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  Aaron Copland
  Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer of concert and film music. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers." Copland's music achieved a balance between modern music and American folk styles. The open, slowly changing harmonies of many of his works are said to evoke the vast American landscape.
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• Abram Chasins
  Abram Chasins (August 17, 1903 – June 21, 1987) was an American composer, pianist, piano teacher, lecturer, musicologist, music broadcaster, radio executive and author.
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  Alberto Franchetti
  Alberto Franchetti (18 September 18604 August 1942) was an Italian opera composer.
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• Alexander Hammid
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  Antonín Dvořák
  Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( or ; ; September 8, 1841May 1, 1904) was a Czech composer of Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. His works include operas, symphonic, choral and chamber music. His best-known works include his New World Symphony, the Slavonic Dances, "American" String Quartet, and Cello Concerto in B minor.
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  Arrigo Boito
  Arrigo Boito (24 February 184210 June 1918), aka Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito, pseudonym Tobia Gorrio, was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist and composer, best known today for his libretti, especially those for Giuseppe Verdi's operas Otello and Falstaff, and his own opera Mefistofele.
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• Arturo Buzzi-Peccia
  Arturo Buzzi-Peccia (13 October 1854? - 29 August 1943) was an Italian singing instructor and song composer whose career is very poorly documented.
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• B. H. Haggin
  Bernard H. Haggin (December 29, 1900 - May 28, 1987), better known as B.H. Haggin, was an American music critic whose career spanned several decades in the 20th century. A lifelong inhabitant of New York City, he graduated from Juilliard School in 1920, where he studied piano. His career as a journalist commenced shortly thereafter as a contributor to The New Republic, among other publications. From 1936 to 1957 he was the music critic of The Nation. Haggin was a staunch but not entirely uncritical admirer of the conductor Arturo Toscanini, whom he befriended. He was the first major American critic to recognize the genius of the choreographer George Balanchine. Also, in the 1930s, he launched the career of the future record producer, John Hammond, hiring him as a reviewer for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
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• Beethoven
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• Ben Grauer
  Benjamin Franklin Grauer (June 2, 1908 – May 31, 1977) was an American radio and TV personality, following a career during the 1920s as a child actor in films and on Broadway. He began his career as a child in David Warfield's production of The Return of Peter Grimm. Among his early credits were roles in films directed by D.W. Griffith.
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  Benito Mussolini
  Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini KSMOM GCTE (29 July 1883, Predappio, Province of Forlì-Cesena - 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism.
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  Benny Goodman
  In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman (May 30, 1909 - June 13, 1986) led one of the most popular musical groups in America. His January 16, 1938 concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's 'coming out' party to the world of 'respectable' music."
  http://wn.com/Benny_Goodman
• Brahms
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  Burgess Meredith
  Oliver Burgess Meredith (November 16, 1907 – September 9, 1997), known professionally as Burgess Meredith, was an American actor. He was best-known for portraying Rocky Balboa's trainer Mickey Goldmill in the Rocky films and the Penguin in the television series Batman. He also earned a new generation of fans, portraying the father of Jack Lemmon's character in the 1993 film Grumpy Old Men, and the sequel, 1995's Grumpier Old Men, which was his final film role.
  http://wn.com/Burgess_Meredith
• C. Thomas Howell
  Christopher Thomas Howell (born December 7, 1966), usually credited as C. Thomas Howell, is an American actor and film director. He starred in the films The Outsiders as Ponyboy Curtis and in The Hitcher as Jim Halsey. He has appeared in Soul Man, Red Dawn, Secret Admirer, Gettysburg, ''H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds, The Day the Earth Stopped and Gods and Generals''.
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  Carl Maria von Weber
  Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (18–19 November 17864–5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school.
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  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy () (August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918) was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions. Debussy is among the most important of all French composers, and a central figure in European music of the turn of the 20th century. He was made Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1903.
  http://wn.com/Claude_Debussy
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  César Franck
  César Auguste Jean Guillaume Hubert Franck (10 December 1822 – 8 November 1890) was a Dutch-Belgian-French-German composer, pianist, organist and music teacher whose symphonic, chamber, and keyboard works are "among the most distinguished contributions in the field by any French musician."
  http://wn.com/César_Franck
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  Denis Matthews
  Denis Matthews (27 February 1919 – 25 December 1988) was an English pianist and musicologist.
