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  2. Beethoven's musical style - Wikipedia

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    Beethoven's musical output has traditionally been divided into three periods, a classification that dates to the first years after the composer's death in 1827 and was formalised with the publication of Wilhelm von Lenz's influential work Beethoven et ses trois styles (Beethoven and his Three Styles). [3] Lenz proposed that Beethoven's creative ...

  3. History of keyboard instruments - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] As technology improved, more sophisticated keyboards were developed, including the 12-tone keyboard still in use today. Initially, the keyboard of an instrument such as a pipe organ or harpsichord could only produce sounds of one particular volume. In the 18th century, the pianoforte was invented. The pianoforte had metal strings which ...

  4. Beethoven's compositional method - Wikipedia

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    Beethoven's compositional process would then be to compose a bar and base the entirety of the piece around the motif in the first bar. The pieces in the middle period (1803–1812) have a much darker feel than the pieces in the first period. During this time, Beethoven was suffering from depression. [4] It was also the start of his hearing loss ...

  5. Ludwig van Beethoven - Wikipedia

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    Ludwig van Beethoven [n 1] (baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire and span the transition from the Classical period to the Romantic era in classical music.

  6. Piano history and musical performance - Wikipedia

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    Here, Beethoven writes "Nach und nach mehrere Saite", "gradually more strings". More elaborate instructions are given in the second movement of the Fourth Piano Concerto : during a long crescendo trill at the start of the cadenza, "due e poi tre corde", Italian for "two and then three strings" (the movement up to this point has been played una ...

  7. Jazz piano - Wikipedia

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    Bill Evans performing at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1978. Mastering the various chord voicings—simple to advanced—is the first building block of learning jazz piano. Jazz piano technique uses all the chords found in Western art music, such as major, minor, augmented, diminished, seventh, diminished seventh, sixth, minor seventh, major seventh, suspended fourth, and so

  8. List of compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven - Wikipedia

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    Title page of Beethoven's symphonies from the Gesamtausgabe. The list of compositions of Ludwig van Beethoven consists of 722 works [1] written over forty-five years, from his earliest work in 1782 (variations for piano on a march by Ernst Christoph Dressler) when he was only eleven years old and still in Bonn, until his last work just before his death in Vienna in 1827.

  9. Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development - Wikipedia

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    Some of the already leading jazz musicians rapidly came to wider public notice when they made their first issued recordings, in 1923. This group included King Oliver, Freddie Keppard, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet and Bennie Moten. (The blues singer Bessie Smith also began recording that year.) Despite having these ...