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| x European Classical music |
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Classical music is the mainstream music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 9th century to present times. The central norms of this tradition became codified...
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| x Wendy Carlos |
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Wendy Carlos (born November 14, 1939) is an American composer and electronic musician. Carlos' fame originated in the late 1960s with recordings made on the Moog synthesizer, which was a relatively new and unknown instrument at the time; most...
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Yonatan "Yoni" Rechter (Hebrew: יוני רכטר; born November 18, 1951) is an Israeli musician, composer, pianist, arranger and a singer, specializing in many fields of music, especially rock and jazz, but he is also very active in the field of European...
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| x Maksim Mrvica |
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Maksim Mrvica (Croatian pronunciation: [ˈmaksim ˈmr.ʋitsa]; born May 3, 1975) is a popular pianist from Croatia. In 2003, Maksim released one of his first albums, The Piano Player.
Mrvica took up piano lessons from the age of nine from Marija Sekso...
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| x King's Singers |
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The King's Singers are a celebrated, long-lived, Grammy Award-winning British a cappella vocal ensemble. Their name recalls King's College in Cambridge, England, where the group was formed by six choral scholars in 1968. The group's popularity in...
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| x Alarm Will Sound |
Alarm Will Sound is a 20-member chamber orchestra that focuses on recordings and performances of contemporary music. Its performances have been described as "equal parts exuberance, nonchalance, and virtuosity" by the Financial Times and as "a...
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| x Andrijana Janevska |
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Andrijana Janevska (Macedonian: Андријана Јаневска, born December 6, 1981) is a famous Macedonian singer and musician.
Janevska was born in Skopje capital of the Republic of Macedonia (then SR Macedonia), Yugoslavia) where she currently works and...
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| x What Four |
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What Four is a four piece band based out of Grayslake, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago. The band explores every aspects of the rock spectrum by taking its cues from styles such as funk, jazz, blues, and classical. Though they are a rock band...
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| x Hristijan Spirovski |
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Hristijan Spirovski (Macedonian: Христијан Спировски) (born November 24, 1987, Melbourne, Australia) is an Ethnic Macedonian pianist and singer.
Spirovski showed interest in music from a very young age. He was encouraged to play piano from the age...
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| x Sophie Solomon |
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Sophie Solomon is a British violinist, songwriter and composer (born June 6, 1978) who fuses many different musical influences into her music.
Solomon began playing the violin at the age of two. At four she met Yehudi Menuhin and was taken to see...
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| x Kaliopi |
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Kaliopi Bukle (Aromanian: Caliopi Bucle, Macedonian: Калиопи Букле, pronounced [kaliˈɔpi ˈbuklɛ] ( listen)) (born December 28, 1966), simply known as Kaliopi, is a Macedonian popular singer and song-writer.
Kaliopi Bukle showed interest in music...
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| x Tosca Tango Orchestra |
The Tosca Tango Orchestra is a joined effort between various Austin, Texas based musicians. Founded by Glover Gill in collaboration with The Tosca String Quartet, Chris Maresh and Justin Sherburn in 1997. The group performs original compositions in...
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| x Eminence Symphony Orchestra |
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The Eminence Symphony Orchestra based in Sydney, Australia is an independent symphony orchestra which delves into the classical music featured in video games and anime, as well as film scores.
Eminence was founded in 2003 by a small group of friends...
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| x Claudio Arrau |
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Claudio Arrau León (February 6, 1903 – June 9, 1991) was a Chilean pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning from the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms and...
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| x Carl Dahlhaus |
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Carl Dahlhaus (June 10, 1928–March 13, 1989), a musicologist from Berlin, has been one of the major contributors to the development of musicology as a scholarly discipline during the post-war era.
Born in Hanover, he wrote numerous books and...
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| x Leonard Bernstein |
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Leonard Bernstein (pronounced /ˈbɜrn.staɪn/, us dict: bûrn′·stīn; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States...
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| x Amy Marcy Cheney Beach |
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Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (September 5, 1867 – December 27, 1944) was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Most of her compositions and performances were under the name Mrs. H...
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| x Sviatoslav Richter |
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Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter (Ukrainian: Святослав Теофілович Ріхтер Svjatoslav Teofilovič Rikhter; Russian: Святослав Теофилович Рихтер, ) (March 20 [O.S. March 7] 1915 – August 1, 1997) was a Soviet pianist, and was well known for the depth of...
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| x Antonín Dvořák |
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Antonín Leopold Dvořák (English pronunciation: /ˈdvɒrʒɑːk/ DVOR-zhahk or /ˈdvɒrʒæk/ DVOR-zhak; Czech: [ˈantoɲiːn ˈlɛopolt ˈdvor̝aːk] ( listen); September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904) was a Czech composer of Romantic music, who employed the idioms and...
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| x Anton Bruckner |
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Anton Bruckner (4 September 1824 – 11 October 1896) was an Austrian composer known for his symphonies, masses, and motets. His symphonies are often considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic...
