Baroque-era composer Johann Sebastian Bach is arguably the most influential composer in human history. These days, his music, more than any other composer’s, is still being studied, analysed and performed – setting the stage for the constant evolution of classical music for centuries to come.
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Read More In December 1934, during a speech at the Berlin Sports Palace, Germany’s Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels publicly denounced composer Paul Hindemith as an “atonal noisemaker”.
Read More In the 20th century, English became the most commonly spoken language (including both native speakers and non-native speakers). This has recently been overtaken by the surge in the number of native speakers of Chinese and Spanish, which in turn begs the question – is the rise in multilingualism something to be welcomed, or rebuked?
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