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Johannes Brahms 
 By 1890 he had decided to stop composing, although he did still write four beautiful works for clarinet after meeting the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld.
Johannes Brahms 
 In 1896 he wrote Four Serious Songs which were probably inspired by the sad death of Clara Schumann.
Johannes Brahms 
 There were many works for choirs, and a large collection of songs with piano accompaniment (Lieder).
Johannes Brahms 
 He wrote a lot of piano music which includes sonatas and many shorter pieces such as fantasias, rhapsodies, ballades, intermezzos, capriccios and romances.
Johannes Brahms 
 His chamber music includes string quartets, quintets and sextets and piano trios, quartets and a piano quintet.
Johannes Brahms 
 He wrote four symphonies and four concertos: two for piano, one for the violin and one for violin and cello (the Double Concerto).
Johannes Brahms 
 Brahms was also very interested in old music and helped to edit music by François Couperin as well as the music of his friend Robert Schumann.
Frederick Delius 
 At first his parents did not let him study music, so he went off to Florida to work on an orange plantation.
Frederick Delius 
 In his last years he was very ill, but he still wanted to compose, so he dictated the music he heard in his head to a man called Eric Fenby.
Béla Bartók 
 Béla Bartók (b. Nagyszentimiklós, Hungary, 25 March 1881; d. New York City 26 September 1945) was a famous Hungarian composer and pianist.
Béla Bartók 
 He became very interested in folk music and travelled a lot in Hungary and other countries, including Romania, listening to the folk songs which the country people sang.
Béla Bartók 
 He is famous for his piano music, string quartets and several pieces for orchestra including one called Concerto for Orchestra.
Béla Bartók 
 Bartók’s harmonies and lively rhythms were sometimes quite new to classical music and some audiences found them difficult to understand at first.
Béla Bartók 
 When he was seven his father died, and his mother took him and his sister to live in Nagyszőlős (today it is called Vinogradiv and is in the Ukraine), and then to Pozsony (today it is Bratislava in Slovakia).
Béla Bartók 
 There he met the composer Zoltán Kodály, who was a great influence on him and who became a lifelong friend.
Béla Bartók 
 Bartók and Kodály travelled together into the countryside to collect and study old Hungarian folk melodies.
Béla Bartók 
 Kodály often quoted (copied) actual folk songs in his own music, while Bartók preferred to compose music which sounded like folksong without actually copying it.
Béla Bartók 
 He wrote a lot of chamber music including a total of 6 string quartets, 2 violin sonatas and a Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion.
Béla Bartók 
 He wrote some pieces for smaller orchestras: Divertimento for strings and Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta.
Béla Bartók 
 After they came into power in Germany, he refused to give concerts there and did not use his German publisher.
Béla Bartók 
 Having first sent his manuscripts out of the country, Bartók felt he had to emigrate to the USA with Ditta Pásztory.
Béla Bartók 
 He and his wife Ditta gave concerts, and for a while, they were given some money to work on a collection of Yugoslav folk songs.
Béla Bartók 
 This seemed to make him interested again in composing, and he went on to write his Piano Concerto No.
Béla Bartók 
 He often uses different kinds of scales (not just major and minor ones), and very complicated rhythms.
Béla Bartók 
 This includes a collection of pieces in six volumes called Mikrokosmos which are very popular with young musicians today.
Benjamin Britten 
 Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh, OM CH (born Lowestoft, 22 November 1913; died Aldeburgh, 4 December 1976) was one of the greatest English composers of his time.
Benjamin Britten 
 He came from East Anglia (a region in the East of England) and he often thought about the East Anglian landscape and the sea when writing his music.
Benjamin Britten 
 His War Requiem was performed in Coventry Cathedral in 1962 after it had been rebuilt because the old cathedral had been destroyed in the war.
Benjamin Britten 
 A composer called Frank Bridge heard him and was so impressed that he offered to teach him composition.
Benjamin Britten 
 Britten started to get to know music by a lot of important modern composers including Schoenberg and Bartók.
Benjamin Britten 
 He had excellent piano teachers but he did not learn much from his composition teacher John Ireland and most of the music he wrote was never performed.
Benjamin Britten 
 He wrote some music for movies that were being made by the General Post Office, including one about a train delivering mail.
Benjamin Britten 
 These can be heard in some works he wrote at this time such as Our Hunting Fathers (1936) and Ballad of Heroes (1939).
