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  • Armen Borisovich Dzhigarkhanyan (Russian: Армен Борисович Джигарханян; Armenian: Արմեն Բորիսի Ջիգարխանյան, romanized: Armen Borisi Jigarkhanyan; pronounced [dʒiɡɑrχɑnjɑn]; 3 October 1935 – 14 November 2020) was a Soviet, Armenian, and Russian actor. Born and raised in Yerevan, Dzhigarkhanyan started acting in the academic and Russian theaters of the city, before moving to Moscow to continue stage acting. Since 1960, he appeared in a number of Armenian films. He became popular in the 1...
  • Alexey Ekimyan (Armenian: Ալեքսեյ Հեքիմյան, Russian: Алексей Гургенович Экимян) also Alexey Gurgenovich Hekimyan (April 10, 1927 – April 24, 1982) was a famous Armenian composer, and writer of popular songs. Ekimyan was also a General of Soviet militsia (police) and was the head of the Criminal Investigation Department of Moscow region. He was considered the only popular composer in the world who ruled a law-enforcement department at the same time. Ekimyan awarded by the "Renowned Master...
  • Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (/ˈɛlɡɑːr/; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed choral works, including The Dream of Gerontius, chamber music and songs. He was appointed M...
  • The Alexandrov Ensemble (Russian: Ансамбль Александрова, tr. Ansambl Aleksandrova; commonly known as the Red Army Choir in Western Europe) is an official army choir of the Russian armed forces. Founded during the Soviet era, the ensemble consists of a male choir, an orchestra, and a dance ensemble. The Ensemble has entertained audiences both in Russia and throughout the world, performing a range of music including folk tunes, hymns, operatic arias and popular music. The group's repert...
  • Yuri Sergeyevich Entin (Russian: Ю́рий Серге́евич Э́нтин; born 21 August 1935 in Moscow) is a Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, and lyricist who wrote screenplays and songs for various children's films including The Bremen Town Musicians (1969) and two sequels (with Vasily Livanov) and Blue Puppy (1976), among others. He also wrote music with Bulat Okudzhava for the 1975 film The Adventures of Buratino.
  • Mark Fridrikhovich Ermler (Russian: Марк Фридрихович Эрмлер; 5 May 1932 – 14 April 2002) was a Russian conductor.
  • Юрий Владимирович Фаворин (17 декабря 1986, Москва) — российский пианист. Родился в Москве, учился игре на фортепиано и кларнете сначала в Детской школе искусств № 11, затем, в 1995—2004 гг., — в Средней специальной музыкальной школе им. Гнесиных, которую окончил по классу фортепиано, кларнета и композиции (преподаватели — Л. А. Григорьева, И. П. Мозговенко и В. Б. Довгань). В 2004—2009 гг. учился в Московской консерватории по классу фортепиано у профессора М. С. Воскресенского. ...
  • Vladimir Ivanovich Fedoseyev (Russian: Владимир Иванович Федосе́ев, born 5 August 1932, Leningrad, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian conductor.
  • Boris Goldstein (Busya Goldshtein) (25 December 1922 – 8 November 1987) was a Soviet violinist whose career was greatly hindered by the political situation in the USSR. As a young prodigy, he started violin studies in Odessa with the eminent pedagogue, Pyotr Stolyarsky and continued them in Moscow Conservatory under Abram Yampolsky and Lev Tseitlin. As a teenager, Boris Goldstein was singled out by Heifetz as being USSR's most brilliant violin talent.
  • Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet (Russian: Афана́сий Афана́сьевич Фет, IPA: [ɐfɐˈnasʲɪj ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈfʲɛt]), later known as Shenshin (Russian: Шенши́н, IPA: [ʂɨnˈʂɨn]; 5 December [O.S. 23 November] 1820 – 3 December [O.S. 21 November] 1892), was a renowned Russian poet regarded as the finest master of lyric verse in Russian literature.
