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Aaron Copland
United States, Contemporary Period
Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, NewYork on 1900, and died in 1990. He was a
talented composer, pianist, conductor, andteacher.
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Aaron Copland
United States, Contemporary Period
Coplands family were not musical at all. Hparents had never even been to a concert
After several attempts at learning musicincluding a correspondence course, Coplan
eventually went to Europe to study music
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Aaron Copland
United States, Contemporary Period
He was very helpful to other young composers, often promoting their music along wit
his own. Because Copland had a habit ofcomposing 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 composers of the Renaissance. This is the same
time period that Columbus, Shakespeareand Leonardo da Vinci lived in. The printin
press was newly invented as well.
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Giovanni Palestrina
Italy, Renaissance
Palestrina wrote most of his music for thchurch, and is very well-known for his
masses. Palestrina was also a master of plyphony, in which two or more melodic lin
are played at the same time.
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Giovanni Palestrina
Italy, Renaissance
The decade of the 1570s was difficult fohim personally; he lost his brother, two o
his sons, and his wife in three separate oubreaks of the plague. He considered be
coming a priest at this time, but didnt
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Giovanni Palestrina
Italy, Renaissance
Palestrina married again later in his life twealthy widow. He was financially inde-
pendent for the first time in his life, anconcentrated on composing music until h
death in 1594.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Italy, Baroque
Vivaldi lived from 1678 - 1741. His nickname was the "Red Priest" because of hi
red hair. Vivaldi was trained for music abecame a Priest, until he had to leave th
priesthood due to ill health.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Italy, Baroque
One of his most famous works is The FoSeasons. His music is often played on T
commercials and movies, including SupermReturns, The Shaggy Dog, Flubber, and 8
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 alshowed contrasts in dynamics, harmony a
varied rhythms.
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Friedrich Kuhlau
Germany, Classical Period
Kuhlau was born 1786 and died in 1832. Hfather, grandfather, and uncle all playe
the oboe in military bands. He had twobrothers and two sisters. His family wa
quite poor and moved often.
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Friedrich Kuhlau
Germany, Classical Period
When he was seven, Friedrich slipped on in the street and injured his right eye,
causing him to loose that eye. During hilong recovery indoors, he spent much of h
time at the piano, learning to master it
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Friedrich Kuhlau
Germany, Classical Period
When asked if the accident that causehim to loose his eye was not a great misfo
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 fothe piano, and are still very popular for p
ano students to learn. He was good frienwith Beethoven, and they admired each
others work.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Germany, Romantic Period
Mendelssohn started playing the piano at
the age of four and was composing at eighby which time he had memorized all the Be
thoven symphonies and could play them othe piano.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Germany, Romantic Period
Mendelssohn formed the Bach Admiratio
Society, and performed music by Bach asmuch as possible. It is because of him th
Bachs music was brought out of obscuritand became the well-known music it is toda
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Felix Mendelssohn
Germany, Romantic Period
One of Mendelssohns most famous pieces
the Wedding March from A MidsummerNight's Dream. It was written when he w
only 17 years old! It has been played atmany wedding the world over.
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Antonin Dvorak
Bohemia, Romantic Period
Dvorak found a job as a church organist, b
what he really wanted to do was compose; 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. Th
means he used folk tunes and dance rhythfrom his native country in his music, and
wrote about local legends, history, andlandscapes
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Maurice Ravel
France, Impressionistic Period
Ravel lived from 18751937. He is probab
best known for his orchestral work, Bolrwhich he considered trivial and once de-
scribed as "a piece for orchestra withoumusic."
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Maurice Ravel
France, Impressionistic Period
Ravel wanted to be a pilot in the French Arm
during WWI. He thought his small size anlight weight would be an advantage, but he w
rejected because of his frail health. He instead drove a truck for the Army.
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Maurice Ravel
France, Impressionistic Period
Ravel wrote an opera called L'enfant et le
sortilges (The Child and the Enchant-ments), in which the naughty child is pun
ished when furniture and animals assumepersonalities of their own.
