The acclaimed Russian composer, Dmitri Shostakovich , was born in St. Petersburg (Leningrad) in 1906. He was born into a musical family and was taught to play the piano by his mother – herself a well reputed piano teacher – from a very early age. He was sent to music school at the age of [...]
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Perhaps the most famous Neoclassical musician and composer was Igor Stravinsky. Stravinsky’s best known compositions were The Firebird, Pulcinella, The Soldier’s Tale, Apollon Musagete, The Rite of Spring, his Symphony of Salms, Orpheus and L’Histoire du oldate, and Symphony in Three Movements. In these works Stravinsky changed things up by using mostly the piano, wind [...] Neoclassical music has inspired the music that we listen to today. The composers that made this style possible combined classical music from the past with new methods of their time. Sergei Prokofiev is credited with composing the sensational piece “Symphony No. 1″ (1917), which was the first to renew interest in the classical music era of [...] Master composer lives on through his beautiful interpretations of Arguably the best Spanish composer that the 20th century has experienced, Manuel de Falla, was born in Cadiz, Andalucía, in the south west of Spain, in November 1876. [...] |
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