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| x Dmitri Shostakovich |
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Saint Petersburg | Symphony No. 7 |
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Russian: Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович (help·info); 25 September [O.S. September 12] 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....
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| Mstislav Rostropovich | Cello Concerto No. 2 | ||||
| Mstislav Rostropovich | Cello Concerto No. 1 | ||||
| Beethoven Quartet | Piano Quintet | ||||
| Tatiana Nikolayeva | 24 Preludes and Fugues | ||||
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| x Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
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Baron von Dürnitz | Piano Sonata No. 6 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (German: [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ amaˈdeus ˈmoːtsart], full baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed...
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| Joseph Haydn | String Quartet No. 14 | ||||
| Michael Puchberg | Divertimento K. 563 | ||||
| Joseph Haydn | String Quartet No. 19 | ||||
| Joseph Haydn | Haydn Quartets | ||||
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| x Camille Saint-Saëns |
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Auguste Tolbeque | Cello Concerto No. 1 |
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl kamij sɛ̃sɑ̃s]) (9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor, and pianist, known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre, Samson and Delilah...
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| Pablo de Sarasate | Violin Concerto No. 3 | ||||
| x Joseph Haydn |
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Joseph Franz Weigl | Cello Concerto No. 1 in C |
(Franz) Joseph Haydn (March 31, 1732 – May 31, 1809) was an Austrian composer. He was one of the most important, prolific and prominent composers of the classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String...
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| Rebecca Schroeter | Piano Trio No. 39 | ||||
| String Quartets, Op. 76 | |||||
| x Samuel Barber |
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Raya Garbousova | Cello Concerto |
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....
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| x Ludwig van Beethoven |
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Johann Wolfgang Goethe | Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt |
Ludwig van Beethoven (English pronunciation: /ˈlʊdvɪɡ væn ˈbeɪtoʊvɨn/ (US), /ˈlʊdvɪɡ væn ˈbeɪthoʊvɨn/ (UK); German: [ˈluːt.vɪç fan ˈbeːt.hoːfən] ( listen); baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He was a...
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| Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia | Piano Concerto No. 3 | ||||
| Rudolph of Austria | Piano Concerto No. 5 | ||||
| Joseph Haydn | Piano Sonata No. 1 | ||||
| Karl Alois, Prince Lichnowsky | Piano Sonata No. 12 | ||||
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| x Frédéric Chopin |
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Countess Emilie de Perthuis | Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor |
Frédéric François Chopin (Polish: Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, sometimes Szopen; surname pronounced /ˈʃoʊpæn/ in English; French pronunciation: [ʃɔpɛ̃]; 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He was one of the...
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| Marie d'Agoult | |||||
| Franz Liszt | |||||
| Robert Schumann | Ballade in F major | ||||
| Friedrich Kalkbrenner | Piano Concerto No. 1 | ||||
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| x Arnold Bax | John Ireland | Symphony No. 1 |
Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, KCVO (8 November 1883 – 3 October 1953) was an English composer and poet. His musical style blended elements of Romanticism and Impressionism, always with a strong Celtic influence. His orchestral scores are noted for...
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| Jean Sibelius | Symphony No. 5 | ||||
| Adrian Boult | Symphony No. 6 | ||||
| Henry Wood | Symphony No. 3 | ||||
| x Anton Bruckner |
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Franz Joseph I of Austria | Symphony No. 8 |
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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| Richard Wagner | Symphony No. 3 | ||||
| Ludwig II of Bavaria | Symphony No. 7 | ||||
| x Ralph Vaughan Williams |
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Michael Mullinar | Symphony No. 6 |
Ralph Vaughan (pronounced /ˈreɪf ˈvɔːn/) Williams OM (12 October 1872 – 26 August 1958) was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song; this also...
