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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
By all accounts, Peter Tchaikovsky was an emotionally troubled man. He suffered from nervous depression, which was heightened by the constant social presssure to hide his homosexuality. The composer had affairs with women and even married Antonina Miliukova -- with disastrous emotional effects to bot
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
Born in a small farm town in Germany in 1928, progressive composer Karlheinz Stockhausen found his greatest pleasure in listening to the radio with his mother and playing what he heard on the piano. He began piano lessons at the age of six. At eight, he was performing popular tunes for tips and food
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Arnold Schoenberg
The harmonic foundations on which Western music had rested since the Renaissance got a strong shaking in the earthquake that was Romanticism. Dissonant notes were sounded -- and left unresolved. In time, the need for a tonal center was questioned, and by the turn of the century, atonal music had arri
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Giacomo Puccini
Like many composers, Giacomo Puccini was born into a family of musicians who actively encouraged his musical talent from the time he was a child. Although Puccini's father, Michele, died when he was six, the boy felt much of his influence at the Istituto Musicale where the father had taught, and wher
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