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UID:composers-ludwig-van-beethoven-q255
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17701216
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18270327
DESCRIPTION:Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer\, conductor\, and pi
 anist. Regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western
  music\, he was mentored during the Classical period\, and his musical sty
 le was a key driver of the transition to Romantic music\, and the expansio
 n of instrumental forms such as the symphony\, the piano sonata and the st
 ring quartet. His compositions have attracted extraordinary casual and sch
 olarly interest\, and remain among the most performed in the world.\n\nDec
 ember 16\, 1770 – March 26\, 1827\; died at 56.\nAlive at the same time 
 as Abraham Lincoln\, Charles Darwin\, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\, Immanue
 l Kant\, and Napoleon.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethov
 en
SUMMARY:Ludwig van Beethoven · 1770–1827
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UID:composers-wolfgang-amadeus-mozart-q254
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17560127
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17911206
DESCRIPTION:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a Classical composer and musician. 
 He completed more than 800 works in his life—including outstanding examp
 les of most of the genres of his time: symphonies\, concertos\, chamber mu
 sic\, opera and choral music—and is regarded as one of the greatest comp
 osers in the history of Western music.\n\nJanuary 27\, 1756 – December 5
 \, 1791\; died at 35.\nAlive at the same time as Napoleon\, Johann Wolfgan
 g von Goethe\, Immanuel Kant\, Carl Linnaeus\, and George Washington.\n\nh
 ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart
SUMMARY:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · 1756–1791
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UID:composers-johann-sebastian-bach-q1339
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16850331
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17500729
DESCRIPTION:Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the
  late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety
  of instruments and forms\, including the orchestral Brandenburg Concertos
 \; solo instrumental works such as the Cello Suites and Sonatas and Partit
 as for Solo Violin\; keyboard works such as the Goldberg Variations and Th
 e Well-Tempered Clavier\; organ works such as the Schübler Chorales and t
 he Toccata and Fugue in D minor\; and choral works such as the St. Matthew
  Passion and the Mass in B minor. He is known for his mastery of counterpo
 int\, as heard in The Musical Offering and The Art of Fugue. Felix Mendels
 sohn precipitated the Bach Revival with a performance of the St. Matthew P
 assion in 1829. Ever since\, Bach has been acclaimed as one of the greates
 t composers in the history of Western music.\n\nMarch 31\, 1685 – July 2
 8\, 1750\; died at 65.\nAlive at the same time as Isaac Newton\, George Wa
 shington\, Voltaire\, Immanuel Kant\, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.\n\nhttps:
 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach
SUMMARY:Johann Sebastian Bach · 1685–1750
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UID:composers-richard-wagner-q1511
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18130522
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18840101
DESCRIPTION:Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer\, theatre director
 \, essayist\, and conductor\, best known for his operas\, although his mat
 ure works are often referred to as music dramas. Unlike most composers\, W
 agner wrote both the libretti and the music for all of his stage works. He
  first achieved recognition with works in the Romantic tradition of Carl M
 aria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer\, but revolutionised the genre throug
 h his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk\, which sought to unite poetic\, musi
 cal\, visual\, and dramatic elements. In that approach\, the drama unfolds
  as a continuously sung narrative\, with the music evolving organically fr
 om the text rather than alternating between arias and recitatives. Wagner 
 outlined those ideas in a series of essays published between 1849 and 1852
 \, most fully realising them in the first half of his four-opera cycle Der
  Ring des Nibelungen.\n\nMay 22\, 1813 – 1883\; died at about 69.\nAlive
  at the same time as Karl Marx\, Abraham Lincoln\, Leo Tolstoy\, Charles D
 arwin\, and Vincent van Gogh.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wag
 ner
SUMMARY:Richard Wagner · 1813–1883
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UID:composers-frederic-chopin-q1268
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18100222
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18491018
DESCRIPTION:Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso 
 pianist of the early Romantic period who wrote primarily for solo piano. H
 e has maintained worldwide renown as a leading composer of his era whose "
 poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal
  in his generation".\n\nFebruary 22\, 1810 – October 17\, 1849\; died at
  39.\nAlive at the same time as Karl Marx\, Abraham Lincoln\, Leo Tolstoy\
