Rita Steblin
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Rita Katherine Steblin is a Canadian-born musicologist, noted for her archival work combining music history, iconography and genealogical research.
After obtaining degrees in Vancouver
, Toronto
and Urbana
, Ill., and studying at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Vienna, she worked in Canada
(mainly in Vancouver
) and since 1991 in Vienna
, Austria
, first at the Internationales Franz Schubert Institut and then as an independent researcher.
Steblin is a renowned authority on Ludwig van Beethoven
, Franz Schubert
, Key Characteristics and musical and social life in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century in Austria
(including Hungary
and Bohemia
).
After obtaining degrees in Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
, Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
and Urbana
Urbana, Illinois
Urbana is the county seat of Champaign County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 41,250. Urbana is the tenth-most populous city in Illinois outside of the Chicago metropolitan area....
, Ill., and studying at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Vienna, she worked in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
(mainly in Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
) and since 1991 in Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
, first at the Internationales Franz Schubert Institut and then as an independent researcher.
Steblin is a renowned authority on Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
, Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
, Key Characteristics and musical and social life in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century in Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
(including Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
and Bohemia
Bohemia
Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western two-thirds of the traditional Czech Lands. It is located in the contemporary Czech Republic with its capital in Prague...
).
Subject Beethoven
- Steblin, Rita & Samuel Geiser (1991): “The Unknown Portrait of Beethoven as a Thirteen-Year-Old,” The Beethoven Newsletter 6: 57, S. 64-67.
- Steblin, Rita (1992), "The newly discovered Hochenecker portrait of Beethoven (1819), 'das ähnlichste Bildnis Beethovens'", Journal of the American Musicological SocietyAmerican Musicological SocietyThe American Musicological Society is a membership-based musicological organization founded in 1934 to advance scholarly research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship; it grew out of a small contingent of the Music Teachers National Association and, more directly,...
, Vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 468-497. - Steblin, Rita (1993/1994): “Beethoven’s Life Mask of 1812 Reconsidered.” Beethoven Newsletter, vol. 8/3 & 9/1, pp. 66-70.
- Steblin, Rita (1996), “Beethovens Lebendmaske in einem Bericht von C. F. Pohl,” in: Wiener Beethoven-Gesellschaft Mitteilungsblatt 27/1: S. 1-4.
- Steblin, Rita (1999), “So wurde nach Ferd. Schubert’s Entwurfe Beethovens Grabmahl aufgeführt,” in: Wiener Beethoven-Gesellschaft Mitteilungsblatt 30/3-4: S. 9-16.
- Steblin, Rita (2000): “Hoechle’s 1827 Sketch of Beethoven’s Studio: A Secret Tribute to Schubert?” Beethoven Forum, vol. 8, pp. 1-23.
- Steblin, Rita (2001): Letter to the Editor on the Immortal BelovedImmortal BelovedImmortal Beloved may refer to:*Immortal Beloved, the name given by composer Ludwig van Beethoven to an unknown person in a famous love letter.*Immortal Beloved , a 1994 film about the life of Beethoven....
(re: Almerie Esterházy). Beethoven Society Journal, vol. 16/1, pp. 45-48. - Steblin, Rita (2001): "Beethoven’s Immortal BelovedImmortal BelovedImmortal Beloved may refer to:*Immortal Beloved, the name given by composer Ludwig van Beethoven to an unknown person in a famous love letter.*Immortal Beloved , a 1994 film about the life of Beethoven....
: Evidence against Almerie Esterházy". Abstracts of Papers Read at the Meeting of the American Musicological SocietyAmerican Musicological SocietyThe American Musicological Society is a membership-based musicological organization founded in 1934 to advance scholarly research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship; it grew out of a small contingent of the Music Teachers National Association and, more directly,...
, Sixty-Seventh Annual Meeting, November 15–18, p. 56. http://www.ams-net.org/abstracts/2001-Atlanta.pdf - Steblin, Rita (2001): “Ein wenig bekanntes Beethoven-Porträt,” in: Wiener Beethoven-Gesellschaft Mitteilungsblatt 32/2: S. 1-4.
