Beginning piano study with Johann Gottfried Kuntzsch at the young age of six, Robert almost immediately started writing music; with his father's encouragement, he began composing small pieces at the age of seven. ... Eight months later he finalized his decision by writing again to his mother, "I have arrived at the conviction, that with work, patience, and a good master, I shall be able within six years to challenge any pianist."" ... This new duty and a new love interest in Wieck's student Ernestine von Fricken, helped restore his emotional well being which in turn helped his self...

• Word Count: 4114
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Beginning piano study with Johann Gottfried Kuntzsch at the young age of six, Robert almost immediately started writing music; with his father's encouragement, he began composing small pieces at the age of seven. ... Eight months later he finalized his decision by writing again to his mother, "I have arrived at the conviction, that with work, patience, and a good master, I shall be able within six years to challenge any pianist."" ... This new duty and a new love interest in Wieck's student Ernestine von Fricken, helped restore his emotional well being which in turn helped his self...

• Word Count: 4114
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Byron considered Alexander Pope--an important satirist in the Age of Reason--as a model for him and his writing, thus influencing his own satirical style. ... The spirit of Napoleon served as a "spur to Byron's own ambition, his dissidence, the glamour of his arrogancethat permeates his writing" (MacCarthy vii). Napoleon's sense of flamboyance and his overall image fostered Byron's "own creative strain of mockery" (MacCarthy vii). ... Byron is truthfully cruel in his writing while maintaining the romantic thought. ... By writing, he also encouraged people to...

• Word Count: 2505
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate