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"Move On Up a Little Higher" sold two million copies. Mahalia Jackson His poems were admired and imitated by Geoffrey Chaucer. Guillaume de Machaut Wrote her own piano concerto at 14, Mendelssohn conducting. Clara Schumann Her stage name means 'sparrow' in Paris slang. Edith Piaf His 'Johnny B. Goode' is the only rock song aboard Voyager. Chuck Berry Recorded Kind of Blue, jazz's best-selling album ever. Miles Davis With 35 wins, she is the most-awarded artist in Grammy history. Beyonce Among the first to give music a written notation. Al-Farabi An architect's son who became a fetishist of pure sound. Florian Schneider Was buried with his Gibson guitar, a Bible, and cannabis. Bob Marley His family sang qawwali for nearly 600 years. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Built an opera house where the orchestra is invisible. Richard Wagner A perfectionist, he claimed to have destroyed 20 string quartets. Johannes Brahms Died at 44 with just 70 cents in the bank. Billie Holiday After his death, 'Bird Lives' graffiti spread across the city. Charlie Parker The Pulitzer board denied him the 1965 music prize. Duke Ellington "Move On Up a Little Higher" sold two million copies. Mahalia Jackson His poems were admired and imitated by Geoffrey Chaucer. Guillaume de Machaut Wrote her own piano concerto at 14, Mendelssohn conducting. Clara Schumann Her stage name means 'sparrow' in Paris slang. Edith Piaf His 'Johnny B. Goode' is the only rock song aboard Voyager. Chuck Berry Recorded Kind of Blue, jazz's best-selling album ever. Miles Davis With 35 wins, she is the most-awarded artist in Grammy history. Beyonce Among the first to give music a written notation. Al-Farabi An architect's son who became a fetishist of pure sound. Florian Schneider Was buried with his Gibson guitar, a Bible, and cannabis. Bob Marley His family sang qawwali for nearly 600 years. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Built an opera house where the orchestra is invisible. Richard Wagner A perfectionist, he claimed to have destroyed 20 string quartets. Johannes Brahms Died at 44 with just 70 cents in the bank. Billie Holiday After his death, 'Bird Lives' graffiti spread across the city. Charlie Parker The Pulitzer board denied him the 1965 music prize. Duke Ellington His act closed with a fake collapse and a cape rescue. James Brown At 11 he fired a gun on New Year's, landing in reform school. Louis Armstrong Her grave stayed unmarked until Janis Joplin paid for a stone. Bessie Smith Cut her first international album barefoot at 47. Cesaria Evora Published his first book of sacred music at just fifteen. Claudio Monteverdi Plague took his wife and two sons within a decade. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Misspelled his opera Moses und Aron to dodge 13 letters. Arnold Schoenberg Wrote eight songs in a single day at age 18. Franz Schubert Snuck into Japan on a fake passport, banned a year. Teresa Teng Nailed Purple Rain in pouring rain at the Super Bowl. Prince Jailed for a month for pestering a duke to let him quit. Johann Sebastian Bach Accepting Dylan's Nobel, she forgot the lyrics. Patti Smith Died at 35 and was buried in an unmarked common grave. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart A quack eye surgeon left him completely blind by 1752. George Frideric Handel Won the 2016 Nobel, the first songwriter ever to. Bob Dylan Wrote the earliest morality play, a century ahead of any other. Hildegard of Bingen His act closed with a fake collapse and a cape rescue. James Brown At 11 he fired a gun on New Year's, landing in reform school. Louis Armstrong Her grave stayed unmarked until Janis Joplin paid for a stone. Bessie Smith Cut her first international album barefoot at 47. Cesaria Evora Published his first book of sacred music at just fifteen. Claudio Monteverdi Plague took his wife and two sons within a decade. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Misspelled his opera Moses und Aron to dodge 13 letters. Arnold Schoenberg Wrote eight songs in a single day at age 18. Franz Schubert Snuck into Japan on a fake passport, banned a year. Teresa Teng Nailed Purple Rain in pouring rain at the Super Bowl. Prince Jailed for a month for pestering a duke to let him quit. Johann Sebastian Bach Accepting Dylan's Nobel, she forgot the lyrics. Patti Smith Died at 35 and was buried in an unmarked common grave. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart A quack eye surgeon left him completely blind by 1752. George Frideric Handel Won the 2016 Nobel, the first songwriter ever to. Bob Dylan Wrote the earliest morality play, a century ahead of any other. Hildegard of Bingen Looking for someone?
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Gagaku Ensemble, Japanese Imperial Court Traditional · 700 Dresden Kreuzchor Choir · 1300 Chapel Royal, London Choir · 1540 to 1709 Kothen Hofkapelle Court chapel · 1717 to 1723 Esterhazy Court Orchestra Orchestra · 1761 to 1790 Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana Traditional · 1880 Fuliancheng Peking Opera Troupe Traditional · 1904 to 1948 Sonora Matancera Band · 1924 to 2001 Benny Goodman Orchestra Orchestra · 1934 to 1949 Darmstadt School Collective · 1946 to 1969 WDR Studio for Electronic Music, Cologne Collective · 1951 Sabri Brothers Qawwali Party Traditional · 1956 to 1994 GRM (Groupe de Recherches Musicales) Collective · 1958 The Temptations Band · 1960 Bembeya Jazz National Band · 1961 to 1999 The Jackson 5 Band · 1964 to 1990 The Jimi Hendrix Experience Band · 1966 to 1969 Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section Band · 1967 to 1989 Led Zeppelin Band · 1968 to 1980 Queen Band · 1970 Universal Zulu Nation Collective · 1973 Joy Division Band · 1976 to 1980 Beastie Boys Crew · 1981 to 2012 Nirvana Band · 1987 to 1994
