Andrei Chikatilo was a true incarnation of evil. He was a serial murderer and rapist who killed about 56 people and raped 254 people in 12 years through strangulation and stabbing by knife. The most gruesome characteristics of his crimes include necrophilia, cannibalism, mutilation, and evisceration. Evisceration is when the internal organs of the abdominal cavity are removed. He began his murder spree in 1978 and was caught in 1990.
He had moved away from his interest in jazz and began to concern himself with expanding the audience for American classical music. He believed that classical music could eventually be as popular as jazz in America or folk music in Mexico. He worked toward this goal with both his music and a firm commitment to organizing and producing. (American Masters).After his return to America, Copland drifted toward an incisive, austere style that captured something of the sobriety of Depression-torn America. The most representative work of this period -- the Piano Variations (1930) -- remains one of the composer's seminal efforts.
Joseph C. Palczynski was a spree killer in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland who in March 2000 terrorized residents in the region by killing four people and taking a family of three as hostages in one of the longest one-man standoffs ever known. The saga ended with two of the hostages escaping and a third being rescued, Palczynski being shot to death by Baltimore County police, and a woman being sentenced to prison for purchasing his weapons. The story came to the public's attention on March 7, 2000, when a triple homicide occurred in the quiet community of Bowley's Quarters near Middle River, Maryland an area not accustomed to violent crime.
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) was a Czech composer that blended folksong and dance music into his symphonies. Dvorak grew up in a small villa near the capital city Prague of the Czech Republic. Coming from a poor family, Dvorak left his home at sixteen to study music in Prague. For nearly the next two decades of his life, Dvorak played violin in an opera-orchestra and made many attempts to step into the spotlight with no avail. Then at age thirty-six, the great Johannes Brahms recommended Dvorak’s to be published.
Petersburg”. The success that uprooted Stravinsky was his debut of The Rite of Spring, which is considered one of his most famous works. Stravinsky was born on June 17, 1882 in Lomonosov, Russia and died on April 6, 1971 in New York City, New York. He grew up in musical household. His father was a bass in the Imperial Opera in St. Petersburg Russia, while his mother was a successful pianist and singer.
Ludwig van Beethoven There were many composers in the Classical Period that inspired much of the classical music we listen to today. One of the most known classical composers is Ludwig van Beethoven. He was born around December 16, 1770 in Bonn, Germany to a family of musicians. The exact date of his birth is unknown; however, it is estimated to be within 24 hours of his baptism on December 17.
Felix Mendelssohn Felix Mendelssohn; pianist, composer, conductor. Mendelsohn was a man of many talents that graced the world with his artistic genius. Many compare him akin to Mozart and Beethoven, and though his life was short lived, he made the most of what he had. Felix Mendelssohn was one of the greatest composers of the 1800s, or the Romantic era in music history. Born in Hamburg, Germany on February 3rd, 1809 to Leah Salomon and Moses Mendelssohn, he was lucky to have been born and raised in a prosperous middle class family.
1784, he composes a rondo and a piano concerto. 1785 composes 3 quartets. 1787, March he leaves Bonn. On the 7th of April arrives in Vienna and meets Mozart. 1787, July 17th - Returns to Bonn. His mother dies.
• He was born on 22 January 1904 in St. Petersburg, Russia. • The son of a composer, Balanchine studied piano from the age of five and had a robust understanding of music. • In 1914 he was accepted by the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg at the age of 9.
Frédéric François Chopin was a brilliant musician who made an incredible impact not only on the Romantic Era (19th century), which is when he composed his works but also on countless musicians to come. He was a beloved Polish composer and pianist who, during his short 39-year life, was able to rise to become a cultural icon in music history. His main focuses in music were the melody, harmony, and specific piano techniques that were prominent during the Romantic period. His skill on the piano and his heart-felt pieces forever revolutionized the use of the piano for solo, musical pieces. Chopin was born in a small town near Warsaw, Poland named Zelazowa Wola on March 1, 1810.
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Chekhov was a Russian-American actor, director, author, and theatre practitioner. He was the nephew of playwright Anton Chekhov and worked as an actor in Russia, Europe, and the US throughout the early and mid 1900s, until his death in 1955. Though Michael Chekhov first trained under Stanislavski system led to acting that was too naturalistic in style. He felt that it was important that actors not limit their characters by drawing from their limited, conscious, worldly experiences. He felt that infinite experiences of humanity were stored in the subconscious and the conscious- between the external world and the internal experience that a character was meant to have- was through the use of “Psychological Gesture.”
n Russia, Ksenia Infinity and her lesbian lover are traveling by air when they notice Russian Politician, Vitaly Milonov, on the plain a few rows behind them. Milonov is the political motivation behind the laws in Russia banning “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors”. Milonov feels anyone with any connection to the LGBTQIA community is literally psychologically ill and needs to be taken away from society and placed in an asylum. The two women, knowing Milonov’s history and being lesbian activists, embrace in a kiss while taking a celebratory selfie and upload the image onto social media. The image has an overwhelming global positive response from its viewers.
3 and Four Pieces for Piano, Op. 4 to demonstrate the development of his innovative style, and compare them with Sarcasms in aspects of harmony, rhythm, piano devices, and texture to show the innovations Prokofiev applied in the
(2) 2nd period where Beethoven began to lose his hearing, his music changed as he expanded the traditional style forms and let it sounded emotionally more powerful and full of boldness. (3) He strived to search for new sounding and he restudied Bach’s work in hoping to absorb the polyphonic color infused in his later works. The Violin Sonata No. 6 was published in 1803 and dedicated to Czar Alexander I of Russia.
Tchaikovsky versus Chopin Tchaikovsky and Chopin were two of the most influential and ingenious composers of the Romantic era which stretched from 1850 – 1920. While of the same time period and similar in melodic mood, Tchaikovsky and Chopin each have their own distinct musical style. And though both men are considered Romantic composers, their lives only just overlapped with Frédéric-François Chopin being born in Poland in 1810 and Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky in Russia in 1840. Frédéric-François Chopin was from a middle class, Polish family while Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky was born into a wealthy, Russian family of five brothers and one sister. Both composers were recognized as prodigies and given music lessons from an early age.
