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The musical composition tells us these wise words: As long as you live, shine, do not suffer for anything at all. -
The Middle Age was a period of time in the European history between the Antiquity and the Modern Age, characterized by feudalism, crusades, and Romanesque art.
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The Gregorian was the liturgical chant of the church of Rome, influenced by the Gallican in the second half of the 8th century, whose extension to the entire West took place at the same time as that of the Latin rite itself, of which it was the acoustic expression. -
Guido d'Arezzo perfected musical writing with the incorporation of the tetragram, which was a musical pause of four horizontal lines, precursor of the staff with which the pitches of the sound were fixed more precisely, a system similar to the current one, as well as pneumatic notation.
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French composer. Romanticism has in Hector Berlioz one of its paradigmatic figures: his fictional and passionate life and his desire for independence are reflected in a daring music that does not admit rules or conventions and that stands out, above all, for the importance given to the orchestral timbre and to extra-musical, literary inspiration. Not in vain, together with the Hungarian Franz Liszt, Berlioz was one of the main promoters of the so-called programmatic music. -
She is one of the most famous composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most recorded in modern times.
Considered one of the most influential, multifaceted and fascinating personalities of the Late Middle Ages and Western history. -
He created a style of composition from the mid-12th century, used at Notre Dame around 1200. It is not preserved in its original form, but several copies have survived in manuscripts found in Florence, Wolfenbüttel and Madrid.
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He was an Occitan troubadour, an outstanding figure in provincial
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Perotin, called in French Pérotin le Grand ("the Great") or in Latin Magister Perotinus Magnus (also Perotinus Magnus and Magister Perotinus) was a medieval French composer.
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He is considered the founder of Castilian prose and it was, precisely in his time, when Castilian became the official language of the kingdom, leaving Latin in the background. The monarch was a tremendously cultured person. He had studies in astronomy, history and legal sciences, among other areas.
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He was a French poet and musician, greatly admired by his contemporaries as a master of French versification and regarded as one of the leading French composers of the 14th-century Ars Nova (q.v.) musical style.
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Ars Nova is a term that comes from Latin and translates as "new art." This term was used for the first time in the 14th century to refer to a musical trend that emerged in France and Belgium. This new musical trend was characterized by innovation and experimentation, and gave rise to a more complex and sophisticated style of music than what was done until then, both in rhythm and musical notation. -
It is a song for two or three voices of a contrapuntal nature. It has the peculiarity that each independent voice has a different text and a different rhythm, making it a very lively and contrasting music. -
Was a prominent composer of 14th-century Italy, famous during his lifetime for his musical memory, his skill at improvisation, and his virtuosity on the organetto, or portable organ, as well as for his compositions.
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She was queen of Castile[a] from 1474 to 1504, queen consort of Sicily from 1469 and of Aragon from 1479,[2] by her marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon. She also served as lady of Vizcaya. She is also known as Isabella the Catholic, a title that was granted to her and her husband by Pope Alexander VI through the bull Si convenit. -
better known as Leonardo da Vinci, was a Florentine polymath of the Italian Renaissance. He was at the same time a painter, anatomist, architect, paleontologist, botanist, writer, sculptor, philosopher, engineer, inventor, musician, poet and urban planner. He died accompanied by Francesco Melzi,[4] to whom he bequeathed his projects, designs and paintings. -
Was a German goldsmith, inventor of the modern printing press with movable type -
As a playwright, he is considered the initiator and patriarch of Spanish theater. Its beginning can be dated to Christmas 1492, when it performed before the Dukes of Alba two theatrical eclogues in which shepherds announce the birth of Christ.
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Five hundred years ago the Protestant movement began that changed Christianity forever. On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther published his criticism against the Catholic Church and its center of power in Rome that launched the Reformation.
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Spanish Catholic priest and chapelmaster, being the main representative of the Andalusian polyphonist school and one of the three greats, along with Tomás Luis de Victoria and Francisco Guerrero, of the Spanish polyphonic composition of the Renaissance. Their music is vocal and sacred.
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He was a Spanish organist, harpist and composer of the Renaissance. The works of music for keyboard, harp and vihuela by Antonio de Cabezón, published in Madrid in 1578, by his son Hernando de Cabezón.
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He was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. Along with Palestrina and Victoria, he is considered one of the most influential composers of the 16th century.
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He was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance.
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She was the first woman composer to have an entire exclusive volume of her music printed and published in the history of Western music.