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Franz Liszt
Hungary, Romantic Period
Franz lived from 1811- 1886. He receive
his first music lessons from his father whhe was six years old. He quickly displayed
incredible talent, easily sight-reading thmost difficult music he could find.
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Franz Liszt
Hungary, Romantic Period
He attended a concert by the virtuoso viol
ist Paganini and became suddenly determinto become as great a virtuoso on the pian
as Paganini was on the violin. He was ofteheard 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 slowpeeled off his white gloves, and threw the
to the audience. Women used to fight thgloves, often ripping them to pieces.
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Franz Liszt
Hungary, Romantic Period
The composer Chopin influenced Liszt, an
encouraged him to be a serious composerLiszt eventually composed over 1000 work
for the piano. Chopin and Liszt started oas friends, but became serious competito
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Georg Phillip Telemann
Germany, Baroque
Telleman lived from 1681- 1767. He cam
from a long line of ministers, so everyonexpected him to become one too. As a chi
however, he showed enormous musical talemastering the violin, recorder, and keyboa
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Georg Phillip Telemann
Germany, Baroque
Telemann went to the university, to study la
His roommate found out that Telemann wascomposer, and arranged to have one of his
pieces performed. Telemann was soon writinmusic for the biggest church in town.
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Georg Phillip Telemann
Germany, BaroqueDuring his life, Telemann was famous. He wa
considered Germanys greatest living composeHe was friends with most of his fellow compos
ers, and was godfather to one of Johann Seba
tian Bachs sons; Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach
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Georg Phillip Telemann
Germany, Baroque
Much of Telemanns music was written fo
church use. However, he also wrote forpublic concerts. He helped popularize th
French style orchestral suite, whichincluded dance music.
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Muzio Clementi
Italy, Classical Period
Clementi lived from 17521832. When h
was 9 years old he was appointed as theorganist at his church. He was composin
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 wit
Mozart that was arranged with the EmperBoth men played their own compositions, i
provised, and sight read. There was no clewinner of the duel - in ended being a draw
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Muzio Clementi
Italy, Classical Period
Clementi had a great influence in how pian
was taught. The pieces and technical stuies he wrote are still used today by teache
all over the world. Beethoven used much Clementis music with his own students.
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Muzio Clementi
Italy, Classical Period
Clementi was a successful businessman. H
established a firm to publish music and bupianos. He traveled all over Europe sellin
his pianos, and convinced Beethoven to lehim publish his music.
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Richard and Roger Sherman
United States, Contemporary Period
Richard and Rogers father bet them tha
they couldnt write a song that kids woulbe willing to spend their lunch money on.
Out of this challenge came one of thegreatest team of song-writers in history
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Richard and Roger Sherman
United States, Contemporary Period
The Sherman Brothers composed Its a
Small World in 1964. Since then, "SmaWorld" has become the most translated a
performed song on earth.
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Richard and Roger Sherman
United States, Contemporary Period
The Sherman Brothers have composed th
music for The Jungle Book, The AristocatThe Parent Trap, Charlotte's Web, The
Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, anMary Poppins, and Chitty Chitty Bang Ban
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Richard and Roger Sherman
United States, Contemporary Period
Feed the Birds, which the Sherman Brothe
wrote for Mary Poppins, was Walt Disneyfavorite song. He would often ask them t
play it and they knew he was referring tthat song.
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Jeff Moss
United States, Contemporary Period
Jeff Moss, one of the creators of Sesam
Street, lived from 19421998. He helpecreate such beloved Muppet characters a
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'
hit songs, such as "I Love Trash," "Skin," a"I Don't Want to Live on the Moon." John
Cash, Julie Andrews, The Boston Pops, anmany other stars have performed his mus
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Jeff Moss
United States, Contemporary Period
Moss started composing as a youngster. H
studied Western classical music at NewYork's Browning High School and went on
Princeton University, where he studied ancomposed music and wrote books.