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| 1732-1809 ; patron of the Esterhazy’s outside of Vienna, Austria ; International fame around Europe ; friend of Mozart ; wrote choral music in the end of his life |
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1756-1791 ; sonatas were increasing written and played by women ; was fairly prominent but died young ; same age as Mozart
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| 1756-1791 ; independent musician in Vienna, Austria ; wrote operas, church music, concertos, etc. ; died at a young age |
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| 1770-1827 ; studied with Haydn in Vienna ; progressively went deaf ; pioneered the movement as music for the sake of art |
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| 1797-1828 ; Venetian composer ; famous for his Lieds ; died young ; wrote in the Romantic tradition |
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| 1810-1856 ; influential music critic ; prominant music reviewer for the whole of his life ; must important works were piano music ; often made character pieces ; wrote hundreds of love songs for wife, Clara |
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1819-1896 ; virtuoso pianist ; known for writing love songs for her husband on the piano ; also cowrote and published works with him
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| 1810-1849 ; hailed from Poland, but settled and worked in France ; restricted work to the piano |
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| 1803-1869 ; Shakespeare obsessed composer, putting music to a number of plays ; wrote an important book on orchestration and conducting |
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| 1813-1901 ; Italian opera composer ; scored first success at 29 ; created many operas with biblical and Shakespearian influences |
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| 1813-1883 ; German Opera composer ; Incorporated romantic themes into operas |
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| 1858-1924 ; the main italian composer following Verdi ; wrote operas set in exotic locales ; specialized in depicting helpless women in hopeless situations |
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| 1840-1893 ; Russian composer ; Created Swan Lake, the Nutcracker, and Sleeping Beauty ; enjoyed international renoun moreso than most other Russian composers |
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| 1839-1881 ; Russian Composer ; major Russian nationalist ; not very popular in his time, but was regogized as a great after his death |
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| 1833-1897 ; hailed from Hamburg ; met the Schumann’s and was helped and encouraged by them ; much of his symphonies were published later in his life, as he wanted his best work to be compared to Beethoven |
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1860-1911 ; Born in Bohenia ; influenced by military marhes he heard as a child ; One of the few Jewish composers in Viena ; displayed his Jewish roots in his music
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| 1862-1918 ; French composer in Paris ; influenced by Russian and German music ; later abandoned such music in favor of a French style |
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| 1882-1971 ; Russian nationalist composer ; among the first composers to be interested in jazz ; pioneered the genre of neo-classicalism, a return to Bach, Handel, and Mozart, |
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| 1874-1951 ; self-taught musician who wrote books on music theory ; felt destined to blaze the trail into modernity ; known for chromaticism and atonality ; met with more hostility than any other musician in history |
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| 1855-1935 ; student of Schoenberg ; the next major expressionist composer |
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| 1874-1954 ; American composer ; looked to break out of the traditional American style |
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| 1881-1945 ; Hungarian composer ; wrote mostly for piano ; undertook a large investigation into Hungarian folk music ; Reigns as the outstanding nationalist composer of the 20th century |
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| 1900-1990 ; captured the America Spirit ; influenced by American Folk |
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1891-1953 ; Ukrainian-born Russian composer ; forerunner of neo-classicalism ; Although a nationalist composer, increasingly censored by the Soviet government
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| 1932-2006 ; born in Budapest, but left to pursue his unique vision ; composed in a search for new sonorities ; created blocks of sounds that evolved over time |
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1883-1965; bridged modern phases in the 20th century ; wrote some of the most radical music of the 1920s ; created what was widely considered to be ‘noise’
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| 1912-1992 ; father of chance music ; changed the idea of what music was |
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| 1936 ; minimalist composer |
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b. 1952 ; Finnish composer ; represents European composers who have continued the modernistic tradition ; does a whole bunch of crazy hipster shit ;
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b. 1947 ; the premier concert music composer in America ;
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