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Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) | Composer | Biography, music and facts
Felix Mendelssohn was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period.
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Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) | Composer | Biography, music and facts
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of French-Polish parentage. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music.
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https://www.classicfm.com/composers/monteverdi/
Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) | Composer | Biography, music and facts
Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) was an Italian composer, musician and singer, who stood at the crossroads of one of the most crucial periods in classical music...
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https://www.classicfm.com/composers/dvorak/
Antonin Dvořák (1841–1904) | Composer | Biography, music and facts
Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) was a Czech composer of Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia into classical...
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https://www.classicfm.com/composers/vaughan-williams/
Ralph Vaughan Williams | Composer | Biography, music and facts
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) is one of the most important composers of the 20th century. Drawing on the influences of English folk song and Tudor...
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George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) | Composer | Biography, music and facts
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Music and classical...
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https://www.classicfm.com/composers/mahler/
Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) | Composer | Biography, music and facts
Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) was an Austrian composer and a master of the symphony, who thought
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https://www.classicfm.com/composers/glass/
Philip Glass | Composer | Biography, music and facts
Philip Glass (1937-present) an American composer, who pioneered minimalism in classical music. He became familiar with Beethoven quartets, Schubert sonatas,...
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https://www.classicfm.com/composers/bernstein-l/
Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) | Composer | Biography, music and facts
Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer and pianist. His most well known pieces include the spectacular West...
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) | Composer biography, music and facts
Johann Sebastian Bach was classical music's most sublime creative genius. Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist of the...
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https://www.classicfm.com/composers/coleridge-taylor-s/
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) | Composer | Biography, music and facts
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) was a British composer who studied at the Royal College of Music and had early success at Gloucester Festival with his 1898...
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https://www.classicfm.com/composers/rachmaninov/
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873–1943) | Composer | Biography, music and facts
Sergei Rachmaninov (also spelled Rachmaninoff, 1873–1943) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninov, it seemed, could do nothing right by...
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John Williams | Film composer | Biography, music, films and facts
John Williams is an American film composer and on of the most prolific and widely honoured living composer of film music. He's also the most Oscar-nominated...
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Karl Jenkins | Composer | Biography, music and facts
Welsh musicians and composer Karl Jenkins is one of the most performed contemporary composers in the world. His most well-known pieces are Adiemus: Songs of...
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Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901) | Composer | Biography, music and facts
Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901) was one of the few composers whose genius was recognised while he was alive. Verdi's reputation as the greatest of all Italian opera...
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Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) | Composer | Biography, music and facts
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) was an Austrian composer and one of the most prolific and prominent musicians of the Classical period. He wrote 107 symphonies,...
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https://www.classicfm.com/composers/shostakovich/
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) | Composer | Biography, music and facts
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) was a Russian composer and pianist and was one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century.
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Florence Price (1887-1953) | Composer | Biography, music and facts
Florence Price was an American composer of symphonies, concertos, sonatas, choral works and numerous other orchestral, chamber, piano and classical music works.
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https://www.classicfm.com/composers/vivaldi/
Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) | Composer | Biography, music and facts
Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) was one of the most productive composers of the Baroque era in classical music, famous for the 'Four Seasons' violin concertos.
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George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) | Composer | Biography, music and facts
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Music and classical...
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https://www.classicfm.com/composers/elgar/
Edward Elgar (1857–1934) | Composer | Biography, music and facts
Sir Edward Elgar (1857–1934) was an English composer, among whose best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and...
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Hans Zimmer | Film composer | Biography, music and facts
Hans Zimmer is a German film composer and music producer, who has composed music for over 100 films, including Hollywood blockbusters such as the Pirates of...
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Claude Debussy (1862–1918) | Composer | Biography, music and facts
Claude Debussy (1862–1918) was a 20th-century French composer and one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist classical music.
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) | Composer biography, music and facts
Johann Sebastian Bach was classical music's most sublime creative genius. Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist of the...
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Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) | Composer | Biography, music and facts
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) was a German composer and pianist and is considered a leading composer in the Romantic period. His best known pieces include his...
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