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Johann Sebastian Bach born, 21 March, at Eisenach. Youngest child of Johann Ambrosius Bach, town and court musician, and his wife Maria Elisabetha, ne Lmmerhirt. Baptised, 23 March.
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Haydn died in 1809, after twice dictating his recollections and preparing a catalogue of his works. He was widely revered, even though by then his music was old-fashioned compared with Beethoven's.
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He showed musical gifts at a very early age, composing when he was five and when he was six playing before the Bavarian elector and the Austrian empress.
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(February 29, 1792 %u2013 November 13, 1868) was a popular Italian composer who created 39 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music.
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The son of a schoolmaster, he showed an extraordinary childhood aptitude for music, studying the piano, violin, organ, singing and harmony and, while a chorister in the imperial court chapel, composition with Salieri (1808-13).
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As a boy he learnt the flute, guitar and, from treatises alone, harmony (he never studied the piano); his first compositions were romances and small chamber pieces. After two unhappy years as a medical student in Paris (1821-3) he abandoned the career chosen for him by his father and turned decisively to music, attending Le Sueur's composition class at the Conservatoire
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Born on October 22, 1811 in Raiding (then Doborjn) Hungary Franz Liszt was soon recognized to be a child prodigy at the age of six.
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he remarkable international career of Niccol Paganini regarded in legend as the greatest virtuoso violinist ever did not begin until relatively late in life.
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