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as Handel got his first job of court composer to a German
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But the roots of the waltz go back to the German Dance
Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker is based on a story by German
Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker is based on a story by German
six concertos to the Margrave of Brandenburg — a German
six concertos to the Margrave of Brandenburg — a German
In addition to German (his native […]
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George Frederick Handel 1685 was a very good year for German
After Dmitri Kabalevsky wrote music for a play called The Inventor and the Comedians, he put selections from that music into a concert suite called The Comedians. Listen to what’s […]
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Kodály’s opera Háry János is about a real person who told real whoppers – big, fat lies. If you listened to him, you'd think he defeated Napoleon's army all by […]
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„Rhapsody“ is an ancient word that means „songs stitched together“. The Greeks used to write long poems in praise of their heroes, and then take bits and pieces of those […]
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Around the year 1600, Italian composers started writing theater pieces that use music all the way through them. Instead of speaking, characters in operas sing their lines. From Claudio Monteverdi, […]
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