Broadening my horizon by studying musical trends and traditions as well as developing a trademark sound of my productions and DC sets is elementary to my success. Since I realized that this creative process is mainly affected by the social, cultural and emotional input of the people surrounding me, I chose two archetypes in their respective arts, Wolfgang A. Mozart and Gustavo Climb, to analyses the influence of an artist’s environment on his Nor. Mozart was raised and educated in the politically troubled Europe of the 18th century, whilst touring as a child prodigy.
He assimilated these experiences with different musical styles and people, especially the women in his life, in his works, notably in the different characters of his operas. As one of the most influential composers of his time, Mozart work also affected Franz Joseph Heyday’s pieces and the early works of Ludwig van Beethoven. Together, these three composers – seen as the core of the Classical era – profoundly impacted to subsequent Classical music. Slit’s talent has been shaped at the conservative Vienna School of Arts and Craft, but to go beyond classic painting he founded the Vienna Secession’.
Adam wrote, this painting school “played a important role in the development and diffusion of Modernism (… ) as a stylistic counter current against the official academic school and bourgeois conservatism of the time” (2011, online). Due to Slit’s primary subject, the female body, Pooch described his work as “embodying the high-keyed erotic, psychological and aesthetic preoccupations of turn-of-the-century Vienna” (2002, inline), influencing succeeding artists like Oscar Cossack and Eggnog Schlemiel.
Art in all her characteristics – music, painting or many others – usually expresses an individual’s, group’s or society’s personality, culture and identity and can be seen as a mirror image of social, political and economical situations or developments, reflecting the contemporary emotions, thoughts and believes spun therein. This paper will provide you with an in-depth analysis of the above-mentioned aspects of my chosen artists, aiming to help me gain a comprehensive understanding of the development of my home country cultural history.
Knolling Amadeus Mozart, the Major Player of the Classical Era’ Born on 27 January 1756 in Salisbury, Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Fig. 1) and his sister Maria Anna were the only two siblings of the seven children to Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart who survived their childhood. Leopold, an experienced teacher, Nas the second conductor of the Archbishop of Salisbury court orchestra and taught his two musically gifted children academic subjects, languages and music at home, Inhere Mozart genius mind first came to light. Mozart, the Wunderkind In his biography of Mozart, the contemporary witness Nietzsche wrote that
I… ) gave up all his lessons and occupations (… ) and devoted himself wholly to their musical education. The unusually high standard of perfection, which Mozart genius attained, must be ascribed to this excellent training. (… ) The first impressions which his ear received were of harmony and song; music was the first word and idea which he comprehended” (2007, p. If). At the tender age of six, Mozart started to compose piano pieces from such a complexity that he could hardly manage to play them to his father, who used to write them down (Try. ). This was when Leopold decided to take is son on travels to the courts of European royalty, so they could bear witness of his extraordinary talent. From 1762 to 1773 the young boys family visited the Imperial Courts and concert halls from Vienna to London and from Paris to Rome. Thus Mozart became acquainted with several musicians and their work from all over Europe, broadening his brilliant mind at the formative age from six to seventeen by exploring different cultures, foreign customs and various musical genres and styles.
As a result, Mozart developed his talent to absorb, adapt and combine valuable features f others’ music and showed his versatility by composing in every major genre including especially piano, but also other solo concertos, chamber and religious music, symphonies and operas as well as light entertainment, such as dances and serenades. Mozart early musical style was the contemporary Style Gallant, showing the characteristic clarity, balance and transparency of Classical music as a counter current to the advanced intricacy of the earlier Baroque.
Instead of contrapuntal patterns, asymmetric phrases and heavy bass lines, the much lighter Style Gallant emphasized a cantabile melody with a harmonic, transparent accompaniment and cadences, melodic or rhythmic elements concluding a phrase, section or composition. Mozart defined his musical character by not merely copying the styles he got acquainted with, but by personalizing and tailor-making his compositions for artists, Inch he normally knew very well on stage or in orchestra.