 , Charles Darwin\, and Napoleon.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9
 d%C3%A9ric_Chopin
SUMMARY:Frédéric Chopin · 1810–1849
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DTSTAMP:20261017T003405Z
UID:composers-pyotr-ilyich-tchaikovsky-q7315
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18400507
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18931107
DESCRIPTION:Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer of the Romantic
  period. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impr
 ession internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular concert
  and theatrical music in the classical repertoire\, including the 1812 Ove
 rture\, his First Piano Concerto\, the Violin Concerto\, the Romeo and Jul
 iet Overture-Fantasy\, several symphonies\, the opera Eugene Onegin\, and 
 the ballets Swan Lake\, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker.\n\nMay 7\,
  1840 – November 6\, 1893\; died at 53.\nAlive at the same time as Alber
 t Einstein\, Karl Marx\, Abraham Lincoln\, Leo Tolstoy\, and Vincent van G
 ogh.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky
SUMMARY:Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky · 1840–1893
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DTSTAMP:20261017T003405Z
UID:composers-giuseppe-verdi-q7317
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18130410
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19010128
DESCRIPTION:Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian composer best
  known for his operas. He was born near Busseto\, a small town in the mode
 rn province of Parma\, to a family of moderate means\, receiving a musical
  education with the help of a local patron named Antonio Barezzi.\n\nApril
  10\, 1813 – January 27\, 1901\; died at 87.\nAlive at the same time as 
 Adolf Hitler\, Albert Einstein\, Karl Marx\, Leo Tolstoy\, and Vincent van
  Gogh.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Verdi
SUMMARY:Giuseppe Verdi · 1813–1901
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DTSTAMP:20261017T003405Z
UID:composers-franz-schubert-q7312
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17970131
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18281120
DESCRIPTION:Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer of the late Class
 ical and early Romantic eras. He was immensely prolific despite living a s
 hort life\, leaving behind a vast oeuvre of more than 1\,000 compositions\
 , including over 600 Lieder and other vocal works\, seven complete symphon
 ies\, sacred music\, operas\, incidental music\, and a large body of piano
  and chamber music. Among these are the songs "Gretchen am Spinnrade"\, "E
 rlkönig" and "Ave Maria"\; the Trout Quintet\; the Symphony in B minor\, 
 "Unfinished"\; the Symphony in C major\, "The Great"\; the String Quartet 
 No. 14 in D minor \; the String Quintet in C major\; the Impromptus for so
 lo piano\; the last three piano sonatas\; the Fantasia in F minor for pian
 o four hands\; the incidental music to the play Rosamunde\; the song cycle
 s Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise\; and the song collection Schwanen
 gesang.\n\nJanuary 31\, 1797 – November 19\, 1828\; died at 31.\nAlive a
 t the same time as Karl Marx\, Abraham Lincoln\, Charles Darwin\, Johann W
 olfgang von Goethe\, and Napoleon.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_
 Schubert
SUMMARY:Franz Schubert · 1797–1828
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UID:composers-antonio-vivaldi-q1340
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16780304
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17410729
DESCRIPTION:Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was an Italian composer\, virtuoso violin
 ist\, and impresario of Baroque music. Regarded as one of the greatest Bar
 oque composers\, Vivaldi's influence during his lifetime was widespread ac
 ross Europe\, giving origin to many imitators and admirers. He pioneered m
 any developments in orchestration\, violin technique and programmatic musi
 c. He consolidated the emerging concerto form\, especially the solo concer
 to\, into a widely accepted and followed idiom.\n\nMarch 4\, 1678 – July
  28\, 1741\; died at 63.\nAlive at the same time as Isaac Newton\, Voltair
 e\, Immanuel Kant\, Benjamin Franklin\, and Johann Sebastian Bach.\n\nhttp
 s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Vivaldi
SUMMARY:Antonio Vivaldi · 1678–1741
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UID:composers-igor-stravinsky-q7314
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18820617
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19720101
DESCRIPTION:Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer and conducto
 r with French and American citizenship. He is widely considered one of the
  most important and influential composers of the 20th century and a pivota
 l figure in modernist music.\n\nJune 17\, 1882 – 1971\; died at about 88
 .\nAlive at the same time as Barack Obama\, Albert Einstein\, Leo Tolstoy\
 , Pablo Picasso\, and Friedrich Nietzsche.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wik
 i/Igor_Stravinsky
SUMMARY:Igor Stravinsky · 1882–1971
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DTSTAMP:20261017T003405Z
UID:composers-johannes-brahms-q7294
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18330507
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18970404
