I want to know how composers composed their symphonies.?!
Question: I want to know how composers composed their symphonies!.!?
i wonder if beethoven or mozart composed their piano part and violin part and other parts seprately or did they compose some main parts and left other minor parts for the conductors or players!?Www@Enter-QA@Com
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According to "The Joy of Music" by Leonard Bernstein, Beethoven had copyists who wrote his marginally legible scores over a second time!. Bernstein comments, "I pity and admire those copyists!."
Presumably, the same copyists wrote the parts also!.
According to my music theory teacher at Interlochen, when Mozart premiered his own piano concerto, he was able to write out the parts without having to write out the score first, and he then performed the solo part from memory!. I doubt if very many other composers, even among the most renowned composers, could do the same!.
If a composer writes solo music for an instrument with which he is unfamiliar, that composer might consult a player of that instrument!.
During the Eighteenth Century, it was customary for composers not to write cadenzas (theatrical unaccompanied passages) in concertos!. The performer was left to improvise these passages!. Now that the art of improvisation is virtually dead, concerto solo parts are published with cadenzas written by the editors!.
I don't know about other musical comedy composers, but Richard Rodgers wrote his musical comedies as piano scores and Robert Russell Bennett did the orchestration!. However, composers of classical music do their own orchestrating!.
The only notable exception is George Gershwin!. Gershwin never studied orchestration, but those who HAD studied orchestration were glad to assist him!. Ferde Grofe orchestrated Gershwin's piano concerto and his "Rhapsody in Blue!." (If you have heard Grofe's beautiful "Grand Canyon Suite," then you can surely understand why Grofe was chosen for the task!.)
Gershwin once asked Ravel for instruction!. (Another good choice!) Ravel merely replied, "Why would you want to risk being a second-rate Ravel when you are already a first-rate Gershwin!?"
Gershwin must have eventually learned orchestration, because he did his own job on "An American in Paris!."
There is an anecdote about Gershwin asking another renowned composer for orchestration lessons--some say Stravinsky, some say Schoenberg!. Gershwin asked the other composer how much he would charge!. The other composer said, "I don't know, how much money do you make!?" Gershwin replied with a dollar figure!. The other compsoer said, "In that case, you should be the one teaching me!."Www@Enter-QA@Com
Presumably, the same copyists wrote the parts also!.
According to my music theory teacher at Interlochen, when Mozart premiered his own piano concerto, he was able to write out the parts without having to write out the score first, and he then performed the solo part from memory!. I doubt if very many other composers, even among the most renowned composers, could do the same!.
If a composer writes solo music for an instrument with which he is unfamiliar, that composer might consult a player of that instrument!.
During the Eighteenth Century, it was customary for composers not to write cadenzas (theatrical unaccompanied passages) in concertos!. The performer was left to improvise these passages!. Now that the art of improvisation is virtually dead, concerto solo parts are published with cadenzas written by the editors!.
I don't know about other musical comedy composers, but Richard Rodgers wrote his musical comedies as piano scores and Robert Russell Bennett did the orchestration!. However, composers of classical music do their own orchestrating!.
The only notable exception is George Gershwin!. Gershwin never studied orchestration, but those who HAD studied orchestration were glad to assist him!. Ferde Grofe orchestrated Gershwin's piano concerto and his "Rhapsody in Blue!." (If you have heard Grofe's beautiful "Grand Canyon Suite," then you can surely understand why Grofe was chosen for the task!.)
Gershwin once asked Ravel for instruction!. (Another good choice!) Ravel merely replied, "Why would you want to risk being a second-rate Ravel when you are already a first-rate Gershwin!?"
Gershwin must have eventually learned orchestration, because he did his own job on "An American in Paris!."
There is an anecdote about Gershwin asking another renowned composer for orchestration lessons--some say Stravinsky, some say Schoenberg!. Gershwin asked the other composer how much he would charge!. The other composer said, "I don't know, how much money do you make!?" Gershwin replied with a dollar figure!. The other compsoer said, "In that case, you should be the one teaching me!."Www@Enter-QA@Com
No, certainly not for the most part!. There have been a few instances, where composers died leaving compositions unfinished, and others - usually very competent composers themselves, friends sometimes, at others, not - who presumed to complete them!.
Some successfully, others, not so much so!. You should research the relationship, friendship, between Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov and some of his Russian colleagues: Moussorsky, Borodin, etc!.
And also, how Puccini's last opera was completed, relative to the two examples of the above!.
Alberich Www@Enter-QA@Com
Some successfully, others, not so much so!. You should research the relationship, friendship, between Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov and some of his Russian colleagues: Moussorsky, Borodin, etc!.
And also, how Puccini's last opera was completed, relative to the two examples of the above!.
Alberich Www@Enter-QA@Com
Both Beethoven and Mozart wrote the full score and parts to their own compositions!. They would not have left it up to others to write their music!.
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