Johann Sebastian Bach was married two times, and had a grand total of 20 children! All of Bach’s ancestors were musicians, and his sons were expected to follow in his […]
How many children did Bach have? 7 5 13 20 #2.
Franz Joseph Haydn never had any children, but the musicians who worked for him liked him so much they called him Papa Haydn. And Haydn is also known as the […]
Many of Haydn’s symphonies have nicknames, such as The Bear and Evening.
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The kind of galop that Dmitri Kabalevsky put his suite The Comedians has nothing to do with horses. In fact, it’s not even spelled the same as a horse's gallop. […]
Quite a few composers have written galops.
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Z Da capo When you see a da capo mark in a piece of music, it means that you have
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Hispanic Dance Forms Dance is very important in Spain, and Spanish dance forms have
Russian artist and architect Victor Hartman was a good friend of Modest Mussorgsky. When Hartman died at the age of 39, there was a memorial exhibit of his work. That […]
at an Exhibition” was originally written for solo piano, but quite a few people have
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For example, singers might have “piano accompaniment.”
unique talent was recognized by composer Oliver Messiaen, who told him this: “you have
Ludwig van Beethoven was a uniquely talented composer and musician. But by the time Beethoven was 30, his increasing deafness put an end to his career as a pianist. That […]
pianist because he was going deaf he wanted to play the clarinet he didn’t have
