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Norwegian composer. He studied with E. F. Wenzel at the Leipzig Conservatory (1858-62), where he became intimately familiar with early Romantic music (especially Schumann's), gaining further experience in Copenhagen and encouragement from Niels Gade. Grieg was first and foremost a lyrical composer; his op.33 Vinje settings, for example, encompass a wide range of emotional expression and atmospheric colour, and the ten opus numbers of Lyric Pieces for piano hold a wealth of characteristic mood-sketches. But he also was a pioneer, in the impressionistic uses of harmony and piano sonority in his late songs and in the dissonance treatment in the Slåtter op.72, peasant fiddle-tunes arranged for piano.

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The child prodigy who became the greatest composer of the Classical age. The apparent simplicity and clarity of his music belies its enormous difficulties, and he is especially famous for his piano concertos, operas, string quartets and wild sense of humour. The child prodigy who became the greatest composer of the Classical age. The apparent simplicity and clarity of his music belies its enormous difficulties, and he is especially famous for his piano concertos, operas, string quartets and wild sense of humour. Described by his father as a "miracle which God let be born in Salzburg" An unparalleled prodigy, Mozart was famous throughout Europe before he was 10 Composed his first works at the age of 4, his first symphony at 8 A "musical sponge", he absorbed local styles from across the continent Despite intrigues and vendettas, he was not poisoned by Salieri His final work, the Requiem, lay unfinished at his early death Scientists have proved that listening to Mozart makes you more intelligent