O, Little Town of Bethlehem
Key change and reharmonization

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Violinist Antonio Maria Montanari (1676 - 1737) experimented with enharmonic micro-intervals. His works have yet to be studied in depth.

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Carl Frühling was born in what is now Lviv, Ukraine. Many of his works are lost. Cellist Steven Isserlis discovered and championed Frühling’s music. He died in Vienna in poverty.

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Played for a beautiful senior flute recital yesterday at Union Adventist University.

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Last month’s Guess the Composer was Ethel Smyth! Enjoy listening to her “Moods of the Sea.”

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Do you know who this month’s composer is? Final clue!

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Do you know who this month’s composer is? Clue No. 3!

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Do you know who this month’s composer is? Clue No. 3!

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#GuessTheComposer: Each week, I’m sharing a clue about a composer. On April 1, I’ll reveal who this month’s composer is! Reply with your guess.

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The shirt I wore today featuring Ukrainian composers.

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#GuessTheComposer: This month, I’ll be sharing weekly clues about a composer. Take a guess who the composer is, and I’ll reveal the answer on April 1.

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: In 1908, Hubert Parry earned the distinction of being the only composer ever elected as a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron.

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Arcangelo Corelli is credited as the earliest composer to fully apply tonality as the basis for his music.

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: At 2 years old, Jean #Langlais III became blind due to #glaucoma and attended the National Institute for Blind Children. He went on to study #organ, #composition, and #improvisation at the #ParisConservatoire.

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Alexander Dargomyzhsky’s “Esmeralda” is based on Victor Hugo’s “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame,” and “Rusalka” features several similarities to Dvořák’s opera of the same name.

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Jørgen Bentzon’s Op. 1 is a set of variations on Chopin’s Mazurka in F Major Op. 68, No. 3. He also wrote an opera titled “Saturnalia.”

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Leopold Godowsky’s “Studies on #Chopin Études” are some of the most difficult works for the piano. Several are for left hand alone, are transposed to a more difficult key, or combine multiple Chopin etudes in 1.

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Adele aus der Ohe was friends with Tchaikovsky and played his Piano Concerto No. 1 at Carnegie Hall’s inaugural concert, which was conducted by Tchaikovsky on May 7, 1891.

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Abel Decaux is best known for his piano suite “Clairs de Lune,” one of the earliest known dodecaphonic pieces. He is often referred to as the “French Schoenberg.”

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Billy Goldenberg studied physics and mathematics; but after an ulcer led to him to quit his job as a computer programmer, he worked as a pianist, arranger, and film composer.

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Albert Ellmenreich, composer of the well-known teaching piece “The Spinning Song,” was an actor who traveled throughout Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, and Latvia.

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: In 1999, Alfred Desenclos's Requiem Mass was plagiarized note for note by Tristan Foison. The work had its "American premiere" in 2001, after which the piece’s duplication was discovered.

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A bit Chopin’s C Minor Prelude as used by Rachmaninoff in his set of variations.

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Yamaoka Akira originally wanted to be an interior designer; he is best-known for writing video game and film music for the Silent Hill.

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Biagio Marini’s innovations to violin music include an increased range, the slur, double and triple stops, and the first explicitly notated tremolo. Additionally, he wrote a sonata without a single cadence.

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Canadian composer Ann Southam was praised by the Globe and Mail for “blazing a trail for women composers in a notoriously sexist field.”

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#ComposerBirthdayFacts: Alessandro Melani’s opera “L’empio punito” was the first opera on the subject of Don Juan.

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