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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 […]
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