  • Evgeny Yulievich Finkelstein (born 1972, Moscow) is a Russian musician (classical guitar), laureate of international competitions, professor, head of the classical guitar department (until 2017) at the Maimonides State Classical Academy in Moscow. Maimonides. Evgeny Finkelstein was born in 1972 in Moscow. He studied with outstanding Russian musicians Alexander Frautschi, Camille Frautschi, Nikita Koshkin and Alexander Gitman, and graduated from the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music. He gr...
  • Mark Grigoryevich Fradkin (Марк Григорьевич Фрадкин, May 4, 1914 in Vitebsk, Russian Empire, now Belarus – April 4, 1990 in Moscow, USSR) was a Soviet composer, author of numerous popular songs (many of which were co-written with poet Yevgeny Dolmatovsky) and musical scores for forty films. In 1979, Mark Fradkin received the USSR State Prize and, in 1985, he was granted the status of the People’s Artist of the USSR.
  • Alisa Brunovna Freindlich (Russian: Алиса Бруновна Фрейндлих, born 8 December 1934 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1981). Since 1983, Freindlich has been a leading actress of the Bolshoi Drama Theater in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
  • Yan Abramovich Frenkel (Russian: Ян Абрамович Френкель) (November 21, 1920, Kyiv – August 25, 1989, Riga, USSR) was a popular Soviet composer and performer of Jewish descent. Frenkel was born in Kyiv, Ukraine. He was originally taught violin by his father, and later studied classical violin at the Kiev Conservatory under Yakob Magaziner. During the Second World War he was evacuated to Orenburg, where he entered at the Orenburg Antiaircraft Military School (Zenitnoe Uchilishche), and pl...
  • Grigory Samuilovich Frid also Grigori Fried (Russian: Григо́рий Самуи́лович Фри́д, 22 September N.S. 1915 – 22 September 2012) was a Russian composer of music written in many different genres, including chamber opera.
  • Борис Михайлович Фрумкин (род. 26 мая 1944, Москва, СССР) — советский и российский музыкант-аранжировщик, пианист, дирижёр, композитор, руководитель ансамбля, актёр, народный артист Российской Федерации (2014).
  • Gustav Heinrich Ernst Martin Wilhelm Furtwängler (25 January 1886, Schöneberg - 30 November 1954, Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg) was a German conductor and composer. One of the greatest conductors of the first half of the 20th century. Wilhelm Furtwängler was born in Berlin into a prominent family. His father Adolf was an archaeologist, his mother a painter and his brother Philipp a mathematician. Furtwängler spent most of his childhood in Munich, where his father taught at the Ludwig-...
  • Onegin Yusif oğlu Hacıqasımov (Azeri: Onegin Yusif oğlu Hacıqasımov; June 4, 1937, Baku - June 30, 2002, Reutov, Moscow region) was a Soviet songwriter, author of verses of many popular songs, later Hieroschimon Simon. A documentary film about Onegin was made, "A Temple for Onegin. After Glory."
  •      Galina Galina - pseudonym, russian poet, essays by and translator.
  • Rasul Gamzatovich Gamzatov (Avar. Khamzatilazul Rasul Khamzatil vas; 8 September 1923 - 3 November 2003) was an Avar Soviet poet, prose writer, publicist, Soviet and Russian public and political figure, and translator. Hero of Socialist Labour (1974), People's Poet of the Dagestan ASSR (1959), Honoured Art Worker of the Republic of Dagestan (2003), winner of the Stalin III degree (1952), Lenin (1963) and M. Gorky RSFSR (1980) prizes. Commander of the Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First...
  •      Ganelina studied piano under professor Vera Gornostayeva and completed her postgraduate concertmaster course under professor M. Smirnov. She has accompanied singers at prestigious international competitions such as the Tchaikovsky and Bella Voce competitions in Moscow, Amber Nightingale in Kaliningrad, and been awarded the best concertmaster diploma several times. The pianist has taken part in Russian and international music festivals combining an active concert career with teaching at he...
