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Aaron Copland
United States, Contemporary Period
Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New
York on 1900, and died in 1990. He was a
talented composer, pianist, conductor, and
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Aaron Copland
United States, Contemporary Period
Coplands family were not musical at all. His
parents had never even been to a concert.
After several attempts at learning music,
including a correspondence course, Copland
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Aaron Copland
United States, Contemporary Period
Copland borrowed from American legends
and folk music and incorporated them into
his music. He was one of the first composers to successfully incorporate jazz
rhythms into symphonic music.

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Aaron Copland
United States, Contemporary Period
He was very helpful to other young composers, often promoting their music along with
his own. Because Copland had a habit of
composing at night with the help of his
noisy piano, he had to move several times.

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Giovanni Palestrina
Italy, Renaissance
Palestrina was one of the greatest composers of the Renaissance. This is the same
time period that Columbus, Shakespeare,
and Leonardo da Vinci lived in. The printing
press was newly invented as well.

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Giovanni Palestrina
Italy, Renaissance
Palestrina wrote most of his music for the
church, and is very well-known for his
masses. Palestrina was also a master of polyphony, in which two or more melodic lines
are played at the same time.

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Giovanni Palestrina
Italy, Renaissance
The decade of the 1570s was difficult for
him personally; he lost his brother, two of
his sons, and his wife in three separate outbreaks of the plague. He considered becoming a priest at this time, but didnt.

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Giovanni Palestrina
Italy, Renaissance
Palestrina married again later in his life to a
wealthy widow. He was financially independent for the first time in his life, and
concentrated on composing music until his
death in 1594.

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Antonio Vivaldi
Italy, Baroque
Vivaldi lived from 1678 - 1741. His nickname was the "Red Priest" because of his
red hair. Vivaldi was trained for music and
became a Priest, until he had to leave the
priesthood due to ill health.

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Antonio Vivaldi
Italy, Baroque
Vivaldi taught music at an orphanage for
girls. It was not appropriate for the audience to clap when the orphanages orchestra played, so they shuffled their feet on
the ground to show appreciation.

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Antonio Vivaldi
Italy, Baroque
One of his most famous works is The Four
Seasons. His music is often played on TV
commercials and movies, including Superman
Returns, The Shaggy Dog, Flubber, and 85
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Antonio Vivaldi
Italy, Baroque
His personality was one of contrasts quickly changing from irritated to very
calm. His music reflected this trait. It also
showed contrasts in dynamics, harmony and
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Friedrich Kuhlau
Germany, Classical Period
Kuhlau was born 1786 and died in 1832. His
father, grandfather, and uncle all played
the oboe in military bands. He had two
brothers and two sisters. His family was
quite poor and moved often.

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Friedrich Kuhlau
Germany, Classical Period
When he was seven, Friedrich slipped on ice
in the street and injured his right eye,
causing him to loose that eye. During his
long recovery indoors, he spent much of his
time at the piano, learning to master it.

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Friedrich Kuhlau
Germany, Classical Period
When asked if the accident that caused
him to loose his eye was not a great misfortune, he answered: "No, that was good,
otherwise I would not have been a
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Friedrich Kuhlau
Germany, Classical Period
He wrote many sonatinas and sonatas for
the piano, and are still very popular for piano students to learn. He was good friends
with Beethoven, and they admired each
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Felix Mendelssohn
Germany, Romantic Period
Mendelssohn was born in 1809 and died in
1847. He is said to be the greatest child
prodigy since Mozart, playing both the piano
and the violin, painting, and able to speak
four different languages.

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Felix Mendelssohn
Germany, Romantic Period
Mendelssohn started playing the piano at
the age of four and was composing at eight,
by which time he had memorized all the Beethoven symphonies and could play them on
the piano.

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Felix Mendelssohn
Germany, Romantic Period
Mendelssohn formed the Bach Admiration
Society, and performed music by Bach as
much as possible. It is because of him that
Bachs music was brought out of obscurity
and became the well-known music it is today.

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Felix Mendelssohn
Germany, Romantic Period
One of Mendelssohns most famous pieces is
the Wedding March from A Midsummer
Night's Dream. It was written when he was
only 17 years old! It has been played at
many wedding the world over.

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Antonin Dvorak
Bohemia, Romantic Period
Dvorak lived from 1841-1904. His father
was a butcher, and he wanted Antonin to become a butcher, too. Fortunately, an uncle
noticed how musical Antonin was, and paid
for him to take organ lessons

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Antonin Dvorak
Bohemia, Romantic Period
Dvorak found a job as a church organist, but
what he really wanted to do was compose; so
he entered his compositions in a government-sponsored contest and won!

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Antonin Dvorak
Bohemia, Romantic Period
Dvorak was a Nationalistic composer. This
means he used folk tunes and dance rhythms
from his native country in his music, and
wrote about local legends, history, and
landscapes

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Antonin Dvorak
Bohemia, Romantic Period
Dvorak taught composition at the Prague
Conservatory and in New York City. The last
of Dvoraks nine symphonies was written in
the United States, and is nicknamed From
the New World.

