Unknown but interesting facts from the lives of the great composers

The great composers left behind a priceless legacy in the form of brilliant pieces of music. Life of geniuses is not a priori can be boring and uninteresting. The survey collected several unknown, but interesting facts from the biographies of some composers.

Joseph Haydn

One day, being a famous composer, Haydn saw on his doorstep the butcher. He asked the Maestro to write a minuet for a wedding March in honor of his daughter. Haydn agreed and the next day he gave the butcher the coveted minuet. A few days later the composer heard loud music from the street, which he hardly recognized his work. Opening the door, Haydn found himself on the threshold of a happy butcher, his daughter and husband, the crowd of wandering musicians and a huge bull with gilded horns, which was presented as a gift to the composer. After this the minuet in C major has been called “the Minuet of the ox”.

Franz Peter Schubert

The famous Austrian composer Franz Peter Schubert wrote his first major Symphony at 17. In the next 15 years of his life he created many brilliant works, but the press refused to publish them. This composer lived more than modestly and was in desperate need of Finance. Finally at the age of 32 years, Schubert gave a concert of his works and collected 800 florins (his first big fee). Of the money the composer was enough to finally buy a piano and to distribute debts. In a few weeks, Schubert was again in need. In the same year, the great composer died, and the list of his assets consisted of only a few suits, a pair of boots, a mattress, pillows and blankets.

Johann Sebastian Bach

B18 century incredibly popular in the Royal courts were the performances of the musicians, composers. So, one day in Dresden arrived French organist Louis Marchand, who wowed the audience with her performance. At the same time, the king heard about the talented Johann Sebastian Bach. Musician from Weimar, was invited to the Royal court.

At the same time, Louis Marchand spoke with a French Aria, supplemented his virtuoso variations. After the speech, the audience sarcastically invited Bach to the piano score. To the universal shock Bach did exactly the composition of Marchand, though he heard her the first time in my life. When Bach plucked up the courage to ask Marchand for creative competition in the to play the organ, the Frenchman decided immediately to leave the country.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

In the last year of his life Mozart desperately needed the money, and aggravated the disease only aggravated the situation. One day on his doorstep, a stranger appeared and on behalf of his master, ordered the composer writing a Requiem. With all his passion, Mozart took up the matter, but because of ill health and looked like he was writing this Requiem for myself. After a composer has died.

The stranger who ordered the Mozart Requiem was count Franz von zu Visigen Stuppach. He wanted to be called a composer that he bought from musicians their work and presenting them as his own. Also count wanted to proceed with the work of Mozart, but it never happened.

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