies and thirty other works. Music frowned from Mozart increasingly making him the supreme master of the classical style in all the forms of the period. Just before the premature end of his life on 5^th December 1791, a mysterious stranger appeared before him and requested him to compose a requiem (a Mass for the dead) He died before it was completed, and his pupils completed the work to be performed on the day of Mozart’s Funeral.

            Mozart’s works were cataloged by Ludwig Koechel and are referred to by their numbers in “K” numbers. (Ex- Sonata in C-K 33)

                                                    

His works include…

      Operas-          

§         Marriage of Figaro

§         Magic Flute

§         Don Giovanni

      Orchestral Music-

§         41 Symphonies including the Jupiter, Paris, Heffner

§         21 Piano Concerts

§         5 Violin Concerts

      Chamber Music-

§         23 string, quartets

§         2 piano quartets

§         Clarinet quintet

§         37 violin Sonatas

      Piano Music-

§         17 Sonatas

§         15 sets of variations