Composers Biographies

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Pietro Domenico Paradies [Paradisi] was born in Naples in 1707 and died in Venice on the 25th of August 1791. ...

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Giovanni Platti
(Venice 1700 - Würzburg 1762)

Platti was born in or near Padua on July 9th 1697 and died in Würzburg on January 11th, 1763. He ...

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Johann Sebastian Bach
(Eisenach 1685 - Leipzig 1750)

Universally considered to be one of the greatest composers of all times, Johann Sebastian Bach was born in 1685 in ...

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In the history of the guitar, Francisco Tárrega, both the man and his work, are part of that period when ...

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(Salzburg 1756 - Vienna 1791)

Wolfgang Amadeus, was the last and only surviving son of Anna Maria Pertl and Leopold Mozart, a composer and music ...

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Giovanni Bottesini
(Crema 1821 - Parma 1889)

Giovanni Bottesini Surely the greatest double bass virtuoso in the history of music. His father Pietro was clarinetist and violinist and some ...

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Gaetano Donizetti
(Bergamo 1797 - 1848)

One of the most famous Italian opera writers, Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti, was born in 1797 in Bergamo in an ...

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Claude Debussy
(St. Germain en Lay 1862 - Paris 1918)

Claude-Achille Debussy was born in a small town near Paris, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, in 1862 to a family of very modest means ...

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Frédéric Chopin
(Zelazowa Wola 1810 - Paris 1849)

The man who was called "the poet of the piano" was born in Poland, in Żelazowa Wola, in 1810, of ...

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Joaquín Rodrigo
(Sagunto 1901 - Madrid 1999)

Perhaps Life regretted having left him permanently blind at the age of just three during a diphtheria epidemic in his ...

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