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- 51: John Coltrane
- ... duration and complexity of his phrases, and his increasing use of overblowing techniques. The whole spectrum of Coltrane's music the world-weary melancholy and transcendental yearning that ultimately recall Bach more than Parker, the jungle calls and glossolalic shrieks, the whirlwind runs and spare elegies for murdered children and a murderous planet is at root merely a suffering man's ...
- 52: Joseph Haydn
- ... he had no formal training until his late teens, when he worked for Italian musician and composer, Niccolò Porpora. He avidly studied music, including the works of C. P. E. Bach, and held several music-related jobs in Vienna during the 1750's. His earliest composition, Missa Brevis in F, comes from this period, as does Der Krumme Teufel (The Lame ...
- 53: Jack Kevorkian
- ... a therapist to mediate final closure sessions with her family (Gutmann 21). ³The night before her death she stayed up past midnight in a restaurant with friends, and rhapsodized about Bach with Dr. Kevorkian² (Gutmann 21). In her suicide note that she wrote the night before she died; she said, ³I have decided for the following reasons to take my own ...
- 54: Igor Stravinsky
- ... health slowly deteriorated. Eventually, his bad health caused a slowing down of his compositional activity, but even as late as 1970 he was working on instrumental transcriptions of some of Bach's preludes and fugues. He died in New York City on April 6, 1971. He was buried in Venice on the island of San Michele. Overall, Stravinsky has given major ...
- 55: Franz Joseph Haydn
- ... where he gained more of an interest in music. Participation in a choir gave him the opportunity to go to Vienna and there, he studied the piano sonatas of Emanuel Bach and was given the chance to finally get a chance to compose; something he had always wanted to do. This is when the first string quartet was developed. Later on ...
- 56: Derek
- ... and looking as though their thoughts were unfathomable; toughs in hotrods playing the latest Heavy Metal bands, or classic Led Zeppelin; prim librarians with nouveau- hornrimmed glasses (faint strands of Bach and Mozart), followed by a nondescript fellow in a battered Datsun from which Mahler's Symphony #2 blared forth. Some old red-faced guy driving a matching old red pickup ...
- 57: Mozart
- ... Mozart children displayed their talents to audiences in Germany, in Paris, at court in Versailles, and in London (where Wolfgang wrote his first symphonies and was befriend by Johann Christian Bach, whose musical influence on Wolfgang was profound). In Paris, Wolfgang published his first works, four sonatas for clavier with accompanying violin (1764). In 1768 he composed his first opera, La ...
- 58: History Of Mozart
- ... displayed (1763-66) their talents to audiences in Germany, in Paris, at court in Versailles, and in London (where Wolfgang wrote his first symphonies and was befriended by Johann Christian Bach, whose musical influence on Wolfgang was profound). In Paris the young Mozart published his first works, four sonatas for clavier with accompanying violin (1764). In 1768 he composed his first ...
- 59: The Theory Of Education
- ... room. Perhaps classical music should be played softly in the background. It has been proven that while a student is studying, playing works done by such musicians as Mozart and Bach have actually increased the focus of the student and helped them learn. This would ensure a comfortable working environment. With a better environment, should come new discipline. Such privileges need ...
- 60: Why Did Adolf Pick The Jews?
- ... an SS officer who commanded a group which murdered the Jews, thought that Holocaust was not a necessary result of Nazi general beliefs. A few days later Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, a general in the SS who had fought in the invasion of the Soviet Union, did not agree. He said, "If for years, for decades, a doctrine is preached ...
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