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Bach’s place in history – A Titan
Johann Sebastian Bach is rightly considered the greatest German composer. Admired for both its intellectual and technical depth, Bach’s music transcends his own baroque historical period and remains contempory and fresh irrespective of time, no more so than in the 21st century- where if classical CD sales are [...] Continue Reading…
* September 8th 1841, Nelahozeves CZ – † May 1st 1904, Prague
Antonin Dvorak employed the idioms and melodies of folk music of his native Bohemia and Moravia in symphonic, oratorial, chamber and operatic works.
When Dvořák composed his second string quintet in 1875, and in 1877 it attracted the attention of Johannes Brahms, whom he later befriended.
When asked later in his life why he [...] Continue Reading…
* February 9th, 1885, Vienna – † December 24th 1935, Vienna
Alban Berg an Austrian composer, was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined romanticism with a personal adaptation of other contemporary technique.
Berg had little formal music education before [...] Continue Reading…
*August 22nd 1862, Saint-Germain-en-Laye – † March 25, 1918, Paris
Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel he is considered the most prominent figure working within the style commonly referred to as Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions. Debussy was not only among the most important of all French composers but also a [...] Continue Reading…
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