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10 June 2010
Many Wagnerites claim that The Ring Cycle is "The Greatest Work
of Art Ever". http://bit.ly/ba3kIV
19 May 2010
Unlike most wind instruments the trombone's design has not changed
much since it first appeared as the sackbut in 1400s
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22 Apr 2010
Ludwig von Beethoven's only opera was Fidelio.
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29 Mar 2010
"La Marseillaise" is the national anthem of France. It was
written and composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
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10 Mar 2010
The origin of samba music can be found in Angola from where it
was brought to Brazil with the slave trade 1600-1888
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7 Mar 2010
"The Liberty Bell" is a military march by John Philip Sousa, used
in the British TV comedy Monty Python's Flying Circus
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Feb 2010
My Boy Lollipop , a song written in the mid-1950s, is best known
for the 1964 recording by Jamaican singer Millie Small
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Feb 2010
Toccata and Fugue in D minor is Johann Sebastian Bach's most
famous organ piece, which he composed bt 1703 and 1707
http://bit.ly/8oZBBE
1 Feb 2010
"The Blue Danube" is the English name for "An der schönen blauen
Donau", a waltz composed in 1866 by Johann Strauss II
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28 Jan 2010
Maurice Chevalier sang "Thank heaven for little girls" in the
American musical film Gigi. Leslie Caron also starred
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27 Jan 2010
Steeleye Span is a British electric folk band,
formed in 1969 and active today. Their hit singles included "Gaudete"
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25 Jan 2010
Stradivarius violins are arguably some of the finest musical
instruments ever made.
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23 Jan 2010
Franz Schubert (1797–1828) wrote the Trout Music quintet (Die
Forelle) in 1819 after observing trout in a stream
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22 Jan 2010
Andrés Segovia (1893-1987) is considered to be the father of the
modern classical guitar movement
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21 Jan 2010
Pete Best was the original
drummer for the Beatles, performing with the band during the
early 1960s http://bit.ly/5jO871
21 Jan 2010
Camille Saint-Saëns was a French
composer best known for the music in the ballet The Swan in Le
Carnaval des Animaux
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20 Jan 2010
Mozart wrote his first opera,
Bastien und Bastienne, when he was only 12 years old
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19 Jan 2010
For American classical music,
"The Day the Music Died" was October 14, 1990. On that day
Leonard Bernstein died. http://bit.ly/76NWd8
18 Jan 2010
A grand piano can be played
faster than an upright (spinet) piano
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