- Steblin, Rita (2002), "Josephine Gräfin Brunswick-DeymJosephine BrunsvikJosephine Brunsvik was probably the most important woman in the life of Ludwig van Beethoven, as documented by at least 15 love letters he wrote her where he called her his “only beloved”, being “eternally devoted” to her and “forever faithful”...
s Geheimnis enthüllt: Neue Ergebnisse zu ihrer Beziehung zu Beethoven." (Josephine Countess Brunsvik-Deym's Secret Revealed: New Results about her Relationship to Beethoven.) Österreichische Musikzeitschrift 57/6 (June), pp. 23–31. - Steblin, Rita (2003): “’Höchle zeichnete mir diesen Leichenzug’. Anton Gräffer, Johann Nepomuk Hoechle und die verschollene Zeichnung von Beethovens Begräbnisfeier.” Wiener Geschichtsblätter, vol. 58/4, pp. 299-315.
- Steblin, Rita (2005), "Reminiscences of Beethoven in Anton Gräffer's unpublished memoirs: a legacy of the Viennese biography project of 1827." Bonner Beethoven-Studien 4, pp. 149-189.
- Steblin, Rita (2006): “Who Died? The Funeral March in Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony.” The Musical Quarterly, vol. 89/1, pp. 62-79.
- Skwara, Dagmar/Steblin, Rita (2007): "Ein Brief Christoph Freiherr von Stackelbergs an Josephine BrunsvikJosephine BrunsvikJosephine Brunsvik was probably the most important woman in the life of Ludwig van Beethoven, as documented by at least 15 love letters he wrote her where he called her his “only beloved”, being “eternally devoted” to her and “forever faithful”...
-Deym-Stackelberg." (A Letter by Christoph Baron von Stackelberg to Josephine BrunsvikJosephine BrunsvikJosephine Brunsvik was probably the most important woman in the life of Ludwig van Beethoven, as documented by at least 15 love letters he wrote her where he called her his “only beloved”, being “eternally devoted” to her and “forever faithful”...
-Deym-Stackelberg.) Bonner Beethoven-Studien, vol. 6, pp. 181–187. - Steblin, Rita (2007): "'Auf diese Art mit A geht alles zugrunde'. A New Look at Beethoven's Diary Entry and the 'Immortal BelovedImmortal BelovedImmortal Beloved may refer to:*Immortal Beloved, the name given by composer Ludwig van Beethoven to an unknown person in a famous love letter.*Immortal Beloved , a 1994 film about the life of Beethoven....
'." Bonner Beethoven-Studien, vol. 6, pp. 147–180. - Steblin, Rita (2007): “Joseph Deym and His Wax Museum: A Transitional Artist Important to Mozart and Beethoven.” International Musicological Society Meeting, Zürich.
- Steblin, Rita (2007): “Beethovens Beziehungen zu Wiener Klavierbauern um 1800 im Licht neuer Dokumente der Familie Brunswick,” in: Das Wiener Klavier bis 1850, ed. Beatrix Darmstädter, Alfons Huber, Rudolf Hopfner (Tutzing: Hans Schneider), S. 73-82.
- Steblin, Rita (2009): "Beethovens 'Unsterbliche Geliebte': des Rätsels Lösung." (Beethoven's "Immortal BelovedImmortal BelovedImmortal Beloved may refer to:*Immortal Beloved, the name given by composer Ludwig van Beethoven to an unknown person in a famous love letter.*Immortal Beloved , a 1994 film about the life of Beethoven....
": the Riddle Solved.) Österreichische Musikzeitschrift 64/2, pp. 4–17. - Steblin, Rita (2009): "Beethoven’s Name in Viennese Conscription Records." Beethoven Journal 24/1, S. 4–13.
- Steblin, Rita (2010): Letter to the Editor, “Beethoven’s belovedImmortal BelovedImmortal Beloved may refer to:*Immortal Beloved, the name given by composer Ludwig van Beethoven to an unknown person in a famous love letter.*Immortal Beloved , a 1994 film about the life of Beethoven....
.” The Musical Times, vol. 151 (Autumn), pp. 2-4.
Subject Schubert
- Steblin, Rita (1991): “Neue Gedanken zu Schuberts 'Toten-Maske'.” Schubert durch die Brille, vol. 6, pp. 66-70.
- Steblin, Rita (1992), "Ein unbekanntes frühes Schubert-Porträt? Franz Schubert und der Maler Josef Abel." Jahresgabe […] für die Mitglieder des Internationalen Franz-Schubert-Instituts (IFSI) und der Deutschen Schubert-Gesellschaft e.V., Tutzing. ISBN/ISMN: 3795207436.
