1. Read article excerpts below, you may read the whole article or just excerpts highlighted.
2. Answer the questions below: (For this week’s discussion you may copy and paste and answer all the following questions below in complete sentences with supporting statements or you may answer essay style)
Describe in your own words:
Who do you think Mozart was as a person?
Who you think Beethoven was as person?
(Consider his struggles, his search for fame, his intellectual capacity? Were they understood by their loved ones, peers, society, family members? How were they perceived by others, etc?)
How do you think their life, story, childhood, challenges affected them as artists and composers?
Do you think they were influenced by their community, society, culturally?
Consider social class organization
Shift of political power into the new Middle Class
Emancipation of the composer and musician
Were there any major people who were influential in their music and style?
Consider family members, composers, important public figures.
What about their music appeals to you?
Is there anything you can identify with either of these composers in your own journey of pursuing your dreams, education? Please check for grammar, spelling, essay format and punctuation.
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