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American Author, Composer, Classical Music Historian, Harvard College and the Yale School of Music Graduate, and his Teachers Included Earl Kim at Harvard, Jacob Druckman at Yale, and Betsy Jolas at Tanglewood
: An American author and composer. He earned his Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from Harvard College and his M.M.A. and D.M.A. from the Yale School of Music. His teachers included Earl Kim at Harvard, Jacob Druckman at Yale, and Betsy Jolas at Tanglewood. He has written respected musical biographies of Charles Ives, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as well as the Vintage Guide to Classical Music. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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“Many of us would rather worship athletes and actors than world-shaking heroes; the latter tend to scare us a little and bore us a lot.”
Source: "Vintage Guide to Classical Music," by Jan Swafford, Vantage Books, First Edition, 1992. Part 4: The Classical Period (1750-ca. 1825), Section 4: Ludwig van Beethoven, Page 177.
"Vintage Guide to Classical Music," by Jan Swafford, Vantage Books, First Edition, 1992.
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