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| Gustav Holst | Mass in G Minor | ||||
| Arnold Bax | Symphony No. 4 | ||||
| Cecil Armstrong Gibbs | Three Shakespeare Songs | ||||
| Herbert Howells | Hodie | ||||
| x Antonín Dvořák |
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Hans Richter | Symphony No. 6 |
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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| Eduard Hanslick | Legends | ||||
| x Jean Sibelius |
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Wilhelm Stenhammar | Symphony No. 6 |
Jean Sibelius ( pronunciation (help·info)) (8 December 1865 – 20 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.
The core of Sibelius's...
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| Franz von Vecsey | Violin Concerto | ||||
| x Robert Simpson |
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Ian Craft | Symphony No. 6 |
Robert (Wilfred Levick) Simpson (2 March 1921 – 21 November 1997) was an English composer and long-serving BBC producer and broadcaster.
He is best known for his orchestral and chamber music (including 11 symphonies and 15 string quartets), and for...
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| Vernon Handley | Symphony No. 10 | ||||
| Havergal Brian | Symphony No. 3 | ||||
| Anthony Bernard | Symphony No. 2 | ||||
| London Symphony Orchestra | Symphony No. 5 | ||||
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| x Hans Werner Henze |
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Paul Sacher | Symphony no. 10 |
Hans Werner Henze (born July 1, 1926, Gütersloh, Germany) is a German composer well known for his left-wing political convictions. He left Germany for Italy in 1953 because of a perceived intolerance towards his politics and homosexuality. He...
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| Che Guevara | Das Floss der Medusa | ||||
| Michael Vyner | Requiem | ||||
| Boston Symphony Orchestra | Symphony No. 8 | ||||
| x Sergei Rachmaninoff |
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Anatoliy Brandukov | Cello Sonata |
Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (Russian: Сергей Васильевич Рахманинов, Sergej Vasil’evič Rakhmaninov, 1 April 1873 [O.S. 20 March] – 28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. He was one of the finest pianists of his day and, as...
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| Józef Hofmann | Piano Concerto No. 3 | ||||
| Nikolai Dahl | Piano Concerto No. 2 | ||||
| Alexander Siloti | Piano Concerto No. 1 | ||||
| Nikolai Medtner | Piano Concerto No. 4 | ||||
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| x Johannes Brahms |
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Joseph Joachim | Violin Concerto |
Johannes Brahms (pronounced [joːˈhanəs ˈbʁaːms]) (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897), German composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where...
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| Eduard Marxsen | Piano Concerto No. 2 | ||||
| Theodor Billroth | String Quartet No. 1 | ||||
| Theodor Billroth | String Quartet No. 2 | ||||
| Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann | String Quartet No. 3 | ||||
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| x William Walton |
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Jascha Heifetz | Violin Concerto |
Sir William Turner Walton OM (29 March 1902 – 8 March 1983) was a British composer and conductor.
His style was influenced by the works of Stravinsky and Prokofiev as well as jazz music, and is characterized by rhythmic vitality, bittersweet harmony...
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| x Bernard Tan | Lynnette Seah | Violin Concerto |
Born in Singapore in 1943, Bernard Tan Tiong Gie was educated at the Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore, the University of Singapore (Bachelor of Science with Honours in Physics, 1965) and Oxford University (Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Science,...
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| x Béla Bartók |
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Zoltán Székely | Violin Concerto No. 2 |
Béla Viktor János Bartók (pronounced /ˈbɑrtɒk/ (Wells 1990), Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈbeːlɒ ˈbɒrtoːk]) (March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945) was a Hungarian composer and pianist, considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th century,...
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| Stefi Geyer | Violin Concerto No. 1 | ||||
| x Edward Elgar |
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Fritz Kreisler | Violin Concerto |
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer. He is known for such works as the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, The Dream of Gerontius, concertos for violin and cello,...
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| Edward VII of the United Kingdom | Coronation Ode | ||||
| Charles Swinnerton Heap | Organ Sonata | ||||
| Hans Richter | Symphony No. 1 | ||||
| Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon | Nursery Suite | ||||
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| x Robert Schumann |
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Joseph Joachim | Violin Concerto |
Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann, (8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous and important Romantic composers of the 19th century.
