I started playing the violin in 5th grade.
You mean the stringed instrument sometimes also called a fiddle?
Yes but I was much more classically trained.
So you mostly played western classical tunes, and not any of the other genres violins can be used in? such as folk, country, bluegrass or jazz?
No, I never had much interest in it. I'm a typical Mozart child. Did you play any instruments?
That is very interesting, you are talking about wolfgang amadeus mozart correct? From the classical era? I played a bit of guitar when I was a kid.
I am, I was a huge fan of him growing up. I find his life so interesting, especially the fact he was composing his own music at the age of 6. What sorts of songs did you play?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.
Born in Salzburg, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position. While visiting Vienna in
Rock fiddle.
Rock fiddle, like rock music in general, owes much to American blues. Incorporation of fiddle or violin into rock, as with jazz, has been a slow process, resisted by some critics as an"unlikeliest and perverse misuse of an instrument". Rock has roots in folk music particularly the American folk revival of the 1960s, and thus as a matter of usage some writers refer to "rock fiddle" when discussing playing by classically trained musicians who join rock bands and thus import classical style rather than