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| x Richard Wagner |
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Wilhelm Richard Wagner (pronounced /ˈvɑːɡnər/ or /ˈwæɡnər/, German pronunciation: [ˈʁiçaʁt ˈvaɡnɐ]; 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas",...
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| x Richard Strauss |
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Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, particularly of operas, Lieder and tone poems. Strauss was also a prominent conductor.
To Richard Strauss went the honour of...
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| x Glenn Gould |
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Glenn Herbert Gould (September 25, 1932 – October 4, 1982) was a Canadian pianist who became one of the best-known and most celebrated classical pianists of the twentieth century. He was particularly renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard music...
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| x Johann Sebastian Bach |
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Johann Sebastian Bach (German pronunciation: [joˈhan] or [ˈjoːhan zeˈbastjan ˈbax]) (31 March 1685 [O.S. 21 March] – 28 July 1750) (often referred to as Bach) was a German composer and organist whose ecclesiastical and secular works for choir,...
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| x Vladimir Horowitz |
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Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz (Russian: Владимир Самойлович Горовиц, Vladimir Samojlovič Gorovits; Ukrainian: Володимир Самійлович Горовиць, Volodymyr Samiylovich Horovyts) (October 1, 1903 – November 5, 1989) was a Russian-American classical...
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| x The Royal Scottish National Orchestra |
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The Royal Scottish National Orchestra is Scotland's national symphony orchestra. Based in Glasgow, the 89-strong professional orchestra also regularly performs in Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee, and abroad.
Formed in 1891 as the Scottish Orchestra,...
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| x Robert Shaw |
Robert Shaw (April 30, 1916 – January 25, 1999) was an American conductor most famous for his work with his namesake Chorale, with the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Shaw received 14 Grammy awards,...
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| x Cleveland Quartet |
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Cleveland Quartet a string quartet founded by violinists Donald Weilerstein and Peter Salaff, cellist Paul Katz and violist Martha Strongin Katz in 1969 at the Cleveland Institute of Music. The quartet subsequently disbanded in 1995 after twenty-six...
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| x Rashid Behbudov |
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Rashid Behbudov (Azerbaijani: Rəşid Behbudov) (December 14, 1915 – June 9, 1989) was an Azerbaijani singer and actor. He sang in Azerbaijani, Russian, Persian, Turkish, Hindi, Armenian, Urdu and Bengali among other languages.
Rashid Behbudov was...
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| x Mormon Tabernacle Choir |
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The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a 360-member, all-volunteer choir. The choir is sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS Church). However, the choir is completely self-funded, traveling and producing albums to support the...
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| x Deviations Project |
Deviations Project is a British electronic music group composed of producer Dave Williams and international violin virtuoso Oliver Lewis. The group blends elements of classical music with electronica; pieces such as Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake", Bizet...
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| x Katona Twins |
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The Katona Twins ("Katona") are a celebrated Hungarian guitar duo which has performed in front of audiences at prestigious venues and at major music festivals around the world. Their performances have been widely reviewed by the music press. The duo...
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| x New Brunswick Youth Orchestra |
The New Brunswick Youth Orchestra, NBYO for short, (French: L’orchestre des jeunes du Nouveau-Brunswick, OJNB) is a youth orchestra based in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. Founded in 1965, the orchestra has approximately 80 members (from ages 11...
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| x Celloman |
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Celloman are a band led by cellist and session musician Ivan Hussey. Their music is described as a fusion of reggae and soul with African and Middle Eastern world music
Ivan Hussey's musical career began as he joined the Reggae Philharmonic...
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| x Frank Zappa |
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Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique concrète...
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| x Erie Philharmonic |
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The Erie Philharmonic is a professional orchestra located in Erie, Pennsylvania. The Philharmonic has held its performances at the Warner Theatre on State Street in downtown Erie since 1974.
The musicians union attempted to form a symphonic...
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| x It's a Beautiful Day |
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It's a Beautiful Day was a band formed in San Francisco, California in 1967, the brainchild of violinist and vocalist David LaFlamme.
LaFlamme, a former soloist with the Utah Symphony Orchestra, had previously been in the band Orkustra, and...
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| x Harvey Shapiro |
Harvey Shapiro (June 22, 1911 – October 25, 2007) was a New York-born American cellist of world renown.
Harvey Shapiro, of Russian parentage, was born in New York City. His first cello teacher was Willem Willeke (1880-1950), who was both a medical...
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| x Paul Potts |
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Paul Robert Potts (born 13 October 1970) is a British tenor who won the first series of ITV's Britain's Got Talent in 2007, singing an operatic aria, "Nessun dorma" from Puccini's Turandot. Potts was a manager at Carphone Warehouse who also...
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| x Rudolf Serkin |
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Rudolf Serkin (March 28, 1903 – May 8, 1991) was a Bohemian-born pianist.