Benjamin Britten 
 With him was the tenor Peter Pears who was to become a lifelong friend and partner, and who was to be the inspiration for many songs and operas.
Benjamin Britten 
 Britten wrote several compositions in the USA including Sinfonia da Requiem (1940) and his First String Quartet (1941).
Benjamin Britten 
 The following year he was reading about the poet George Crabbe who came from Suffolk, the same part of England where Britten had grown up.
Benjamin Britten 
 Back in England, Britten and Pears gave concerts to audiences of all kinds and took part in opera productions of Sadler's Wells Opera Company, which was having a new theatre built.
Benjamin Britten 
 Britten was now composing lots of music: songs, chamber music and a very popular piece called Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra (also known as Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell).
Benjamin Britten 
 This piece shows off each instrument of the orchestra in turn so that young people can get to know the sound of the musical instruments.
Benjamin Britten 
 There were not many opportunities for big operas to be performed, so he wrote some “chamber operas” which only needed small orchestras and a small number of singers.
Benjamin Britten 
 These were performed in places such as local churches by a group which called themselves English Opera Group.
Benjamin Britten 
 Benjamin Britten spent the rest of his life mainly working on music which was to be performed at the Aldeburgh Festival.
Benjamin Britten 
 He composed some of his greatest works for the festival, and he took part in the performances as conductor and pianist.
Benjamin Britten 
 One of Britten’s most popular pieces of music for amateurs including children was Noye’s Fludde (1957).
Benjamin Britten 
 In June 1953 he wrote Gloriana, an opera about Queen Elizabeth I, written for the coronation celebrations of Elizabeth II.
Benjamin Britten 
 When he travelled with Peter Pears to the Far East he was influenced by the music of Bali and he composed a ballet called The Prince of the Pagodas, performed in Covent Garden in 1957.
Benjamin Britten 
 He composed a Cello Sonata and a Cello Symphony (1963) (a kind of cello concerto), as well as three suites for solo cello.
Benjamin Britten 
 It was performed at the Aldeburgh Festival, but Britten was ill by this time and unable to be at the performance.
Benjamin Britten 
 His heart condition made it impossible to work on any more large works, but he still wrote some harp music for the harpist Ossian Ellis, a song called Phaedra for Janet Baker, and a Third String Quartet.
Benjamin Britten 
 He became a Companion of Honour in 1952 a member of the Order of Merit in 1965 and, in the year he died, he was the first musician ever to receive a life peer (the title Lord Britten).
Benjamin Britten 
 This includes more than 100 songs, a number of operas, chamber operas as well as three works for tenor solo and orchestra: Les Illuminations, the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings and the Nocturne.
Benjamin Britten 
 Britten wrote music for choirs, including Hymn to St Cecilia (Britten was proud of having been born on St Cecilia’s day: 22 November).
Benjamin Britten 
 There are even parts for children in some of his operas, e.g. Peter Grimes, The Turn of the Screw and Owen Wingrave.
Benjamin Britten 
 Many of his great operatic roles, from Peter Grimes to Aschenbach in Death in Venice, deal with the theme of the outsider, the person who does not quite fit into society, or who is misunderstood.
Benjamin Britten 
 Britten’s homosexuality (which was something that was never discussed in his lifetime) may have something to do with this.
Benjamin Britten 
 He also knew what it was like to be an outsider when he tried to live in the United States, and his refusal to fight in the war may have distanced him from some people.
Benjamin Britten 
 The Aldeburgh Festival at the Maltings in Snape (a village near Aldeburgh) continue to be a focus for Britten’s music.
Benjamin Britten 
 Every year the Brittens-Pears School of Music organizes lessons and performance opportunities for young musicians.
Claudio Monteverdi 
 Claudio Monteverdi (b.Cremona, 1567; d.Venice 25 November 1643) was the most important composer of the early Baroque period.
Claudio Monteverdi 
 Other important operas of his are Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda and Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria.
Claudio Monteverdi 
 In the introduction to this music he says that his music teacher was Marc’ Antonio Ingegneri, the maestro di cappella of Cremona cathedral.
Claudio Monteverdi 
 He learned composition, singing and how to play string instruments such as the viol and viola da braccio.
Claudio Monteverdi 
 Monteverdi got to know many famous poets, and there were famous singers at Ferrara which was not far away.
Claudio Monteverdi 
 He sent several of his compositions to be performed at Ferrara, and he went with the duke to when his army was fighting the Turks.