DESCRIPTION:Johannes Brahms was a German composer\, pianist\, and conductor
  of the mid-Romantic period. His music features expressive counterpoint\, 
 freer dissonance\, rhythmic vitality\, and traditional forms. His works in
 clude four symphonies\, four concertos\, a Requiem\, much chamber music\, 
 and hundreds of folk-song arrangements and Lieder.\n\nMay 7\, 1833 – Apr
 il 3\, 1897\; died at 63.\nAlive at the same time as Albert Einstein\, Kar
 l Marx\, Abraham Lincoln\, Leo Tolstoy\, and Vincent van Gogh.\n\nhttps://
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Brahms
SUMMARY:Johannes Brahms · 1833–1897
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DTSTAMP:20261017T003405Z
UID:composers-george-frideric-handel-q7302
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16850305
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17590415
DESCRIPTION:George Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer we
 ll-known for his operas\, oratorios\, anthems\, concerti grossi\, and orga
 n concerti.\n\nMarch 5\, 1685 – April 14\, 1759\; died at 74.\nAlive at 
 the same time as Isaac Newton\, George Washington\, Voltaire\, Immanuel Ka
 nt\, and Johann Sebastian Bach.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Fr
 ideric_Handel
SUMMARY:George Frideric Handel · 1685–1759
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DTSTAMP:20261017T003405Z
UID:composers-joseph-haydn-q7349
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17320331
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18090601
DESCRIPTION:Franz Joseph Haydn was an Austrian composer of the Classical pe
 riod. He was pivotal in the evolution of chamber music forms such as the s
 tring quartet and piano trio. His contributions to musical form have led h
 im to be called "Father of the Symphony"\, "Father of the String quartet" 
 and "Father of Sonata Form".\n\nMarch 31\, 1732 – May 31\, 1809\; died a
 t 77.\nAlive at the same time as Napoleon\, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\, I
 mmanuel Kant\, Carl Linnaeus\, and George Washington.\n\nhttps://en.wikipe
 dia.org/wiki/Joseph_Haydn
SUMMARY:Joseph Haydn · 1732–1809
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DTSTAMP:20261017T003405Z
UID:composers-gustav-mahler-q7304
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18600707
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19110519
DESCRIPTION:Gustav Mahler was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer\, and on
 e of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a
  bridge between the 19th-century tradition and the modernism of the early 
 20th century. While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was establis
 hed beyond question\, his own music gained wide popularity only after peri
 ods of relative neglect\, which included a ban on its performance in much 
 of Europe during the Nazi era. After 1945 his compositions were rediscover
 ed by a new generation of listeners\; Mahler then became one of the most f
 requently performed and recorded of all composers\, a position he has sust
 ained into the 21st century.\n\nJuly 7\, 1860 – May 18\, 1911\; died at 
 50.\nAlive at the same time as Adolf Hitler\, Albert Einstein\, Karl Marx\
 , Leo Tolstoy\, and Vincent van Gogh.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus
 tav_Mahler
SUMMARY:Gustav Mahler · 1860–1911
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DTSTAMP:20261017T003405Z
UID:composers-antonin-dvorak-q7298
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18410908
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19040502
DESCRIPTION:Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer. He frequently e
 mployed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his nat
 ive Bohemia\, following the Romantic era nationalist example of his predec
 essor Bedřich Smetana. Dvořák's style has been described as "the fulles
 t recreation of a national idiom with that of the symphonic tradition\, ab
 sorbing folk influences and finding effective ways of using them"\, and Dv
 ořák has been described as "arguably the most versatile... composer of h
 is time".\n\nSeptember 8\, 1841 – May 1\, 1904\; died at 62.\nAlive at t
 he same time as Adolf Hitler\, Albert Einstein\, Karl Marx\, Leo Tolstoy\,
  and Vincent van Gogh.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%C3%ADn_Dvo%C
 5%99%C3%A1k
SUMMARY:Antonín Dvořák · 1841–1904
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DTSTAMP:20261017T003405Z
UID:composers-giacomo-puccini-q7311
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18581222
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19241130
DESCRIPTION:Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an I
 talian composer known primarily for his operas. Widely regarded as the gre
 atest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi\, he was 
 descended from a long line of composers\, stemming from the late Baroque e
 ra. Though his early work was firmly rooted in traditional late-nineteenth
 -century Romantic Italian opera\, it later developed in the realistic veri
 smo style\, of which he became one of the leading exponents.\n\nDecember 2
 2\, 1858 – November 29\, 1924\; died at 65.\nAlive at the same time as A
 dolf Hitler\, Albert Einstein\, Karl Marx\, Leo Tolstoy\, and Vincent van 
 Gogh.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Puccini
SUMMARY:Giacomo Puccini · 1858–1924
