Composers

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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 displayed his piano and ...

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 music, and he would ...

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 correctly. Once his ...

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"), liturgical music, operas, ...

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 baptismal registry of ...

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, Liszt's genius extended ...

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 music with formal titles ...