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Inspirations from The Masters
In keyboards there is a common way to say the keyboard that controls the others. It is called the Master. In case you dont get where we are going with this, the other sound units that are controlled by it, yes, they are called slaves. Mightnt it have been so much wiser to call them Guru and followers or subordinates or something else.
Some people raised in the United States in particular have a deep dislike of the words master and slave. On the other hand, when talking about a master craftsperson, a maestro, it is a completely different thing:
The Master has mastered their craft. If there is any slaving, it is the masters slaving away to be better and better. The sheer number of pages penned by hand by various composers is awesome! It is a refreshing idea that the word master that can have the connotation of being an inspiration; a great role model!
The experiences of the great composers teaches us so much, and their music speaks in ways that words simply can not. Let us be grandly inspired by those amazingly hard working masters of their arts.
Johann Sebastian (J.S.) Bach (1685-1750) from the long lineage of musical Bachs was not only a master composer but was more known in his day as an organist and he promoted a new tuning he called wohltemperirt that we call well tempered (which sounds like something we could use today in general as well). In some ways this tuning allowed people to play in any key. Before in true tuning instruments were only good for certain keys (like the Bb Trumpet or F French Horn).
Bach was quite the family man, truly The Patriarch. With 20 children he would have had to be most responsible, and working for the church, much of his genius was used in how to make the old chorales interesting.
He was also a gatherer of the ancient forms and compiled many songs into Suites, English and French Suites brought beautiful folk forms into an elegant performance style for his patrons. In 1717 he was offered a position in Cthen but the Duke of Weimar had Bach locked up for a month before was liberated and allowed to go work for the more open-minded Prince Leopold (see the 1995 video Bachs Fight for Freedom.)
Georg Friedrich Hndel (1685-1759), later George Frideric Handel, was another Master of the Baroque period (1600 -1750). His father died in 1697 at the age of 74, leaving him as the man of the household when he was 12. Later Handel traveled widely, enjoyed great success in Italy, including visiting the Medicis. He was hired by German prince George Elector of Hanover (who became King George I of England) but stayed in Italy for 2 years before coming to Britain to his work! The King and Handel were reconciled because he loved Water Music so much that he had it played 3 times!
He wrote the oratorio Messiah which benefited the Foundling Hospital in London, and eventually became a British citizen and was buried in Westminster Abbey! Though he and Bach never met, they both had studied Fugues and other music with the master of masters, Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707).
Each took the hand that they were dealt (whatever the life difficulties, opportunities and obligations), and created a positive, beneficial finale. This is one of the key ideas regarding taking inspiration from the masters. The first harpsichord of Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) was said to be worm eaten, he had many odd jobs such as street serenader, and valet, but went on to become Father of the Symphony, Father of the String Quartet, not to mention being Beethovens music teacher and Mozarts close friend.
Thanks to Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck (1831-1894) for sponsoring both Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) and Claude-Achille Debussy (1862-1918). Just think how much beautiful music is because of Baroness von Meck!
Music is the Universal Language
The Universal Language of Music owes a debt of gratitude to its greatest writers. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) may have had more emotional experiences than we would ever wish for. The longing of Frdric Franois Chopin (1810-1849) for his dear Poland was more than one could bear. He cried into his piano each night, and the tears become sparkles of brilliance, uplifting grace and transcendence.
Let your ears be your guides, your teachers, and even your refuge. Thank you so dearly, great masters, for sharing your notes, your emotings and emotions
Use stories of the great composers (and performers) to learn how to be more successful as a composer (or performer) in this world, here and now. Follow the best examples of composers achievements.
Franz Liszt (1811-1886) was very well connected. He used his influence and was a great benefactor to other composers such as Robert Alexander Schumann (1810-1856), Hector Berlioz, (1803-1869), Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-1883), Joseph-Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Chopin, Debussy and others.
Liszt was known to not only teach many great musicians for free, but helped so many financially! He did benefits for a Beethoven statue, and he also transcribed Beethovens 9 symphonies for piano. This was no easy task because there were none of the technologies we have available nowadays! Chopin and Liszt dedicated many great songs and studies to each other. Liszt brought gypsy music to the classical stage, as well as many other things he invented, pioneered and used his vision to share with us
Brahms created many great orchestral versions of wonderful folk music. His Hungarian Dances are amazing! Many great composers took the time and effort to take folk musics, even gypsy musics and write them down as difficult as that must have been, writing down the special techniques that folk musicians have.
Beware some of the things that Schubert did that werent good for his musical future.
The well-known movie Amadeus paints a wrong picture. It portrays Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) as a brat and Antonio Salieri (1750-1825) as his murderer. Both are the farthest you can get from the truth and extremely insulting to two musical giants, geniuses who havent been outdone on this planet ever since!
In reality Salieri and Mozart were brothers in the Masonic lodge. There was one performance where Mozart had a stage on one side of the room, Salieri a stage on the other side. The audience literally turned their chairs around to hear the other ones opera! Salieri and Mozart composed a cantata for voice and piano together: Per la ricuperata salute di Ophelia. These were obviously two comrades who surely did many things to help each other, even with a bitter rivalry because both thought themselves the greatest composer.
You need to know the rules very well to know how to break them; otherwise you are just making a terrible mess! Honor the great composer that went before you. One fine way is to call your derivative by the original name, or call it variations on a theme. That is one technique that will get you out of a big mess.
Creating medleys, making themes such as beds or jingles can be done right and be wonderful. Be careful and surely you will make the great composers smile and enjoy your renditions of their works, not roll over!
As people and cultures travel, you may enjoy, as I do, how Gypsy, Folk, Traditional and Ancient Lore creep into classical music to be reborn, renewed and recharged with new life and new freedoms.
Detached notes are required for happy passages! ( Legato, lethargic-ness is appropriate for melancholic vibes only (.
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