 Meta title: Website needs page title Meta description: Website needs meta description | This listing is not rated yet. Rate it! | Report it! Great Composers and their Lives http://www.ferrisguitar.com/blog This blog is a collection of short articles updated regularly on great composers and what they had to go through to give their gift of music to humanity. Category: Blog Directory » Arts Blogs » Music » Classical Hits: 2 Date added: 2008-05-01 05:55:17 Alexa traffic rank: 7,241,711 |
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Anton Bruckner 1824 â€" 1896
   This composer has been praised by Richard Wagner as being ‛the only composer who could measure up to Beethoven.’ Anton Bruckner was born in Ansfelden, Austria. Although he appeared to have great musical ability as a child, his first aspirations were not directed at going into the field... Read more...
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Intro and Welcome
I hope you like the blog. Please, feel free to make comments. And, if you have time, don’t forget to visit my site, www.ferrisguitar.com . It is a website dedicated to inspiring guitarists, but in my opinion, all musicians could have interest. There are recordings, a resource page, interesting... Read more...
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Frédéric Chopin 1810-1849
Our next composer, Frédéric Chopin, was originally from Poland. Born near Warsaw in Zelasowa Wola, he started studying music at the age of six. Only a year later, he started giving concerts and even published his first composition. At 16 years old, he was accepted by the Warsaw Conservatory to ... Read more...
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Mikhail Glinka 1804 â€" 1857
   Born in the village of Novospasskoe near Smolensk in Belarus Russia to a wealthy family, this composer’s first contact with music had to most certainly be Russian folk songs and the sound of church bells which rang every day in his small and quaint little village. At the age ... Read more...
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Gregorio Allegri 1582 â€" 1652
Little is known about the early life of Gregorio Allegri. At the age of 9, he was a choirboy in Rome until his voice broke. He then went on to become a tenor at San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome, where he remained between the ages of 14 and 22. ... Read more...
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