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Marching Band

Entrance of the Gladiators: military march by Julius Fučík found world fame as a screamer music for circuses

Entrance of the Gladiators is one of the world's most famous marches which has cemented itself in public awareness by...
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The many attempts of Romantic composers to adapt Shakuntala love story from Mahabharata epic

The love story of Shakuntala is first mentioned in the oldest Sanskrit epic of the Mahābhārata which could be traced...
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Beethoven's famous piano trio carried the genre to the Romantic era

Compositions written for a group of three instruments where the leading piano is usually accompanied by a violin and... 2 comments
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The vital source of Lutheran music by Andreas Hammerschmidt

Andreas Hammerschmidt was a German composer and organist of Bohemian birth whose works played an important part in the...
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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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Vivaldi's Bohemian Concerto was the last gift for the dying lute

Within Antonio Vivaldi's creative period, the lute was going out of fashion as the lead solo instrument, though its...
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Walks along Moldau river ended in the greatest symphonic poem of all time

Bedřich Smetana conceived a series of orchestral pieces based on the legends and landscapes of his homeland entitled Má...