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  Dmitri Shostakovich
  Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich () ( – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century.
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• Earl Wild
  Earl Wild (November 26, 1915 – January 23, 2010) was an American pianist widely recognized as a leading virtuoso of his generation. Harold C. Schonberg called him a "super-virtuoso in the Horowitz class". He was known as well for his transcriptions of classical music and jazz. He was also a composer.
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  Eleanor Powell
  Eleanor Torrey Powell (November 21, 1912 – February 11, 1982) was an American film actress and dancer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her exuberant solo tap dancing.
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• Elie Siegmeister
  Elie Siegmeister (b. January 15, 1909, New York City – March 10, 1991, Manhasset, New York) was an American composer, educator and author.
  http://wn.com/Elie_Siegmeister
• Elizabeth Taylor
  Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (born 27 February 1932), also known as Liz Taylor, is an English-American actress. She is known for her acting talent and beauty, as well as her Hollywood lifestyle, including many marriages. Taylor is considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's golden age.
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  Enrico Caruso
  Enrico Caruso (February 25, 1873 – August 2, 1921) was an Italian tenor. He sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and North and South America. Caruso also made approximately 290 commercial recordings of his voice, beginning as early as 1902 in Italy and continuing from 1904 until 1920 in the United States. All of his known surviving recordings are available today on remastered CDs.
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  Ezio Pinza
  Ezio Pinza (May 18, 1892 - May 9 1957) was an Italian basso opera singer with a rich, smooth and sonorous voice. He spent 22 seasons at New York's Metropolitan Opera, appearing in more than 750 performances of 50 operas. Pinza also sang to great acclaim at La Scala, Milan, and at the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden.
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  Felix Mendelssohn
  Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn (3 February 18094 November 1847) was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period.
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  Ferde Grofé
  Ferde (Ferdie) Grofé (27 March 1892 – 3 April 1972) was an Oscar-winning American composer, arranger and pianist. During the 1920s and 1930s, he was sometimes billed as Ferdie Grofé.
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  Francesco Cilea
  Francesco Cilea (also Cilèa) (July 23, 1866 – November 20, 1950) was an Italian composer. Today he is particularly known for his operas ''L'arlesiana and Adriana Lecouvreur''.
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  Franco Faccio
  Franco Faccio (March 8, 1840 – July 21, 1891) was an Italian composer and conductor.
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  Franco Zeffirelli
  Franco Zeffirelli, KBE (Hon), (born 12 February 1923) is an Italian film director and producer of films and television and opera director and designer. He has also been a politician (The People of Freedom).
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  Franz Schubert
  Franz Peter Schubert (; January 31, 1797 – November 19, 1828) was an Austrian composer.
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  Galeazzo Ciano
  Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo, and 1st Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari (March 18, 1903 – January 11, 1944) was an Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Benito Mussolini's son-in-law.
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  George Gershwin
  George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known.
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  Geraldine Farrar
  Geraldine Farrar (February 28, 1882 – March 11, 1967) was an American soprano opera singer and film actress, noted for her beauty, acting ability, and "the intimate timbre of her voice." She had a large following among young women, who were nicknamed "Gerry-flappers".
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  Giacomo Meyerbeer
  Giacomo Meyerbeer (5 September 1791 – 2 May 1864) was a noted German-born opera composer, and the first great exponent of Grand Opera. At his peak in the 1830s and 1840s, he was the most famous and successful composer and producer of opera in Europe, yet is little known today.
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  Giacomo Puccini
  Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (; 22 December 185829 November 1924) was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire. Some of his arias, such as "O mio babbino caro" from Gianni Schicchi, "Che gelida manina" from La bohème, and "Nessun dorma" from Turandot, have become part of popular culture.
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  Gioachino Rossini
  Gioachino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces. His best-known operas include the Italian comedies Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) and La cenerentola and the French-language epics Moïse et Pharaon and Guillaume Tell (William Tell). A tendency for inspired, song-like melodies is evident throughout his scores, which led to the nickname "The Italian Mozart." Until his retirement in 1829, Rossini had been the most popular opera composer in history.