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Fue un sacerdote católico, maestro de capilla y célebre compositor polifonista del renacimiento español. Se le ha considerado uno de los compositores más relevantes y avanzados de su época, con un estilo innovador que anunció el inminente barroco.
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He was an Italian composer and organist, born and died in Venice. One of the most influential musicians of his time, he represents the culmination of the Venetian school, framed in the transition from Renaissance music to Baroque music.
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The composer Carlo Gesualdo, prince of Venosa and count of Conza was born in Venosa (Basilicata, Italy) in 1566 and died in Avellino (Campania) in 1613. He murdered his wife, his wife's lover and his own son.
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He was an Italian composer, singer, choir director, viola player and ecclesiastic. Monteverdi is known as the person responsible for the birth of 16th century opera, leaving behind the polyphonic tradition of the time. -
He was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known representative of the 16th-century Roman School of musical composition. -
Giacomo Carissimi (baptized April 18, 1605 in Marino, near Rome [Italy]; died January 12, 1674 in Rome) was one of the greatest Italian composers of the 17th century, known mainly for his oratorios and secular cantatas. . -
The Venetian composer Barbara Strozzi was one of the most important composers of Italian baroque cantatas and arias. His work was published prolifically during his lifetime and was essential to the historical development of vocal music and opera beyond the Baroque era. -
In the world of string instruments, few are as prized as the Stradivarius. Its creator was Antonio Stradivari, a tireless luthier from Cremona who manufactured almost 1,200 instruments throughout his more than 70 years of work. -
Vivaldi composed more than 700 works for different instruments, including more than 400 violin concertos and 46 operas. -
Telemann is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the most prolific composer in history. In addition to composing more than 1000 cantatas and 600 suites, he also created operas, passions, oratorios and concertos for various instruments. -
He was a German composer, later naturalized English, considered one of the leading figures in the history of music, especially the baroque, and one of the most influential composers of Western and universal music. -
Bach's work was diverse, including the Brandenburg Concertos, the St. Matthew Passion, the Toccata and Fugue in D minor and the Sacred Cantatas 80, 140 and 147, among many others. He was a great composer, but also a great player of the harpsichord, keyboard and organ. -
He was an English composer of the middle baroque period, best remembered for his more than 100 songs; a tragic opera, Dido and Aeneas; and his incidental music for a version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream called The Fairy Queen. -
One of the great masters of eighteenth-century opera, Christoph Willibald Gluck is known for his elegant synthesis of French and Italian operatic traditions, exemplified by such notable works as Orfeo ed Euridice and Alceste. -
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) was an Austrian musical composer who lived during the Classical period. He was one of the main developers of chamber music. His contributions to the world of music made him go down in history and be recognized as the "father of the symphony". -
Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia, Mozart's older sister, was a child prodigy like her brother. Both united by mutual childhood admiration and musical interpretation, they were exhibited by their ambitious father at the courts of Vienna and Paris. But while Mozart continued his musical career, Maria Anna had to abandon it for her role as mother and wife. -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is known mainly for his prodigious and early talent for music and for the composition of more than 600 works in 35 years of life, some so extraordinary that today he is indisputably recognized as one of the most important musicians in history. -
The brainchild of French calligraphy professor Valentin Haüy, the school was inspired not by a philanthropist, teacher or writer, but a musician – the blind Austrian pianist and composer, Maria Theresia von Paradis. -
German composer. Born into a family of Flemish origin, his father, faced with the obvious qualities for music that the young Ludwig demonstrated, tried to make him a second Mozart, although with little success. -
He was an Austrian composer of Romantic music, well known for his songs, symphonies, piano pieces, and chamber music. His career lasted only 15 years, but he was a prolific composer. -
German composer, pianist and conductor. Robert Schumann defined Felix Mendelssohn as "the Mozart of the nineteenth century, the clearest musician, the first to have been able to see and reconcile the contradictions of an entire era". He was right: his music, of great technical and formal perfection, is a splendid synthesis of classical and romantic elements. -
Compositor y pianista polaco. Si el piano es el instrumento romántico por excelencia se debe en gran parte a la aportación de Frédéric Chopin: en el extremo opuesto del pianismo orquestal de su contemporáneo Liszt (representante de la faceta más extrovertida y apasionada, casi exhibicionista, del Romanticismo), el compositor polaco exploró un estilo intrínsecamente poético, de un lirismo tan refinado como sutil, que aún no ha sido igualado. -
