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Aaron Copland
United States, Contemporary Period
Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New
York on 1900, and died in 1990. He was a
talented composer, pianist, conductor, and
teacher.
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Aaron Copland
United States, Contemporary Period
Copland’s family were not musical at all. His
parents had never even been to a concert.
After several attempts at learning music,
including a correspondence course, Copland
eventually went to Europe to study music.
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Aaron Copland
United States, Contemporary Period
Copland borrowed from American legends
and folk music and incorporated them into
his music. He was one of the first compos-
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rhythms into symphonic music.
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Aaron Copland
United States, Contemporary Period
He was very helpful to other young compos-
ers, often promoting their music along with
his own. Because Copland had a habit of
composing at night with the help of his
noisy piano, he had to move several times.
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Giovanni Palestrina
Italy, Renaissance
Palestrina was one of the greatest compos-
ers of the Renaissance. This is the same
time period that Columbus, Shakespeare,
and Leonardo da Vinci lived in. The printing
press was newly invented as well.
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Giovanni Palestrina
Italy, Renaissance
Palestrina wrote most of his music for the
church, and is very well-known for his
masses. Palestrina was also a master of po-
lyphony, in which two or more melodic lines
are played at the same time.
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Giovanni Palestrina
Italy, Renaissance
The decade of the 1570s was difficult for
him personally; he lost his brother, two of
his sons, and his wife in three separate out-
breaks of the plague. He considered be-
coming a priest at this time, but didn’t.
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Giovanni Palestrina
Italy, Renaissance
Palestrina married again later in his life to a
wealthy widow. He was financially inde-
pendent for the first time in his life, and
concentrated on composing music until his
death in 1594.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Italy, Baroque
Vivaldi lived from 1678 - 1741. His nick-
name was the "Red Priest" because of his
red hair. Vivaldi was trained for music and
became a Priest, until he had to leave the
priesthood due to ill health.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Italy, Baroque
Vivaldi taught music at an orphanage for
girls. It was not appropriate for the audi-
ence to clap when the orphanage’s orches-
tra played, so they shuffled their feet on
the ground to show appreciation.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Italy, Baroque
One of his most famous works is “The Four
Seasons.” His music is often played on TV
commercials and movies, including Superman
Returns, The Shaggy Dog, Flubber, and 85
other movies!
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Antonio Vivaldi
Italy, Baroque
His personality was one of contrasts -
quickly changing from irritated to very
calm. His music reflected this trait. It also
showed contrasts in dynamics, harmony and
varied rhythms.
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Friedrich Kuhlau
Germany, Classical Period
Kuhlau was born 1786 and died in 1832. His
father, grandfather, and uncle all played
the oboe in military bands. He had two
brothers and two sisters. His family was
quite poor and moved often.
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Friedrich Kuhlau
Germany, Classical Period
When he was seven, Friedrich slipped on ice
in the street and injured his right eye,
causing him to loose that eye. During his
long recovery indoors, he spent much of his
time at the piano, learning to master it.
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Friedrich Kuhlau
Germany, Classical Period
When asked if the accident that caused
him to loose his eye was not a great misfor-
tune, he answered: "No, that was good,
otherwise I would not have been a
musician."
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Friedrich Kuhlau
Germany, Classical Period
He wrote many sonatinas and sonatas for
the piano, and are still very popular for pi-
ano students to learn. He was good friends
with Beethoven, and they admired each
others work.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Germany, Romantic Period
Mendelssohn was born in 1809 and died in
1847. He is said to be the greatest child
prodigy since Mozart, playing both the piano
and the violin, painting, and able to speak
four different languages.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Germany, Romantic Period
Mendelssohn started playing the piano at
the age of four and was composing at eight,
by which time he had memorized all the Bee-
thoven symphonies and could play them on
the piano.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Germany, Romantic Period
Mendelssohn formed the Bach Admiration Society, and performed music by Bach as
much as possible. It is because of him that
Bach’s music was brought out of obscurity
and became the well-known music it is today.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Germany, Romantic Period
One of Mendelssohn’s most famous pieces is
the Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream. It was written when he was only 17 years old! It has been played at
many wedding the world over.
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Antonin Dvorak
Bohemia, Romantic Period
Dvorak lived from 1841-1904. His father
was a butcher, and he wanted Antonin to be-
come a butcher, too. Fortunately, an uncle
noticed how musical Antonin was, and paid
for him to take organ lessons
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Antonin Dvorak
Bohemia, Romantic Period
Dvorak found a job as a church organist, but
what he really wanted to do was compose; so
he entered his compositions in a govern-
ment-sponsored contest and won!
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Antonin Dvorak
Bohemia, Romantic Period
Dvorak was a Nationalistic composer. This
means he used folk tunes and dance rhythms
from his native country in his music, and
wrote about local legends, history, and
landscapes
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Antonin Dvorak
Bohemia, Romantic Period
Dvorak taught composition at the Prague
Conservatory and in New York City. The last
of Dvorak’s nine symphonies was written in
the United States, and is nicknamed “From
the New World.”
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Maurice Ravel
France, Impressionistic Period
Ravel lived from 1875—1937. He is probably
best known for his orchestral work, Boléro,
which he considered trivial and once de-
scribed as "a piece for orchestra without
music."
