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George Friedrich
handel
1685-1759
German composer who gain thefame in Britain, and afterwards
considered to be called British
composer.
Famous for great number of
Oratorios, operas, cantatas and
church works.
Hallelujah is the most famous piece,
actually the part of oratorio Messiah
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Friderick Chopin
1810-1849
Polish composer and virtuoso pianist.He is considered one of the greatmasters of Romantic music
The majority of his works are writtenfor piano.
Its remarkable that chopin wasalways surrounded with famouswomen , muses of Chopin such as:George Sand, Maria Wodziska,Delfina Potocka, Pauline Viardot.
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Camille Saint-Sans
(1835-1921)
Famous French composer. Maybe one
that composed in late XIX too much
romantic and easy-listening music to this
period.
His piece Swan from The Carnival of the
Animals (you hear right now) is the most
famous and popular of his compositions
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Pyotr Ilyich
Tchaikovsky
1840-1893
Famous Russian composer, probably thefirst Russian composer of worldwide fame.
Author of : Nutcracker, Swan Lake
Eugene Onegin , symhponies and others.
Wonderful tunes of his compositions are
still popular and widely used as a
soundtracks
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Alexander Skriabin
(1872-1915)
Alexander Skriabin is also Russiancomposer. He is among the generation of
Russian symbolists.
He expressed his music throught the colour
tones. And proved that each note has
particular colour.
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Benjamin Britten
1913-1976
The remarkable British Composer ofXX century.
Great Britain had no more significant
composer after Henry Purcell.
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Pierre Boulez
1925
French composer of contemporaryclassical music and a conductor.
The most significant persona of
French avant-garde.
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Henry Cowell(1897-1965 )
This is one of the significant
American composer, music theorist
and pianist.
He was the innovator of new musical
language. He extended technique of
playing piano using piano strings and
the whole keyboard to produce some
kind of new, unusual sounds.
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Aaron Copland1900-1990
Just right briefly: He was called the
dean of American composers
Samuel Barber1910-1981
Leonard Bernstein
1918-1990
His Adagio for Strings is the most
popular of all his works. Famous American composer ,
conductor , pianist. He was
musical director of New York
Philharmonic orchestra .
He was too much popular and
is still popular not only in
classic music but also in
contemporary pop culture as
being an author of West side
story .
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John Cage
1910-19990
The only composer in the world whoneed no musical example to be
described, as he considers each
existing sound around as music.
So he became the organizer of
sounds. This is not my idea but
Cages
P.s. By the way during you are
reading this information try to
convince yourself you are listening
John Cages piece 4.33 that means
you are listening music
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You shouldask yourself
Why for thesecomposers
????
What theyhave in
common?????
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