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Maurice Ravel
France, Impressionistic Period
Ravel lived from 18751937. He is probably
best known for his orchestral work, Bolro,
which he considered trivial and once described as "a piece for orchestra without
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Maurice Ravel
France, Impressionistic Period
Ravel studied music at the Paris Conservatory.
In addition to his studies, he went to lots of
parties with a group of friends nicknamed the
hooligans. He also prided himself on having
the best collection of neckties in Paris.

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Maurice Ravel
France, Impressionistic Period
Ravel wanted to be a pilot in the French Army
during WWI. He thought his small size and
light weight would be an advantage, but he was
rejected because of his frail health. He instead drove a truck for the Army.

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Maurice Ravel
France, Impressionistic Period
Ravel wrote an opera called L'enfant et les
sortilges (The Child and the Enchantments), in which the naughty child is punished when furniture and animals assume
personalities of their own.

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Franz Liszt
Hungary, Romantic Period
Franz lived from 1811- 1886. He received
his first music lessons from his father when
he was six years old. He quickly displayed
incredible talent, easily sight-reading the
most difficult music he could find.

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Franz Liszt
Hungary, Romantic Period
He attended a concert by the virtuoso violinist Paganini and became suddenly determined
to become as great a virtuoso on the piano
as Paganini was on the violin. He was often
heard practicing for over 5 hours a day.

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Franz Liszt
Hungary, Romantic Period
Liszt was a great showman and very dramatic. When he came on the stage, he slowly
peeled off his white gloves, and threw them
to the audience. Women used to fight the
gloves, often ripping them to pieces.

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Franz Liszt
Hungary, Romantic Period
The composer Chopin influenced Liszt, and
encouraged him to be a serious composer.
Liszt eventually composed over 1000 works
for the piano. Chopin and Liszt started out
as friends, but became serious competitors.

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Georg Phillip Telemann

Germany, Baroque
Telleman lived from 1681- 1767. He came
from a long line of ministers, so everyone
expected him to become one too. As a child,
however, he showed enormous musical talent,
mastering the violin, recorder, and keyboard.

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Georg Phillip Telemann

Germany, Baroque
Telemann went to the university, to study law.
His roommate found out that Telemann was a
composer, and arranged to have one of his
pieces performed. Telemann was soon writing
music for the biggest church in town.

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Germany, Baroque

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During his life, Telemann was famous. He was

considered Germanys greatest living composer.
He was friends with most of his fellow composers, and was godfather to one of Johann Sebastian Bachs sons; Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach.

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Georg Phillip Telemann

Germany, Baroque
Much of Telemanns music was written for
church use. However, he also wrote for
public concerts. He helped popularize the
French style orchestral suite, which
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Muzio Clementi
Italy, Classical Period
Clementi lived from 17521832. When he
was 9 years old he was appointed as the
organist at his church. He was composing
music by the time he was 12 years old.

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Muzio Clementi
Italy, Classical Period
Clementi was in a famous piano duel with
Mozart that was arranged with the Emperor.
Both men played their own compositions, improvised, and sight read. There was no clear
winner of the duel - in ended being a draw.

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Muzio Clementi
Italy, Classical Period
Clementi had a great influence in how piano
was taught. The pieces and technical studies he wrote are still used today by teachers
all over the world. Beethoven used much of
Clementis music with his own students.

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Muzio Clementi
Italy, Classical Period
Clementi was a successful businessman. He
established a firm to publish music and build
pianos. He traveled all over Europe selling
his pianos, and convinced Beethoven to let
him publish his music.

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Richard and Roger Sherman

United States, Contemporary Period
Richard and Rogers father bet them that
they couldnt write a song that kids would
be willing to spend their lunch money on.
Out of this challenge came one of the
greatest team of song-writers in history.

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Richard and Roger Sherman

United States, Contemporary Period
The Sherman Brothers composed Its a
Small World in 1964. Since then, "Small
World" has become the most translated and
performed song on earth.

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Richard and Roger Sherman

United States, Contemporary Period
The Sherman Brothers have composed the
music for The Jungle Book, The Aristocats,
The Parent Trap, Charlotte's Web, The
Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, and
Mary Poppins, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

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Richard and Roger Sherman

United States, Contemporary Period
Feed the Birds, which the Sherman Brothers
wrote for Mary Poppins, was Walt Disneys
favorite song. He would often ask them to
play it and they knew he was referring to
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Jeff Moss
United States, Contemporary Period
Jeff Moss, one of the creators of Sesamie
Street, lived from 19421998. He helped
create such beloved Muppet characters as
Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch,
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Jeff Moss
United States, Contemporary Period
Moss also wrote many of Sesame Street's
hit songs, such as "I Love Trash," "Skin," and
"I Don't Want to Live on the Moon." Johnny
Cash, Julie Andrews, The Boston Pops, and
many other stars have performed his music.

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Jeff Moss
United States, Contemporary Period
His first single, "Rubber Duckie," sold more
than a million copies. The Original Rubber
Duckie is still used today when recordings
are make of the song because of its unique
and distinctive squeak.

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Jeff Moss
United States, Contemporary Period
Moss started composing as a youngster. He
studied Western classical music at New
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Princeton University, where he studied and
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