Essays on Sonata

In 1993, Rauscher, Shaw, and Ky published a report stating that 36 of their undergraduate participants increased their mean spatial reasoning scores 8 to 9 IQ points on the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale after merely listening to 10 minutes of a Mozart sonata. This ‘phenomenon, ‘...

Ludwig Van Beethoven was a Germany composer, pianist and the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras. He was born in December 16, 1770 at Bonn, Germany. He was the eldest among his three surviving siblings of Johann van...

I chose Ludwig Van Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, III movement. The original title for Moonlight Sonata is “Piano Sonata no. 14 in C# minor, op. 27 no. 2”. It was written in 1801. It wasn’t initially called “Moonlight Sonata” – Beethoven first named it in Italian,...

Franz Liszt and his innovations Franz Liszt was a complex personality in the history of western classical music. His legacy in pianism, composition, and his teachings reverberate through out the musical world. Known to have reinvented the concert experience through his bold choices, he more...

Rebecca Clarke was born into a musical family in 1886. Her father played cello and her mother, viola. Clarke and her brother were given violins so they could form a family string quartet. She studied violin at the Royal Academy of Music. After turning down...

Have you ever imagined that people could be deeply touched by music underwritten by a deaf? Hard to believe but very the truth because he is Beethoven, one of the most recognized and influential musicians in the world, also one of the greatest composers of...

I wish I could say I wanted to play this instrument every since I heard it for the first time on the television or I wish that I could say that I begged my parents to buy me a cello when I was younger so...