  • Georgy Aramovich Garanian (Russian: Гео́ргий Ара́мович Гараня́н; 15 August 1934 – 11 January 2010) was an ethnic Armenian Russian jazz saxophone player, bandleader and composer. He was the People's Artist of Russia in 1993. Born in Moscow, Garanian was trained at the Moscow Conservatory. He was one of the first Russian musicians who attracted attention of Western world as part of the jazz from the USSR. He belonged to the first generation of Russian jazzmen who started to perform afte...
  • Jivan Aramaisovich Gasparyan (Armenian Ջիվան Գասպարյան; 12 October 1928, Solak village near the town of Hrazdan, Armenian SSR - 6 July 2021) was an Armenian musician and composer, an expert in Armenian national music, and a master of the duduk. People's Artist of the Armenian SSR (1978). Since 1976 he has been a professor at Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory. Jivan Aramaisovich Gasparyan was born on 12 October 1928 in a small Armenian village called Solak, not far from the town of ...
  • Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Га́ук (3 августа 1893, Одесса — 30 марта 1963, Москва) — советский дирижёр и композитор, Народный артист РСФСР (1954). Обучался в Петроградской консерватории по классам композиции у Александра Глазунова, Василия Калафати, Язепса Витолса, Михаила Чернова и дирижирования ― у Николая Черепнина. В 1917 году стал дирижёром Петроградского театра музыкальной ...
  • Valery Aleksandrovich Gavrilin (Russian: Валерий Александрович Гаврилин, (17 August 1939 – 28 January 1999) was a Soviet and Russian composer. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1985).
  • “Gaya“ (Azerbaijani: Qaya) were an Azerbaijani vocal quartet consisting of Arif Hajiyev, Teymur Mirzoyev, Lev Yelisovetski and Rauf Babayev. Quartet was active from 1972 to 1988. They sang in multiple languages, including Azerbaijani, Spanish, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian and English in their repertoire. Gaya was formed in 1961, when Rauf Hajiyev invited musicians to work in Azerbaijan State Estrada Orchestra. Such composers as Tofig Guliyev, Fikret Amirov, Rauf Hajiyev, Vasif Adigozalov, Faraj...
  • Lukas Geniušas (Russian: Лукас Генюшас; born July 1, 1990 in Moscow) is a Russian-Lithuanian pianist. Geniušas began to study piano at the age of five, and in 1996 he entered the Moscow Frederic Chopin College of Music Performing. He studied piano with professor Vera Gornostayeva at the Moscow State Conservatory. Since 2004, he has received the M. Rostropovich Foundation scholarship. He started to perform in public in 1996, and since that time he performed with various orchestras in...
  • Valery Abisalovich Gergiev (Russian: Вале́рий Абиса́лович Ге́ргиев; Russian pronunciation: [vɐˈlʲerʲɪj ɐbʲɪˈsaɫəvʲɪtɕ ˈɡʲɛrɡʲɪɪf]; Ossetian: Гергиты Абисалы фырт Валери, Gergity Abisaly Fyrt Valeri; born 2 May 1953), is a Russian conductor and opera company director of Ossetian origin. He is general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre, chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic and artistic director of the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg.
  • Anna Wiktoria German-Tucholska (14 February 1936 – 25 August 1982) was Polish singer, immensely popular in Poland and in the Soviet Union in the 1960s–1970s. She released over a dozen music albums with songs in Polish, as well as several albums with Russian repertoire. Throughout her music career, she recorded songs in seven languages: Polish, Russian, German, Italian, Spanish, English and Latin.
  • George Gershwin (/ˈɡɜːrʃ.wɪn/; born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist, whose compositions spanned both popular and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American in Paris (1928), the songs "Swanee" (1919) and "Fascinating Rhythm" (1924), the jazz standards "Embraceable You" (1928) and "I Got Rhythm" (1930), and the opera Porgy and Bess (1935), which included the hi...
