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  • Carl Maria von Weber's work, especially in musical theatre, greatly ... of Holstein; later he held a number of musical directorships, and in 1787 ...
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  • Ugly Woman." Their first hit composition was "Hard Times, ... of Smokey Joe's Cafe, a 1995 Broadway musical based on their work. The ...
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  • wider context of presenting that opera or musical drama as a symbol of the ... Italy, was a child prodigy from a highly musical family, not unusual for ...
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  • his childhood family was extremely musical, and frequently sang together ... would have no chance to obtain any serious musical training. It was for this ...
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  • ) was a Russian composer who mastered numerous musical genres and ... the Russian Empire. He displayed unusual musical abilities by the age of ...
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  • a childbirth—and probably also his first musical serenade, Endimione, on ... if he would devote his talents to musical drama. In La Romanina's ...
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  • deep faith, Dvořák often attributed his musical talents as being "a ... Dvořák's parents recognized his musical talent early, and he received ...
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  • He was a musical patriot who believed strongly in the importance of ... believed that the preservation of the musical heritage of his native England ...
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  • pieces fit this description, with some musical romanticism producing strong ... becoming more prevalent and as a result musical style underwent changes ...
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  • In the history of Western musical tradition, the evolution of symphony ... of four proportionate groups of similar musical instruments, generally appearing ...
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  • His musical innovations and expertise influenced a wide range of musicians ... music, helping spark his interest in musical composition. He also spent several ...
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  • their own color). The use of folklore for musical motifs was guided by the ... family, Rimsky-Korsakov showed musical ability from an early age ...
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  • lyricism and introduced broader Western musical sensibilities into the South ... the age of 14, when he joined a traveling musical troupe headed by his elder ...
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  • Villiers Stanford's first female composition students. At Stanford ... herself able to balance family life and composition: "I can't do ...
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  • and was able to considerably widen his musical experience. He had three ... Mikhail to settle into the life of a musical dilettante, frequenting ...
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  • that they performed in their own musical gatherings. It is this solo ... for remembering various parts of a composition and they consist of the ...
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  • held to the late-Romantic idea that extra-musical sources, such as mysticism ... cooperation beyond boundaries and to build musical bridges towards cooperation ...
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  • by combining German, Italian, and French musical elements in his operatic ... some of his greatest successes and the composition of what are regarded as ...
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  • In the early paintings of this style, such as Composition A (1920 ... Two Lines and Blue (1926), also known as Composition With Blue and Composition ...
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  • born from a cultural synthesis of several musical streams: the vedic chant ... century, was perhaps the earliest musical composition presently known to ...
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