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DTSTAMP:20261017T003405Z
UID:composers-hector-berlioz-q1151
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18031211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18700101
DESCRIPTION:Louis-Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer\, conductor
  and critic. His output includes orchestral works such as the Symphonie fa
 ntastique and Harold in Italy\, choral pieces including the Requiem and L'
 Enfance du Christ\, his three operas Benvenuto Cellini\, Les Troyens and B
 éatrice et Bénédict\, and works of hybrid genres such as the "dramatic 
 symphony" Roméo et Juliette and the "dramatic legend" La Damnation de Fau
 st.\n\nDecember 11\, 1803 – 1869\; died at about 65.\nAlive at the same 
 time as Karl Marx\, Abraham Lincoln\, Leo Tolstoy\, Charles Darwin\, and V
 incent van Gogh.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Berlioz
SUMMARY:Hector Berlioz · 1803–1869
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DTSTAMP:20261017T003405Z
UID:composers-robert-schumann-q7351
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18100608
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18560730
DESCRIPTION:Robert Schumann was a German composer\, pianist\, and music cri
 tic of the early Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres 
 of the time\, writing for solo piano\, voice and piano\, chamber groups\, 
 orchestra\, choir and the opera. His works typify the spirit of the Romant
 ic era in German music.\n\nJune 8\, 1810 – July 29\, 1856\; died at 46.\
 nAlive at the same time as Karl Marx\, Abraham Lincoln\, Leo Tolstoy\, Cha
 rles Darwin\, and Napoleon.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Schuma
 nn
SUMMARY:Robert Schumann · 1810–1856
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DTSTAMP:20261017T003405Z
UID:composers-giovanni-pierluigi-da-palestrina-q179277
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:15250101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:15940203
DESCRIPTION:Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian composer of lat
 e Renaissance music. The central representative of the Roman School\, with
  Orlande de Lassus and Tomás Luis de Victoria\, Palestrina is considered 
 the leading composer of late 16th-century Europe. Palestrina was one of th
 e few Renaissance composers never entirely forgotten\, but it was the so-c
 alled "Palestrinian style" of counterpoint—especially as codified by Joh
 ann Joseph Fux—rather than his individual compositions that exerted the 
 greatest influence.\n\n1525 – February 2\, 1594\; died at about 69.\nAli
 ve at the same time as William Shakespeare\, Michelangelo\, Martin Luther\
 , Nicolaus Copernicus\, and Francis Bacon.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wik
 i/Giovanni_Pierluigi_da_Palestrina
SUMMARY:Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina · 1525–1594
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DTSTAMP:20261017T003405Z
UID:composers-dmitri-shostakovich-q80135
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19060925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19750810
DESCRIPTION:Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet-era Russian compo
 ser and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his
  First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer.\n
 \nSeptember 25\, 1906 – August 9\, 1975\; died at 68.\nAlive at the same
  time as Barack Obama\, Albert Einstein\, Pablo Picasso\, Franz Kafka\, an
 d Pope Francis.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich
SUMMARY:Dmitri Shostakovich · 1906–1975
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DTSTAMP:20261017T003405Z
UID:composers-niccolo-paganini-q66075
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17821027
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18410101
DESCRIPTION:Niccolò Paganini was an Italian violinist\, guitarist and comp
 oser. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time\, and left hi
 s mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique. His 24 Caprices f
 or Solo Violin Op. 1 are among the best known of his compositions.\n\nOcto
 ber 27\, 1782 – 1840\; died at about 57.\nAlive at the same time as Karl
  Marx\, Abraham Lincoln\, Leo Tolstoy\, Charles Darwin\, and Napoleon.\n\n
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Paganini
SUMMARY:Niccolò Paganini · 1782–1840
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DTSTAMP:20261017T003405Z
UID:composers-stefania-turkevych-lukiianovych-q12162960
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18980425
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19770409
DESCRIPTION:Stefania Ivanivna Turkewich-Lukianovych was a Ukrainian compose
 r\, pianist\, and musicologist. She is recognized as Ukraine's first woman
  composer. In the USSR\, her works were banned by the state authorities.\n
 \nApril 25\, 1898 – April 8\, 1977\; died at 78.\nAlive at the same time
  as Barack Obama\, Albert Einstein\, Leo Tolstoy\, Pablo Picasso\, and Pop
 e Francis.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefania_Turkewich
SUMMARY:Stefania Turkevych-Lukiianovych · 1898–1977
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DTSTAMP:20261017T003405Z
UID:composers-miles-davis-q93341
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19260526
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19910929
DESCRIPTION:Miles Dewey Davis III was an American trumpeter\, bandleader\, 
