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Gerard Schwarz describes how Bela Bartok developed new rhythmic patterns modeled on Balkan and North African folk music and explored unusual instrumental colors and textures.

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In an era when his colleagues were exploring new modes of musical design, Brahms showed that sonata-form, fugue, and theme-with-variations still held great potential....

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Gerard Schwarz shares his enthusiasm for the music of Aaron Copland, the quintessential American composer....

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Debussy was the first great composer of the twentieth century. He departed from previous musical practice to a greater extent than any previous composer.

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Felix Mendelssohn grew up in an extraordinary family, one distinguished by both worldly success and intellectual achievement....

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By the time Mozart turned 20 he was already one of the most skilled composers of his day. His output included not only symphonies and concertos but piano pieces, serenades, arias, operas, and smaller species of musical theater, songs, and church music.

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Gerard Schwarz examines the life of this impolitic composer who lived in the political world of revolutionary Russia. Prokofiev's failure to interest himself in political realities, together with his tremendous confidence in his own genius, led him to ignore the darkening climate for artists in the Soviet Union.

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With J.S. Bach and three of his sons, Wilhelm Friedemann, Carl Philipp Emanuel, and Johann Christian, we find a concentration of familial talent that is unique in history....

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The work of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) has been called the culmination of the Classical era or the wellspring of the Romantic era in European music....

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Berlioz had a passionate and idealistic personality, one given to incandescent enthusiasms and uncompromising struggles....

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