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| x Saint Petersburg |
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Dmitri Shostakovich | Symphony No. 7 |
Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербург (help·info), tr. Sankt-Peterburg, pronounced [sankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk]) is a city and a federal subject (a federal city) of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea....
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| x Baron von Dürnitz | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Piano Sonata No. 6 | |||
| x Auguste Tolbeque | Camille Saint-Saëns | Cello Concerto No. 1 |
Auguste Tolbeque (1830 – March 8, 1919) was a French 'cellist who composed etudes for his instrument. He taught at the Marseille Conservatory from 1865-1871, and then joined the Concerts du Conservertoire orchestra in Paris. Tolbeque premiered...
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| x Mstislav Rostropovich |
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Dmitri Shostakovich | Cello Concerto No. 2 |
Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich KBE (Russian: Мстисла́в Леопо́льдович Ростропо́вич, Mstislav Leopol'dovič Rostropovič, pronounced [rəstrɐˈpɔvʲɪtɕ]) (March 27, 1927 – April 27, 2007), known to close friends as “Slava,” was a Soviet and Russian...
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| Dmitri Shostakovich | Cello Concerto No. 1 | ||||
| Sergei Prokofiev | Symphony-Concerto in E minor | ||||
| Benjamin Britten | Cello Symphony | ||||
| x Joseph Franz Weigl | Joseph Haydn | Cello Concerto No. 1 in C |
Joseph Franz Weigl (1740 - 1820) was the principal cellist in the orchestra of the Esterházy family. He played under the directorship of Joseph Haydn, who also was godfather to the cellist's son, and it is thought that Haydn wrote his cello concerto...
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| x Raya Garbousova | Samuel Barber | Cello Concerto |
Raya Garbousova (Russian: Ра́я Га́рбузова; 25 September 1909, Tbilisi, Georgia, Russian Empire - January 28, 1997, DeKalb, Illinois, United States) was a cellist and teacher.
According to the biography contained in the program booklet for the 1997...
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| x Joseph Haydn |
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Ludwig van Beethoven | Piano Sonata No. 3 |
(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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| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | String Quartet No. 14 | ||||
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Piano Sonata No. 2 | ||||
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | String Quartet No. 19 | ||||
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Haydn Quartets | ||||
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| x Countess Emilie de Perthuis | Frédéric Chopin | Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor | |||
| x Alexander I of Russia |
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Ludwig van Beethoven | Violin Sonata No. 7 |
Alexander I of Russia (Russian: Александр I Павлович, Aleksandr I Pavlovich) (23 December [O.S. 12 December] 1777 – 1 December [O.S. 19 November] 1825), also known as Alexander the Blessed (Russian: Александр Благословенный, Aleksandr Blagoslovennyi...
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| Ludwig van Beethoven | Violin Sonata No. 6 | ||||
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Violin Sonata No. 8 | ||||
| x John Ireland | Arnold Bax | Symphony No. 1 |
John Nicholson Ireland (13 August 1879 – 12 June 1962) was an English composer.
John Ireland was born in Bowdon, near Altrincham, Manchester, into a family of Scottish descent and some cultural distinction. His father, Alexander Ireland, a publisher...
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| x Napoleon Bonaparte |
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Ludwig van Beethoven | Prince Franz Joseph Maximillian Lobkowiz | Symphony No. 3 |
Napoleon Bonaparte (French: Napoléon Bonaparte French pronunciation: [napoleɔ̃ bɔnɑpaʁt], Italian: Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), was a military and political leader of France and Emperor of the French as Napoleon I, whose...
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| x Prince Franz Joseph Maximillian Lobkowiz | Ludwig van Beethoven | Napoleon Bonaparte | Symphony No. 3 | ||
| x Marie d'Agoult |
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Frédéric Chopin |
Marie Catherine Sophie de Flavigny, Vicomtesse de Flavigny (December 31, 1805 - March 5, 1876), was a French author, known also by her married name and title, Marie, Comtesse d'Agoult, and by her pen name, Daniel Stern.