  •      A strong voice, a bright dramatic gift, a passionate temperament, creative courage and a precise sense of a role – all these virtues are combined by the name of the unique opera singer Hibla Gerzmava, a People's Artist of Russia and People's Artist of the Republic of Abkhazia. Hibla Gerzmava is an opera singer of a world scale, a remarkable actress and versatile musician. In 1994, she graduated from the Moscow Conservatory where she majored in solo singing under professors Irina Maslennikov...
  • Elizabeth Gilels (born Yelizaveta Grigoryevna Gilels; Russian: Елизаве́та Григо́рьевна Ги́лельс; 30 September 1919 – 13 March 2008) was a Soviet violinist and a professor. Elizabeth Gilels was born in Odessa into a Jewish family. Her father Grigory Gilels was a clerk at the sugar refinery, and her mother Gesya Gilels was a housewife. Elizabeth had multiple siblings, including children from previous marriages by both of her parents. Despite not being directly connected to a music scene,...
  • Emil Grigoryevich Gilels (Ukrainian: Емі́ль Григо́рович Гі́лельс; 19 October 1916 – 14 October 1985) was a Soviet pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time. Gilels was born to a Jewish family on 19 October 1916 (6 October, Old Style) in Odessa, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire) to Esfir and Grigory Gilels. His father worked as a clerk in a sugar refinery. His sister Elizaveta, three years his junior, was a renowned violinist. Gilels had...
  • Anton Ginsburg (18 September 1930 – 19 July 2002) was a Russian pianist. He was born in Moscow. A disciple of Heinrich Neuhaus, he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1953. Four years later he won the Smetana Competition in Prague. Ginsburg has been active as a concert pianist both in the USSR and abroad, but is best remembered for his work as an accompanist with Daniil Shafran.
  • Григо́рий Рома́нович Ги́нзбург (1904—1961) — советский пианист. Заслуженный деятель искусств РСФСР (1946). Лауреат Сталинской премии второй степени (1949).
  • Gennady Igorevich Gladkov (18 February 1935 – 16 October 2023) is a prominent Soviet and Russian composer, known mainly as a composer for films, TV series and animated films. People's Artist of Russia (2002). Commander of the Order For Merit to the Fatherland IV degree.
  • Grigory Vasilievich Gladkov (born July 18, 1953, Khabarovsk, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian bard, composer, Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation (2004), a member of the Union of Composers and the Union of Cinematographers of Russia, and a member of the Moscow Dramatists' Trade Union. Author of a large number of songs for children (record holder of the Guinness Book of Records of Russia for the number of albums with songs for children).
  • Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Константи́нович Глазуно́в, 10 August[b] 1865 – 21 March 1936) was a Russian composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Russian Romantic period. He served as director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 1905 and 1928 and was instrumental in the reorganization of the institute into the Petrograd Conservatory, then the Leningrad Conservatory, following the Bolshevik Revolution. He continued heading the Conservator...
  • Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (born Reinhold Ernest Glier, which was later converted for standardization purposes; Russian: Рейнгольд Морицевич Глиэр; 11 January 1875 [O.S. 30 December 1874] – 23 June 1956), was a Russian Imperial and Soviet composer of German and Polish descent. In 1938, he was awarded the title of People's Artist of RSFSR (1935), and People's Artist of USSR (1938).
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (Russian: Михаил Иванович Глинка, tr. Mikhaíl Ivánovich Glínka; 1 June [O.S. 20 May] 1804 – 15 February  [O.S. 3 February] 1857) was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country, and is often regarded as the fountainhead of Russian classical music. Glinka's compositions were an important influence on future Russian composers, notably the members of The Five, who took Glinka's lead and produced a distinctive Russian style of music.
  • Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (German: [ˈkʁɪstɔf ˈvɪlɪbalt ˈɡlʊk]; born 2 July, baptized 4 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia, both part of the Holy Roman Empire, he gained prominence at the Habsburg court at Vienna. There he brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices for which many intellectuals had been campaigning. With a series of ...
