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Johann Sebastian Bach Germany, Baroque Period

Since most of Bach’s music was written to be performed in a church service only once, very little of his music was published during his lifetime. His musical genius was not

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Johann Sebastian Bach Germany, Baroque Period.

He once had to spend a month in jail be-cause he tried to quit his job composing and playing for a duke. During that month in jail, he wrote forty-six pieces of music, many of which are still performed today.

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Johann Sebastian Bach Germany, Baroque Period

Bach, a dazzling organist and church musician, had to compose all kinds of original pieces for every church ser-vice including pieces for choir, organ,

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George Frederic Handel

Germany, Baroque Period

Handel was the son of a barber-surgeon. His father had definite

plans for his son. He wanted George to become a lawyer, but George was captured by the sound of music.


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When Handel was 8, a Duke overheard him playing the organ. The Duke com-

manded Handel's father to see to it that George had the best possible training in music for he could hear George's talent.


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Handel was an outstanding organist and often traveled all over Europe sharing his musical talents. Handel was so fa-

vored in England that the queen gave him a royal pension to be paid each year.


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Near the end of his life, Handel be-came blind but still continued to per-form on the organ and still composed music by dictating it to a friend who

wrote it down.


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Ludwig van Beethoven

Germany, Classical Period He was forced to practice the piano by his

father, an abusive alcoholic, who would punish him mercilessly when he made mistakes. By

the time he was twelve, he was earning a living for his family by playing organ and composing.


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Germany, Classical Period

One of Beethoven's favorite foods was macaroni and cheese. He never married even though he did propose to plenty of women who rejected him (he wasn't very attractive and he had a nasty temper).

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Beethoven’s 3rd symphony was so differ-ent from the ones that had come before that it changed music forever. Its origi-nality and innovation even inspired others to change the way that they composed.


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Beethoven’s house was dark and disorderly, with blotches of moisture on the ceiling.

Under the piano was an un-emptied chamber pot. The chairs were covered with dirty

dishes and dirty clothes.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Austria, Classical Period

Mozart was no doubt the greatest child star that ever lived. He was traveling all over

Europe playing music by the time he was six. Because of his constant travels, Mozart even-tually learned to speak 15 different languages.


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Mozart was locked in a tower when he was a boy for several days to see if it really

was him that was composing the wonderful music people heard coming from his house. People thought his dad wrote the music.


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Mozart wrote over 600 works during his lifetime. It would take over 8 days to play all of his music, one piece after the next, without stopping. He even composed mu-

sic when his wife was having a baby.


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During his lifetime, Mozart was very well-known but spent money faster than he could earn it. He was poor and in debt when he died of kidney failure at the age of 35 and

was buried in a poor man's grave.


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Mozart is considered to be one of the great-est composer who ever lived. Mozart created masterful works for almost every category of

music - vocal music, concertos, chamber music, symphonies, sonatas and opera.


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Joseph Haydn


Haydn's father was a wagon builder and repairer who loved music and played the harp for his friends and neighbors. As a young boy, Haydn was sent to live with his

uncle, who was a schoolmaster.


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Joseph Haydn

Austria, Classical Period When he was a was teenager, his sense of hu-mor got him into serious trouble with the choir director at school. He cut off one of the pig-tails of the boy in front of him (choir boys at that time wore their hair in pigtails), and he was expelled from the choir and school.

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Joseph Haydn


His sense of humor is often shown in the music he wrote. The Surprise Symphony has very soft passages followed by sud-den, very loud chords to wake up mem-bers of the audience who were sleeping.


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Joseph Haydn


Haydn was a great composer and a very good leader. He took good care of the needs of the other musicians under him. They loved and respected him in return. He was known by them as "Papa" Haydn.


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Richard Wagner

Germany, Romantic Period

At the age of 27 Richard Wagner began work on his monumental cycle of four mu-sical dramas: Der Ring des Nibelungen

(The Ring of the Nibelungs).


