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Jagjit Singh
Known as "The Ghazal King", he gained acclaim together with his wife, another renowned Indian Ghazal singer Chitra Singh <3 > in 1970's and 80's as the first successful husband-wife duo act in...
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Hildegard Von Bingen
When Hildegard was 38 years old, Jutta died, and Hildegard was made mother superior. In 1147, a vision commanded her to move her convent and eighteen sisters to Rupertsberg, near the town of Bingen, o...
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Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi
Operas and Other Compositions
Anni di Galera : 1839-1850
Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio, Milan : November 17, 1839
Un Giorno di Regno, Milan : September 3, 18...
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Ustad Bismillah Khan
Bismillah Khan asks for only one thing in prayer to God. He asks his music to be ba assar (immaculate through divine union and harmony). His music brings tears in eyes and joy in the hearts of the lis...
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Ustad Amjad Ali Khan
1971
Amjad Ali Khan
Director : James Beveridge
1989
Live Concert in Tokyo
Director : JVC Company (Japan)
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Pandit Ravi Shankar
1993 Ravi Shankar (Deutsche Grammophon)
1995 In Celebration
1998 Ragas and Talas (BGO)
Portrait of Genius
Live at Monterey (An...
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Johann Chrysostomus Mozart
"People living in societies undergoing the fundamental transition from closed, customary and religious patterns of organization to more open, individualistic, relativistic and secular systems experien...
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Michael Joseph Jackson
• Michael Jackson won a Grammy for his narration of E. T. : The Extraterrestrial soundtrack album.
• He named his ranch ‘Neverland’ after the magical world in the play Peter Pan by S...
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Musical Training in Vienna
Beethoven arrived in Vienna as a promising young man of 22. He was short, stocky and dark-complexioned. He had an unattractive pockmarked face with...
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Marian Anderson
As her voice matured into a beautiful contralto, she attempted to attend music school in 1917, but was turned away without even an audition, because of her color. Refusing to be discouraged, she began...
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