Famous Composers

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George Friedrich

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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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Why for thesecomposers

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What theyhave in

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