- Steblin, Rita (1992): “Franz Schubert und das Ehe-Consens Gesetz von 1815.” Schubert durch die Brille, vol. 9, pp. 32-42. In French in: Cahiers F. Schubert 2 (1993), pp. 17-26.
- Steblin, Rita (1992): “Die Atzenbrugger Gäste-Listen – neu entdeckt. Ein wichtiger Beitrag zur Schubert-Ikonographie” Schubert durch die Brille, vol. 9, pp. 65-80.
- Steblin, Rita (1993): “Nochmals die Atzenbrugger Gäste-Listen.” Schubert durch die Brille, vol. 10, pp. 35-41.
- Steblin, Rita (1993): “Schwinds Porträtskizze 'Schubert am Klavier'” Schubert durch die Brille, vol. 10, pp. 45-52.
- Steblin, Rita (1993): “Neue Forschungsaspekte zu Caroline Esterházy.” Schubert durch die Brille, vol. 11, pp. 21-33.
- Steblin, Rita (1993): “Schubert und der Maler Josef Teltscher.” Schubert durch die Brille, vol. 11, pp. 118-132.
- Steblin, Rita (1993), "The Peacock's Tale: Schubert's Sexuality Reconsidered." 19th century music. - Berkeley, California: Univ. of California Press, ISSN 0148-2076, ZDB-ID 4395712, T 17., 1, pp. 5-33.
- Agawu, Victor Kofi (1993), "Schubert's Sexuality: A Prescription for Analysis?" Nineteenth-Century Music 17/1, pp. 79-82.
- McClary, SusanSusan McClarySusan McClary is a musicologist associated with the "New Musicology". Noted for her work combining musicology and a feminist music criticism, McClary is Professor of Musicology at Case Western Reserve University.-Biography:...
(1993), "Music and Sexuality: On the Steblin/SolomonMaynard SolomonMaynard Solomon has carried out a multiple career: he was a co-founder of Vanguard Records as well as a music producer, and later became a writer on music.-Career in the recording industry:...
Debate." Nineteenth-Century Music 17/1, pp. 83-88. - Steblin, Rita (1994): “Le mariage malheureux de Caroline Esterházy. Une histoire authentique, telle que’elle est retracée dans les lettres de la famille Crenneville.” Cahiers F. Schubert, vol. 5, pp. 17-34.
- Steblin, Rita (1994): “Unbekannte Dokumente über Schubert und die Klavierwerkstatt von Conrad Graf in Währing.” Schubert durch die Brille, vol. 12, pp. 49-53.
- Steblin, Rita (1994): “Friedrich Lieders Schubert-Porträt von 1827.” Schubert durch die Brille, vol. 12, pp. 92-100.
- Steblin, Rita (1996), Babette und Therese Kunz: neue Forschungen zum Freundeskreis um Franz Schubert und Leopold Kupelwieser, Wien: Vom Pasqualatihaus. ISBN/ISMN: 3901254161.
- Steblin, Rita (1997), “Schubert’s ‘Nina’ and the True Peacocks.” The Musical Times 138, pp. 13-19.
- Steblin, Rita (1997): “Schubert durch das Kaleidoskop” (English version: “Schubert Through the Kaleidoscope”). Österreichische Musikzeitschrift, vol. 52/1-2 (Schubert Special 1997), pp. 52-61.
- Steblin, Rita (1998), "Schubert and the Pfarre Rossau." Studien zur Musikwissenschaft, Vol. 46, pp. 153-173.}
- Steblin, Rita (1999): “Schubert’s Role in the Unsinnsgesellschaft as Revealed by Clues from Schiller and Aschenschlägel,” in: Eva Badura-Skoda et al. (ed.): Franz Schubert und seine Freunde, Vienna: Böhlau, pp. 238-245.
- Steblin, Rita (1999): Letter to the Editor. “Antwort an M. SolomonMaynard SolomonMaynard Solomon has carried out a multiple career: he was a co-founder of Vanguard Records as well as a music producer, and later became a writer on music.-Career in the recording industry:...
von Rita Steblin.” Österreichische Musikzeitschrift, vol. 54/9, pp. 70-71. - Steblin, Rita (1999), “Schubert’s Elise. Das Dörfchen and the ‘Unsinnsgesellschaft’.” The Musical Times 140, pp. 33-43.
