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Moses George Hogan (1957 - 2003)

is an African-American composer and arranger of choral music. He is best known for his very popular and accessible settings of
spirituals. Hogan was a pianist, conductor and arranger of international renown. His works are highly celebrated and performed by
high school, college, church, community, and professional choirs internationally.

Randall Thompson (1899-1984)

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Was born in a suburb of Vienna, the son of a schoolmaster. The boy learned the violin from his father and piano from an elder
brother; his beautiful soprano voice gained him admittance to the imperial chapel (he was one tof the Vienna Boys Choir) and
school where the court singers were trained.
Schuberts talent for friendship attracted a band of writers, artists and musicians, who organized a series of evenings at which his
newest works were performed, but he was not as well-known as some composers of his era like the virtuoso Paganini who was
received much critical attention, but he was appreciated by the Viennese public and his reputations grew steadily. Still, his musical
world was centered in the home, in salon concerts amid a select circle of friend and acquaintances.
Schuberts music marks the confluence of the Classical and Romantic eras.His symphonies are classical in their form; but in his
lieder and piano pieces, he was wholly Romantic. The melodies have a tenderness and a quality of longing that match the
romantic quality of the poetry they set.