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Debussy Essays and Term Papers
Satie, ErikThe French composer Erik Satie was born on May 17, 1866, and died on
July 1, 1925, was the son of an English mother and a Parisian music publisher.
He entered the Paris Conservatory in 1879 but failed to benefit from
academic education, which he embarked on again only in his 40th year, when ...
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Stephen Sondheimwas born on 22 March 1930, the son of a wealthy New York dress manufacturer. But, when his parents divorced, his mother moved to Bucks County, Pennsylvania and young Stephen found himself in the right place at the right time. A neighbour of his mother\'s, Oscar Hammerstein II, was working on a ...
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Violinsare bowed stringed instruments. They are the highest pitched member of the violin family. Other members of the violin family include the viola, cello, and double bass. The bow is a narrow, slightly incurved stick of Pernambuco about 75 cm (about 30 in) long, with a band of horsehair stretched ...
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Remembering The Music Of George GershwinWho was George Gershwin? Today, most people would answer that question by saying that he was the composer of the song that’s in the airline commercial. Although that is true, he was much more than that. Gershwin was the most celebrated and wealthiest American composer who expressed the ...
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Stephen Sondheimwas born on 22 March 1930, the son of a wealthy New York dress manufacturer. But, when his parents divorced, his mother moved to Bucks County, Pennsylvania and young Stephen found himself in the right place at the right time. A neighbour of his mother's, Oscar Hammerstein II, was working on a new ...
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Stan Kenton & His OrchestraBorn December 15, 1911 in Wichita, Kansas, Stanley Newcomb Kenton grew up in Los Angeles, California. Sometime around the age of 8, his mother, Stella, a traditionally-trained musician noticed her son's irrepressible aptitude for the piano and became his first teacher.
It wasn't long, however, ...
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The Life And Works Of Frederick Chopin The 1830s have been called "the decade of the piano" because during that period the piano and the music written for it played a dominant role in European musical culture. The piano had, of course, already been popular for more than half a century, but by the third decade of the nineteenth ...
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Henri Cartier-BressonRyan Crossman
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
Cartier-Bresson was born in Cantaloupe-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne, France, and the eldest of five children. His father was a wealthy textile manufacturer, whose Cartier-Bresson thread was a staple of French sewing kits. His mother's family ...
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Louis Armstrong and Bix BeiderbeckeLouis "Satchmo" Armstrong was born in 1901 in the hub of American jazz and blues - New Orleans. His early years were particularly difficult ones. Poverty, racism and abandonment haunted his youth. His father left his mother when Louis was an infant. His mother also later abandoned the family (which ...
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