About Composers

This page aims to share my insights about classical music and composers. 

Music is so much a part of everyday lives everywhere and anywhere. The danger of such over exposure is that we begin to treat it as one of those taken for granted amenities like switching an electric light - aware of it but we take little or no notice. 

Quality music deserves more than just casual listening as it is a language of subtlety and tremendous power. Hearing the flow of a concerto or the intense swell of a symphony can create an atmosphere or perhaps cataclysm - such is the power of music. 

Biographies of great men and women always fascinated me as a child. A blessing that I grew up with music especially hymns; books became my constant companions and best friends being an only child. Growing up, I realise I gravitated a lot in classical music, literature and the arts. It stayed on my adult years, perhaps will go on until the day my breath becomes air.  

Music takes on new depths and heights when something is known of its author or composer. How are their lives shaped? What are their influences behind their masterpieces and compositions? One composer may 'speak' to us differently from another though both may be expressing the same truths. Our knowledge what lies behind the making of a classical masterpiece can conclude the experience. Saying so, we then realise there is a need to dip into the lives of these composers.

It is in this light that my passion in learning about composers, their lives, and music emanate, in particular, composers from the medieval to late Romantic period. My private research into the lives of classical composers started even before I went to university. By the time I was busy working in a high-flying career in Information Technology, in private I relentlessly continued pursuit in my biographical researches, especially in classical music.   

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