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  Giovanni Martinelli
  Giovanni Martinelli (22 October 1885 – 2 February 1969) was a celebrated Italian operatic tenor. He was particularly associated with the Italian lyric-dramatic repertory, although he performed French operatic roles to great acclaim as well. Martinelli was one of the most famous tenors of the 20th century, enjoying a long career at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and appearing at other major international theatres.
  http://wn.com/Giovanni_Martinelli
• Giuseppe Martucci
  Giuseppe Martucci (6 January 18561 June 1909) was an Italian composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. As a composer and teacher he was influential in reviving Italian interest in non-operatic music. As a conductor he helped to introduce Richard Wagner's operas to Italy and also gave important early concerts of English music there.
  http://wn.com/Giuseppe_Martucci
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  Giuseppe Verdi
  Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (; 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century. His works are frequently performed in opera houses throughout the world and, transcending the boundaries of the genre, some of his themes have long since taken root in popular culture - such as "La donna è mobile" from Rigoletto, "Va, pensiero" (The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) from Nabucco, "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" (The Drinking Song) from La traviata and the "Grand March" from Aida. Although his work was sometimes criticized for using a generally diatonic rather than a chromatic musical idiom and having a tendency toward melodrama, Verdi’s masterworks dominate the standard repertoire a century and a half after their composition.
  http://wn.com/Giuseppe_Verdi
• Harvey Sachs
  Harvey Sachs, (born Cleveland, Ohio, June 8, 1946) is an American-Canadian-Swiss writer who has written many books on musical subjects.
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• Haydn
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  Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz (December 11, 1803 – March 8, 1869) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts (Requiem). Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a conductor, he performed several concerts with more than 1,000 musicians. He also composed around 50 songs.
  http://wn.com/Hector_Berlioz
• Helen Traubel
  Helen Traubel (June 16, 1899 - July 28, 1972) was an American operatic dramatic soprano, best known for her Wagnerian roles, especially those of Brünnhilde and Isolde.
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• Herva Nelli
  Herva Nelli (January 9, 1909 – May 31, 1994) was an Italian-born operatic soprano.
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• Howard Hanson
  Howard Harold Hanson (October 28, 1896 – February 26, 1981) was an American composer, conductor, educator, music theorist, and champion of American classical music. Director for 40 years of the Eastman School of Music, he built a high quality school and provided opportunities for commissioning and performing American music. He won a Pulitzer Prize for one of his works and received numerous other awards.
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  Howard Taubman
  Hyman Howard Taubman (July 4, 1907 – January 8, 1996) was an American music critic, theater critic, and author.
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  Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky () ( – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor.
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• Ildebrando Pizzetti
  Ildebrando Pizzetti (20 September 1880 – 13 February 1968) was an Italian composer of classical music.
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  Italian people
  The Italian people () are a people that share a common Italian culture, ancestry and speak the Italian language as a mother tongue. Within Italy, Italians are defined by citizenship, regardless of ancestry or country of residence (though the principle of Jus Sanguinis is used extensively and arguably more favorably in the Italian nationality law), and are distinguished from people of Italian descent and, historically, from ethnic Italians living in the unredeemed territories adjacent to the Italian peninsula.
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  Jan Peerce
  Jan Peerce (June 3, 1904 – December 15, 1984) was an American operatic tenor. He is the father of film director Larry Peerce.
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  Jean Sibelius
  Jean Sibelius () (8 December 186520 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the later Romantic period whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity. His mastery of the orchestra has been described as "prodigious".
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  Johannes Brahms
  Johannes Brahms () (7 May 18333 April 1897), was a German composer and pianist, one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene. In his lifetime, Brahms' popularity and influence were considerable; following a comment by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow, he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the Three Bs.
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  John Philip Sousa
  John Philip Sousa (; November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932) was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era, known particularly for American military and patriotic marches. Because of his mastery of march composition, he is known as "The March King" or the "American March King" due to his British counterpart Kenneth J Alford also being known as "The March King"
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• Joseph Horowitz
  Joseph Horowitz (born 1948, New York City) is an American cultural historian whose seven books mainly deal with the institutional history of classical music in the United States. As a producer of concerts, he has played a pioneering role in promoting thematic programming and new concert formats. His tenure as Artistic Advisor and, subsequently, Executive Director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (1992-1997) attracted national attention for its radical departure from traditional functions and templates.
  http://wn.com/Joseph_Horowitz
• Jussi Björling
  Johan Jonatan "Jussi" Björling (5 February 1911 – 9 September 1960) was a Swedish tenor. One of the leading operatic singers of the 20th Century, Björling appeared frequently at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City as well as at many major European opera houses.
