... composers of all time. Beard 2 Tchaikovsky attributed his love for music to come from growing up in a place "saturated with the miraculous beauty of Russian folk song" (Encyclopedia of World Biography). He began his formal school training at the school of Jurisprudence in St. Petersburg Russia. He studied law and government, but he also took some music lessons on the side ... composers. In 1862 Anton opened Russia's first music conservatory, under the sponsorship of the Imperial Russian Music Society. Tchaikovsky was its first composition student. According to the Encyclopedia of World ...

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Synopsis Born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a musician capable of playing multiple instruments who started playing in public at the age of 6. Over the years, Mozart aligned himself with a variety of European venues and patrons, composing hundreds of works that included sonatas, symphonies, masses, concertos and operas, marked by vivid emotion and sophisticated textures. Early Life Central Europe in the mid-18th century was going through a period of transition. The remnants of the Holy Roman Empire had divided into small semi-self-governing principalitie...

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