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My "Teaching Material Classical Music"

My Teaching Material Classical Music is designed for children in the 3rd to 8th grade: The goal is to get to know Classical Music without stress. Almost as a matter of course, the topic opens up better with increasing age and can inspire even younger and older kids with appropriate moderation.

Please note: Eight parts are available free of charge (... and with these, you can already teach "fiercely" ...), Twelve parts complement these free parts. The complete package Teaching Material Classical Music is available in the "Bach 4 You" shop for a one-time nominal fee of € 11,90* (... click here to check what's that in your currency today) and can be used by you – especially with the winner prices for your kids – without any time limit. Five years, ten, 20 ... or even longer. Already with the free parts 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 you can work on the topic "Classical Music" then already particularly well, if the topic is to lead quite generally – in the same instruction block – to the discussion of individual works or artists.

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My philosophy, which is so important to me: Without reading these few lines in one or two minutes, some "provocation" in my Teaching Material is "absolutely senseless". Only by reading it, it becomes clear that my offer is not an alternative but an additional way to accompany kids to Classical Music. Here it is, the one or two minutes reading offer.

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My "instruction manual": suggestions for teachers on how to work with my "Teaching Material Classical Music" in face-to-face classes, via distance learning, and a mix of these. Click here to learn more.

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My compilation "Homework": 150 cool illustrated, exciting questions on 45 printable pages – or as PDFs – in multiple-choice format. Fillable as PDF or on paper. Here you can find some sample pages.

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My music compilation as an MP3 file "The most popular Bach melodies in 45 minutes": for the acoustic background of your presence lessons or for your kids at home. Have a quick listen. In contrast to the works of many Classical Composers, the musical works of Johann Sebastian Bach are available to you – compactly, that is in one piece  – that is, "in one piece", as an MP3. I have "produced" this music, and I am not affiliated with the GEMA (... the German Copyright Association). Bach has been dead for well over 70 years ... so I am permitted to do this.

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My additional four "Classical Music Collections" (... PDF): intended to be played while your kids are engaged in the theme of "Popular Classical Music" ... beyond the collection of the most Popular Classical Works of Johann Sebastian Bach. This music collection can only be compiled through your students or by yourself as a PDF. I am not allowed to do this for you ... according to the copyright rules. The playing time is about 45 minutes each. Here you will find the four additional collections ... there below the Bach works.

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My research and compilation: 300 Popular Classical Works result in my own Classical Music Top 100, which allows you to listen to all of these pieces instantly and in their entirety. Free of charge. Plus, your kids can work with this, my "Classic Top 100". You can – for example – explore the titles with one-minute length each, you can listen to whole pieces completely, or listen to several works of only one composer, one after the other. You can get to this "Top 100" directly with a click here!

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With my Teaching Material Classical Music, you have different options to include Classical Music as audio works in your face-to-face lessons. Free of charge or convenient. With YouTube, you need a DJane or a DJ among your kids to take care of the commercials and the volume, but ... it's free. Free is it also with "Amazon Prime" if ( ! ) you already use the service. "Spotify" offers a similar service. Almost like it was back then, with "Amazon Download" you can buy your individual tracks, which you found via my "Top 100". For those who prefer "to be underway" with his or her own already accomplished CD, we recommend eight selected CD offerings with the best ratio between price and usable top Popular Classical Titles. Only eight among 250 CD offers and 300 CDs are perfect. And you can then also rip these CDs – legally – or have them ripped, that is converting them, for instance, usable on a USB stick. To play them back on your electronic device. This is the way to go ... or via the button, just below right. 

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My reading teaching component "What is Classical Music?": Classical Music is not explained anywhere in an understandable way. Classical Music needs guidance on how to recognize it and how to get to it. Use this module to inform yourself, and it will serve as a reading for your kids. It is the complete page 1 of this website. One click will take you there.

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My entertainment "Funny+++ Facts" for your classroom: It is a collection of exciting, curious, funny, and entertaining facts to enrich the topic compactly or in single hints. It's less exciting information for eight-year-olds, better for eighth-graders. Here it is ... your reading.

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My compilation "Test / Class Work": 150 questions on 52 printable pages or PDFs according to the multiple-choice principle (... a second "set" of practically the same question sheets as above, enriched with boxes for later grading by your kids). Fillable as PDF or on paper. This is now a very substantial portion of the XXL material for the small nominal fee. This is how the sheets look like.

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My document for your moderation "Answers + Info" with many entertaining explanations regarding the answers to the many questions, appropriately numbered to the test (... PDF). Click here for a sample page.

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My "Teleprompter" for your live moderation of the answers regarding the "test/classwork" together with your students in face-to-face classes.

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The winner certificate/s as electronically fillable or printable PDFs. Click here to explore what the prepared PDF looks like when a team of two kids wins.

The "Teaching Material Classical Music": In the middle is the document "Answers + Info", on the right is the template for one or more winner certificates, which can be filled out and printed by you.