Claudio Monteverdi 
 The old style was known as prima pratica (“first practice”) and the new style was called the seconda pratica (“second practice”).
Claudio Monteverdi 
 This meant that the music could be very contrapuntal, with several things going on at once so that the words could not be clearly heard.
Claudio Monteverdi 
 However, in the seconda pratica the words were more important than the music, i.e. it was important to be able to hear all the words clearly, and the music had to be simple enough for this to happen.
Claudio Monteverdi 
 There were a lot of arguments among musicians about these two styles of composition, and this is perhaps the reason why there was a gap of 11 years between Monteverdi’s 3rd and his 4th book of madrigals.
Claudio Monteverdi 
 It was a terrible tragedy for Monteverdi, and he did not want to go back to Mantua, but the Duke wrote to him telling him he must come back to provide music for the wedding of Prince Francesco Gonzaga and Margharita of Savoy.
Claudio Monteverdi 
 The performance was a great success, and the audience were moved to tears by the music Arianna’s lament.
Claudio Monteverdi 
 The job of maestro (director of music) at San Marco (Saint Mark’s church) in Venice was perhaps the most important job for a church musician in the whole of Europe.
Claudio Monteverdi 
 Monteverdi started to reorganize the music there: he bought new music for the library and got some new musicians.
Claudio Monteverdi 
 He was doing a good job, and in 1616 his salary was increased to 400 ducats (about 44.28 ounces of gold, worth about $73,500USD today).
Claudio Monteverdi 
 Monteverdi probably had to obey, as he was still a Mantuan citizen (Italy did not become one country until more than two centuries later).
Claudio Monteverdi 
 There was a war in Mantua, a lot of buildings were destroyed and the invading armies brought the plague.
Claudio Monteverdi 
 It is not clear whether he did this because he really was religious or whether he thought it would help his career.
Claudio Monteverdi 
 Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (1640) and L'incoronazione di Poppea (1642) form a brilliant end to his career.
Claudio Monteverdi 
 After the performance of this opera he made a six-month trip to Lombard and Mantua, where again he had to argue at the court about not being paid his pension.
Charlie Kaufman 
 Some of the movies he wrote screenplays for are Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Human Nature, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Charlie Kaufman 
 Charlie Kaufman is known for writing very surreal movies - that is, movies where the plot has things in it that could never happen in real life, or that make the audience notice that they are watching a movie.
Oxbow lake 
 It is made by special bends in a river, called meanders, getting farther away from the river until they become separate.
Oxbow lake 
 At the same time, the slow water on the inside of the bend leaves behind mud, sand and parts of plants (deposition).
Sequel 
 A sequel is a story, book, play, video game, or movie that comes or takes place after another story, book, play, video game, or movie.
Sequel 
 They often have a second title or a number to show that they are alike or different from a first story or other stories in a series.
Sequel 
 Sometimes sequels have different names in different countries because they mean different things to different audiences.
Major League Soccer 
 MLS, founded in the United States, is a fully professional league with 28 teams, three of which are based in Canada.
Major League Soccer 
 The United States Soccer Federation (USSF or U.S. Soccer), which runs soccer in that country, considers MLS to be the country's top men's league.
Major League Soccer 
 The Canadian Soccer Association (CSA), which runs soccer in Canada, considers the Canadian Premier League as its top men's league, but MLS has much greater Canadian media coverage and is seen as having a higher level of play.
Major League Soccer 
 In turn, both national governing bodies are members of FIFA, which governs all play between national teams and sets the rules for the sport along with the national governing bodies of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.
Major League Soccer 
 The MLS regular season starts in late February and ends in November, with each team playing 34 games.
Chicago Fire FC 
 Chicago Fire FC (officially Chicago Fire Football Club, and before 2020 Chicago Fire Soccer Club) is a soccer team that plays in Major League Soccer in Chicago.
Columbus SC 
 The Columbus Crew (known from 2015 to 2021 as Columbus Crew SC, and briefly in 2021 as Columbus SC) are an American soccer team that plays in Major League Soccer in Columbus, Ohio.
Columbus SC 
 They started play in 1996, playing at Ohio Stadium on the campus of Ohio State University until opening the new Columbus Crew Stadium in 1999.
Columbus SC 
 On May 17, 2021, only a week after the change to Columbus SC, the team announced that it would return to the original name of Columbus Crew, without the "SC".