She was born in Frankfurt am...
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| Frédéric Chopin | |||||
| x Franz Liszt |
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Frédéric Chopin |
Franz Liszt (Hungarian: Ferencz Liszt, in modern usage 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 of...
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| Richard Wagner | Lohengrin | ||||
| Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | Piano Concerto | ||||
| Frédéric Chopin | |||||
| x Beethoven Quartet | Dmitri Shostakovich | Piano Quintet |
The Beethoven Quartet (Russian: Струнный квартет имени Бетховена, Strunnyĭ kvartet imeni Betkhovena) was founded between 1922 and 1923 by graduates of the Moscow Conservatory: violinists Dmitri Tsyganov and Vasily Shirinsky, violist Vadim Borisovsky...
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| Dmitri Shostakovich | String Quartet No. 5 | ||||
| x Tatiana Nikolayeva | Dmitri Shostakovich | 24 Preludes and Fugues |
Tatiana Petrovna Nikolayeva (Russian: Татьяна Пeтрoвнa Николаева, Tat'jana Petrovna Nikolaeva; May 4, 1924 – November 22, 1993) was a Russian Soviet pianist, composer and teacher.
Nikolayeva was born in Bezhitsa (now part of Bryansk) in the Bryansk...
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| x Vissarion Shebalin |
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Dmitri Shostakovich | String Quartet No. 2 |
Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin (Russian: Виссарион Яковлевич Шебалин, June 11, 1902, Omsk–May 29, 1963) was a Russian composer.
His parents were school teachers. He studied in the musical college in Omsk. He was 20 years old when following the...
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| x Jean Sibelius |
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Arnold Bax | Symphony No. 5 |
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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| x Maxim Shostakovich | Dmitri Shostakovich | Piano Concerto No. 2 |
Maxim Dmitrievich Shostakovich (born Leningrad on May 10, 1938) is a Russian conductor and pianist. He was the second child of Dmitri Shostakovich and Nina Varzar.
Since 1975, he has conducted and popularised many of his father's lesser-known works....
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| x Ivan Sollertinsky | Dmitri Shostakovich | Piano Trio No. 2 |
Ivan Ivanovich Sollertinsky (3 December 1902, Vitebsk - 11 February 1944, Novosibirsk) was a Russian polymath of the Soviet period. He was an expert in theatre and Romance languages, but is best known for his musical career. He was a professor at...
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| x Franz Joseph I of Austria |
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Anton Bruckner | Symphony No. 8 |
Franz Joseph I (-German, I. Ferenc József in Hungarian, in English Francis Joseph I, see the name in other languages) (18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916), reigned as Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia etc. and Apostolic King of Hungary from 1848...
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| x Evgeny Mravinsky | Dmitri Shostakovich | Symphony No. 8 |
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Mravinsky (Russian: Евгений Александрович Мравинский, Jevgenij Aleksandrovič Mravinskij) (4 June [O.S. 22 May] 1903 – 19 January 1988) was a Russian conductor.
Mravinsky was born in Saint Petersburg. His father died in 1918,...
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| x Michael Mullinar | Ralph Vaughan Williams | Symphony No. 6 | |||
| x Hans Richter |
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Antonín Dvořák | Symphony No. 6 |
Hans Richter (János Richter) (4 April 1843 – 5 December 1916) was an Austrian conductor.
Richter was born in Raab (now Győr), Hungary, and studied at the Vienna Conservatory. He had a particular interest in the horn, and developed his conducting...
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| Edward Elgar | Symphony No. 1 | ||||
| x Wilhelm Stenhammar |
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Jean Sibelius | Symphony No. 6 |
Carl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammar (February 7, 1871 – November 20, 1927), was a Swedish composer, conductor and pianist.
Stenhammar was born in Stockholm, where he received his first musical education. He then went to Berlin to further his studies in...
