Hi there! So you are a student studying composition?
Yes, one of my favorite composers was Harry Somers. What about you?
I am mostly familiar with the classical composers. I like Mozart.
Mozart is one of the greats. He started composing at the age of 5!
Yes, so impressive! Child prodigies always make me feel like I need to get my life in order. :-)
Many people don't realize Mozart wrote a lot of popular dance music. Of course dance was much different back then!
That's such a good point! "Dance music" has really changed in meaning over the decades.
period, the major dance styles were noble court dances (see Baroque dance). In the classical music era, the minuet was frequently used as a third movement, although in this context it would not accompany any dancing. The waltz also arose later in the classical era. Both remained part of the romantic music period, which also saw the rise of various other nationalistic dance forms like the barcarolle, mazurka, ecossaise, ballade and polonaise.
Modern popular dance music initially emerged from late 19th century's Western ballroom and
work are Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart in a letter to his father dated November 12, 1778 wrote, "The piece I saw was Benda’s "Medea". He has composed another one, "Ariadne auf Naxos", and both are really excellent. You know that of all the Lutheran Kapellmeisters Benda has always been my favorite, and I like those two works of his so much that I carry them about with me." Although Mozart never wrote a full melodrama, he did create