Digging Up Music
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+ - This American composer was questioned by McCarthy about possible affiliation with Communism. +
- His work reflected the politics of Bohemia, where he was born. +
- This Hungarian composer was one of the founders of ethnomusicology. +
- He was a friend of Franz Liszt and Gabriel Faure, and hated Claude Debussy's music. +
- He became unable to sing well after drinking engraver's acid that was kept in a wine bottle. +
- Some of his most famous music was written for a play that features trolls. +
- He was the Lutheran grandson of a prominent Jewish philosopher. +
- He lived less than 32 years, but became well-known for his Lieder. +
- This Polish composer wrote mostly for solo piano. +
- He was appointed head of the Paris Conservatorie in the wake of a scandal. +
- This German-born British composer wrote over forty operas. +
- As a teenager, he worked for a music publisher on Tin Pan Alley before any of his music was published. +
- This French composer, known for only a few of his works, abandoned an opera he was writing when the Paris Opera burned. +
- This composer of operas almost died in a car accident in 1903. +
- He was nicknamed "the Italian Mozart". +
- Many of his operas were later read as being about the unification of Italy. +
- This English composer studied Sanskrit. +
- His parents intended him to become a doctor, and he never learned to play the piano. +
- His time at Juilliard was interrupted by World War II. +
- Boston police stopped performances of his unusual arrangement of "The Star-Spangled Banner". +
- He left the Paris Conservatorie after only a year, and went on to compose humorous operettas. +
- His most famous piece is the only canon he wrote. +
- His birth was close in place and time to George Frideric Handel's, but they never met. +
- He made a recording of one of his Hungarian dances, invited by a representative of the equipment's inventor. +
- This composer of marches developed an instrument often used in marching bands. +
- He wrote the scores of many recent films, especially those directed by Steven Spielberg. +
- He left his home in a small Austrian village to train as a musician at age 6. +
- He started to lose his hearing while still in his mid-twenties, but kept writing music. +
- He is best known for a piece that he described as "a piece for orchestra without music". +
- He is known for a piece orchestrated by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. +
- One of his ballets is very commonly performed at Christmas. +
- This composer wrote both the music and the libretto for his operas, and also wrote political essays. +
- His marriage to his teacher's daughter was the subject of a long legal battle. +
- He grew up in Texarkana and became famous for ragtime. +
- He left Russia after the Russian Revolution, and lived in many places, eventually dying in Beverly Hills. +
- It has often been claimed that his music makes children smarter. +
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