 composer\, and painter. He is among the most influential and acclaimed fig
 ures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. In a career spanning n
 early five decades\, Davis was at the forefront of several major stylistic
  developments in jazz\, including bebop\, cool jazz\, hard bop\, third str
 eam\, modal jazz\, avant-garde jazz and jazz fusion. His legacy extends in
 to rock\, funk\, classical and hip-hop.\n\nMay 26\, 1926 – September 28\
 , 1991\; died at 65.\nAlive at the same time as Barack Obama\, Albert Eins
 tein\, Pablo Picasso\, Pope Francis\, and Neil Armstrong.\n\nhttps://en.wi
 kipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis
SUMMARY:Miles Davis · 1926–1991
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DTSTAMP:20261017T003405Z
UID:composers-sergei-prokofiev-q49481
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18910323
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19530306
DESCRIPTION:Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer\, pianist\,
  and conductor who later worked in the Soviet Union. As the creator of ack
 nowledged masterpieces across numerous music genres\, he is regarded as on
 e of the major composers of the 20th century. His works include such widel
 y heard pieces as the March from The Love for Three Oranges\, the suite Li
 eutenant Kijé\, the ballet Romeo and Juliet—from which "Dance of the Kn
 ights" is taken—and Peter and the Wolf. Of the established forms and gen
 res in which he worked\, he created—excluding juvenilia—seven complete
 d operas\, seven symphonies\, eight ballets\, five piano concertos\, two v
 iolin concertos\, a cello concerto\, a symphony-concerto for cello and orc
 hestra\, and nine completed piano sonatas.\n\nMarch 23\, 1891 – March 5\
 , 1953\; died at 61.\nAlive at the same time as Adolf Hitler\, Albert Eins
 tein\, Leo Tolstoy\, Pablo Picasso\, and Pope Francis.\n\nhttps://en.wikip
 edia.org/wiki/Sergei_Prokofiev
SUMMARY:Sergei Prokofiev · 1891–1953
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DTSTAMP:20261017T003405Z
UID:composers-ennio-morricone-q23848
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19281110
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200707
DESCRIPTION:Ennio Morricone was an Italian composer\, orchestrator\, conduc
 tor\, trumpeter\, and pianist who wrote music in a wide range of styles. W
 ith more than 400 scores for cinema and television\, as well as more than 
 100 classical works\, Morricone is widely considered one of the most proli
 fic and greatest film composers of all time. He received numerous accolade
 s throughout his career\, including two Academy Awards\, three Grammy Awar
 ds\, three Golden Globes\, six BAFTAs\, ten David di Donatello\, eleven Na
 stro d'Argento\, two European Film Awards\, the Golden Lion Honorary Award
 \, and the Polar Music Prize.\n\nNovember 10\, 1928 – July 6\, 2020\; di
 ed at 91.\nAlive at the same time as Barack Obama\, Albert Einstein\, Pabl
 o Picasso\, Pope Francis\, and Neil Armstrong.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org
 /wiki/Ennio_Morricone
SUMMARY:Ennio Morricone · 1928–2020
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DTSTAMP:20261017T003405Z
UID:composers-hans-zimmer-q76364
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19570912
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261018
DESCRIPTION:Hans Florian Zimmer is a German film composer and music produce
 r. He has received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards\, a BAF
 TA Award\, three Golden Globe Awards\, and five Grammy Awards\, as well as
  nominations for seven Primetime Emmy Awards. Zimmer was also named one of
  the Top 100 Living Geniuses by The Daily Telegraph in 2007.\n\nBorn Septe
 mber 12\, 1957\; 69 today.\nAlive at the same time as Barack Obama\, Pablo
  Picasso\, Pope Francis\, Neil Armstrong\, and Gabriel García Márquez.\n
 \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Zimmer
SUMMARY:Hans Zimmer · born 1957
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DTSTAMP:20261017T003405Z
UID:composers-claudio-monteverdi-q53068
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:15670525
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:16431130
DESCRIPTION:Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi was an Italian composer\, c
 hoirmaster and string player. A composer of both secular and sacred music\
 , and a pioneer in the development of opera\, he is considered a crucial t
 ransitional figure between the Renaissance and Baroque periods of music hi
 story.\n\nMay 25\, 1567 – November 29\, 1643\; died at 76.\nAlive at the
  same time as William Shakespeare\, René Descartes\, Rembrandt\, Blaise P
 ascal\, and Elizabeth I of England.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claud
 io_Monteverdi
SUMMARY:Claudio Monteverdi · 1567–1643
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DTSTAMP:20261017T003405Z
UID:composers-duke-ellington-q4030
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18990429
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19740525
DESCRIPTION:Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American jazz pianist\, 
 composer\, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1924 through th
 e rest of his life. Music critic Ralph J. Gleason called him "America's mo
 st important composer".\n\nApril 29\, 1899 – May 24\, 1974\; died at 75.
