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…in the small French town of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. He was the eldest of five children in a working-class family. His father, Manuel-Achille Debussy, worked as a salesman and ran a local…

…and by the time he was 11, he was studying piano at the New England Conservatory of Music. Anderson’s family lived at 12 Chatham Street in Cambridge, where he spent…

…privileged family with strong ties to the English intellectual and cultural elite. His father, Arthur Vaughan Williams, was a vicar, and his mother, Margaret Wedgwood, was from the famous Wedgwood…

…and Education Jean-Philippe Rameau was born into a musical family on September 25, 1683, in Dijon, France. His father, Jean Rameau, was an organist, and his mother, Claudine Demartinécourt, came…

Early Life and Education Richard Georg Strauss was born on June 11, 1864, in Munich, Germany, into a musical family. His father, Franz Strauss, was a renowned horn player in…

…flute and guitar since there was no piano in the family home. Despite his love for music, his father pressured him to study medicine. At the age of nineteen, Berlioz…

…and Arthur Sullivan. Early Life and Musical Beginnings Born on June 20, 1819, in Cologne, Prussia, Jacques Offenbach, originally named Jacob Offenbach, hailed from a deeply musical family. His father,…

Born into a family of musicians, Georges Bizet was a French composer whose music has become synonymous with the romantic era. Despite a life cut short by an early death,…

…Mendelssohn was the son of Abraham and Lea Mendelssohn. He hailed from a notable Jewish family, with his grandfather being the esteemed philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. However, the family converted to…

…Warsaw (now Poland). His father, Nicholas, was a French émigré who was working as a bookkeeper, and his mother, Justyna, was a relative of the Skarbeks, a prominent Polish family.…

…loss of the family fortune. Following this, his father abandoned the family, leaving them in a precarious financial state. However, Rachmaninoff’s talent for music was recognized early in his life….