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Marcel Proust *VII 10 1871 — The Life You Give
Marcel Proust, born Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust on July 10, 1871, in Auteuil, near Paris, France, is the novelist, author of À la recherche du temps perdu (1913–27; In Search of Lost Time), a seven-volume novel based on Proust’s life. The novel explores its subject matter from a psychological and allegorical standpoint and…
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Carl Orff *VII 10 1895 — The Life You Give
Carl Orff, born July 10, 1895, in Munich, Germany, is the composer known particularly for his operas and dramatic works and for his innovations in music education. Orff studied at the Munich Academy of Music and with the German composer Heinrich Kaminski and later conducted in Munich, Mannheim, and Darmstadt. His Schulwerk, a manual describing…
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Mercedes Sosa *VII 9 1935 — La Vida Que Das / The Life You Give
See biography in English at the bottom Haydé Mercedes Sosa; San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, 1935 – Buenos Aires, 2009) Cantante argentina, una de las máximas figuras de la música folclórica y testimonial de América Latina en el siglo XX. De humilde origen obrero, su familia descendía de indígenas diaguitas. Empezó a cantar profesionalmente temas…
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Gustav Mahler *VII 7 1860 — The Life You Give
Gustav Mahler, born July 7, 1860, in Kaliště, Bohemia, Austrian Empire, is the composer and conductor, noted for his 10 symphonies and various songs with orchestra, which drew together many different strands of Romanticism. Although his music was largely ignored for 50 years after his death, Mahler was later regarded as an important forerunner of…
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Marc Chagall *VII 7 1887 — The Life You Give
Marc Chagall, born July 7, 1887, in Vitebsk, Belorussia, Russian Empire, is the painter, printmaker, and designer who composed his images based on emotional and poetic associations, rather than on rules of pictorial logic. Predating Surrealism, his early works, such as I and the Village (1911), were among the first expressions of psychic reality in…
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Frida Kahlo *VII 6 1907 — The Life You Give / La Vida Que Das
See English biography below Todos sabemos que las mujeres no pasaron a la historia del arte como debían. Muy pocas están en el Olimpo de los grandes artistas, pero sin duda hay excepciones y Frida Kahlo es una de ellas. Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón fue una de las pintoras más conocidas de Mexico…
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Ruth Crawford Seeger *VII 3 1901 — The Life You Give
Ruth Crawford Seeger, born July 3, 1901, in East Liverpool, Ohio, U.S.A., studied piano as a child and was self-taught as a composer until she entered the American Conservatory. After early works influenced by Alexander Scriabin, she wrote several astonishing serial pieces, including her String Quartet (1931). She married the musicologist Charles Seeger (1886–1979) in…
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Leoš Janáček *VII 3 1854 — The Life You Give
Leoš Janáček, born July 3, 1854, in Hukvaldy, Moravia, Austrian Empire, is a composer who counts as one of the most important exponents of musical nationalism of the 20th century. Janáček was a choirboy at Brno and studied at the Prague, Leipzig, and Vienna conservatories. In 1881 he founded a college of organists at Brno,…
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Franz Kafka *VII 3 1883 — The Life You Give
Franz Kafka, born July 3, 1883, in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now in Czech Republic] is the writer of visionary fiction whose works — especially the novel Der Prozess (1925; The Trial) and the story Die Verwandlung (1915; The Metamorphosis) — express the anxieties and alienation felt by many in 20th-century Europe and North America. Life…
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Hermann Hesse *VII 2 1877 — The Life You Give
Hermann Hesse, born July 2, 1877, in Calw, Germany, is the novelist and poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. The main theme of his work is the individual’s efforts to break out of the established modes of civilization so as to find an essential spirit and identity. Hesse grew up…
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Hans Werner Henze *VII 1 1926 — The Life You Give
Hans Werner Henze, born July 1, 1926, in Gütersloh, Germany, is the composer whose operas, ballets, symphonies, and other works are marked by an individual and advanced style wrought within traditional forms. Henze was a pupil of the noted German composer Wolfgang Fortner and of René Leibowitz, the leading French composer of 12-tone music. One…
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Debbie Harry * VII 1 1945 — The Life You Give
Artists going into the music industry are not usually equipped for the sudden onslaught of fame. Although it may seem alluring to the casual musician to have millions of people singing songs back to them every time they play live, things get a bit complicated when everything they thought was private becomes lost instantly. While…
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