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Relating to public figures or personalities, celebrities or otherwise, who have made significant progress in their particular professional field, or who have helped or influenced wider society to an outstanding degree.

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Jay Chou

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Jay Chou (born 18 January 1979) is a Taiwanese musician, singer-songwriter, music and film producer, actor and director. In 1998 he was discovered in a talent contest where he ...

Mozart

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Mozart was born in Salzburg to a musical family. From an early age, the young Mozart showed all the signs of a prodigious musical talent. By the age of 5 he could read and write ...

Beethoven

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From an early age, Beethoven was introduced to music. His first teacher was his father who was a very strict teacher. Beethoven was frequently beaten for failure to practise ...

Schubert

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Franz Peter Schubert (January 31, 1797 – November 19, 1828) was an Austrian composer. He wrote some 600 lieder, nine symphonies (including the famous "Unfinished Symphony"), ...

Ludwig Van Beethoven

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Born at Bonn, probably on 16 December, 1770; died at Vienna, 26 March, 1827. The date of his birth has never been positively ascertained but is inferred from the fact that the ...

Franz Liszt

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Franz Liszt (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher. Regarded by most as the greatest pianist of all time, ...

Frederic Chopin

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Frederic Chopin (22 February or 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer renowned for his piano works. A great Romantic composer, who nevertheless wrote absolute ...