Johann Sebastian Bach
Born on March 21, 1685 in Eisenach, Germany. In 1723 he was appointed as choir Director of the Thomas School and also as an organist in Leipzig. It was here that his genius reached its greatest heights and his fame was spread throughout the land. Bach was a very prolific composer and many of his greatest creations were written for the church like The B Minor Mass and St. Matthew’s Passion. Due to the great amount of work he had been doing he became blind in 1749 and on July 28, 1750, he died.
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Born on May 7, 1840 in Votkinsk. In 1844 he wrote his first song Our Mama in Petersburg, Dances of the Serving Maids are his first orchestral composition performed in public. Among his great compositions are The Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, and his tenth opera The Queen of Spades. In 1892, he finished The Nutcracker ballet and cholera ended his life on November 6, 1893 in St. Petersburg.
Johann Strauss Jr.
Born on October 25, 1825. Strauss was extremely prolific as a composer. During his lifetime he produced more than 500 songs of which 165 are Waltzes; one of them is An der Schȍnen Blauen Donau (1867). Between 1871 and 1897 he wrote some 15 operettas and the best known is Die Fledermaus (1874). His supreme compositions are unbeatable in richness of melody. He died on June 3, 1899.
Wilhelm Richard Wagner
Born on May 22, 1813 in Leipzig. He was a remarkable innovator both in harmony and in the structure of his work, creating his own version of the Gesamtkunstwerk, dramatic compositions in which the arts were brought together into a single unity. Wagner’s involvement in the Revolution of 1848 and subsequent escape from Dresden led to the staging of his next dramatic work, Lohengrin. His other music dramas are Tristan und Isolde, and his final work, Parsifal. He died on February 13, 1883 in Venice.
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