He had hoped...
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| Ferdinand Hiller | Piano Concerto in A minor | ||||
| Frédéric Chopin | Kreisleriana | ||||
| x György Ligeti |
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Saschko Gawriloff | Violin Concerto |
György Sándor Ligeti (May 28, 1923 – June 12, 2006) was a composer, born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania. He briefly lived in Hungary before later becoming an Austrian citizen. Many of his works are well known in classical...
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| Antoinette Vischer | Continuum | ||||
| x Erich Wolfgang Korngold |
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Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel | Violin Concerto |
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (May 29, 1897 – November 29, 1957) was a film and romantic music composer. While his compositional style was considered well out of vogue at the time he died, his music has more recently undergone a reevaluation and a gradual...
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Symphony in F sharp major | ||||
| Felix Weingartner | Sinfonietta | ||||
| x Alexander Glazunov |
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Leopold Auer | Violin Concerto |
Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (Russian: Александр Константинович Глазунов, Aleksandr Konstantinovič Glazunov; French: Glazounov; German: Glasunow; 10 August [O.S. 29 July] 1865 – 21 March 1936) was a Russian composer of the late Russian...
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| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Symphony No. 3 | ||||
| Anton Rubinstein | Symphony No. 4 | ||||
| Alexander Borodin | Stenka Razin | ||||
| x Henryk Wieniawski |
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Frederick William IV of Prussia | Violin Concerto No. 1 |
Henryk Wieniawski (10 July 1835 – 31 March 1880) was a Polish violinist and composer.
He was born in Lublin, Congress Poland, Russian Empire, into a Jewish family. His father, Tobiasz Pietruszka, had converted to Catholicism. His talent for playing...
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| Pablo de Sarasate | Violin Concerto No. 2 | ||||
| x Max Bruch |
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Pablo de Sarasate | Violin Concerto No. 2 |
Max Christian Friedrich Bruch (6 January 1838 – 2 October 1920), also known as Max Karl August Bruch, was a German Romantic composer and conductor who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, one of which is a staple of the violin...
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| x Franz Liszt |
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Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff | Piano Concerto No. 2 |
Franz Liszt (Hungarian: Ferencz Liszt, in modern usage also Ferenc Liszt, from 1859 to 1865 officially Franz Ritter von Liszt) (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher. He was also the father-in-law...
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| Carl Czerny | Transcendental Etudes | ||||
| Hans von Bülow | Beethoven Symphonies | ||||
| Giacomo Meyerbeer | Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale Ad nos ad salutarem undam | ||||
| Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 | |||||
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| x Sergei Prokofiev |
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Sviatoslav Richter | Piano Sonata No. 7 |
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Russian: Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев; Ukrainian: Сергій Сергійович Прокоф'єв) (27 April [O.S. 15 April] 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and came to...
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| David Oistrakh | Violin Sonata No. 1 | ||||
| Mstislav Rostropovich | Symphony-Concerto in E minor | ||||
| Nikolai Tcherepnin | Piano Concerto No. 1 | ||||
| Nikolai Tcherepnin | Sinfonietta | ||||
| x Richard Fariña |
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Mimi Fariña | Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me |
Richard George Fariña ( March 8, 1937 – April 30, 1966 ) was an American writer and folksinger. He was a figure in both the counterculture scene of the early- to mid-sixties as well as the budding folk rock scene of the same era.
Fariña was born in...
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| x Truman Capote |
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Tennessee Williams | Music for Chameleons |
Truman Garcia Capote (pronounced /ˈtruːmən kəˈpoʊti/; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984), born Truman Streckfus Persons, was an American writer, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics,...
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| x Ayn Rand |
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Frank O'Connor | Atlas Shrugged |
Ayn Rand (pronounced /ˈaɪn ˈrænd/; born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum; February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982), was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels and for...