  •      Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Го́голь, tr. Nikolay Vasilievich Gogol; Ukrainian: Мико́ла Васи́льович Го́голь, Mykola Vasyliovych Hohol; 31 March [O.S. 19 March] 1809 – 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer of Ukrainian ethnicity. Russian and Ukrainian scholars debate whether or not Gogol was of their respective nationalities. Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural...
  • Timofei Golberg (born 28 June 1991, Nizhny Novgorod, USSR) is a Russian choral and symphony conductor. Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Moscow State Academic Chamber Choir. Graduated from the Glinka Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatoire (specialising in academic choir conducting, class of Prof. S. I. Smirnov, 2014; specialising in opera and symphony conducting, class of Prof. A. M. Skulsky, 2016). In 2015-2019 he performed with the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the ...
  • Boris Goldstein (Busya Goldshtein) (25 December 1922 – 8 November 1987) was a Soviet violinist whose career was greatly hindered by the political situation in the USSR. As a young prodigy, he started violin studies in Odessa with the eminent pedagogue, Pyotr Stolyarsky and continued them in Moscow Conservatory under Abram Yampolsky and Lev Tseitlin. As a teenager, Boris Goldstein was singled out by Heifetz as being USSR's most brilliant violin talent
  • Nikolai Semyonovich Golovanov (Russian: Никола́й Семёнович Голова́нов, Nikoláy Semyónovich Golovánov) ([o.s. 9] 21 January 1891 – 28 August 1953), PAU, was a Soviet conductor and composer, who was married to the soprano Antonina Nezhdanova. He conducted the premiere performances of a number of works, among them Nikolai Myaskovsky's Sixth Symphony in May 1924.  Golovanov held some of the highest musical positions in the USSR, including an extensive association with the Bolshoi Oper...
  • Головин Андрей Иванович Родился 11 августа 1950 года в Москве. В 1976 году окончил Московскую Консерваторию по классу сочинения профессора Е.К.Голубева и по классу инструментовки профессора Ю.А.Фортунатова. В 1979 году окончил аспирантуру. С 1989 г. по настоящее время – РАМ им. Гнесиных, преподаватель кафедры композиции и инструментовки; профессор (с 2002).
  • Алексей Альбертович Гориболь (род. 26 июня 1961) — российский пианист, заслуженный артист России (2006). Учился в Московской консерватории (по классу контрабаса) и в Горьковской консерватории (по классу фортепиано). Специалист по неожиданным программам, посвящённым преимущественно музыке XX века и сочинениям новейших композиторов, вплоть до заказа произведений молодым российским авторам. Записал, в частности, альбом рома...
  • Charles-François Gounod (/ɡuːˈnoʊ/; French: [ʃaʁl fʁɑ̃swa ɡuno]; 17 June 1818 – 18 October 1893), usually known as Charles Gounod, was a French composer. He wrote twelve operas, of which the most popular has always been Faust (1859); his Roméo et Juliette (1867) also remains in the international repertory. He composed a large amount of church music, many songs, and popular short pieces including his Ave Maria (an elaboration of a Bach piece), and Funeral March of a Marionette. Born in...
  • Sergei Timofeyevich Grebennikov (14 August 1920, CEL, Shahe, Hebei Province, Republic of China - 29 September 1988, Moscow, USSR) was a Russian Soviet songwriter, film and theatre actor. He graduated from the Moscow City Theatre School. Sergey Timofeyevich Grebennikov was born on 14 August 1920 in the family of a railway worker. At the age of 10 he lost his parents; he was brought up by his elder brother Vladimir Timofeevich Grebennikov (1911-1942), who lived in the city of Sochi. In 19...
