Brief Bios of Seveal Prominent Musicians Vivaldi was an ordained cleric

Vivaldi was an ordained cleric and was known as the "red priest" in his native Venice, the cultural capital of Baroque music. Vivaldi worked extensively in the concerto form, and he passed this form along to Bach, who would explore it even further. Vivaldi indeed provided the experimental base on which Bach would extrapolate a new idea in music, the harpsichord concerto (Mordden 63). Vivaldi was a highly successful composer whose musical talents fit perfectly with the Italian public of his time. Venice in particular was a city filled with music, from the streets to the salons and the theaters and courts. In addition to his well-known concertos, Vivaldi wrote some 49 operas, of which 21 survive (though they are rarely heard), 90 solo and trio sonatas, and many cantatas, motets, oratorios, and lesser works (Swafford 55-56).

Bach was born into a musical family and benefited from the tutelage of his father, a violinist, who expected his sons to follow in the family trade. Bachs had been German Lutheran musicians for six generations. Bach was first trained in the violin by his father, but after his mother died he was sent to live with his older brother, Johann Christian Bach,. an organist. Bach later trained as a singer in a church choir, and after his voice changed, he stayed on as a church harpshichordist and violinist (Swafford 67-68). Bach is noted as the inventor of nothing but the perfecter of everything he touched, and h

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friends. His music is highly dramatic, and he was noted for his innovations and the sublimity of his musical vision (Mordden 118-119). FrTdTric Chopin Chopin is considered the most aristocratic of composers, a man best suited to elegant salons and the people who inhabit them. Chopin wrote for the piano and played his own music in concert. He did not please the bourgeois public that worshipped Liszt because, unlike Liszt, who was noted for his thunderous playing, Chopin had a delicate and sensuous touch. Chopin was particularly noted for his rubato, a style in which his right hand played a flexible, wandering rhythm against the left hand's strict tempo, a union of freedom and control that would not be equalled until the advent of jazz in the twentieth century (Swafford 245-246). Johannes Brahms Brahms came to the fore as the Romantic period was reaching its end. He is an important figure who looked to the past and studied the music of Bach and Beethoven but also looking back as far as Josquin. He edited editions of composers from Couperin to Dvorak. Brahms himself believed that music was in decline, and he wanted to preserve and extend all that he could. He was a conservative composer in many ways, and for this r

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