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| x Adrian Boult |
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Arnold Bax | Symphony No. 6 |
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 Ian Craft | Robert Simpson | Symphony No. 6 | |||
| x Paul Sacher | Hans Werner Henze | Symphony no. 10 |
Paul Sacher (28 April 1906 – 26 May 1999) was a Swiss conductor, patron and impresario.
He studied under Felix Weingartner among others. In 1926 he founded the Basel Chamber Orchestra (Basler Kammerorchester) to play works written before the...
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| Frank Martin | Petite symphonie concertante | ||||
| x Vernon Handley | Robert Simpson | Symphony No. 10 |
Vernon George "Tod" Handley CBE (11 November 1930 – 10 September 2008) was a British conductor. He was born of Welsh parents into a musical family in Enfield, London. He acquired the nickname "Tod" because his feet were turned in at his birth, which...
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| x Anatoliy Brandukov |
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Sergei Rachmaninoff | Cello Sonata |
Anatoliy Andreyevich Brandukov (Russian: Анато́лий Андре́евич Брандуко́в) (January 6 [O.S. December 25, 1858] 1859 – February 16, 1930) was a Russian cellist who premiered many cello pieces of prominent composers including Pyotr Tchaikovsky and...
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| x Leopold Auer |
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Violin Concerto |
Leopold Auer (In Hungarian: Auer Lipót), (June 7, 1845 – July 15, 1930) was a Hungarian violinist, teacher, conductor and composer.
Auer was born in Veszprém in a Jewish household. He first studied violin with a local concertmaster. He later...
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| Alexander Glazunov | Violin Concerto | ||||
| x Adolph Brodsky | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Violin Concerto |
Adolph Davidovich Brodsky (Russian: Адольф Давидович Бродский, Adolf Davidovič Brodskij; 2 April [O.S. 21 March] 1851 – January 22, 1929) was a Russian violinist.
He was born in Taganrog on the Sea of Azov. His grandfather and father were also...
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| x Franz von Vecsey |
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Jean Sibelius | Violin Concerto |
Franz von Vecsey (Hungarian: Vecsey Ferenc, March 23, 1893 – April 5, 1935) was a Hungarian violinist and composer.
He was born in Budapest and began his violin studies with his father, Lajos Vecsey, and at the age of eight he entered the studio of...
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| x Franz Clement | Ludwig van Beethoven | Violin Concerto |
Franz Joseph Clement (1780–1842) was an Austrian violinist, pianist, composer, conductor of Vienna's Theater an der Wien and friend of Ludwig van Beethoven.
A talented violinist from a young age, he was known for his extraordinary ability to play...
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| x Joseph Joachim |
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Johannes Brahms | Violin Concerto |
Joseph Joachim (June 28, 1831 – August 15, 1907) was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher. He is widely regarded as a great and significantly influential violinist of the late 19th century.
Joseph Joachim was born in Kittsee ...
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| Robert Schumann | Violin Concerto | ||||
| F-A-E Sonata | |||||
| Johannes Brahms | Robert Hausmann | Double Concerto | |||
| x Jascha Heifetz |
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William Walton | Violin Concerto |
Jascha Heifetz (English pronunciation: /ˈhaɪfɪts/) was a violin virtuoso born in Lithuania (February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1901 – December 10, 1987). He is widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time.
Heifetz was born into a Jewish...
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| x Lynnette Seah |
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Bernard Tan | Violin Concerto |
Lynnette Seah Mei Tsing (simplified Chinese: 佘美幸; pinyin: Shé Měixìng) is an internationally acclaimed Singaporean violinist serving as co-leader of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO) as the only musician to have performed full-time with the SSO...
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| x Zoltán Székely | Béla Bartók | Violin Concerto No. 2 |
Zoltán Székely (In Hungarian, Székely Zoltán) (December 8, 1903, Hungary – October 5, 2001, Canada) was a violinist and composer.
He studied violin and composition at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest.