- Steblin, Rita (2001), "Schubert’s Problematic Relationship with Johann MayrhoferJohann MayrhoferJohann Baptist Mayrhofer , was an Austrian poet and librettist. He is best known for his close friendship with the composer Franz Schubert.-Biography:...
: New Documentary Evidence", in: Barbara Haggh (ed.): Essays on Music and Culture in Honor of Herbert Kellman, pp. 465–495. - Steblin, Rita (2001), "Franz Schubert – das dreizehnte Kind." Wiener Geschichtsblätter, 3, pp. 245–265.
- Steblin, Rita (2002), "The SchoberFranz von SchoberFranz Adolf Friedrich Schober, since 1801 von Schober was an Austrian poet, librettist, lithographer, actor in Breslau and Legationsrat in Weimar....
family's 'tiefe sittliche Verdorbenheit' as revealed in spy reports from 1810 about Ludovica and her mother." Schubert durch die Brille 29. Hans Schneider, Tutzing, pp. 39-65. - Steblin, Rita (2002), "Unknown Documents about Kremsmünster Students in the Schubert Circle." Schubert: Perspektiven 2, pp. 57-116.
- Steblin, Rita (2002): “Schubert’s Beloved Singer Therese Grob: New Documentary Research.” Schubert durch die Brille, vol. 28, pp. 55-100.
- Steblin, Rita (2003), "Schubert's Hidden Past as Caricatured by the Unsinngesellschaft: the Painter Carl Zimmermann and the Jewish Connection/" The past in the present Vol. 1, pp .263-286.
- Steblin, Rita; Stocken, FrederickFrederick StockenJames Frederick Stocken is a British classical composer, organist and musicologist.-Background:Stocken's father is British but his mother was a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany....
(2007), "Studying with SechterSimon SechterSimon Sechter was an Austrian music theorist, teacher, organist, conductor and composer.Sechter was born in Friedberg , Bohemia, then part of the Austrian Empire, and moved to Vienna in 1804, succeeding Jan Václav Voříšek as court organist there in 1824. In 1810 he began teaching piano and voice...
: newly Recovered Reminiscences about Schubert by his Forgotten Friend, the Composer Joseph Lanz." Music & Letters, Oxford: Univ. Press, ISSN 0027-4224, vol. 88, pp. 226-265. - Steblin, Rita (2007): “Schuberts Cousine Lenchen: Magdalena Sandler und ihre Familie.” Wiener Geschichtsblätter, vol. 62/4, pp. 30-47.
- Steblin, Rita (2008): “The Child Schubert in Conrad Graf’s Piano Workshop in Währing.” The Schubertian, vol. 59, pp. 6-14.
- Steblin, Rita (2008), "Schober’s Love Affair with Marie von Spaun and the Role Played by Helene Schmith, the Wife of Mozart’s First Violinist." Schubert: Perspektiven 8, pp. 48-86.
- Steblin, Rita (2008), “Schubert’s Pepi: His Love Affair with the Chambermaid Josepha Pöcklhofer and Her Surprising Fate.” The Musical Times, pp. 47-69.
- Steblin, Rita (2009): “The Repertoire of the Hofmusikkapelle (1808-1812) as Cited in Johann Nepomuk Chotek’s Diary.” Schubert: Perspektiven, vol. 9/1, pp. 90-107.
Other Subjects
- Steblin, Rita (1983), A History of Key Characteristics in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, ISBN 0835714187. Second edition: Rochester University Press 2002. ISBN 1-58046-041-0.
- Arnn, John (1983), "Review Rita Steblin: A History of Key Characteristics in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries.", MLA Notes, pp. 287-289.
- Ambrose, Jane (1984), "Review Rita Steblin: A History of Key Characteristics in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries.", The American Recorder, pp. 147-148.
- Berger, Karol (1984), "Review Rita Steblin: A History of Key Characteristics in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries.", Music & Letters 66, pp. 388-391.
- Steblin, Rita (1984), "Did HandelHANDELHANDEL was the code-name for the UK's National Attack Warning System in the Cold War. It consisted of a small console consisting of two microphones, lights and gauges. The reason behind this was to provide a back-up if anything failed....