Robert Schumann was a renowned and important composer of German origin who gradually became one of the greatest paradigms of German Romanticism. In addition to being a great musician, he was also an important poet and was the founder and editor of the publication Neue Zeitschrift, a publication that became the means of disseminating the progressive theories of his time. -
Hungarian composer and pianist. His life is one of the most exciting novels in the history of music. A virtuoso without equal, throughout his life, and especially during his youth, he surrounded himself with the aura of a brilliant artist, violently divided between mystical rapture and demonic ecstasy. -
Italian composer. A contemporary of Wagner, and like him an eminently dramatic composer, Verdi was the great dominator of the European lyric scene during the second half of the nineteenth century. His art, however, was not that of a revolutionary like that of the German, on the contrary, for him every renewal had to seek its reason in the past. -
German pianist and composer, wife of German composer and pianist Robert Schumann. Professor at the Frankfurt Conservatory from 1872 to 1892 and an excellent interpreter of Beethoven, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt and Schumann himself, she directed the edition of her husband's works. -
He was a composer born in Bohemia, a region that during the musician's lifetime was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was a pioneer in the development of a musical style that became closely linked to Czech nationalism. For this reason, he is recognized in his country as the father of Czech music. Internationally he is known for his opera The Sold Bride and for the cycle of symphonic poems Má vlast that represent the history, legends and landscapes of the composer's native homeland. -
Brahms is one of the key exponents of musical Romanticism. He was greatly influenced by the music of Beethoven, Schubert, Haydn and Bach and is therefore sometimes labelled "classical" by the Wagnerian breakers of his time. But the music critic and prestigious composer Robert Schumann said of him that he was "the one who was to come" (after Beethoven). -
Russian composer. The Russian nationalist musical school had in the members of the so-called Group of Five its greatest exponents. Of these, the one who best knew how to reflect the soul of the Russian people, despite the profound shortcomings of his technical preparation, was Modest Mussorgsky. -
Russian composer. Cosmopolitan in character in terms of influences (among them and in a preponderant place that of German symphonism, although not devoid of Russian elements), his music is above all deeply expressive and personal, revealing the author's personality, complex and tormented. -
At the age of sixteen, Dvořák went to study music in Prague. He played violin and viola in the Prague National Opera Orchestra until, at age thirty-one, he won a composition prize. He soon became famous as a composer, and was able to earn a living by composing and teaching composition at the Prague Conservatory. -
Grieg received his first music lessons from his mother, and he began composing at the age of nine. A famous Norwegian violinist Ole Bull encouraged him to go to the Leipzig Conservatory when he was 15 years old. When he graduated four years later, he was an accomplished pianist and composer. -
Russian composer and conductor. Between 1856 and 1862 he studied at the St. Petersburg Navy School, while at the same time training musically. In 1859 he began studying piano with F. A. Canille, who encouraged him to compose and introduced him to Mily Balakirev and Cesar Cui. Together with these two, in addition to Borodin and Mussorgsky, he formed the group of innovators of the Five. -
Compositor italiano. Heredero de la gran tradición lírica italiana, pero al mismo tiempo abierto a otras corrientes y estilos propios del cambio de siglo, Puccini se convirtió en el gran dominador de la escena lírica internacional durante los primeros decenios del siglo XX. -
Austrian composer and conductor. He was right: valued in his time more as an orchestra conductor than as a composer, today he is considered one of the greatest and most original symphonists in the history of the genre; moreover, one of the musicians who announce and foreshadow in his work in a more lucid and consistent way all the contradictions that would define the development of musical art throughout the twentieth century. -
Austrian composer. His restless and tormented life reflects the spiritual turmoil of the last Romanticism, to which he adhered with passion. In 1875 he entered the Conservatory of the Austrian capital and began to associate with Wagner, who arrived in Vienna to take charge of the direction of Tannhäuser and Lohengrin. This event was decisive for Hugo Wolf, as it helped him to meet and to initiate a rigorous stylistic study. -
It took him many years to develop his musical style and he was almost 40 when he achieved international fame in 1902 with the only opera he completed, Peleas et Mélisande. -
A composer who is often accused of being nothing more than the singer of an ethnic group, he knew how, with his symphonies and symphonic poems, to place himself alongside the greatest symphonists of the European world. For his country, Sibelius was and still is today an object of worship, a musician who, in times of Russian domination, knew how to express the demands of his people, a musician, in short, who contributed to Finnish culture crossing the borders of his country. -