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Richard Wagner


Der Ring des Nibelungen, or Ring cycle, is made of four separate operas and about 18 hours of music that includes themes that have specific meanings. These

themes are called leitmotifs.


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Richard Wagner


It took Wagner 22 years to complete The Ring! A special opera house was designed by Wagner and built in Bayreuth, Ger-many so that there would be a home for

The Ring to be performed.


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Richard Wagner


He insisted that the audience should be silent during the performances. Up to this time, it was normal for the audience to chat. He believed the music as a sacred art, and the opera house was it’s temple.


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Richard Wagner


Wagner’s second wife, Cosima, was the daughter of famous composer and pianist Franz Liszt. Although he and Wagner were friends, Liszt was very angry when they

married, and didn’t speak to them for years.


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Gioacchino Rossini

Italy, Romantic Period

Rossini was born on leap day, so he lived 76 years, but only had 18 birthdays. At 15, he entered a music school where he learned to

compose music. Rossini once said to give him a laundry list and he would set it to music!

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Gioacchino Rossini


"The Barber of Seville," was first per-formed in Rome, Italy, when he was only 24. He composed more than 50 operas, the last of which was "William Tell," with its famous overture, storm scene, and ballet music.


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Gioacchino Rossini


Rossini was a lazy man, fond of women, and a very good cook. He liked to host dinner parties for his friends. He had fun teasing

and playing tricks on his friends. His sense of humor is found in his music.


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Gioacchino Rossini


Rossini was married two times and both wives were opera singers. When criti-cized about his life-style, he responded that one should not expect much more of

a man born on leap day!


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Edvard Grieg

Norway, Romantic Period

Grieg is regarded as a hero in Norway. Many of his compositions are based on the sound of Norwegian folk songs. They paint a musical picture of the mountains, forests, and streams of this beautiful country.


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Edvard Grieg


Grieg's first music lessons were from his mother, and he began composing when he was nine years old. When he graduated from the Leipzig Conservatory at 19 years old, he was an accomplished pianist and composer.

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Edvard Grieg


Grieg toured Europe for many years, the re-turned to Norway. He built a little cabin, overlooking the mountains and a fjord, with a piano and a writing desk. Here he wrote some of his most famous compositions .

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Edvard Grieg


Despite In the Hall of the Mountain King being one of Grieg's most popular and enduring com-positions, he himself did not care for it. In a letter to a friend he wrote about the "infernal thing reeking of cow-pies and provincialism."

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George Gershwin

America, Contemporary Period

Gershwin first discovered music when he was 10 years old and heard a friend's vio-lin recital in a school auditorium. He be-gan taking piano lessons and practiced

while his friends played outside.


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George Gershwin


When he was 16, he began working for a publishing company in New York, playing the piano in order to boost sales. From

there he got a job for another publishing company writing songs for $35 a week.


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George Gershwin


George was interested in both 'serious' and popular music, and he composed in

both styles. He was one of the first com-posers to incorporate the characteristics

of Jazz into classical music.


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George Gershwin


It was through his efforts that Jazz achieved a high status as a vital and im-portant American style. George Gershwin died of a brain tumor at 39 years of age despite doctor's efforts to save him.


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John Williams


After serving in the Air Force, he returned to New York to study piano at the Juilliard

School of Music. He worked as a jazz pianist for a time before moving back to Los Angeles

to begin his career in the film studios.

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John Williams


Mr. Williams has composed the music for close to eighty films and has composed some of the most famous themes ever

written for the big screen. He has won 5 Ocsars for his film scores.


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John Williams


Williams has written the music for many movies, such as Superman, ET, Jurassic

Park, the Star Wars Pre-episode and Tril-ogy, the Indiana Jones Trilogy, Home

Alone, and the 1st 3 Harry Potter Movies.


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John Williams


His richly thematic and highly popular 1977 score to the first Star Wars film was selected by the American Film Insti-tute as the greatest American movie

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