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Gustav Holst
…of esteemed musicians and educators. Gustav’s stint at the Carl Rosa Opera Company as a coach and rehearsal pianist after leaving RMC helped him gain valuable experience. Marriage and Shift…
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Fritz Kreisler
…was not just about music. In 1902, Kreisler met Harriet Lies, a New York-born divorcee. Their love story was as melodious as Kreisler’s compositions, leading to their marriage a year…
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Edward Elgar
…path he would tread for the remainder of his life. He conducted locally, performed, taught, and composed, managing to scrape by until his marriage in 1889 to Caroline Alice Roberts,…
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Zdeněk Fibich
…with complications. His marriage with Betty was not a happy one, and he eventually fell in love with a pupil, a singer named Anežka Schulzova. This relationship had a profound…
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Francisco Tárrega
…traditional classical techniques with Spanish folk elements. Family Life In 1881, during a concert tour in Novelda, Tárrega met Maria Rizo, who would later become his wife. After their marriage,…
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Georg Philipp Telemann
…whom he married in 1709, died soon after childbirth. After moving to Frankfurt in 1712, he remarried in 1714. However, this marriage too was fraught with difficulties, largely due to…
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Edvard Grieg
…to co-found the Copenhagen concert society, Euterpe, aimed at promoting the works of young Scandinavian composers. The Composer’s Marriage and Personal Life On June 11, 1867, Grieg married his first…
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Franz Schubert
…young soprano named Therese Grob and was smitten by her. He composed several liturgical works for her and even aspired to marry her. However, the stringent marriage-consent law of 1815,…
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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…
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Alexander Glazunov
…his battle with alcoholism, which affected his health and productivity as a composer. Despite these challenges, Glazunov found support and stability in his marriage to Olga Gavrilovna Vinogradova, with whom…
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Béla Bartók
…16-year-old Márta Ziegler, with whom he had a son. However, the marriage ended in divorce in 1923, and Bartók married his piano student Ditta Pásztory shortly thereafter. The couple had…
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Percy Grainger
…Personal Life Grainger married Ella Strom in 1928, but their marriage ended in divorce in 1938. Nevertheless, they remained close friends. In his later years, Grainger focused on composing and…