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  Kirsten Flagstad
  Kirsten Målfrid Flagstad (12 July 1895 – 7 December 1962) was a Norwegian opera singer and a highly regarded Wagnerian (dramatic) soprano. She ranks among the greatest singers of the 20th century; indeed, many critics called hers "the voice of the century." To quote New Grove: "No one within living memory surpassed her in sheer beauty and consistency of line and tone."
  http://wn.com/Kirsten_Flagstad
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  Lauritz Melchior
  Lauritz Melchior (March 20, 1890 – March 18, 1973) was a Danish and later American opera singer. He was the pre-eminent Wagnerian tenor of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, and has since come to be considered the quintessence of his voice type.
  http://wn.com/Lauritz_Melchior
• Leopoldo Miguez
  Leopoldo Miguez (September 9, 1850 – July 6, 1902) was a Brazilian composer.
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• Licia Albanese
  Licia Albanese (born July 22, 1913) is an Italian-born American operatic soprano. Noted especially for her portrayals of the lyric heroines of Verdi and Puccini, Albanese was a leading artist with the Metropolitan Opera of New York from 1940 to 1966. She also made many recordings and is chairman of The Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation which is dedicated to assisting young artists and singers.
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  Lorenzo Perosi
  Monsignor Lorenzo Perosi (21 December 1872 - 12 October 1956) was an Italian composer of sacred music and the only member of the Giovane Scuola who did not write opera. In the late 1890s, while he was still only in his 20s, Perosi was an internationally celebrated composer of sacred music, especially large-scale oratorios. Nobel Prize winner Romain Rolland wrote: "It's not easy to give you an exact idea of how popular Lorenzo Perosi is in his native country." Perosi's fame was not restricted to Europe. A 19 March 1899 New York Times article entitled "The Genius of Don Perosi" began: "The great and ever-increasing success which has greeted the four new oratorios of Don Lorenzo Perosi has placed this young priest-composer on a pedestal of fame which can only be compared with that which has been accorded of late years to the idolized Pietro Mascagni by his fellow-countrymen." Gianandrea Gavazzeni made the same comparison: "The sudden clamors of applause, at the end of the [19th] century, were just like those a decade earlier for Mascagni." Perosi worked for five Popes, including Pope St. Pius X who greatly fostered his rise.
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  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven ( (US) or (UK); ; baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is considered to have been the most crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music, and remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.
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  Modest Mussorgsky
  Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (also spelled Musorgsky, Moussorgsky ) (March 21 [O.S. March 9], 1839 – March 28 [O.S. March 16], 1881), one of the Russian composers known as the Five, was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music.
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  Mosco Carner
  Mosco Carner (born Mosco Cohen) (November 15, 1904 – August 3, 1985) was an Austrian-born British musicologist, conductor and critic. He wrote on a wide range of music subjects, but was particularly known for his studies on the life and works of the composers Giacomo Puccini and Alban Berg.
  http://wn.com/Mosco_Carner
• Mozart
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• Napoleon
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  Oscar Levant
  Oscar Levant (December 27, 1906 – August 14, 1972) was an American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor. He was more famous for his mordant character and witticisms, on the radio and in movies and television, than for his music.
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  Ottorino Respighi
  Ottorino Respighi (; July 9, 1879, Bologna - April 18, 1936) was an Italian composer, musicologist and conductor. He is best known for his orchestral Roman trilogy: Fontane di Roma - "Fountains of Rome"; Pini di Roma - "Pines of Rome"; and Feste Romane - "Roman Festivals". His musicological interest in 16th-, 17th- and 18th-century music led him to also compose pieces based on the music of this period.
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  Pietro Mascagni
  Pietro Antonio Stefano Mascagni (December 7, 1863 – August 2, 1945) was an Italian composer most noted for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music. However, though it has been stated that Mascagni, like Leoncavallo, was a "one-opera man" who could never repeat his first success, this is inaccurate. ''L'amico Fritz and Iris have been popular in Europe since their respective premieres. In fact, Mascagni himself claimed that at one point Iris was performed in Italy more often than Cavalleria'' (cf. Stivender).
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• Red Cross
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  Renata Tebaldi
  Renata Tebaldi (Pesaro, Italy, February 1, 1922 – San Marino, December 19, 2004) was an Italian lirico-spinto soprano popular in the post-war period. Acclaimed as one of the most beloved opera singers of all time, she primarily focused on the verismo roles of the lyric and dramatic repertoires.
