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Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller, generally known as Friedrich Burgmuller (4 December 1806 – 13 February 1874) was a German pianist and composer [1] during the Romantic period. He is perhaps best known for his three collections of children's etudes (or "teaching pieces") for the piano, particularly his Op. 100 "25 Études faciles et ...
Friedrich August Burgmüller (3 May 1760 – 21 August 1824) was a German pianist, Kapellmeister and conductor as well as the first municipal music director in Düsseldorf and co-founder of the Lower Rhenish Music Festival. He is the father of the composers Friedrich Burgmüller and Norbert Burgmüller.
The French sense of arabesque: a Savonnerie carpet in the Louis XIV style, c.1685–1697, wool, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Design of a Louis XVI style arabesque, by Étienne de La Vallée Poussin, c.1780–1793, pen and gray and brown ink, brush and colored wash, Metropolitan Museum of Art The "Arabesque Room" in the Catherine ...
The arabesque emerged in the West as a part of the Classical period in music, defined by the return to classical forms of art from Greece and Rome, and in this case, Arab classical culture. [9] It drew on the simplicity of the art and architecture to "avoid extravagant excess" in the music. [ 9 ]
Friedrich August Burgmüller, a German pianist and conductor; his sons: Friedrich Burgmüller, a German pianist and composer; Norbert Burgmüller, a German composer, the younger brother of the above one
The "arabesque" stories focus on a single aspect of a character, often psychological, such as "The Fall of the House of Usher". [7] A distant relative of Poe, modern scholar Harry Lee Poe , wrote that "grotesque" means "horror", which is gory and often disgusting, and "arabesque" means "terror", which forsakes the blood and gore for the sake of ...
In the midst of Disney's commercially and critically successful renderings of fairy tales, women authors were working away behind the scenes to whip up their own bold takes. The conventions of the genre -- violence, fantasy, and morality – were gobbled up, roiled, rearranged fluidly, and spit back out anew.
The Romantic era of Western Classical music spanned the 19th century to the early 20th century, encompassing a variety of musical styles and techniques. Part of the broader Romanticism movement of Europe, Ludwig van Beethoven, Gioachino Rossini and Franz Schubert are often seen as the dominant transitional figures composers from the preceding Classical era.