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Amsterdam's free spirit for the Italian virtuoso

Pietro Locatelli (1695—1764), Italian violinist and composer, was one of the first great violinists who practiced...
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Sommernacht poem found its composer in a Swiss romantic after a century

Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957) was a remarkable Swiss composer during the first half of the twentieth century. In contrast...
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Classic textbook by great Austrian composer eclipsed his talent

Johann Joseph Fux was an Austrian composer, music theorist, and teacher of the late Baroque era. He is most famous as...
TRADITIONAL

Majestic heart of the ancient Gamelan orchestra

Gamelan is the term used for a traditional musical ensemble in Indonesia, typically refering to a percussion orchestra...
FLUTE

Forest ranger's son fled home to reform the operatic world

Christoph Willibald Gluck was a revolutionary who moved the courtly genre of opera to the way beyond the narrow limits...
ORCHESTRA

Florida orange plantations cultivated an overlooked English composer

Frederick Delius (1862–1934) was one of the most distinctive composers in the revival of English music at the end of the...
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Things Lost In The Fire: Norwegian folk of Geirr Tveitt

The very mindful application of folk music to classical during the early 20th century became a global trend since every...
Trombone

Moonlight Serenade got its name to contrast the sun

Glenn Miller, American big band leader, composer, and trombonist, is considered the primary musical symbol of the World...
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'English Dances' creator was fascinated by jazz in youth

Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold (1921–2006), British composer and conductor, has an impressive body of work to his name,...
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'Mysterious Mountain' creator was not thrilled with its popularity

American composer Alan Hovhaness is perhaps most known for his work Mysterious Mountain, or Symphony No.2, which proved...
TRUMPET

Forgotten German composer behind the shift from Baroque to Classical

Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758) was the leader of the transitional period from late Baroque to early Classical in his...
Violin

Belated appreciation for the history-making Florence Price

The modern rediscovery of the little-known African-American composer Florence Price only began in 2009, when a large...
PIANO

Influential music teacher Nadia Boulanger considered her music worthless

Juliette Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979) was conductor, composer, and one of the most influential teachers of musical... 1 comment
ORCHESTRA

Modern jazz trumpet for gifted Mozart scholar

Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837) was an Austrian composer and outstanding virtuoso pianist during the transition period...
ORCHESTRA

Obscured by Vivaldi, an Italian virtuoso found fans in England

Francesco Saverio Geminiani—influential Italian violinist, composer, and theorist—was born in 1687 in the scenic town of...
ORCHESTRA

The most performed contemporary composer grew up with Bob Marley music

Jennifer Higdon is a contemporary composer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Awards. According to a recent...
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Alessandro Scarlatti: Italian opera innovator was lost in history for two centuries

Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) was among the most important Italian composers of the late Baroque period. His huge...
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Im Sommerwind is an atypical work of the typical modernist composer

Austrian composer Anton Webern rose to fame as a member of the Second Viennese School, a prominent movement known for...
ORCHESTRA

Romeo and Juliet eclipsed by the tragic beauty of Chinese Butterfly Lovers

The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto is one of the best known classical orchestra pieces in China, though a vast...
TRUMPET

Nameless trumpet sonata credited to Purcell after years of debate

Henry Purcell, the most prominent English figure of the Baroque era, covered a wide field of genres, producing music for...
ORCHESTRA

Mother of film score genre learned music through BBC radio broadcasts

Doreen Mary Carwithen, also known as Mary Alwyn, was the first student to be selected from the Royal Academy to join an...
ORCHESTRA

The true soul behind Elgar's Enigma Variations

Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations, originally titled Variations on an Original Theme, is famous for its mysterious name,...
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The lively nature of A Color Symphony emerged from the Great War horrors

A Colour Symphony, dedicated to the legendary conductor Sir Adrian Boult, was the first major orchestral work by the...
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English Idyll through the eyes of the Lost Generation hero

Promising English composer George Butterworth appeared to show no interest in writing symphonic music, instead...
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Dvorak's string serenade is a mirror of his blissful years

For Antonin Dvořák, 1875 was a grand time for both creative productivity and wholesome family life. The birth of his...
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Famous harp masterpiece was created to show off a new instrument

François-Adrien Boieldieu's output of instrumental music was initially meager and virtually ceased once he became one of...
ORCHESTRA

Comic 'Italienische Serenade' was the end of Hugo Wolf

The inspiration for the Italian Serenade came to Hugo Wolf from the novella Leben eines Taugenichts by the German...
Cello

The lost Haydn concerto was found among the Czech castle documents

Cello Concerto in C demonstrates the many facets that are unique to the cello only, from growling low chords to sweet... 1 comment
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Peter Grimes outdoor premiere at Benjamin Britten's home beach

Despite reports that Benjamin Britten paced nervously at the back of the Sadler’s Wells Theatre when Peter Grimes first...
ORCHESTRA

Famous Sibelius piece was commissioned for a plywood mill anniversary

Jean Sibelius originally wrote Andante Festivo for a string quartet which was later made all the more luscious when he...

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