Italian composer. Chronologically ranked among the last great representatives of Neapolitan opera (Cimarosa and Paisiello) and the first of romantic opera (Bellini and Donizetti), Gioachino Rossini occupies a prominent place in the Italian lyrical repertoire thanks to opera buffas such as Il barbiere di Siviglia, La Cenerentola or L'italiana in Algeri, which have given him universal fame, eclipsing other titles no less valuable. -
was an Austrian composer, music theorist and painter of Jewish origin. Since he emigrated to the United States in 1934, he adopted the name Arnold Schoenberg, and this is how he usually appears in English-language publications and around the world. -
Ravel continued studying piano at the Paris Conservatory, and even won first prize in a student piano competition. But the requirements for pianists at the Conservatory were very tough, and a few years later he was expelled for not winning enough medals. However, in 1898 he returned to the Conservatory, this time to study composition with the famous composer Gabriel Fauré. Unfortunately, he was expelled again for not winning the prizes for fugue and composition. -
He was a Spanish composer of musical nationalism, one of the most important of the first half of the 20th century, along with Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, Joaquín Turina and Joaquín Rodrigo, and one of the most important Spanish composers of all time. -
Bartók is remembered as one of the two great Hungarian composers, along with Franz Liszt. He combined traditional folk melodies and experimental harmonies to create modern Hungarian music. His scientific classification of folk music is often considered the beginning of ethnomusicology. -
He was a Russian composer and conductor and one of the most important and transcendental musicians of the 20th century. -
He was a Spanish composer and musicologist, representative of nationalism in the first half of the 20th century. Manuel de Falla, Isaac Albéniz and he composed the most important works of Impressionism in Spain. His most important works are Fantastic Dances and The Rocío Procession. -
He was a pioneer in the field of music education. He believed that music belonged to everyone and that, to achieve a higher level of musical understanding, musical training should be developed within school systems. -
Richard Wagner is one of the most important composers in the history of music. He was born on May 22, 1813 in Leipzig, Germany. Wagner began as a composer with works of a wide generic diversity. In addition to being a composer, Wagner was also a writer. It was sponsored by King Ludwig II of Bavaria. Wagner died in 18831. Among his most important works are "The Ring of the Nibelung" and "Tristan and Isolde" -
He is one of the most famous South American composers in the history of music. As a composer, he is known for writing music that represents the many musical influences and folklore of his native Brazil. -
American composer. In a country that, until the end of the First World War, had depended in the musical field almost exclusively on fashions, composers and performers from Europe, George Gershwin was the first to make an unequivocally native voice heard, although capable, at the same time, of achieving success outside the borders of his homeland. -
He was a French composer, organist, pedagogue and ornithologist, one of the most outstanding musicians of the entire century. Both his fascination with Hinduism and his admiration for nature and birds, his deep Christian faith and his love for instrumental color were essential to his formation as a person and artist. -
was a French composer. He is considered the creator of concrete music. He is the author of the book titled Treatise on Musical Objects, where he exposes his entire theory on this type of music. He composed different works, all of them based on the technique of concrete music. Among them, it is worth highlighting his Study for locomotives. -
was an American composer, music theorist, artist and philosopher. A pioneer of aleatoric music, electronic music, and the non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the postwar avant-garde. Critics have applauded him as one of the most influential American composers of the 20th century. -
He was a French musician, considered the creator, along with Pierre Schaeffer, of the so-called concrete music and one of the godfathers of electroacoustic music. -
is an American minimalist classical music composer. He studied at the Juilliard School in New York. His international recognition increased since the appearance of his opera Einstein on the Beach (1975). -
Anthony Santos (The Bronx, New York, July 21, 1981), known artistically as Romeo Santos, is an American singer, record producer, composer, actor. He is considered in most of America as the "King of Bachata" for being the leader, vocalist and main composer of the group Aventura. -
Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio (Bayamón, March 10, 1994), known artistically as Bad Bunny, is a Puerto Rican singer, songwriter, record producer, wrestler and actor. Characterized by his serious intonation, he specializes in musical styles such as reggaeton and Latin trap, although he has also performed other genres and varied styles. -
Known simply as Tom Holland, he is a British actor, voice actor and dancer. He began his theater career in 2008 playing the title character in the musical Billy Elliot. Later, after graduating from the BRIT School , he made his film debut with the film The Impossible and achieved great recognition from critics, having been named by the National Board of Review as the breakthrough actor of that year, in addition to having been nominated for the Critics' Choice Awards as best young performer.