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With a click on the shop button you get – in the shop – directly to the "Teaching Material Classical Music" Or you click right here. On the following page then scroll down a little, and you are exactly where you can buy it.

99 Music Calendars in Our Shop Help Us to Achieve Our Mission Goals: Bach Calendars, one Mozart Calendar, one Beethoven Calendar, Pipe Organ Calendars and More

Why is that? Because we can "transform" the complete leftover amount in our Shop of the Bach Mission into new ideas. Thank you so much. Click here to get to all shops. And from there go on on ... with a second click.

We “Missionize” in the Matter of Classical Music ... For Only 59 Cents per Year*: All Starts (... For Example) For Your Kids With My Homework Assignment

150 questions related to Classical Music and Popular Classical Music are designed to playfully approach your kids to a completely new topic with homework. Following the multiple-choice principle, almost all questions are designed in such a way that it is not a challenge to solve them. Among them are trick questions, hints to the answers, and also repetitions. It's up to you to decide whether you want to "work through" the three designated areas in three time periods, "call-in" all 150 questions "in one go," or even divide them into six portions of 25 questions each. For this purpose, your kids can listen to one title after the other from my Classical Music Top100 (... by clicking there) or – both best via headphones – the Bach collection that I have put together for you and your lessons. * ... and indeed ... 60 cents* per year that are for those teachers who, out of sheer enthusiasm after the first "round", also want to work with it for the next 19 years. Please check here, what 60 €-cents are today in your currency.

Essential for you to know: You are not supposed to correct this homework at all. You only collect this homework (... on paper) or have it sent to you. As a PDF, the file can of course also be filled out and sent electronically. The kids' own research is intended, and googling and asking friends or parents is no "cheating". What happens to the homework? Nothing. No work with it. No stress for your kids. What a pleasure: Classic as a subject seems to be cool.

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Three inside pages in the 2024 Pipe Organ Calendar.

What Is Classical Music? The Cool, Exciting Test Without Stress  

The next lesson is the test/class work. If you have requested the "first round" as homework in three parts (... 3 times 50 questions), then it is also advisable to divide the test into three parts. All questions in the test correspond 100 percent to the questions in the homework. Since the evaluation is not performance-oriented anyway, you do not need to worry about "fraud", copying and cheating. The test can be done electronically or on paper. So that "cheating" is not too easy and pure "copying" is at least connected with "dealing with the subject", the test is graphically changed very slightly to the homework: So at least now the answers have to be transferred. Unusually, and as a reminder: All 150 questions of the homework have not (yet) been answered or evaluated. For the test – in face-to-face lessons – let Bach's music play or one of the further four collections which your kids – or you – have put together from my 300 Popular Classical Works. Also, this test can be filled out in all three ways: on paper, as a PDF that can be sent to you, or – also as a PDF – in the classroom on a laptop or tablet.

You need to know that you do not have to correct the test yourself as well. Your kids will do this together with you: It will then be the third time that the content is dealt with and thus deepened. Plus: You have the choice to either discuss the returned homework in general or to proceed directly with the test. Unlogical? No, because the only point is to repeatedly introduce your kids to the names of the great Classical Composers. And in the best case, to their music.

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The Correction by Your Kids: The Third Engagement With the Subject of Classical Music and All the Facts Already Experienced

If that's not cool: a test that you don't have to correct at home! But how does it work? You have received all the tests back: sent as a PDF or handed in on paper. In exceptional cases, individual tests can even be sent to you by snail mail, parents hand it in, or you pick it up at a student's home. Of course, the test can be taken in one or three or six "sessions". Each test has a space in the upper right-hand corner for your student's name. Upon return, you assign a number to each kid, or name, respectively. On paper, or electronically. And then either cut off the name or delete it electronically before returning the collected tests – previously "mixed" – to the kids. It makes sense not to start with 1 for Amanda Amway and 2 for Brian Brandy, which is alphabetical because then your kids won't really correct anonymously. But if you start with 12, then this is your "Mini Enigma Machine". So distribute the works with the numbers to your kids back again ... on paper, electronically, or send them to their homes as PDFs. There are several options for you now: An especially completed list (... just for you) clearly shows you the correct answers, with generous grading. The kids should be introduced to Classical Music without frustration. You can print out this list for face-to-face lessons or alternatively – and in distance learning – use it electronically as a PDF. In face-to-face teaching, you now have the option of answering every question and coming up with a fact, a story or a special feature in about two-thirds of all cases. The third list of things to know for many questions is another PDF.

Alternatively – as a second option – you can "let" the author answer these questions via a video projector or interactive whiteboard. In an elaborate video/tutorial and with continuous music by Johann Sebastian Bach and insertions of many pictures to the answers, this step becomes an exciting entertainment that confronts your kids with the topic-related questions for the third time. These three videos will be accomplished in late 2023, but they are not necessary to have fun with the material. Kids award 1 point for each correct answer and 0 points for each incorrect answer. In the end, your kids add up, submit the score to you, and you determine (... because the corresponding number now matches the name again ... for you) which student has the most points. Anonymously and fairly evaluated. Essential for you to know: You can mix electronic and conventional processing in any form. So you can also work electronically even if 50 percent of your kids don't have electronic devices or have poor internet connections.

