…things always happen in music and always in the same way: there is a very good reason and explanation for this…there is only 12 tones in base of every single musical composition – therefore there isn’t unlimited number of tone combination so that every possible melody or composition or emotion can be expressed…
This is a blog dedicated to software Virtual Music Composer that allows you to discover new musical themes. Virtual Music Composer gives you a chance that you just listen to the music, and then create your own songs in your own unique way. Virtual Music Composer blog gives you an opportunity to discuss about computer generated music and future of music in general. Also, we will discuss about the abilities and impressions about Virtual Music Composer software.
February 24, 2010
Virtual Music Composer
January 27, 2012
Juan Crisostomo de Arriaga birthday
Juan Crisóstomo Jacobo Antonio de Arriaga y Balzola (January 27, 1806 – January 17, 1826) was a Spanish composer. He was nicknamed the “Spanish Mozart” after he died, because, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was also a child prodigy and an accomplished composer who died young. Whether by coincidence or design, they also shared the same first and second baptismal names; and they shared the same birthday.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart birthday
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers.
Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position, always composing abundantly. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of Mozart’s death. The circumstances of his early death have been much mythologized. He was survived by his wife Constanze and two sons.
On This Day …
1756 – Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born.
1806 – Composer Juan Crisostomo Jacobo Antonio de Arriaga was born.
1823 – Composer Edouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo was born.
1956 – Elvis Presley released “Heartbreak Hotel.
1968 – Otis Redding’s “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” was released. The release came 6 weeks after he was killed in a plane crash.
1968 – The Bee Gees made their U.S. debut with a concert at the Anaheim Convention Center in California.
1991 – Whitney Houston sang the “Star Spangled Banner” at Super Bowl XXV.
1993 – Warner Brothers Records announced that it was releasing Ice-T from his contract due to “creative differences.”
January 23, 2012
Rutland Boughton birthday
Rutland Boughton (23 January 1878 – 25 January 1960) was an English composer who became well known in the early 20th century as a composer of opera and choral music.
A pupil of Charles Villiers Stanford and Walford Davies, Boughton’s output included three symphonies, several concertos, part-songs, songs, chamber music and opera (which he called “Music Drama” after Wagner). His best known work was the opera The Immortal Hour. His Bethlehem (1915), based on the Coventry Nativity Play and notable for its choral arrangements of traditional Christmas carols also became very popular with choral societies worldwide.
Muzio Clementi birthday
Muzio Clementi (24 January 1752 – 10 March 1832) was a celebrated composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer. Born in Italy, he spent most of his life in England. He is best known for his piano sonatas, and his collection of piano studies, Gradus ad Parnassum. Nineteenth century enthusiasts lauded Clementi as “the father of the pianoforte”, “father of modern piano technique”, and “father of Romantic pianistic virtuosity”.
On This Day …
1753 – Composer Muzio Clementi was born.
1878 – Composer Rutland Boughton was born.
1941 – Artie Shaw and his orchestra recorded “Moonglow.”
1980 – Prince’s single “Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad” was released.
1986 – The first annual induction ceremony for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was held in New York City.
1988 – Nirvana recorded a ten song demo tape with producer Jack Endino. The Melvin’s Dale Crover was on drums.
1997 – The movie “Spice World” was released in the United States.
January 18, 2012
Giacomo Puccini opera “Tosca”
Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou’s 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples’s control of Rome threatened by Napoleon’s invasion of Italy. It contains depictions of torture, murder and suicide, yet also includes some of Puccini’s best-known lyrical arias, and has inspired memorable performances from many of opera’s leading singers.
January 14, 2012
On This Day …
1780 – Composer Francois-Joseph Dizi was born.
1900 – The Giacomo Puccini opera “Tosca” had its world premiere in Rome. The opera made its U.S. debut on February 4, 1901.
1936 – Harriet Hilliard, vocalist and wife of bandleader Ozzie Nelson, sang, “Get Thee Behind Me Satan.”
1973 – Elvis Presley’s “Aloha From Hawaii” concert was broadcast live around the world.
1978 – The Sex Pistols played their last concert before breaking up. The show was in San Francisco, CA.
1989 – Paul McCartney released his album “Back In The U.S.S.R.” exclusively in Russia.
1995 – Pearl Jam performed with Neil Young for a Voters for Choice benefit in Washington.
1997 – The Beach Boys guest starred on ABC-TV’s “Home Improvement”.
1997 – The Spice Girls debut single “Wannabe” was released in the United States.
January 10, 2012
George Gershwin “Rhapsody in Blue”
George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue is a musical composition for solo piano and jazz band written in 1924, which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects.
Commissioned by bandleader Paul Whiteman, the composition was orchestrated by Ferde Grofé three times, in 1924, in 1926, and finally in 1942. The piece received its premiere in a concert entitled An Experiment in Modern Music, which was held on February 12, 1924, in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Whiteman and his band with Gershwin playing the piano.
The editors of the Cambridge Music Handbooks opined that “The Rhapsody in Blue (1924) established Gershwin’s reputation as a serious composer and has since become one of the most popular of all American concert works.”
January 7, 2012
Francis Poulenc birhday
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (7 January 1899 – 30 January 1963) was a French composer and a member of the French group Les six. He composed solo piano music, chamber music, oratorio, choral music, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music. Critic Claude Rostand, in a July 1950 Paris-Presse article, coined the term “half monk, half thug”, a phrase that would often be used to describe Poulenc.