Sporting Kansas City 
 Sporting Kansas City are an American football (soccer) team that plays in Major League Soccer in Kansas City, Kansas.
Sporting Kansas City 
 They started out as the Kansas City Wiz, before changing their name to the Kansas City Wizards in 1997.
Sporting Kansas City 
 Later, in November 2010, they changed their name again to Sporting Kansas City, as the team was moving into a new stadium in the 2011 season.
Sporting Kansas City 
 The stadium has been known by several names, first Livestrong Sporting Park, then Sporting Park, and now Children's Mercy Park.
New England Revolution 
 The New England Revolution are a United States football (soccer) team from Foxborough, Massachusetts that plays in the Eastern Conference of Major League Soccer.
New York Red Bulls 
 The club was founded in 1995 by John Werner Kluge  and  Stuart Subotnick, two managers for MetroMedia, under the name MetroStars.
New York Red Bulls 
 There were a lot of well-known soccer players on the team from all over the world such as Roberto Donadoni, Lothar Matthäus (FIFA World Cup 1990, UEFA Champion 1980), Adolfo Valencia, Youri Djorkaeff, Amado Guevara, Juan Pablo Angel,Daniel Rodriguez, Thierry Henry, and  Rafael Márquez.
New York Red Bulls 
 Former players Tony Meola, Tab Ramos, Tim Howard, Alexi Lalas, Clint Mathis, Jozy Altidore, Michael Bradley, Claudio Reyna, Eddie Pope, and Tim Ream have all played for the U.S. national team.
New York Red Bulls 
 Current players Juan Agudelo,Daniel Rodriguez, Dax McCarty, and Kenny Cooper have also played for the USMNT.
Colorado Rapids 
 Before moving to DSG Park in 2007, Colorado Rapids shared Mile High Stadium and then Invesco Field at Mile High with the Denver Broncos an American football team.
Colorado Rapids 
 Note: MLS did not allow ties prior to the 2000 season as games were decided by shootout when tied at full-time.
FC Dallas 
 The team is owned by the Hunt Sports Group, which also owns the National Football League team Kansas City Chiefs.
FC Dallas 
 Note: MLS did not allow ties prior to the 2000 season as games were decided by shootout when tied at full-time.
FC Dallas 
 Toyota Stadium; Frisco, Texas (2005–present; known as Pizza Hut Park through the 2011 season and FC Dallas Stadium in the 2012 season and most of the 2013 season)
FC Dallas 
 To save money the club played its 2003 home games at Dragon Stadium, a high school stadium in Southlake, a Fort Worth suburb.
FC Dallas 
 The club lost money in the high school stadium because Texas law does not allow the sale of alcohol on a public high school campus.
FC Dallas 
 In August 2005, the club moved into Pizza Hut Park, a soccer stadium in the northern suburb of Frisco.
FC Dallas 
 The contract that allowed Pizza Hut to put its name on the stadium ended in January 2012, and the stadium was renamed FC Dallas Stadium.
FC Dallas 
 In September 2013, a new sponsorship contract was signed with Toyota, and the stadium was renamed Toyota Stadium.
FC Dallas 
 Following renovations to the south end of Toyota Stadium, the relocated National Soccer Hall of Fame opened at the stadium in October 2018.
Houston Dynamo 
 In late 2005, the San Jose Earthquakes moved to the city because of financial problems in San Jose, California.
Houston Dynamo 
 The Dynamo opened a new stadium, which opened as BBVA Compass Stadium and is now known as BBVA Stadium, in downtown Houston in May 2012, after playing their first seven games of the season on the road.
San Jose Earthquakes 
 The San Jose Earthquakes are an American soccer team that plays in Major League Soccer in San Jose, California.
San Jose Earthquakes 
 By agreement between MLS, the Dynamo, and the Earthquakes, the history of the original San Jose franchise belongs to the current Earthquakes.
Los Angeles Galaxy 
 The Los Angeles Galaxy, branded as the LA Galaxy,  are an American soccer team that plays in Major League Soccer in Carson, California.
Los Angeles Galaxy 
 They shared their home field, Dignity Health Sports Park, with Chivas USA before that team folded at the end of the 2014 season.
Los Angeles Galaxy 
 Until he left when his contract ended after the 2012 season, the team's best-known player was English icon David Beckham, signed from Real Madrid in 2007.
