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  • Aaron Copland

    …best score. Later Years and Legacy In his later years, Copland slowed his work as a composer and began to focus on conducting. He toured extensively, conducting live performances and…


  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    …suit. Rimsky-Korsakov’s early education had a significant impact on his later life. At the tender age of six, he started piano lessons, showing an uncanny aural skill. However, he didn’t…


  • Gioachino Rossini

    …Giuseppe Verdi. During his tenure in Naples, Rossini met and courted Isabella Colbran, a local soprano whom he would later marry. However, their marriage was not particularly happy, and after…


  • Leonard Bernstein

    …musical score. Some of the music from this production was later incorporated into Bernstein’s own works. Further Studies and the Prelude to His Career After his graduation from Harvard in…


  • Alexander Scriabin

    …the composer Sergei Rachmaninoff and the philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev. Later Years and Death In his later years, Scriabin’s health began to deteriorate, and he became increasingly preoccupied with mystical and…


  • Mily Balakirev

    …repertoire. Later Years and Legacy In his later years, Balakirev faced personal and professional challenges, including financial difficulties and health issues. Despite withdrawing from public life to some extent, he…


  • Johann Strauss I

    …Strauss’s musical journey began in earnest when he joined the orchestra of Michael Pamer, a well-known composer of light music. Later, he moved on to be part of the popular…


  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    …enrolled at the University of Leipzig to study law, and later continued his studies at the University of Frankfurt in 1735. Despite acquiring a law degree in 1738, he showed…