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Luigi Boccherini
…and Later Years In 1785, Boccherini faced a series of personal tragedies. He lost his Spanish patron, Infante Don Luis, and his wife, Clementina Pelicho. Despite these setbacks, his creative…
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
…pivotal 18th-century German language work on the subject, laid the foundation for the methods of renowned musicians such as Muzio Clementi and Johann Baptist Cramer. During his tenure at the…
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Schumann’s Scenes from Childhood, Op. 32, No. 1 – Scherzo in B Flat Minor
…in scales and studies by Yakov Tkach, who had a genealogy stretching back to Chopin and Muzio Clementi. Gilels’ technique was established on this strict foundation. On December 27, 1977,…