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Maurice Ravel
France, Impressionistic Period
Ravel studied music at the Paris Conservatory.
In addition to his studies, he went to lots of
parties with a group of friends nicknamed “the
hooligans.” He also prided himself on having
the best collection of neckties in Paris.
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Maurice Ravel
France, Impressionistic Period
Ravel wanted to be a pilot in the French Army
during WWI. He thought his small size and
light weight would be an advantage, but he was
rejected because of his frail health. He in-
stead drove a truck for the Army.
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Maurice Ravel
France, Impressionistic Period
Ravel wrote an opera called L'enfant et les
sortilèges (The Child and the Enchant-
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ished when furniture and animals assume
personalities of their own.
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Franz Liszt
Hungary, Romantic Period
Franz lived from 1811- 1886. He received
his first music lessons from his father when
he was six years old. He quickly displayed
incredible talent, easily sight-reading the
most difficult music he could find.
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Franz Liszt
Hungary, Romantic Period
He attended a concert by the virtuoso violin-
ist Paganini and became suddenly determined
to become as great a virtuoso on the piano
as Paganini was on the violin. He was often
heard practicing for over 5 hours a day.
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Franz Liszt
Hungary, Romantic Period
Liszt was a great showman and very dra-
matic. When he came on the stage, he slowly
peeled off his white gloves, and threw them
to the audience. Women used to fight the
gloves, often ripping them to pieces.
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Franz Liszt
Hungary, Romantic Period
The composer Chopin influenced Liszt, and
encouraged him to be a serious composer.
Liszt eventually composed over 1000 works
for the piano. Chopin and Liszt started out
as friends, but became serious competitors.
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Georg Phillip Telemann
Germany, Baroque
Telleman lived from 1681- 1767. He came
from a long line of ministers, so everyone
expected him to become one too. As a child,
however, he showed enormous musical talent,
mastering the violin, recorder, and keyboard.
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Georg Phillip Telemann
Germany, Baroque
Telemann went to the university, to study law.
His roommate found out that Telemann was a
composer, and arranged to have one of his
pieces performed. Telemann was soon writing
music for the biggest church in town.
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Georg Phillip Telemann
Germany, Baroque During his life, Telemann was famous. He was
considered Germany’s greatest living composer.
He was friends with most of his fellow compos-
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tian Bach’s sons; Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach.
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Georg Phillip Telemann
Germany, Baroque
Much of Telemann’s music was written for
church use. However, he also wrote for
public concerts. He helped popularize the
French –style orchestral suite, which
included dance music.
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Muzio Clementi
Italy, Classical Period
Clementi lived from 1752—1832. When he
was 9 years old he was appointed as the
organist at his church. He was composing
music by the time he was 12 years old.
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Muzio Clementi
Italy, Classical Period
Clementi was in a famous “piano duel” with
Mozart that was arranged with the Emperor.
Both men played their own compositions, im-
provised, and sight read. There was no clear
winner of the duel - in ended being a draw.
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Muzio Clementi
Italy, Classical Period
Clementi had a great influence in how piano
was taught. The pieces and technical stud-
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all over the world. Beethoven used much of
Clementi’s music with his own students.
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Muzio Clementi
Italy, Classical Period
Clementi was a successful businessman. He
established a firm to publish music and build
pianos. He traveled all over Europe selling
his pianos, and convinced Beethoven to let
him publish his music.
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Richard and Roger Sherman
United States, Contemporary Period
Richard and Roger’s father bet them that
they “couldn’t write a song that kids would
be willing to spend their lunch money on.”
Out of this challenge came one of the
greatest team of song-writers in history.
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Richard and Roger Sherman
United States, Contemporary Period
The Sherman Brothers composed “It’s a
Small World” in 1964. Since then, "Small
World" has become the most translated and
performed song on earth.
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Richard and Roger Sherman
United States, Contemporary Period
The Sherman Brothers have composed the
music for The Jungle Book, The Aristocats,
The Parent Trap, Charlotte's Web, The
Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, and
Mary Poppins, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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Richard and Roger Sherman
United States, Contemporary Period
Feed the Birds, which the Sherman Brothers wrote for Mary Poppins, was Walt Disney’s
favorite song. He would often ask them to
“play it” and they knew he was referring to
that song.
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Jeff Moss
United States, Contemporary Period
Jeff Moss, one of the creators of Sesamie
Street, lived from 1942—1998. He helped
create such beloved Muppet characters as
Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch,
and Guy Smiley.
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Jeff Moss
United States, Contemporary Period
Moss also wrote many of Sesame Street's
hit songs, such as "I Love Trash," "Skin," and
"I Don't Want to Live on the Moon." Johnny
Cash, Julie Andrews, The Boston Pops, and
many other stars have performed his music.
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Jeff Moss
United States, Contemporary Period
His first single, "Rubber Duckie," sold more
than a million copies. The Original Rubber
Duckie is still used today when recordings
are make of the song because of it’s unique
and distinctive squeak.
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Jeff Moss
United States, Contemporary Period
Moss started composing as a youngster. He
studied Western classical music at New
York's Browning High School and went on to
Princeton University, where he studied and
composed music and wrote books.
