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The French Arhur Honegger has been born in Le Havre on March 10, 1892 as a son of Swiss parents. He studied with Andre Gedalge (1856-1926) and Charles-Marie Widor (1845-1937). Honegger's compostion works couldn't be dictated by conglomeration-tendencies. Honegger remainded incredible and unique, catholic-mysterious and as a great composer of mythical stories, adapted in "King David" (1921), "Johanna - burned of the shike" (1938, German version premiered 1947) or the dramatic psalm, also entitled "King David" (1941). The Biblical drama "Judith"(1925) or "Oedipus Rex" (1926) became real composition challenges because of Igor Stravinsky. Honegger's fifth symphony entitled "Di Tre Tre" is already incredible, because of all movements and an ending with a drumbeat. Arthur Honegger passed away in Paris on November 27, 1955.

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Christmas time is nearly upon us, and that can only mean one thing: productions of the world's most festive ballet, Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. Take a look at the spectacular pictures from this year's Royal Ballet performance, running in London from 9 December until 16 January. Next image     Picture 1 of 11 Previous Image Next image   (C) Classic FM

Born on January 31, 1797, in Himmelpfortgrund, Austria, Franz Peter Schubert, the son of a schoolmaster, received a thorough musical education and won a scholarship to boarding school. Although he was never rich, the composer's work gained recognition and popularity, noted for bridging classical and romantic composition. He died in 1828 in Vienna, Austria.   Quotes "A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy." – Franz Schubert Early Life Born on January 31, 1797, in Himmelpfortgrund, Austria, Franz Peter Schubert demonstrated an early gift for music. As a child, his talents included an ability to play the piano, violin and organ. He was also an excellent singer. Franz was the fourth surviving son of Franz Theodor Schubert, a schoolmaster, and his wife, Elisabeth, a homemaker. His family cultivated Schubert's love of music. His father and older brother, Ignaz, both instructed Schubert early in his musical ...

The German Paul Hindemith was born in Hanau nearby Frankfurt/Main on November 16, 1895 and studied with Arnold Mendelsohn (1855-1933) and Bernhard Sekles (1872-1934). Hindemith became the first important composer coming from a string instrument since Ludwig Spohr (1784-1859). In 1915, Hindemith became concert master at the Frankfurt Opera. Since 1922, Paul Hindemith started his incredible career as the founder of the New German Classical Music. His operas "Murders - Women Hope" (1921) and "Sancta Susanna" (also 1921) have been witnesses of Hindemith's assault on classical music. The radicalizing "Piano Suite 1922" has been denied categorically. Hindemith's compositions have been remained as a matter of taste. His book "A Composer's World - Horizons and Limitations", published in 1952, seems like a stylish report or even justification. Paul Hindemith passed away on December 28, 1963 in Frankfurt/Main. 

  The German Karl Amadeus Hartmann was born in Munich on August 2, 1905 and came from a Silesian painter family. Hartmann studied with Hermann Scherchen (1891-1969) and Anton von Webern (1883-1945). Hartmann is a figure unique in German music - the only composer to stay put and defy Adolf Hitler for the duration of the Third Reich. "Unending was the stream, unedning the misery', unending the sorrow, "wrote Hartmann at the head of a fresh sheet of paper, on which, over the following tense days, he composed a piano sonata titled "27th April 1945"; its opening rhythm dictated by the shuffling feet of the final victims of Nazi tyranny. Hartmann's First Symphony (1940) "composed in spirit and adoration to Zoltan Kodaly" came into being from a symphonic fragment with the lyric of the North American poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892). The "Concerto Funebre" (funebre=funeral) for solo violin strings was composed during the first f...