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Music students must review for the postgraduate entrance examination! Common figures in music history

1. Beethoven

(1770.12.16~1827.3.26) Le Saint, a famous German musician, one of the representatives of the Vienna Classical School, is not only a classical style He is also the founder of romantic style.

[Style of work]

Beethoven's creative ideas are broad, grand, and profound and contrasting in emotion, which makes him focus on adopting and expanding the sonata form. At the same time, due to the rich and diverse images in his creation , the sonata form used in various works.

[Representative works]

9 numbered symphonies (from the first to the ninth symphony, the tenth symphony is unfinished), 35 piano sonatas (No. 8 Pathetique Sonata No. 14, Moonlight Sonata, 10 violin sonatas (Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, "Spring", Op. 24, etc.), 16 string quartets (String Quartet in F major, OP 18, etc.), 1 opera ( Fidelio), 2 masses (Missa Solemnis in D major, OP. 123, etc.), 1 oratorio (Christ on the Mount of Olives), 3 cantatas (cantatas in memory of Emperor Joseph, etc.) and others A large number of chamber music, art songs and dance music

2. Mozart

(1756.1.27~1791.12.5) An Austrian composer during the classical music period and a representative of the Vienna classical music school. One.

[Style]

His music embodies the style of the classical period and perfected a variety of music genres. Together with Haydn I, he established the Vienna classical music In a short span of 35 years, he completed more than 600 musical works of different genres and forms, including operas, symphonies, concertos, and sonatas.

Quartets and other ensemble and duet works. A large number of instrumental pieces, solos, etc., covering almost all music genres at that time

[Representative works]

The operas "The Marriage of Figaro", "Don Juan" and " "The Magic Flute" and other symphonies "Symphony No. 39 in E flat", "Emperor", "Symphony No. 40 in G minor", "Symphony No. 41 in (major)", "Cupid" and other concertos "Violin Concerto in D major No. No. 4", "Violin Concerto No. 5 in B flat major", "Piano Concerto No. 21 in ((major)", "Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major", etc.

Piano sketch: "Little Star" ", "Turkish March" (actually the third movement of the Sonata in A major), "Sonata" and other unfinished works "Requiem"

3. Liszt

(1811.10.22 -1886.7.31) The King of Piano, a famous Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor, a great master of Romanticism, and one of the most outstanding representatives of early Romanticism

[Work style]

Developed piano skills to an unparalleled level, greatly enriched the expressive power of the piano, created orchestral effects on the piano, and also created a memorized music performance method.

[Representative Works]

Three piano music collections of "Travel Years" including the symphonic poems "Prelude" and "Majepa", "Gorgeous Pointe Dance", "Bell", "Ten "Two Transcendental Etudes", "Six Etudes of Paganini" and other opera fantasies, "Memories of Don Juan" (adapted from Mozart), "Rigoletto" (adapted from Verdi), etc.

4. Tchaikovsky

(1840.5.7-1893.11.6) was born in Voltginsk, a Russian Romantic composer.

[Work style]

Tchaikovsky’s creations involve almost all musical genres and forms, among which symphony creation plays an important role. He inherited the development achievements of Russian music since Glinka, and at the same time paid attention to absorbing the experience of the development of Western European music culture, organically combining highly professional skills with the Russian national music tradition to create works with dramatic conflicts and strong national style.

[Representative Works]

6 symphonies (Symphony No.-~Sixth), 1 title symphony "Manfred", 11 operas "Yepge" "Neigen Onegin", "The Queen of Spades" and other 3 dance dramas "Swan Lake", "Little Jar of Beauty", "The Nutcracker" Instrumental Concerto in B flat minor, "Piano Concerto No. 1 in D major", "Violin Concerto" in D major and other orchestral music His works include "Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture", "Italian Capriccio" and other piano works "Four Seasons".