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| Frank O'Connor | The Fountainhead | ||||
| x Richard Dawkins |
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Douglas Adams | The God Delusion |
Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941) is a British biological theorist with a background in ethology. He is a popular science author focusing on evolution. He popularised the gene-centred view of evolution, and the meme.
Dawkins is...
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| x Maurice Ravel |
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Gabriel Fauré | Quartet in F Major |
Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937) was a French composer of Impressionist music known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects. Much of his piano music, chamber music, vocal music and...
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| Jelly Arányi | Tzigane | ||||
| Louis Aubert | Valses nobles et sentimentales | ||||
| Ricardo Viñes | Menuet antique | ||||
| Gabriel Fauré | Jeux d'eau | ||||
| x Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy |
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Antoni Radziwiłł | Piano Quartet No. 1 |
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn (February 3, 1809 – November 4, 1847) was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period.
The...
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| Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom | Symphony No. 3 | ||||
| Louis Spohr | Piano Trio No. 2 | ||||
| Frederick William IV of Prussia | Hebrides Overture | ||||
| x Franz Schubert |
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Ignaz Schuppanzigh | String Quartet No. 13 |
Franz Peter Schubert (German pronunciation: [fʁants ʃuːbɐ̯t] or fʁants ʃuːbɛ̯t; January 31, 1797 – November 19, 1828) was an Austrian composer. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies (including the famous "Unfinished Symphony"), liturgical music,...
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| x Salman Rushdie |
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Zafar Rushdie | Midnight's Children |
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. He achieved fame with his second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his early fiction is set on the Indian...
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| x David Sedaris |
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Sharon Sedaris | Barrel Fever |
David Sedaris (born December 26, 1956) is a Grammy Award-nominated Greek-American humorist, writer, comedian, bestselling author, and radio contributor.
Sedaris was first publicly recognized in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay ...
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| Lisa Sedaris | Naked | ||||
| x J.D. Salinger | Miriam Salinger | The Catcher in the Rye | |||
| x Robert Caro |
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Janet G. Travell | The Power Broker |
Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is a biographer most noted for his studies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson. After working years as a reporter Caro wrote The Power Broker (1974), a biography of New York...
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| x Thomas L. Friedman |
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Ann Friedman | The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization |
Thomas Lauren Friedman (born July 20, 1953) is an American journalist, columnist and multi Pulitzer Prize winning author. He is an op-ed contributor to The New York Times, whose column appears twice weekly. He has written extensively on foreign...
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| x Henry Kissinger |
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United States Foreign Service | Diplomacy |
Henry Alfred Kissinger (born May 27, 1923) pronounced /ˈkɪsɪndʒər/, is a German-born American political scientist, diplomat, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State...
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| x David Halberstam |
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Coleman Harwell | The Children |
David Halberstam (April 10, 1934 – April 23, 2007) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author known for his early work on the Vietnam War, his work on politics, history, business, media, American culture, and his later sports...
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| Kelly Miller Smith | The Children | ||||
| Jennings Perry | The Children | ||||
| x Mario Puzo |
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Domenick Cleri | The Last Don |
Mario Gianluigi Puzo (October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was a two time Academy Award-winning Italian American author and screenwriter, known for his novels about the Mafia, especially The Godfather (1969), which he later co-adapted into a film with...
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| Virginia Altman | The Last Don | ||||
| x Thomas Hobbes |
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Francis Godolphin | Leviathan |
Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher, remembered today for his work on political philosophy. His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of...
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| x Edward Said |
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Israel Shahak | Pease and Its Discontents |
Edward Wadie Saïd (pronounced /edward wædiːʕ sæʕiːd/ Arabic: إدوارد وديع سعيد, Idwārd Wadīʿ Saʿīd; 1 November 1935 – 25 September 2003) was a Palestinian American literary theorist, cultural critic, and an advocate for Palestinian rights. He was...
