http://thebestclassicalmusic.info Best Classical Music Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:11:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Johann Sebastian Bach biography is an interesting read. In Eisenach, Germany on March 21, 1685 Johann Sebastian Bach was born. He was the youngest child of Johann Ambrosius Bach and Elizabeth Lammerhirt Bach. His father was an organist in the church and many other family members were also musicians. Members ... http://thebestclassicalmusic.info/johann-sebastian-bach-biography/ When an audience watches a movie at the theater much of the attention is on the characters playing the parts, on the story line, and on the movie setting. Many times the music that accompanies the actions on the screen is heard but does not command the attention as the ... http://thebestclassicalmusic.info/composers-of-film-music-you-should-recognize/ The legacy that famous Austrian composer-musician Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has handed down to present-day generation of organists and composers remains to be strong in the music scene. The influence of symphonies and operatic tunes is still apparent in elite circles and themed concerts in Europe and reserved states of the ... http://thebestclassicalmusic.info/free-mozart-music/ If you’re looking for objectivity, you won’t find it here. I’m a psychologist by profession and an amateur violinist. So the following list and the explanations are purely subjective, not the opinion of a professional musician or musical scholar, and will probably change by the time I finish writing this. ... http://thebestclassicalmusic.info/top-10-violin-concertos-of-all-time/ Music, more than entertainment, has played an instrumental role in healing and harmonizing the mind, body and spirit. For thousands of years, the Vedic culture has used sound and music for body and mind balancing, health enhancement, healing promotion and encouragement of heightened awareness. The Greek mathematician, Pythagoras theorized that ... http://thebestclassicalmusic.info/classical-music-therapy/ The music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is perhaps the most well-known of any composer the world has ever seen. Almost everyone has heard of how Mozart was composing music by the age of five (some urban legends even claim it was at age two) and performing before kings and queens, ... http://thebestclassicalmusic.info/mozarts-music/ Bach and Handel each in their own way were a great influence on later generations of composers. Both of them, in their own personal way, summed up the major styles of European music. Handel cultivated a concerto that was based the style of Correlli and Bach cultivated a concerto that ... http://thebestclassicalmusic.info/bach-and-handel-their-influence-on-future-composers/ For too long, classical music has been regarded as the domain of instrumentalists, composers, academic musicologists and, typically, anyone over 40 years old. But while the majority of today's youth would rather listen to Britney Spears' greatest hits or watch My Chemical Romance on MTV, the view that young people ... http://thebestclassicalmusic.info/classical-music-not-just-for-oaps/ In the 21st century, the music and notes to Beethoven's Fur Elise are the object of millions of Internet searches and downloads every day. The fact that the music is so freely available for download, along with the piece continued popularity in the Internet age, is testament to the great ... http://thebestclassicalmusic.info/fur-elise-beethovens-mysterious-inspiration/ Classical music is at once one of the best known and least understood forms of music, and many music fans who feel they would never like classical music are surprised at just how enjoyable it can be. Of course, classical music can take a great many forms, and not every music ... http://thebestclassicalmusic.info/developing-an-appreciation-of-classical-music/