Bohuslav Martinů
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Bohuslav Jan Martinů was a Czech composer of modern classical music. He wrote 6 symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores, and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal, and instrumental works. He beca
Martinů in New York City, 1945
Martinů as a child playing the violin (c. 1896)
Martinů in c. 1942
Bohuslav Martinů in New York, around 1942, at the piano working on his second symphony
Burt Bacharach
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Burt Freeman Bacharach was an American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist, widely regarded as one of the most important and influential figures of 20th-century popular music. A signifi
Bohuslav Martinů
…expressed amazement at how extraordinary Martinů's mind was in developing a whole orchestral score while taking a walk. Martinů's notable students include Burt Bacharach, Alan Hovhaness, Vítězslava Kaprálová, Louis Lane, Jan Novák, H. Owen Reed, Howard Shanet and Chou Wen-chung. In 1953, Martinů left the United States…
Bacharach in 1972
Bacharach with Stevie Wonder in the 1970s
Bacharach performing in 2013
With his second wife, actress Angie Dickinson, in 1965