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  Richard Strauss
  Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known particularly for his operas, Lieder, and tone poems. Strauss, along with Gustav Mahler, represents the extraordinary late flowering of German Romanticism after Richard Wagner, in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style. Strauss's music had a profound influence on the development of music in the twentieth century. Strauss was also a prominent conductor.
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  Richard Tucker
  Richard Tucker (August 28, 1913–January 8, 1975) was an American operatic tenor.
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  Richard Wagner
  Wilhelm Richard Wagner (, ; 22 May 1813 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas", as they were later called). Wagner's compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their complex texture, rich harmonies and orchestration, and the elaborate use of leitmotifs: musical themes associated with individual characters, places, ideas or plot elements. Unlike most other opera composers, Wagner wrote both the music and libretto for every one of his stage works. Famous extracts from his operas include the "Ride of the Valkyries" and the Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin, popularly known as the wedding march "Here Comes the Bride".
  http://wn.com/Richard_Wagner
• Robert Hupka
  Robert Hupka (August 26, 1919 – July 3, 2001) was a recording engineer for RCA and later for Columbia Records and, until his retirement, a cameraman for CBS Television in New York. He was born in Vienna, and emigrated to the U.S. at the onset of World War II to escape the Nazi persecution which took his parents' lives. His grandfather was the composer Ignaz Brüll, who was a friend of Brahms.
  http://wn.com/Robert_Hupka
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  Robert Schumann
  Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, (8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic.
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  Rudolf Serkin
  Rudolf Serkin (March 28, 1903 – May 8, 1991), was a Bohemian-born pianist.
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  Ruggero Leoncavallo
  Ruggero Leoncavallo (; 23 April 18579 August 1919) was an Italian opera composer. His opera Pagliacci remains one of the most popular works in the operatic repertory, appearing as number 14 on Opera America's 2007 list of the 20 most-performed operas in North America.
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• Samuel Antek
  Samuel Antek (died 1958) was a violinist in the NBC Symphony Orchestra under conductor Arturo Toscanini. He joined at the orchestra's inception in 1937 and played with it until its dissolution in 1954.
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  Samuel Barber
  Samuel Osborne Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is his most popular composition and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music. He was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music, for his opera Vanessa and his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. His , a work for soprano and orchestra, was an acclaimed setting of prose by James Agee.
  http://wn.com/Samuel_Barber
• Schubert
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• Sibelius
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• Tchaikovsky
  http://wn.com/Tchaikovsky
• Tullio Serafin
  Tullio Serafin (1 September 1878 - 2 February 1968) was an Italian conductor.
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• Umberto Giordano
  Umberto Menotti Maria Giordano (28 August 1867 – 12 November 1948) was an Italian composer, mainly of operas.
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  Vasily Kalinnikov
  Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov () (January 11, 1901 [O.S. December 29, 1900]) was a Russian composer of two symphonies, several additional orchestral works and numerous songs, all of them imbued with characteristics of folksong. His symphonies, particularly the First, were frequently performed in the early 20th century.
  http://wn.com/Vasily_Kalinnikov
• Verdi
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  Victor de Sabata
  Victor de Sabata (April 10, 1892 – December 11, 1967) was an Italian conductor and composer. He is widely recognized as one of the most distinguished operatic conductors of the twentieth century, especially for his Verdi, Puccini and Wagner. He is also acclaimed for his interpretations of orchestral music. Like his near contemporary Wilhelm Furtwängler, de Sabata regarded composition as more important than conducting but achieved more lasting recognition for his conducting than his compositions. De Sabata has been praised by various authors and critics as a rival to Toscanini for the title of greatest Italian conductor of the twentieth century, and even as "perhaps the greatest conductor in the world".
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• Vincenzo Tommasini
  Vincenzo Tommasini (17 September 1878–23 December 1950) was an Italian composer.
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  Virgil Thomson
  Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 – September 30, 1989) was an American composer and critic from Kansas City, Missouri. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music. He has been described as a modernist , a neoclassicist , a composer of "an Olympian blend of humanity and detachment" whose, "expressive voice was always carefully muted," until his late opera Lord Byron which, in contrast to all his previous work, exhibited an emotional content that rises to, "moments of real passion" , and a neoromantic .
