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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart rehearsing his 12th Mass with singer and musician. (Austrian composer. (Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
7 Famous Child Prodigies
Macro of sheet music
10 Classical Music Composers to Know
Pregnant woman holding headphones on her belly
Does Listening to Mozart Make Kids Smarter?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart portrait. Austrian composer. (Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Did Mozart Write “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”?
Vincent Van Gogh, Self Portrait. Oil on canvas, 1887.
Rediscovered Artists: 6 Big Names That Time Almost Forgot
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Portrait of Marie Antoinette by Jean-Francois Janinet, 1777. Color etching and engraving with gold leaf printed on two sheets, 30x13.5 in.
Did Marie-Antoinette Really Say “Let Them Eat Cake”?
Artist interpretation of a Space meteoroid impact. Meteor impact. Asteroid, End of the world, danger, destruction, dinosaur extinct, Judgement Day, Planet Earth, Doomsday Predictions, comet
10 Failed Doomsday Predictions
Black widow spider
9 of the World’s Deadliest Spiders
President Richard M. Nixon smiles and gives the victory sign as he boards the White House helicopter after his resignation on August 9, 1974 in Washington, D.C.
Timeline of the 1970s
New Zealand. Political/Physical map. Includes locator.
Where Is “Old Zealand”?
Dancers at a Cinco de Mayo festival at the Mission District, San Francisco, California. (Photo dated 2019.) holidays
Is Cinco de Mayo Mexico's Independence Day?
Battle of Puebla. Cinco de Mayo. General Porfirio Diaz leads Mexican cavalry to victory against the French lead by General Charles Lorencez at Puebla, Mexico April 2, 1867. Oil on canvas, 1902. May 5, 1862. General Ignacio Zaragoza
Cinco de Mayo

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Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Austrian composer
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Hungarian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Rossini
Italian composer
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Italian composer
Bruckner, Anton
Anton Bruckner
Austrian composer
William Byrd
William Byrd
English composer
Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten
British composer
Guillaume de Machaut, detail of a miniature from Oeuvres de Guillaume de Machaut, c. 1370–80; in the Bibliothèque Nationale (Ms. Fr. 1584).
Guillaume de Machaut
French poet and musician
Gounod, Charles
Charles Gounod
French composer
Tallis, Thomas
Thomas Tallis
English composer
Cherubini, Luigi
Luigi Cherubini
Italian composer
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
American composer and conductor
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer
Alessandro Scarlatti, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, 1692; in the Palacio del Duque de Hijar, Epila, Spain
Alessandro Scarlatti
Italian composer

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