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Dvořák – Songs My Mother Taught Me – Performed by Augustin Hadelich
Augustin Hadelich and Charles Owen play Dvorak’s “Songs My Mother Taught Me.”…
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Renaud Capuçon Performs Dvořák – Songs My Mother Taught Me
Enjoy Renaud Capuçon’s charming violin solo of Dvořák’s “Songs My Mother Taught Me” from his Gypsy Songs cycle….
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Percy Grainger
…lessons with his mother at the age of six, showing exceptional talent. At the age of 13, Grainger and his mother moved to Frankfurt, Germany, where he continued his musical…
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
…School of Jurisprudence, a boarding school in St. Petersburg. This separation from his mother was a traumatic event that left a lasting impact on the young composer. His mother passed…
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Erik Satie
…Honfleur, Normandy, to a French father and a British mother. His father, Alfred, was a ship’s broker and composer, and his mother, Jane, was a pianist and composer. Sadly, his…
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Robert Schumann
…parents, Schumann was the youngest of six children. His father, August Schumann, was a successful novelist and publisher, and his mother, Christiane Schumann, was a music lover. His father’s literary…
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Maurice Ravel
…and his Basque mother, Marie Delouart, fostered an environment rich in cultural and musical diversity. The household reverberated with the melodies of his mother’s Spanish folk songs, while his father’s…
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Béla Bartók
…in the Banatian town of Nagyszentmiklos in the Kingdom of Hungary on March 25, 1881, Bartók’s early life was filled with music. His mother, a skilled pianist, introduced him to…
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Leroy Anderson
…in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Leroy Anderson was the son of Swedish immigrant parents. His mother, an organist at the Swedish Mission Church, introduced him to music at an early age. At…
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Gustav Holst
…his mother, Clara Cox, was one of Adolph’s pupils before they tied the knot. Gustav’s childhood was fraught with hardships. The death of his mother shortly after the birth of…
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Clara Schumann
…to become a musical prodigy. Her father, Friedrich Wieck, a renowned piano teacher, nurtured her talent from the age of five. Her mother, Mariane, a gifted singer, also played a…
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Sergei Prokofiev
…musical education, with his mother, a proficient pianist, serving as his first music mentor. The melodies of Chopin and Beethoven that filled his childhood home were his initial inspiration. By…
