Where can i find info about the stories / inspiration behind famous classical compositions?
dave asked:
My Girlfriend is doing an assignment in College and needs it to be done ASAP, so she needs my (and secretly your) help – i need to find resources preferably internet links to find out about the stories / inspiration behind famous classical compositions?
Maybe like Bach, Handel or Beethoven, where can i find out about what inspired their music? Thanks.
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The easiest way is to google the composers’ names. But there is no ’story’ as such in the music, particularly of the three composers you name. The influences were many and varied, however. rdenig_male
Visit Lyndon Larouche’s essays. He often talks about classical music and the inspirations for such. He writes of many things so use the search engine on his site : Madmunk
The most obvious one I can think of is Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Apparently, he was inspired by four paintings by Marco Ricci. I heard that Vivaldi loved all art forms and the more he could combine, the better he was pleased. He (or one of his contemporaries) wrote a series of sonnets around the musical composition of the Four Seasons. Just Curious
Most stories of the type you seek are apocryphal: it means from an unprovable source, or fiction that seems possibly believable, but not provable.
This is a ridiculous assignment, your teacher may or may not be really silly about this.
All the Chopin pieces with a name have been named by the public, or someone other than Chopin. The Raindrop Prelude: of the etudes, The Harp, The Ocean Waves, The Butterfly. These pieces are Prelude or Etude #x, Op. X in a particular key (A flat. say) that is all Chopin ever, ever titled them. In legitimate printed versions, They are named as I just listed.
If composers wanted us to know what they were thinking, they would have told us in words.
Half the stories about Beethoven that are floating around are synthetic corn-romantic stories as written for melodramatic and pretty silly stories about Beethoven, Chopin, Toulouse-Latrec, Van Gogh.
You name a great artist who’s work strongly appeals to us, there will be a mountain of B.S.
stories built up around that artist.
Beethoven did not call the sonata Op 59 in C sharp minor the moonlight, ever. The publisher did it for purposes of marketing to the general public. Maybe look for that fact in Wikipedia / Beethoven. It would make for a very interesting report, debunking this ridiculous notion and this silly assignment. It would still fill the requirment of the assignment.
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