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How Beethoven Created Incredible Music as a Deaf Composer
…hearing declined, Beethoven used conversation books. Friends and visitors would write their comments in these books, and Beethoven would either respond verbally or write back. These books were not only…
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Bedřich Smetana
…was commissioned to write what would eventually become his most famous opera, The Bartered Bride. Smetana’s Contributions to Czech Opera Smetana was not the first to write operas in the…
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Igor Stravinsky
…to fame overnight. “The Firebird” was soon followed by another ballet, “Petrushka,” which further affirmed Stravinsky’s rising stardom. However, the pinnacle of Stravinsky’s Russian period was undeniably “The Rite of…
