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Behind the marble busts were real people with bizarre lives . Take Cécile Chaminade , who was so obsessed with her flute professor that she wrote a concerto mimicking wedding bells to represent her daydreams of marrying him. Or the murderous prince Gesualdo da Venosa , whose haunting polyphonic vocal music was reportedly written as a way to expiate the guilt of killing his wife. I Am A Classical Composer - Marti Epstein

The foundation of the classical world often rests on the "Big Three": Johann Sebastian Bach , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , and Ludwig van Beethoven . classical composer

When most people hear the term "classical composer," they immediately picture a bust of Beethoven—scowling, wild-haired, and very much deceased. But as contemporary artist Marti Epstein notes, being a classical composer today isn't about a specific historical style; it’s a description of how music is conceived. It’s about the solitary act of imagining a world of sound and notating it for others to bring to life. Behind the marble busts were real people with bizarre lives