Jordan Miller, Doug Coyne, Luke Rastetter
 Ludwig
von Beethoven
 Frederic Chopin
 Johannes Brahms
 Pyotr ilyich Tchaikovsky
 John Phillip Sousa
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Music from the
romantic era was
seen as more
passionate and
expressive than that
of its predecessors.
This reflects
romanticism’s ideals
of truth though
emotion not logic.
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Sousa served in the
U.S. Marine Corps as
an apprentice
musician and
eventually became
the head of the
Marine Corps Band.
Famous Pieces:
◦ The Thunderer
◦ Manhattan Beach March
◦ Stars and Stripes
Forever
Ludwig von Beethoven
17 December 1770– 26 March 1827
FAMOUS WORKS
•Symphony number 9
•Leonore Overature number 3
Ludwig’s first music teacher was his father and his
•Piano Concerto number 3
father was so hard on him that Ludwig was often in
•Symphony number 3
tears while he was playing.
•Symphony number 5
•The late Piano Sonatas
Toured all over Europe, mostly in Vienna and started
•Concerto for violin in D
playing for kings and queens.
•Symphony number 7
Ludwig began to suffer from tinnitus which is a ringing •String Quartets Op 131&135
Of 7 children Ludwig and his two younger brothers
survived infancy.
in the ears and he started to go def. He couldn’t
appreciate music like before and he avoided
conversation and became very secluded and irritable.
To still write music he cut the legs off of his piano and
put his ear to the floor to while playing and he could
feel the vibrations and tell the difference between the
keys. Some of him best works came from this.
BAMF!!!