“ART APPRECIATION”

Mrs. WILMA PELOBELO

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CLAUDE DEBUSSY

Achille-Claude Debussy was born 1862 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France.

He grew up in Cannes and Paris. At age ten Debussy entered the Paris Conservatory, where he spent the next

11 years. He developed into a brilliant pianist, and could have had a professional career as such had he so

wished. After a relatively bohemian period in Paris, Debussy won the Prix de Rome with his cantata L'enfant

prodigue in 1884. Debussy is one of the geniuses of classical music, romantic transitional phase between

romanticism and modernism.

Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg or Schonberg (13 September 1874 – 13 July 1951) was an Austrian-American composer,

music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter. He was associated with the expressionist movement in German

poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School. With the rise of the Nazi Party, Schoenberg’s

works were labeled degenerate music, because they were modernist, atonal and what even Paul Hindemith

called "sonic orgies" and "decadent intellectual efforts" (Petropoulos 2014, 94–95). He emigrated to the

United States in 1934.

 Maurice Ravel

Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor.

In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer. Born to a

music-loving family, Ravel attended France's premier music college, the Paris Conservatoire. He liked to

experiment with musical form, as in his best-known work, Boléro (1928), in which repetition takes the place

of development. He made some orchestral arrangements of other composers' music, of which his 1922

version of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is the best known. Many of his works exist in two versions:

first, a piano score and later an orchestration. Some of his piano music, such as Gaspard de la nuit (1908), is

exceptionally difficult to play, and his complex orchestral works such as Daphnis et Chloé (1912) require

skillful balance in performance.

JONH CAGE

John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A

pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage

was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. Critics have lauded him as one of the most

influential composers of the 20th century. The best known of these is Sonatas and Interludes (1946–48).

In a 1957 lecture, Experimental Music, he described music as "a purposeless play" which is "an affirmation of

life – not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way

of waking up to the very life we're living".

 PHILIP GLASS

Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) [1] is an American composer. He is widely regarded as one of the

most influential musicians of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been described as minimal music.

However, Glass has instead described himself as a composer of "music with repetitive

structures”, which he has helped evolve stylistically. Glass founded the Philip Glass Ensemble, with

which he still performs on keyboards. He has written numerous operas and musical theatre works,

eleven symphonies, eleven concertos, eight string quartets and various other chamber music, and film

scores. Three of his film scores have been nominated for Academy Awards.

EXPERIENCE:
More years had passed, but my love of music until the lasted. My family and I, are truly
“music lover” until now. I like to sing and playing instruments it was started in the church when my
pastors selected those who wanted to joined the competition. In the first, I’m not volunteered to
joined but my friends suggested to my pastors that I have a talent, that is why they choose me for
competition. From that moment I started to joined music competition in the church, sometimes in the
outside competition.

Just like Claude Debussy, Arnold Schoenberg, Maurice Ravel, John Cage, Philip Glass they
are very music lover until the end of their lives.