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  • Matteo Carcassi

    Matteo Carcassi's guitar etudes of early Romanticism are still relevant for teaching classical guitar

    Matteo Carcassi was an Italian guitar composer whose creative period coincided with the expansion of classical music...
  • Sakhawat Hussain

    Sakhawat Hussain's sarod cast a magical spell rooted in the Afghan rubab traditions

    Sakhawat Hussain Khan was an Indian musician whose outstanding performing technique on sarod could serve as a starting...
  • Cricket

    Crickets choir: musical examples imitating rhythmic patterns of chorusing insects

    One of the most mesmerizing sounds in nature is the bizarre rhythmic patterns generated by chorusing insects. While...
  • George Antheil

    Scandalous piano experiments by George Antheil shocked early avant-garde scene

    George Antheil was an American pianist and composer whose extraordinary works are mainly associated with the avant-garde...
  • Germaine Tailleferre

    Germaine Tailleferre as a member of Les Six composers group guided by Jean Cocteau

    Germaine Tailleferre was a gifted pianist and composer whose role in the search for new French musical aesthetics of the...
  • Franz Berwald

    Franz Berwald: iconic composer of Scandinavian Romanticism was forced to earn a living as an orthopedist

    Franz Berwald was a Swedish composer whose works were not particularly popular during his lifetime but who, decades...
  • The Garifuna Collective

    The art of Caribbean rhythms by the Garifuna Collective

    Garifuna music is closely related to the culture of the Garifuna people living primarily on the Caribbean coast of...
  • Bruno Maderna

    Сontemporary orchestration of early Italian music by Bruno Maderna

    Bruno Maderna was an outstanding Italian conductor and composer whose music was mostly associated with avant-garde and...
  • Surrealistic Pillow cover art for French issue

    Surrealistic Pillow as the ultimate psychedelic experience pioneered by Jefferson Airplane

    Released in 1967, Surrealistic Pillow was Jefferson Airplane's second album which not only set a departure point for the...
  • Luigi Legnani Guitar Model 1827 by René Lacôte

    The guitar caprices of Luigi Legnani imbued with famous Paganini works

    Luigi Legnani was a guitar composer whose most active years coincided with the rise of the Romantic period which was...
  • Lydian delegation at Apadana

    Lydian mode: famous examples throughout the music history

    Major and minor modes are the most used diatonic scales in classical and popular music due to their versatile structure...
  • Gauhar Jaan

    Gauhar Jaan: India's first-ever recorded musician

    The first-ever recording of Indian music was made by Fred Gaisberg, an American musician and engineer traveling around...
  • Afel Bocoum

    Traditions of Malian music spread worldwide through Afel Bocoum and Damon Albarn collaboration

    The famous Malian songwriter Afel Bocoum began his musical career in the 1960s at the age of thirteen when he joined the...
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Symphonic scores by Erich Wolfgang Korngold established new standards in the film industry

    Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austrian pianist and composer whose contribution to film music has actually set the...
  • Ernest Chausson

    Ernest Chausson as the first promoter of nascent impressionism

    Ernest Chausson was a composer who, despite his rather humble body of work, still played a crucial role in the history...
  • Abida Parveen

    The best Qawwali lyrics performed by prominent singers of the century

    Phool Khil Jaaye by Abida Parveen and Asrar Shah Mere dil ki banjar zameen pe Oh maula Mere dil ki banjar zameen pe Mere...
  • Horacio Salgán

    The avant-garde tango by Horacio Salgán that shocked audiences in the 1950s

    Horacio Salgán was an Argentinean pianist who took the concept of how tango should sound and flipped it on its head by...
  • Charles Avison LP cover

    The first English musical criticism written by Charles Avison argued that music evokes purely positive emotions

    The fascination with the innermost working of the human mind and the nature of its response to certain triggers have...
  • Peter Sinfield by Gianni Ansaldi

    Peter Sinfield: the songwriter whose lyrics embellished the formative prog rock albums of the 1970s

    Peter Sinfield is an iconic songwriter who has written for most influential albums of the prog-rock genre released...
  • Anton Diabelli by Josef Kriehuber

    Anton Diabelli: prolific composer and arranger excelled in publishing guitar and piano music for beginners

    Anton Diabelli was an Austrian composer best known during the early Romantic period for his work as a music publisher...

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