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Claude Debussy was a French composer whose harmonic innovations opened the way to the radical musical changes of the 20th century. He was the founder of the so-called impressionist school of music. He was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye on August 22, 1862 and trained at the Paris Conservatory, where he began studying at the age […]
Beethoven was born on December 16, 1770 in the city of Bonn, in western Germany. There, during his first years of life, he was exposed to a demanding musical training by a father obsessed with making him “the new Mozart.” Such questionable ambition, coupled with a no less dangerous character linked to alcoholism, directly affected […]
Το 1723 ο Μπαχ διορίστηκε ως Κάντορας της Σχολής του Αγ. Θωμά στη Λειψία στην οποία και εγκαταστάθηκε και Διευθυντής Εκκλησιαστικής Μουσικής σε 4 εκκλησίες. Στον Αγ. Πέτρο, στη Νέα Εκκλησία, στον Αγ. Νικόλαο και στον Αγ. Θωμά. Η πρώτη επιβεβαιωθείσα καντάτα που συνέθεσε στη Λειψία, ήταν η Καντάτα (BWV 75). Την Μ.Παρασκευή του […]
Mozart was born on January 27th of the year 1756 in Salzburg (Austria) he was baptized as ‘Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart’ although he was known just by Wolfgang Amadeus. His father was Leopold Mozart a musician under Salzburg’s prince archbishop service. Mozart started his musical education from a very early age, when he was […]