He was a friend of Béla Bartók and was the...
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| x Fritz Kreisler |
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Edward Elgar | Violin Concerto |
Fritz Kreisler (February 2, 1875 – January 29, 1962) was an Austrian-born violin virtuoso and orchestral composer. One of the most famous violin masters of his day, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing. Like many great violinists...
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| Sergei Rachmaninoff | Variations on a Theme of Corelli | ||||
| Eugène Ysaÿe | Sonata for solo violin, op. 27-4 | ||||
| x Stefi Geyer | Béla Bartók | Violin Concerto No. 1 |
Stefi Geyer (June 28, 1888 in Budapest – December 11, 1956 in Zurich) was a Hungarian violinist.
She was the daughter of Josef Geyer, a police doctor who played the violin himself. When she was 3 years old she started playing the violin, with...
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| x David Oistrakh |
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Dmitri Shostakovich | Violin Concerto No. 1 |
David Fyodorovich Oistrakh (Russian and Ukrainian: Давид Фёдорович Ойстрах, David Fiodorovič Ojstrakh; September 30 [O.S. September 17] 1908 – October 24, 1974) was a Russian violin master and virtuoso who made many recordings and was the dedicatee...
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| Dmitri Shostakovich | Violin Concerto No. 2 | ||||
| Sergei Prokofiev | Violin Sonata No. 1 | ||||
| Aram Khachaturian | Violin Concerto | ||||
| x Saschko Gawriloff | György Ligeti | Violin Concerto |
Saschko Gawriloff (born October 20, 1929) is a German violinist and violin teacher.
Gawriloff was born in Leipzig and received his first violin lessons from his father, who was a violinist in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. He then studied with...
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| x Pablo de Sarasate |
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Camille Saint-Saëns | Violin Concerto No. 3 |
Pablo Martín Melitón de Sarasate y Navascués (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpablo saɾaˈsate], March 10, 1844 – September 20, 1908) was a Spanish violinist and composer of the Romantic period.
Pablo Sarasate was born in Pamplona, Spain, the son of an...
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| Henryk Wieniawski | Violin Concerto No. 2 | ||||
| Max Bruch | Violin Concerto No. 2 | ||||
| x Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel |
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold | Violin Concerto |
Alma Maria Mahler-Werfel (born Schindler) (31 August 1879 – 11 December 1964) was a Viennese-born socialite well known in her youth for her beauty and vivacity. She became the wife, successively, of composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius,...
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| Benjamin Britten | Nocturne for tenor, 7 obligato instruments & strings | ||||
| x Frederick William IV of Prussia |
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Henryk Wieniawski | Violin Concerto No. 1 |
King Frederick William IV of Prussia (German: Friedrich Wilhelm IV von Preußen) (15 October 1795 – 2 January 1861), the eldest son and successor of Frederick William III of Prussia, reigned as King of Prussia from 1840 to 1861. He was in personal...
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| Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy | Hebrides Overture | ||||
| x Józef Hofmann |
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Sergei Rachmaninoff | Piano Concerto No. 3 |
Józef Kazimierz Hofmann (also seen as Josef Casimir Hofmann) (January 20, 1876 – February 16, 1957) was a Polish-American virtuoso pianist, composer, music teacher, and inventor.
Józef Hofmann was born in Podgórze, near Krakau (Kraków), Austria...
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| x Nikolai Dahl | Sergei Rachmaninoff | Piano Concerto No. 2 |
Nikolai Vladimirovich Dahl (Russian: Николай Владимирович Даль, 1860 - 1939) was a Russian physician. He graduated from the Moscow University in 1887, and was a student in France of famous Dr Charcot who initiated a therapy by hypnotizing his...
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| x Ferdinand Hiller |
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Robert Schumann | Piano Concerto in A minor |
Ferdinand (von) Hiller (24 October 1811 – 11 May 1885) was a German composer, conductor, writer and music-director.
