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Art of Collaboration

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Words and music have long been intertwined, in the form of literary references to music, words as music (poetry), and in musical settings of poetry (to name but a few). Merriam-Webster's Dictionary defines composition as "an intellectual creation...a...

Meet the Composers

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Photograph by *L*u*z*a*, available under a Creative Commons license The composers highlighted here represent some of the major schools of song: German Romantic lieder, French modernism, and 20th-century English-language art song. Within the page dedicated...

Johannes Brahms

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(1833-1897) Johannes Brahms. Image courtesy of the New York Public Library

Benjamin Britten

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(1913-1976) The Scallop, Aldeburgh beach, Suffolk. Photograph by Terrence Davies, available under a Creative Commons license Maggi Hambling's sculptural tribute to Britten takes its text, "I hear those voices that will not be drowned," from Peter Grimes...

John Alden Carpenter

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(1876-1951) Cover of "Farewell, Fair Harvard" (1897), courtesy Music Division, Library of Congress, 12/842 While an undergraduate at Harvard, John Alden Carpenter composed the music for several Hasty Pudding shows, including Branglebrink. Among his...

Aaron Copland

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(1900-1990) Photo of composer Aaron Copland from the CBS television/New York Philharmonic "Young Peoples' Concerts" series. Aaron Copland can be considered the public face of mid-20th century American classical music; his interest in national styles of...

Claude Debussy

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(1862-1918) Claude Debussy. Photographic print by Em. Crevaux, Paris, of portrait by J.E. Blanche, ca. 1907-1920 Courtesy George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-97414

Edvard Grieg

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(1843-1907) Photograph of Edvard Grieg, 1897. Courtesy of the Bergen Public Library, The Grieg Archives.