 \nAlive at the same time as Barack Obama\, Albert Einstein\, Leo Tolstoy\,
  Pablo Picasso\, and Pope Francis.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_E
 llington
SUMMARY:Duke Ellington · 1899–1974
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DTSTAMP:20261017T003405Z
UID:composers-john-cale-q45909
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19401203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261018
DESCRIPTION:John Davies Cale is a Welsh singer\, musician\, composer\, reco
 rd producer and arranger. He was a founding member of the influential Amer
 ican rock band the Velvet Underground\, with whom he recorded two studio a
 lbums. Over his six-decade career\, Cale has worked in various styles of r
 ock and avant-garde music.\n\nBorn December 3\, 1940\; 85 today.\nAlive at
  the same time as Barack Obama\, Albert Einstein\, Pablo Picasso\, Pope Fr
 ancis\, and Neil Armstrong.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cale
SUMMARY:John Cale · born 1940
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UID:composers-christoph-willibald-von-gluck-q130759
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17140702
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17871116
DESCRIPTION:Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck was a composer of Italian 
 and French opera in the early classical period. Born in the Upper Palatina
 te and raised in Bohemia\, both part of the Holy Roman Empire at the time\
 , he gained prominence at the Habsburg court in Vienna. There he brought a
 bout the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices for which man
 y intellectuals had been campaigning. With a series of radical new works i
 n the 1760s\, among them Orfeo ed Euridice and Alceste\, he broke the stra
 nglehold that Metastasian opera seria had enjoyed for much of the century.
  Gluck introduced more drama by using orchestral recitative and cutting th
 e usually long da capo aria. His later operas have half the length of a ty
 pical baroque opera.\n\nJuly 2\, 1714 – November 15\, 1787\; died at 73.
 \nAlive at the same time as Isaac Newton\, Napoleon\, Johann Wolfgang von 
 Goethe\, Immanuel Kant\, and George Washington.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.or
 g/wiki/Christoph_Willibald_Gluck
SUMMARY:Christoph Willibald von Gluck · 1714–1787
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UID:composers-georg-philipp-telemann-q75854
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16810314
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17680101
DESCRIPTION:Georg Philipp Telemann was a German Baroque composer and multi-
 instrumentalist. He is one of the most prolific composers in history\, at 
 least in terms of surviving works. Telemann was considered by his contempo
 raries to be one of the leading German composers of the time\, and he was 
 compared favourably both to his friend Johann Sebastian Bach\, who made Te
 lemann the godfather and namesake of his son Carl Philipp Emanuel\, and to
  George Frideric Handel\, whom Telemann also knew personally.\n\nMarch 14\
 , 1681 – 1767\; died at about 85.\nAlive at the same time as Isaac Newto
 n\, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\, George Washington\, Immanuel Kant\, and W
 olfgang Amadeus Mozart.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Philipp_Tel
 emann
SUMMARY:Georg Philipp Telemann · 1681–1767
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UID:composers-carl-philipp-emanuel-bach-q76428
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17140308
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17881215
DESCRIPTION:Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach\, commonly abbreviated C. P. E. Bach\
 , was a German composer and musician of the Baroque and Classical eras. He
  was the fifth child and second surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach and
  Maria Barbara Bach.\n\nMarch 8\, 1714 – December 14\, 1788\; died at 74
 .\nAlive at the same time as Isaac Newton\, Napoleon\, Johann Wolfgang von
  Goethe\, Immanuel Kant\, and George Washington.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.o
 rg/wiki/Carl_Philipp_Emanuel_Bach
SUMMARY:Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach · 1714–1788
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UID:composers-jean-philippe-rameau-q1145
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16830925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17640913
DESCRIPTION:Jean-Philippe Rameau was a French composer and music theorist o
 f the late Baroque era. Regarded as one of the most important French compo
 sers and music theorists of the 18th century\, he replaced Jean-Baptiste L
 ully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the l
 eading French composer of his time for the harpsichord\, alongside Franço
 is Couperin.\n\nSeptember 25\, 1683 – September 12\, 1764\; died at 80.\
 nAlive at the same time as Isaac Newton\, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\, Geo
 rge Washington\, Immanuel Kant\, and Johann Sebastian Bach.\n\nhttps://en.
 wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Philippe_Rameau
SUMMARY:Jean-Philippe Rameau · 1683–1764
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UID:composers-jean-baptiste-lully-q1192
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16321128
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:16880101
DESCRIPTION:Jean-Baptiste Lully was an Italian-French composer\, dancer and
  instrumentalist\, who is considered a master of the French Baroque music 
 style. Best known for his operas\, he spent most of his life working in th
 e court of Louis XIV and became a French subject in 1661. He was a close f
 riend of the playwright Molière\, with whom he collaborated on numerous c
 omédie-ballets\, including L'Amour médecin\, George Dandin ou le Mari co
 nfondu\, Monsieur de Pourceaugnac\, Psyché and his best known work\, Le B
 ourgeois gentilhomme.\n\nNovember 28\, 1632 – 1687\; died at about 54.\n
 Alive at the same time as Isaac Newton\, René Descartes\, Molière\, Remb
 randt\, and Louis XIV of France.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Bap
 tiste_Lully
SUMMARY:Jean-Baptiste Lully · 1632–1687
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UID:composers-henry-purcell-q9695
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16590910
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:16951122
DESCRIPTION:Henry Purcell was an English composer and organist of the middl
 e Baroque era. He was extremely prolific\, his compositions including more
  than 100 songs\, the tragic opera Dido and Aeneas\, and incidental music 
 to a version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream called The Fairy Q
 ueen. Purcell's musical style was uniquely English\, although it incorpora
 ted Italian and French elements. Purcell is generally considered to be one
  of the greatest English composers.\n\nSeptember 10\, 1659 – November 21
 \, 1695\; died at 36.\nAlive at the same time as Isaac Newton\, Molière\,
  John Locke\, Rembrandt\, and Louis XIV of France.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia
 .org/wiki/Henry_Purcell
SUMMARY:Henry Purcell · 1659–1695
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UID:composers-arcangelo-corelli-q164475
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:16530217
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:17130109
DESCRIPTION:Arcangelo Corelli was an Italian composer\, musician\, and viol
 inist of the middle Baroque era. His music was key in the development of t
 he modern genres of sonata and concerto\, in establishing the preeminence 
 of the violin\, and as the first coalescing of modern tonality and functio
 nal harmony.\n\nFebruary 17\, 1653 – January 8\, 1713\; died at 59.\nAli
 ve at the same time as Isaac Newton\, Voltaire\, John Locke\, Rembrandt\, 
 and Louis XIV of France.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcangelo_Corell
 i
SUMMARY:Arcangelo Corelli · 1653–1713
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UID:composers-tomas-luis-de-victoria-q215128
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:15480101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:16110821
DESCRIPTION:Tomás Luis de Victoria was the most famous Spanish composer of
  the Renaissance. He stands with Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Orla
 nde de Lassus as among the principal composers of the late Renaissance\, a
 nd was "admired above all for the intensity of some of his motets and of h
 is Offices for the Dead and for Holy Week". His surviving oeuvre\, unlike 
 that of his colleagues\, is almost exclusively sacred and polyphonic vocal
  music\, set to Latin texts. As a Catholic priest\, as well as an accompli
 shed organist and singer\, his career spanned both Spain and Italy. Howeve
 r\, he preferred the life of a composer to that of a performer.\n\n1548 
 – August 20\, 1611\; died at about 63.\nAlive at the same time as Willia
 m Shakespeare\, Michelangelo\, René Descartes\, Elizabeth I of England\, 
 and Johannes Kepler.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_Luis_de_V
 ictoria
SUMMARY:Tomás Luis de Victoria · 1548–1611
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UID:composers-orlande-de-lassus-q154792
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:15320101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:15940615
DESCRIPTION:Orlando di Lasso was a composer of the late Renaissance. The ch
 ief representative of the mature polyphonic style in the Franco-Flemish sc
 hool\, Lasso stands with William Byrd\, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina\,
  and Tomás Luis de Victoria as one of the leading composers of the later 
 Renaissance. Immensely prolific\, his music varies considerably in style a
 nd genre\, which gave him unprecedented popularity throughout Europe.\n\n1
 532 – June 14\, 1594\; died at about 62.\nAlive at the same time as Will
 iam Shakespeare\, Michelangelo\, Martin Luther\, Nicolaus Copernicus\, and
  Francis Bacon.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_di_Lasso
SUMMARY:Orlande de Lassus · 1532–1594
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UID:composers-guillaume-de-machaut-q200580
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:13000101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:13780101
DESCRIPTION:Guillaume de Machaut was a French composer and poet who was the
  central figure of the ars nova style in late medieval music. His dominanc