  • Naum Isayevich Grebnev (real name Rombach; 1921-1988) was a Russian Soviet poet, translator of folk poetry and classical poets of the Caucasus and the East. More than 160 books have been published in his translations or with his participation. He was born on 20 November 1921 in Harbin into a Jewish family. His father, Isai Nakhimovich (Isaiah-Ruvim Nohumovich) Rombakh (1887-1931), a burgher from Kovno, was the editor of the Harbin pro-Soviet daily newspapers "Forward" (1920-1921) ...
  • Николай Порфирьевич Греков (21 февраля (5 марта) 1807 года, село Казанское Ефремовского уезда Тульской губернии — 1866, Москва) — российский поэт и переводчик.
  • Alexander Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ти́хонович Гречани́нов, IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɡrʲɪtɕɐˈnʲinəf]; 25 October [O.S. 13 October] 1864, Kaluga – 3 January 1956, New York City) was a Russian Romantic composer.
  • Edvard Hagerup Grieg (/ɡriːɡ/ GREEG, Norwegian: [ˈɛ̀dvɑɖ ˈhɑ̀ːɡərʉp ˈɡrɪɡː]; 15 June 1843 – 4 September 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. His use and development of Norwegian folk music in his own compositions brought the music of Norway to international consciousness, as well as helping to develop a national identity, much as Jean Sibelius di...
  • Maria Grinberg (Russian: Mария Израилевна Гринберг, Marija Israilevna Grinberg) (September 6, 1908 – July 14, 1978), was a Russian pianist. She was born in Odessa, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire. Her father was a Hebrew scholar and her mother taught piano privately. Until the age of 18, Maria took piano lessons from Odessa's noted teacher David Aisberg. Eventually she became a pupil of Felix Blumenfeld (who also taught Vladimir Horowitz) and later, after his death, continued her stu...
  • Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina (Russian: Софи́я Асгáтовна Губaйду́лина), Tatar: София Әсгать кызы Гобәйдуллина; born 24 October 1931) is a Tatar-Russian composer and an established international figure. Major orchestras around the world have commissioned and performed her works. She is considered one of the foremost Russian composers of the second half of the 20th century.
  • Jean Victor Arthur Guillou (18 April 1930 – 26 January 2019) was a French composer, organist, pianist, and pedagogue. Titular Organist at Saint Eustache in Paris, from 1963 to 2015, he was widely known as a composer of instrumental and vocal music focused on the organ, as an improviser, and as an adviser to organ builders. For several decades he held regular master classes in Zurich and in Paris.
  • Natalia Grigoryevna Gutman (Russian: Наталья Григорьевна Гутман) (born 14 November 1942 in Kazan), PAU, is a Russian cellist. She began to study cello at the Moscow Music School with R. Sapozhnikov. She was later admitted to the Moscow Conservatory, where she was taught by Galina Kozolupova amongst others. She later studied with Mstislav Rostropovich.  Distinguished at important international competitions, she has carried out tours around Europe, America and Japan, being invited as a ...
  •      Jean-Marie Guyau (October 28, 1854, Laval, Mayenne – March 31, 1888, Menton) was a French philosopher and poet. Guyau was inspired by the philosophies of Epicurus, Epictetus, Plato, Immanuel Kant, Herbert Spencer, and Alfred Fouillée, and the poetry/literature of Pierre Corneille, Victor Hugo, and Alfred de Musset.
  • George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (/ˈhændəl/; born Georg Friederich Händel [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈhɛndl̩]; 23 February 1685 (O.S.) [(N.S.) 5 March] – 14 April 1759) was a German, later British, Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi and organ concertos. Handel received important training in Halle and worked as a composer in Hamburg and Italy before settling in London in 1712; he became a natural...
  • Franz Joseph Haydn (/ˈhaɪdən/; German: [ˈfʁants ˈjoːzɛf ˈhaɪdn̩] (listen); 31 March 1732 – 31 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the piano trio. His contributions to musical form have earned him the epithets "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet".  Haydn spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Esterházy family at their remote estate. Until the later part o...
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