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Lieder composers
- Ludwig van BeethovenLudwig van Beethoven could no longer hear the applause his own music had earned. At the premiere on the 7th of May 1824, the contralto Caroline Unger had to…
- Richard WagnerWilhelm Richard Wagner was born on the 22nd of May 1813 in a building at number three, the Brühl, in Leipzig. His father Carl Friedrich Wagner died of…
- Robert SchumannOn the 8th of June 1810, a local newspaper in Zwickau announced the birth of Robert Schumann to Herr August Schumann. He was the fifth and last child of an…
- Arnold SchoenbergArnold Schoenberg was born on the 13th of September 1874 in the Leopoldstadt district of Vienna. His father Samuel worked as a shoe-shopkeeper and moved from…
- Gustav MahlerThe village of Kaliště in eastern Bohemia was home to a family with humble origins. Bernhard Mahler, the composer's father, had been a street pedlar before…
- Johannes BrahmsJohannes Brahms was born on the 7th of May 1833 in a poor apartment in the quarter of Hamburg. His father Johann Jakob worked as a double bass player and…
- Franz SchubertOn the 31st of January 1797, a boy named Franz Peter Schubert was born in the Himmelpfortgrund suburb of Vienna. He entered the world as the twelfth child of…
- Felix MendelssohnFelix Mendelssohn was born on the 3rd of February 1809 in Hamburg. His father Abraham Mendelssohn was a banker who had converted to Christianity before…
- Richard StraussRichard Georg Strauss was born on the 11th of June 1864 in Munich. His father Franz worked as a principal horn player at the Court Opera and taught at the…
- Anton RubinsteinAnton Grigoryevich Rubinstein was born to Jewish parents in the village of Vikhvatinets, located within the Podolia Governorate of the Russian Empire.