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?" The Music Review 45, pp. 179-193. - Steblin, Rita (1986), "Key Characteristics and Haydn’s Operas." Internationaler Joseph Haydn Kongress Wien 1982, ed. Eva Badura-Skoda, Munich: Henle, pp. 91-100.
- Steblin, Rita (1987), "Towards a History of Absolute Pitch Recognition.” College Music Symposium 27, pp. 141-153.
- Steblin, Rita (1990), "Death as a Fiddler: the Study of a Convention in European Art, Literature and Music." Basler Jahrbuch für historische Musikpraxis. Vol. 14, pp. 271-322.
- Steblin, Rita (1991): “Eine Violine aus dem Besitz von Leopold Mozart?” Gerhard Stradner (ed.): Die Klangwelt Mozarts. Vienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum, pp. 32-37, 194-195.
- Steblin, Rita (1992): “Healey Willan’s Inscribed Copy of John Coulter’s Deirdre of the Sorrows.” Canadian University Music Review, vol. 12, pp. 113-122.
- Steblin, Rita (1995): “The Gender Stereotyping of Musical Instruments in the Western Tradition.” Canadian University Music Review. Voices of Women: Essays in Honour of Violet Archer, vol. 16/1, pp. 128-144.
- Steblin, Rita (2000): “Haydn’s Orgeldienst in der damaligen Gräfl. Haugwitzischen Kapelle.” Wiener Geschichtsblätter, vol. 55/2, pp. 124-134.
- Steblin, Rita (2005): “Anton Gräffer’s Reminiscences of Paganini’s 1828 Concert Tour in Vienna: An Inside View of the First Rehearsal and the Break with Antonia Bianchi.” Ad Parnassu (Bologna: Ut Orpheus Edizioni) vol. 3/6, pp. 1-24.
- Steblin, Rita (2007), "Anton WalterAnton WalterAnton Walter was a builder of pianos. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians describes him as "the most famous Viennese piano maker of his time".-Life:...
's Difficult Early Years in Vienna: New Documents, 1772-1779." Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, vol. 33, pp. 41-75. - Steblin, Rita (2008), "Viennese Woodwind Makers in the Classical Era, with Emphasis on Friedrich Lempp's Request for Protection in 1768." Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, vol. 34, pp. 26-73.
- Steblin, Rita (2009), "Weber-Notizen eines Prager Adligen: Johann Nepomuk von Choteks Tagebücher 1813–1823 in Bezug auf Carl Maria von WeberCarl Maria von WeberCarl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school....
." Weberiana, vol. 19. - Steblin, Rita (2009): “A Problem Solved: The Identity of Georg Friedrich Richter, Virtuoso ‘Claviermeister’ from Holland, Mozart’s Friend and Partner in the Trattnerhof Subscription Concerts of 1784.” Newsletter of the Mozart Society of America, vol. 13/2, pp. 5-9.
- Steblin, Rita (2009): “Early Viennese Fortepiano Production: Anton Walter and New Inventions by Johann Georg Volkert in 1777-1783.” Studien zur Musikwissenschaft, vol. 55, pp. 269-302.
- Steblin, Rita (2010): “Neue Fakten zu Johann Strauß und Joseph Lanner: Die Frauen-Freundschaft zwischen Magdalena Schubert, Therese Grob und Anna Streim.” Wiener Geschichtsblätter, vol. 65/4, pp. 265-279.
See also
- Ludwig van BeethovenLudwig van BeethovenLudwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
, Immortal BelovedImmortal BelovedImmortal Beloved may refer to:*Immortal Beloved, the name given by composer Ludwig van Beethoven to an unknown person in a famous love letter.*Immortal Beloved , a 1994 film about the life of Beethoven....
, Josephine BrunsvikJosephine BrunsvikJosephine Brunsvik was probably the most important woman in the life of Ludwig van Beethoven, as documented by at least 15 love letters he wrote her where he called her his “only beloved”, being “eternally devoted” to her and “forever faithful”... - Franz SchubertFranz SchubertFranz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
- Josef AbelJosef AbelJosef Abel was an Austrian historical painter and etcher.Abel was born in Aschach an der Donau, Upper Austria. He visited the Academy in Vienna, which was at the time directed by Friedrich Heinrich Füger, and was one of his best scholars...
, Joseph HaydnJoseph HaydnFranz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...
, Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
, Carl Maria von WeberCarl Maria von WeberCarl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school....