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| x Ralph Ellison |
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Ida Millsap | Invisible Man |
Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1914 – April 16, 1994) was an African-American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Ellison was best known for his novel Invisible Man (ISBN 0-679-60139-2), which won...
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| x Gustave Flaubert |
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Louis Bouilhet | Madame Bovary |
Gustave Flaubert (French pronunciation: [ɡystaːv flobɛːʁ]) (December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880) was a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), and for...
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| x Albert Camus |
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Théâtre de l’Équipe | Caligula |
Albert Camus (French pronunciation: [albɛʁ kamy]) (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He is often cited as a proponent of existentialism (the...
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| x Walter Scott |
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Dryasdust | Ivanhoe |
Malachi Malagrowther was a pseudonym used by Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) in a series of letters written to the Edinburgh Weekly News in 1826, successfully defending the right of the Scottish banks to issue banknotes with a face value of less than...
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| x Günter Grass |
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Helene Knoff | The Flounder |
Günter Wilhelm Grass (born 16 October 1927) is a Nobel Prize-winning German author and playwright.
He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). In 1945, he came as a refugee to West Germany, but in his fiction he frequently returns...
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| x Charlotte Brontë |
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William Makepeace Thackeray | Jane Eyre |
Charlotte Brontë (pronounced /ˈbrɒnti/) (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels are English literature standards. Charlotte Brontë, who used the pen name Currer Bell, wrote Jane...
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| x Simone de Beauvoir |
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Nelson Algren | The Mandarins |
Simone de Beauvoir (French pronunciation: [simɔn də boˈvwaʀ]) (January 9, 1908 – April 14, 1986) was a French writer, existentialist philosopher, feminist, and social theorist. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues,...
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| Olga Kosakiewicz | She Came to Stay | ||||
| Jean-Paul Sartre | All Men are Mortal | ||||
| x Charles Baudelaire |
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Théophile Gautier | Les Fleurs du mal |
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (English pronunciation: /ˈboʊdəlɛər/,French: [ʃaʁl bodlɛʁ]) (9 April 1821 - 31 August 1867) was a nineteenth century French poet, critic, and translator. A controversial figure in his lifetime, Baudelaire's name has become...
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| x Elie Wiesel |
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Marion Wiesel | Memoirs: All Rivers Run to the Sea |
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE (born September 30, 1928) is a writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, the best known of which is Night, a memoir that describes his experiences during the...
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| x Richard Wagner |
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Franz Liszt | Lohengrin |
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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| Cosima Wagner | Siegfried Idyll | ||||
| Charlotte Emilie Weinlig | Das Liebesmahl der Apostel | ||||
| x Sofia Gubaidulina |
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Gidon Kremer | Offertorium |
Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina, (Russian: София Асгатовна Губайдулина, Tatar Cyrillic: София Әсгать кызы Гобәйдуллина, Latin: Sofia Äsğät qızı Ğöbäydullina) (born October 24, 1931) is a Russian composer of half Russian, half Tatar ethnicity....
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| x Carl Nielsen |
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Ferruccio Busoni | Symphony No. 2 |
Carl August Nielsen (9 June 1865 – 3 October 1931) was a composer, conductor, and violinist from Denmark. His works have long been well known in Denmark and they have been "a mainstay throughout the Nordic countries and, to a lesser extent, in...
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| x Leonard Bernstein |
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John F. Kennedy | Symphony No. 3 |
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 Howard Hanson |
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Joseph E. Maddy | Symphony No. 7, "A Sea Symphony" |
Howard Harold Hanson (October 28, 1896 – February 26, 1981) was an American composer, conductor, educator, music theorist, and ardent champion of American classical music. Director for 40 years of the Eastman School of Music, he built a top quality...
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| x William Howard Taft |
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United States Congress | Abraham Lincoln | Lincoln Memorial |
William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th President of the United States and later the 10th Chief Justice of the United States.
Born in 1857 in Cincinnati, Ohio, into the powerful Taft family, Taft graduated from Yale...
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