Interesting facts about composers
When the English Baroque composer Dzheremayya Clark decided to commit suicide because of unrequited love, you want to choose the best way – to hang or drown, which decided to throw a coin. She fell in the mud at the edge. But Clark did not see this sign, you have to live, and decided to shoot.
Six months after Mozart’s death, his widow Constance met with the Danish diplomat Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, and subsequently married him. In 1823, Nissen began to write the biography of Mozart with the most details and components, processed materials and a large number of letters of the composer. But three years later he died without finishing work. On his grave is written, “Man of Mozart’s widow.”
Composer Sergei Prokofiev died on the same day with Stalin, March 5, 1953. Therefore, his death remained invisible to society. A funeral organization has become a huge problem for his family, because in Moscow were all shocked.
The great Austrian composer Mozart is unusual duet for two violins. Originality is that musicians are opposite each other, put a piece of music together. The two parties are written on one page, but every violinist plays their part. Artists are beginning to read music from all over the page, and have to meet in the middle, and then further diverge from each other. The result – beautiful melody.
American composer Jack Nietzsche, who wrote the music for the film “One Flew over the cuckoo’s nest” and “9 ½ weeks,” died Aug. 25, 2000. For quite strange singing fall, exactly 100 years ago, August 25, 1900, death of his namesake Friedrich Nietzsche.
Austrian composer Arnold Shonberґ suffering from triskaidekaphobia, that is much feared among the 13 to death – in the truest sense of the word. This number was a secondary cause of his death. 1950 personal astrologer said that soon next year when he is 76 he can die (7 + 6 = 13). And on Friday the 13th July 1951, Arnold Shonberґ ill. In fact, the composer spent the whole day in bed, but 15 minutes before midnight he suddenly began attack and he died.
Milan Conservatory is known composer Giuseppe Verdi, while in 1833 he refused to join. The young Verdi said that he was 4 years older than the usual age of applicants has no citizenship Lombardo-Venetian kingdom and no musical talent.
Belgian artist Adolphe Sax, who invented the saxophone, first named his invention in another way – ofikleid mouthpiece. Only two years later his friend composer Berlioz called new tool the saxophone in his article in the magazine. And the name caught on much better.
At the time of writing his famous Ninth Symphony Beethoven was completely deaf.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began playing the piano at 3 years, and writing music at the age of 5 years.