Los Angeles Galaxy 
 Landon Donovan, the joint all-time leading goal scorer for the US national team, played with the Galaxy from 2005 until his first retirement in 2014, and briefly returned to the team in the last part of the 2016 season.
Los Angeles Galaxy 
 Robbie Keane, the Republic of Ireland's captain, leading scorer, and most-capped (most games) player, was a Galaxy captain.
President of Germany 
 The President of Germany (German: Bundespräsident, literally: federal president) is the head of state of the Federal Republic of Germany.
President of Germany 
 His functions are mostly supervising and representative, because of the negative experiences with the office of its predecessor the Reich President (Reichskanzler).
Tampa Bay Mutiny 
 The Mutiny went out of business after the 2001 season, after having low attendance and finishing in last place.
The Gillette Company 
 Global Gillette (formerly The Gillette Company) is an American company famous for making shaving products.
Abkhazia 
 Since its declaration of independence from Georgia in 1991, it has been ruled by the partly-recognized Republic of Abkhazia.
Abkhazia 
 Georgia believes Abkhazia is part of its territory and has listed the province, in its official subdivisions, as an autonomous republic On 28 August 2008, the Parliament of Georgia passed a resolution declaring Abkhazia a "Russian-occupied territory".
Abkhazia 
 It is formally recognised by Russia and by  Nicaragua, and the de facto independent republics of South Ossetia and Transnistria.
Abkhazia 
 The European Union, OSCE, and NATO recognise Abkhazia as an integral part of the territory of Georgia.
Abkhazia 
 The War in Abkhazia resulted in a Georgian military defeat and the mass exodus and ethnic cleansing of the Georgian population from Abkhazia.
Heinrich Schütz 
 Heinrich Schütz (born Köstritz, Saxony, 8 October 1585; died Dresden, Germany, 6 November 1672) was the greatest German composer of his time.
Heinrich Schütz 
 As a young man he travelled to Italy to learn the art of composition from the great Italian composers.
Domenico Scarlatti 
 Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (born Naples, Italy, on 26 October 1685; died Madrid, Spain, on 23 July 1757) was an Italian composer and harpsichordist.
Domenico Scarlatti 
 They are mostly quite short pieces in one movement, most written in an early Classical style, which influenced many future Classical composers.
Domenico Scarlatti 
 He had some unusual effects in his music such as the crossing of hands as they leap wildly from one end of the keyboard to another.
Domenico Scarlatti 
 When she married she took Scarlatti, her harpsichord teacher, with her to Madrid in Spain where he spent the rest of his life.
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach 
 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (born Weimar 22 November 1710–Berlin 1 July 1784) was a famous German composer and organist.
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach 
 Johann Sebastian wrote some pieces and put them in a book called Notebook for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach.
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach 
 Although they are in order of increasing difficulty, it is not known if these were used to teach him to play, or how to write music.
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach 
 While living in Dresden he continued to write music including harpsichord concertos, sinfonias, trio sonatas, harpsichord sonatas, and other smaller works for keyboard.
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach 
 He was expected to provide music for feast days, and so he began to compose cantatas which could be reused each year.
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach 
 After his father's death in 1750, Wilhelm Friedemann inherited as lot of his father's music, and tried to make people think they were his compositions.
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach 
 In 1764, after arguing with a lot of people, he left the job in Halle, remaining unemployed and living a life of poverty until his death.
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach 
 He was a very good improviser, but was careless when playing music by other composers, including his father's.
Indiana Jones 
 He originally appeared in a series of movies produced by George Lucas and directed by Steven Spielberg in the 1980s, in which he was played by actor Harrison Ford.
Indiana Jones 
 Indiana Jones is also the general name given to the series as a whole, which has four movies, a TV series, novels, comics, video games, and other media.
Lord Protector 
 The title of Lord Protector was first used by royal princes or other nobles who ruled as regent while the English monarch was still too young to rule or was not able to rule for some other reason, in this case the Lord Protector would make all the decisions for the country, and the young monarch would decide whether they agree or not.
Lord Protector 
 The Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland was the title of the head of state during the Interregnum, following the first period of the Commonwealth under Council of State government.
Lord Protector 
 It was held by Oliver Cromwell (December 1653 – September 1658), leader of the roundheads and his son Richard Cromwell (September 1658 – May 1659) during what is now known as the Protectorate.
Fantasy 
 Fantasy is a genre of fiction (make believe) that shows some form of magic, or supernatural elements.