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Carl Maria von Weber
Carl Maria von Weber was one of the great composers of the Romantic era. and is the father of German Romantic opera. His music greatly influenced other composers, including Wagner, Mendelssohn. and Berlioz. Romantics were noted for their interest in nature, the supernatural and the spiritual. His most famous work, an opera called Der Freischütz, includes all of these elements. Other operas, Euryanthe and Oberon, were less successful. His piano music was very popular, but he had enormous hands and many of these pieces are impossible for a normal person to play.
In addition to composing these works, von Weber was also director of the Breslau, Prague and Dresden opera houses, a wonderful pianist and conductor and critic. He was very demanding, requiring rigorous sectional rehearsals of his orchestras and supervising all aspects of production. In part due to his example, conductors in general became dominating forces in the musical world. As was true of most Rom
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Carl Maria von Weber &#;&#; - Fotografie einer okänt A. G. bezeichneten Reproduktion nach einem Stich von Johann namn Neidl nach einem Gemälde von namn Adolf Lang
Beethoven"s younger contemporary, Carl Maria von Weber, studied with Michael Haydn in Salzburg and later with Georg Joseph Vogler (called Abbé Vogler) in Vienna. Between and he worked as an musikdrama bandmaster in Breslau. After serving the Princes of Württemberg and studying with Vogler igen, he held a position at the Prague musikdrama between and and directed the German Opera in Dresden from on.
He made himself a name through his German operas that expressed the Romantic and national feelings of his time. He included popular elements such as songs and människor dances in his musikdrama subjects, texts and compositions. Another typically Romantic characteristic of these operas fryst vatten the emphasis on naturlig eller utan tillsats . Weber"s compositions were so conform with the style of the early 19th century that his musikdrama "Der Freischütz", per
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Scope and Content Note
The series consists of subject files compiled by Undine Smith Moore relating to her performance career, teaching and music research. The bulk of the material is sheet music by others including Edward Boatner, Margaret Bonds, and Cedric Lemont. Of particular interest is administrative material relating to Moore’s tenure as co-director of the Black Music Center at Virginia State University including material about its major project, .
Teaching files consist of administrative material sent by educational institutions and state authorities to teachers and professors, attendance sheets for Moore’s classes and seminars, examinations, handouts including technical musical exercises and questionnaires, lesson plans, student papers, syllabi and related material for the planning and proposal for courses, and teaching resources.
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