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Bach: the composer who changed music forever

Meet the king of counterpoint, Johann Sebastian Bach
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Beethoven unleashed: the man, the myth, the music that shook the world

John Suchet profiles Ludwig van Beethoven - the composer who sparked a musical revolution
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Brahms: traditionalist, innovator... a man of many fascinating contradictions

Meet Johannes Brahms, the Janus-like face of Romanticism
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Lord Berners: a true English eccentric

Geoff Brown tells the story of the maverick composer Lord Berners, whose flamboyant lifestyle went hand-in-hand with a major talent
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Ferruccio Busoni: the underrated Italian composer who 'breathed the air of other planets'

Although the piano virtuoso’s roots lay firmly in the Romantic era, Busoni’s instinct for pushing musical boundaries won him the respect of Schoenberg and Webern, says Erik Levi
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Benjamin Britten: a captivating balance of tradition and innovation

The English voice of Europe
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Alban Berg: from lush Romanticism to the wilder shores of Serialism

Read on for an introduction to the life and work of the Austrian composer who travelled from rich Romanticism into the austere Serialism of his teacher Schoenberg
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Bartók: folk music alchemist

Hungary's genuine folk artist
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Berlioz: a revolutionary Romantic with deep Classical roots

Hector Berlioz: the revival of an outlandish romantic
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Samuel Barber: last great American Romantic

Vincenzo Bellini: the well-travelled bel canto composer whose life was cut short

Alexandra Wilson explores the short but lavishly successful life of an opera composer feted from Milan to Paris and far beyond
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The 'Pink Peril': Lili Boulanger, Grażyna Bacewicz, and glass ceilings

Soprano Katharine Dain looks at how misogyny has stood in the way of some wonderful female composers getting their due
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Johann Christian Bach: Classical pioneer and mentor to Mozart

Adventurous and inventive Johann Christian Bach, the pioneering ‘English Bach’, proved a major inspiration to the young Mozart, as Chris de Souza explains
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Buxtehude, the Danish composer who inspired Bach

Dieterich Buxtehude was a composer so original that JS Bach felt compelled to walk hundreds of miles just to hear him at work. Paul Riley salutes one of choral and organ music’s early geniuses
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Grażyna Bacewicz: one of Poland's finest composers of all time

One of Poland’s most brilliant composers, Bacewicz is finally taking her rightful place on the international stage, says John Allison
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William Byrd: Elizabeth I's Catholic composer

Meet William Byrd, Queen Elizabeth's Catholic composer
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Bologne, Joseph

A supreme sportsman with military ambitions, Joseph Bologne - Chevalier de Saint-Georges, was also one of the finest musicians of 18th-century Paris, and often referred to the black Mozart. Paul Riley tells his story
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