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Sergey Prokofiev: revolutionary composer who gave us some of the 20th century's most dazzling music

Meet Sergey Prokofiev, the Russian master of drama, orchestration and sardonic wit
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'Audience members fainted with excitement': the dazzling virtuoso rumoured to be in league with the devil

One of the most dazzling musical showmen of all time, the great Italian violinist and composer Paganini cast a spell over all those who heard his music, as Julian Haylock explains
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Puccini: the Italian opera maestro who added Wagner to Verdi

Opera's craftsman of emotion
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Michael Praetorius: composer, organist, theorist, Renaissance man extraordinaire

Best known for a moment of festive perfection, the music of the German composer Michael Praetorius was, explains Paul Riley, shaped by the Lutheran era in which he lived
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Parry, Hubert

Groundbreaking and influential, Hubert Parry was at the heart of the renaissance of British music in the early 20th century, says Jeremy Dibble
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Piazzolla, Astor

How one of Argentina's greatest composers Astor Piazzolla reinvented the tango, despite biting criticism back home. Rob Ainsley explores his life, influences and works
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Purcell, Henry

Meet Henry Purcell, England's rugged individualist
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Panufnik, Roxanna

Meet the composer Roxanna Panufnik, daughter of a key Anglo-Polish composer and now a major musical figure herself
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A guide to Florence Price

Composer Florence Price became the first African-American woman to have a symphony performed by a major American orchestra
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Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da

Peerless voice of the Renaissance
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Poulenc, Francis

Today he may be the most fêted of the French composer group Les Six but Poulenc was a contradictory character full of self-doubt
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Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista

Neapolitan man of mystery
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Pärt, Arvo

Estonia's pioneering contemporary voice
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