Posted by: Andrea Sim on: June 20, 2009
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A name that is known by musicians and music lovers all over the world. This child prodigy was a highly influential Classical era composer. If you listen to a Mozart composition and it transports you to another world, welcome the journey. That would be what they call the “Mozart effect”. It has [...]
Posted by: Andrea Sim on: April 7, 2009
When you think of classical music, three composer’s names tend come up: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Sebastian Bach. Despite them all having been around at different times (though Mozart and Beethoven met briefly in Vienna), they had something in common. They were all geniuses. And they were all not appreciated in [...]
Posted by: Andrea Sim on: January 6, 2009
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born in Caprese in Tuscany, Italy in 1475. He was a Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer, and though he much preferred sculptures to paintings, two of his paintings – the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and The Last Judgment – are considered [...]
Posted by: Andrea Sim on: December 5, 2008
Muzio Clementi was born in Rome in 1752, which happened to be the Classical era of Classical music. The eldest of seven children, he had become the organist in the local church by age 13. Clementi is not quite your average composer (but then, composers aren’t quite average are they?), for his talent drew the [...]
Posted by: Andrea Sim on: November 11, 2008
Who is your Prince Charming? Edward Cullen from the Twilight series is likely to be the answer to that question. The only other fictional character, who has been compared to Edward Cullen, and perhaps preferred by the older fans is none other than Mr. Darcy from Jane Austen’s famous Pride & Prejudice. How do you [...]
