Music Articles

• Bach - Guide to the Man in the White Wig
  
  Johann Sebastian Bach would never be as appealing for his adventures in life and good looks as, say, Mozart or Beethoven. His famous portrait showing him as an old man in a white wig holding a piece of sheet music scared away many generations of young music lovers. I think that this picture doesn't do justice to this composer capable of great emotional deepness.
  
  
• Classical Guitar and Agustin Barrios Mangore, His Importance
  
  The Paraguayan Agustin Barrios Mangore was compared by John Williams to Frédéric Chopin. He said: "His music is very guitaristic, rather like Chopin is for the piano. In this way he has filled that need of every instrument to have its composer who belonged to the instrument and at the same time wrote great music".
  
  
• Barrios Vs. Segovia. Friends? Foes? Or just different?
  
  There are many anecdotes relating the two masters of classical guitar Andres Segovia and Agustin Barrios Mangore. Which was really their relationship? Did they hate each other? Was Segovia jealous of Barrios skills? How many times did they encounter? Was Barrios resented because Segovia never promoted him?
  
  
• Music and Morals
  
  Although music in the complex harmonic form known to us is only a few centuries old, simple rhythmic melodies were sung, or played on various instruments, by all the ancient civilized nations, and are sung or played to-day by African and Australian savages who have never come into contact with civilization. And what is more, the remarkable influence which music has in arousing human emotions has been appreciated at all times.
  
  
• Anna Magdalena Bach
  
  Johann Sebastian's relationships with Maria Barbara and Anna Magdalena Bach, his two wives. Much of his music was inspired by them.
  
  
• Composers' Biograpies
  
  

  Handel

  Bach

  Haydn

  Mozart

  Beethoven

  Ttchaikovsky

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