 e of the genre is such that modern musicologists use his death to separate
  the ars nova from the subsequent ars subtilior movement. Regarded as the 
 most significant French composer and poet of the 14th century\, he is ofte
 n seen as the century's leading European composer.\n\n1300 – 1377\; died
  at about 77.\nAlive at the same time as Dante Alighieri\, Marco Polo\, Wi
 lliam of Ockham\, Giotto\, and Bayezid I.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
 /Guillaume_de_Machaut
SUMMARY:Guillaume de Machaut · 1300–1377
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UID:composers-guillaume-dufay-q207717
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:13970821
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:14741128
DESCRIPTION:Guillaume Du Fay was a composer and music theorist of early Ren
 aissance music\, who is variously described as French or Franco-Flemish. C
 onsidered the leading European composer of his time\, his music was widely
  performed and reproduced. Du Fay was well-associated with composers of th
 e Burgundian School\, particularly his colleague Gilles Binchois\, but was
  never a regular member of the Burgundian chapel himself.\n\nAugust 21\, 1
 397 – November 27\, 1474\; died at 77.\nAlive at the same time as Leonar
 do da Vinci\, Christopher Columbus\, Joan of Arc\, Jan Hus\, and François
  Villon.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Du_Fay
SUMMARY:Guillaume Dufay · 1397–1474
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UID:composers-luigi-boccherini-q189766
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:17430219
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18050529
DESCRIPTION:Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini was an Italian composer and cellist of
  the Classical era whose music retained a courtly and galante style even w
 hile he matured somewhat apart from the major classical musical centers. H
 e is best known for the minuet from his String Quintet in E\, Op. 11\, No.
  5\, and the Cello Concerto in B♭ major . The latter work was long known
  in the heavily altered version by German cellist and prolific arranger Fr
 iedrich Grützmacher\, but has recently been restored to its original vers
 ion. He is also particularly well known for his Musica notturna delle stra
 de di Madrid.\n\nFebruary 19\, 1743 – May 28\, 1805\; died at 62.\nAlive
  at the same time as Napoleon\, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\, Immanuel Kant
 \, Carl Linnaeus\, and George Washington.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
 /Luigi_Boccherini
SUMMARY:Luigi Boccherini · 1743–1805
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UID:composers-airat-ichmouratov-q21063940
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19730628
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261018
DESCRIPTION:Airat Rafailovich Ichmouratov is a Russian-born Canadian compos
 er\, conductor and klezmer clarinetist of Volga Tatar descent. He is a fou
 nding member and clarinetist of award-winning Montreal-based klezmer group
  Kleztory and invited professor at Laval University in Quebec\, Canada.\n\
 nBorn June 28\, 1973\; 53 today.\nAlive at the same time as Barack Obama\,
  Salvador Dalí\, Pope Francis\, Neil Armstrong\, and Gabriel García Már
 quez.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airat_Ichmouratov
SUMMARY:Airat Ichmouratov · born 1973
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UID:composers-ramin-djawadi-q57577
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19740719
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261018
DESCRIPTION:Ramin Djawadi is a German film score composer based in the Unit
 ed States. He is known for his scores for Iron Man\, Pacific Rim\, and the
  HBO series Game of Thrones and Westworld.\n\nBorn July 19\, 1974\; 52 tod
 ay.\nAlive at the same time as Barack Obama\, Salvador Dalí\, Pope Franci
 s\, Neil Armstrong\, and Gabriel García Márquez.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia
 .org/wiki/Ramin_Djawadi
SUMMARY:Ramin Djawadi · born 1974
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UID:composers-josquin-des-prez-q143100
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:14400101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:15210907
DESCRIPTION:Josquin Lebloitte dit des Prez was a composer of Renaissance mu
 sic\, who is variously described as French or Franco-Flemish. Considered o
 ne of the greatest composers of the Renaissance\, he was a central figure 
 of the Franco-Flemish School and had a profound influence on the music of 
 16th-century Europe. Building on the work of his predecessors like Johanne
 s Ockeghem\, he developed a complex style of expressive—and often imitat
 ive—movement between independent voices (polyphony) which informs much o
 f his work. He further emphasized the relationship between text and music\
 , and departed from the early Renaissance tendency towards lengthy melisma
 tic lines on a single syllable\, preferring to use shorter\, repeated moti
 fs between voices. Josquin was a singer\, and his compositions are mainly 
 vocal. They include masses\, motets and secular chansons.\n\n1440 – Sept
 ember 6\, 1521\; died at about 81.\nAlive at the same time as Leonardo da 
 Vinci\, Michelangelo\, Martin Luther\, Christopher Columbus\, and Niccolò
  Machiavelli.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josquin_des_Prez
SUMMARY:Josquin des Prez · 1440–1521
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