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  Vladimir Horowitz
  Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz (; )  (October 1, 1903 – November 5, 1989) was a Russian-American classical virtuoso pianist and minor composer. His technique and use of tone color and the excitement of his playing were and remain legendary. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.
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  Walter Legge
  Harry Walter Legge 1 June 1906 – 22 March 1979 was an influential English classical record producer, most notably for EMI. His recordings include many sets later regarded as classics and reissued by EMI as "Great Recordings of the Century".
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• Wanda Toscanini
  Wanda Giorgina Toscanini Horowitz (December 7, 1907 – August 21, 1998) was the daughter of the conductor Arturo Toscanini and the wife of pianist Vladimir Horowitz.
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  Zubin Mehta
  Zubin Mehta (born 29 April 1936) is an Indian conductor of Western classical music.
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  Alexandria
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  Cairo
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  Camden, New Jersey
  The City of Camden is the county seat of Camden County, New Jersey, in the United States. It is located across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As of the U.S. 2000 Census, the city had a total population of 79,904.
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• Cimitero Monumentale
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  Haifa
  Haifa ( ; ) is the largest city in northern Israel, and the third-largest city in the country, with a population of over 265,000. Another 300,000 people (almost all of them Jewish) live in towns directly adjacent to the city including the cities of the Krayot, as well as, Tirat Carmel, and Nesher. Together these areas form a contiguous urban area home to nearly 600,000 residents which makes up the inner core of the Haifa metropolitan area. Haifa has a mixed population of Jews and Arabs, although Jews make up a 90% majority. The Arab population used to be predominantly Christian, while 28% of the Jewish population is from the Former Soviet Union. It is also home to the Bahá'í World Centre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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  Jerusalem
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  La Scala
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• La Scala, Milan
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• Milan
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• Red Cross
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  Tel Aviv
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• the Bronx
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  Turin
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• Arturo Toscanini n 1: Italian conductor of many orchestras worldwide (1867-1957) [syn: Toscanini, Arturo Toscanini]

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• Symphony No. 9, D944 "Die Große/The Great": I. Andante; I. Allegro ma non troppo
• Symphony No. 9, D944 "Die Große/The Great": II. Andante con moto
• Symphony No. 9, D944 "Die Große/The Great": III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace
• Symphony No. 9, D944 "Die Große/The Great": IV. Allegro vivace
• Tod und Verklärung/Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24: I. Largo (Glückliche Erinnerungen and die Kindheit/Happy Memories of Childhood)
• Tod und Verklärung/Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24: II. Allegro molto agitato (Todeskampf/Life and Death Battle)
• Tod und Verklärung/Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24: III. Meno mosso, ma sempre alla breve (Träume des Sterbenden; Tod/Dreams of the Dying; Death)
• Tod und Verklärung/Death and Transfiguration, Op. 24: IV. Moderato (Verklärung/Transfiguration)

• Broadcast Commentary
• Bach - Suite 3 in D major, BWV 1068 - Overture
• Bach - Suite 3 in D major, BWV 1068 - Air
• Bach - Suite 3 in D major, BWV 1068 - Gavotte I/II
• Bach - Suite 3 in D major, BWV 1068 - Bourrée
• Bach - Suite 3 in D major, BWV 1068 - Gigue
• Broadcast Commentary
• Vivaldi - Violin Concerto in B flat major, RV 370 - Allegro
• Vivaldi - Violin Concerto in B flat major, RV 370 - Adagio
• Vivaldi - Violin Concerto in B flat major, RV 370 - Allegro
• Broadcast Commentary
• Handel - Concerto Grosso in B minor, Op. 6 No 12 - Largo - Allegro
• Handel - Concerto Grosso in B minor, Op. 6 No 12 - Aria: Larghetto e piano - Largo
• Handel - Concerto Grosso in B minor, Op. 6 No 12 - Allegro
• Broadcast Commentary
• Bach - Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor
• Broadcast Commentary

• Tannhäuser: Ouvertüre und Bacchanale
• Lohengrin: Vorspiel 1. Akt 1
• Tristan und Isolde: Liebestod
• Die Walküre: Walkürenritt
• Gotterdämmerung: Morgendämmerung und Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt
• Siegfrieds Tod und Trauermarsch

Born: 1867-03-25

Died: 1957-01-16