Ferdinand Hiller was born to a wealthy Jewish family in Frankfurt am Main, where his father Justus (originally Isaac Hildesheim) was...
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| x Hans von Bülow |
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Piano Concerto No. 1 |
Hans Guido Freiherr von Bülow (January 8, 1830 – February 12, 1894) was a German conductor, virtuoso pianist, and composer of the Romantic era. He was one of the most famous conductors of the 19th century, and his activity was critical for...
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| Johannes Brahms | Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor | ||||
| Franz Liszt | Beethoven Symphonies | ||||
| x Eduard Marxsen | Johannes Brahms | Piano Concerto No. 2 |
Eduard Marxsen (23 July 1806 – 18 November 1887) was a German pianist, composer and teacher. He was a pupil of Ignaz von Seyfried, Simon Sechter, Johann Heinrich Clasing, and Karl Maria von Bocklet.
He wrote about 70 works, including an orchestral...
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| x Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia |
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Ludwig van Beethoven | Piano Concerto No. 3 |
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (English: Louis Ferdinand Victor Edward Albert Michael Hubert, Prince of Prussia) (German: Ludwig Ferdinand Viktor Eduard Albert Michael Hubertus, Prinz von Preussen) ( 9 November 1907 – 26 September 1994), a...
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| x Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein |
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Piano Concerto No. 2 |
Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein (14 June [O.S. 2 June] 1835 – 23 March [O.S. 11 March] 1881) was a Russian pianist, conductor and composer. He was the younger brother of Anton Rubinstein and a close friend of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Born to Jewish...
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| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Piano Trio | ||||
| x Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff |
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Franz Liszt | Piano Concerto No. 2 |
Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff (11 February 1830 – 3 November 1913) was a classical musician and composer who studied under Franz Liszt.
(Some sources write Schellendorf with one F, but the correct German surname of this family is written with...
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| x Alexander Siloti |
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Sergei Rachmaninoff | Piano Concerto No. 1 |
Alexander Ilyich Siloti (also Ziloti, Russian: Алекса́ндр Ильи́ч Зило́ти, Aleksandr Iljič Ziloti) (9 October 1863, near Kharkiv - 8 December 1945, New York) was a Russian pianist, conductor and composer. (Spelling note: A truer transliteration of...
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| x Nikolai Medtner |
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Sergei Rachmaninoff | Piano Concerto No. 4 |
Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (Russian: Никола́й Ка́рлович Ме́тнер, Nikoláj Kárlovič Métner) (5 January 1880 [O.S. 24 December 1879] –13 November 1951) was a Russian composer and pianist.
A younger contemporary of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander...
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| x Sviatoslav Richter |
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Sergei Prokofiev | Piano Sonata No. 7 |
Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter (Ukrainian: Святослав Теофілович Ріхтер Svjatoslav Teofilovič Rikhter; Russian: Святосла́в Теофи́лович Ри́хтер) (March 20 [O.S. March 7] 1915 – August 1, 1997) was a Soviet pianist well known for the depth of his...
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| x Natalie Wood |
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Brainstorm |
Natalie Wood (born Natalia Zacharenko; July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981) was an American actress.
Following her film debut in 1943, Wood became a successful child actor in such films as Miracle on 34th Street (1947). A well received performance...
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| x Anthony Quinn |
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Avenging Angelo |
Anthony Quinn (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001) was a Mexican-American actor, as well as a painter and writer. He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia, and Federico...
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| x Edith Head |
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid |
Edith Head (October 28, 1897 – October 24, 1981) was an American costume designer who had a long career in Hollywood that garnered eight Academy Awards—more than any other woman in history.
She was born Edith Claire Posener in Searchlight, Nevada,...
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| x Derek Meddings | GoldenEye |
Derek Meddings (15 January 1931 – 10 September 1995) was a British television and cinema special effects expert, initially noted for his work on the "Supermarionation" television puppet series produced by Gerry Anderson.
Both Meddings' parents had...
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