He was born in Eger, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Cheb, Czech Republic) to a Russian-Jewish family. Hailed as a child prodigy, Serkin was sent to Vienna at the age of...
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| x Hélène Grimaud |
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Hélène Grimaud (born November 7, 1969) is a French pianist.
She was born in Aix-en-Provence, France. She is descended from Sephardi Jews from Corsica on her mother's side and from Berber Jews on her father's side. She has stated that as a child she...
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| x Ray Lynch |
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Ray Lynch (also known as Raymond Lynch) is a classically trained guitarist and lutenist. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1953 to a musical and artistic family. His mother was a classical pianist and watercolor artist who was famed for her...
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| x Imani Winds |
Imani Winds is an American wind quintet based in New York. The group was founded in 1997 and is known for its adventurous programming, which includes newly composed works, as well as compositions featuring African, Latin American, and American...
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| x Artur Rodziński |
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Artur Rodziński (January 1, 1892 - November 27, 1958) was a Polish conductor of opera and symphonic music.
Artur Rodziński was born in Split, the capital of Dalmatia on January 1, 1892. Soon after, his father, of Polish descent, and a general in the...
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| x The Baltimore Consort |
The Baltimore Consort is a musical ensemble that performs a wide variety of early music, Renaissance music and music from later periods. They began in 1980 as a group specializing in music of the Elizabethan period, but soon expanded their...
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| x Andreas Vollenweider |
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Andreas Vollenweider (born October 4, 1953) is a Swiss musician. His music has been categorized as World Music, Jazz, New Age and even Classical; two of his albums were number 1 on the Billboard charts simultaneously in the categories Classical,...
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| x André Watts |
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André Watts (born June 20, 1946) is a classical pianist and Professor at the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University. Born in Nürnberg, Germany, Watts is the son of a Hungarian mother, Maria Alexandra Gusmits, who played the piano, and African...
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| x Leonid Borisovitch Kogan |
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Leonid Borisovich Kogan (November 17, 1924 - December 17, 1982) (Hebrew: לאוניד בוריסוביץ' קוגן, Russian: Леонид Борисович Коган) was a violin virtuoso and one of the 20th century's most famous Soviet violinists. He ranked among the greatest...
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| x Ketil Bjørnstad |
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Ketil Bjørnstad (born 25 April 1952 in Oslo) is a Norwegian pianist and composer. Initially trained as a classical pianist, Bjørnstad discovered jazz at an early age and has embraced the emergence of "European jazz".
He is an artist on the ECM...
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| x András Schiff |
András Schiff (born 21 December 1953) is a Hungarian-born British classical pianist.
Schiff was born in Budapest and began piano lessons at the age five with Elisabeth Vadasz. Schiff studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, and later...
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| x Yo-Yo Ma |
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Yo-Yo Ma (simplified Chinese: 马友友; traditional Chinese: 馬友友; pinyin: Mǎ Yǒuyǒu) (born October 7, 1955) is a French-born American virtuoso cellist and composer and winner of multiple Grammy Awards. He is one of the most revered cellists of the 20th...
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| x Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra |
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The Oslo-Filharmonien (Oslo Philharmonic) is a symphony orchestra based in Oslo, Norway. The orchestra was founded in 1919, and has since 1977 had its home in the Oslo Concert Hall. The orchestra consists of 69 musicians in the string section, 16 in...
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| x Russell Watson |
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Russell Watson (born 24 November 1966) is an British tenor who has released singles and albums of both operatic-style and pop songs. The self-styled "People's Tenor" had been singing since he was a child, and became known after performing at a...
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| x Adrian Boult |
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Sir Adrian Cedric Boult CH (8 April 1889 – 22 February 1983) was an English conductor.
Boult was born in Chester and educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. As a schoolboy, he attended Sir Henry Wood's Saturday afternoon and Sunday...
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| x Czech Philharmonic Orchestra |
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The Česká filharmonie (Czech Philharmonic) is a symphony orchestra based in Prague and is the best-known and most respected orchestra in the Czech Republic.
The name "Czech Philharmonic Orchestra" appeared for the first time in 1894, as the title of...
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| x City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra |
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The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) is a British orchestra based in Birmingham, England.
Founded by Neville Chamberlain, the orchestra first performed as the City of Birmingham Orchestra in September 1920, with Appleby Matthews...
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| x Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra |
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The Berlin Philharmonic (in German: Die Berliner Philharmoniker [pl]), is an orchestra based in Berlin, Germany. In 2006, a group of ten European media outlets voted the Berlin Philharmonic number three on a list of "top ten European Orchestras",...
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| x Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra |
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The Vienna Philharmonic (in German: die Wiener Philharmoniker [pl]) is an orchestra in Austria, regularly considered one of the finest in the world.
Its home base is the Musikverein. The members of the orchestra are chosen from the Orchestra of the...
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