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Hip and Colorful Music Calendars ...

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... and truly conservative composers calendars, too. Among 99 music calendars, you are guaranteed to find the perfect one. Okay ... this composers calendar above is not colorful.

Enrich the Classical Theme With Bach’s Music

Yes, I am allowed to do that, that is to compile a collection of Bach's most popular works for you and leave it at your free disposition. The German GEMA "waves me through". And why is that? Because I have produced this, Bach's music myself, and I ... am not a member of the GEMA (... the powerful German copyright association). Plus, Johann Sebastian Bach himself ... well, he has been dead for many, many years, not just since 70. You can play one school hour of Bach music on your laptop, your tablet, or your smartphone – or the one that a student provides you for this time – with a loudspeaker for € 7.77 – during your lessons. If the speaker in the picture below is no longer available, look under "laptop + speaker + cheap". And a video projector – if you prefer to leave the resolution of the questions to "me" – is already available for less than $ 40: Just search for "projector + cheap" on Google and then click "Shopping".

No, I don't get any commission for that. So, these two hints are the only ones that are not an advertisement for the "Teaching Material Classical Music".

How Cool: A Winning Prize Worth € 26,000*? 

Of course, it's just fooling around again. That's me, that's my proposal "Teaching Material Classical Music": I just can't ... leave it alone. The winner gets a winner certificate. Cool designed, something to frame and then "hang on the wall" at home. That – however – is not worth € 26,000 (... check what's that in your currency today).

The winner will also receive – from me – my "Bach Biography for Children" as a gift. As an audiobook (... the one with the 19 Bach music works) plus as a PDF for his or her tablet plus as an eBook (EPUB).  Well ... and that would now normally cost € 26,000*?

Quite clearly, no! Initially, each winner would order the work only "either/or". But ... the value is calculated on the gift and not on whether you can really use such a gift. So we add € 9.99* and € 22.90* and € 18.90* for the three versions of the biography. And now things really take off: Your kids and also you are allowed to download this book ... all in all versions. This increases the value considerably, because – let's assume there are 25 kids in your class – then the amount above multiplied by 25 is already an exciting € 1,294.75*. If the concept is so good and proves itself that you want to and will use it over the coming years and even two decades, then it's another multiplication of € 1,294.75* times 20 years. And that is simply around ... € 26,000*. By the way, I was always the fastest in math ... but it was always wrong. That's why you better recalculate it. Or maybe not.

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As Promised: Now There Is Cool, Exciting, Funny and Unimportant ... Everything on the Subject of “Classical Music”

Essential for you to know: The following curiosities are, of course, not very amusing for nine-year-olds and not all of them are cool and curious for 13-year-olds. They are listed mainly for your ( ! ) entertainment, no matter whether you want to use them as "Teaching Material Classical Music" or not. Have fun reading.

Here, I already provide you with some "stuffing in the matter of Classical Music": Entertainment, unimportant, funny, and unknown. And everything is arranged in a completely disorganized way. Also, just "outside the box!" Let's start with the gentleman you associate with Salzburg in Austria: Surely you knew that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was nicknamed "Wolferl." But did you know that his full name was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart? And what about his six-part canon Kiss My Ass? You didn't know about that, did you? His Magic Flute: He composed it extremely unwillingly and as a commissioned work. He had a strong aversion to the sound of flutes. He hated it, it is reliably known. At the age of six, Mozart already made his first marriage proposal, and he was not really the superstar that the Austrian Falco portrayed him as in his hit song Amadeus. Beethoven, however, was the rock star of his time. Of course, Mozart was a musical wonder child and composed his first work at the age of five. And sure enough, he also had the absolute pitch.

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By the age of twelve, Mozart had already composed three complete operas, plus other works. Above are three inside pages from the "Mozart Calendar".

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In between, in general, about Classical Music: Did you know that many historical Classical Works are also between three and five minutes long, so 200 or 300 years ago it was already similar to the hits of today. The longest insignificant work is by the French composer Erik Satie: the title is Vexations ... it's 18 hours and 40 minutes long. There are 180 notes, and they are to be played 840 times in a row. The first performance in 1963 required ten pianists at that time, it took place in New York. The longest well-known and significant Classical Work is The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner. 16 hours of masterpiece are divided into four parts. Telemann was without question the busiest of all composers, because ... yes because there are no longer all of Bach's musical works at hand. There are 1,128 preserved, but a Bach expert, actually the Bach expert par excellence, suspects that these 1,128 works are only 10 percent of Bach's total works. Makes ... 11,000 works. Telemann, by the way, wrote 3,600 works. Did you know that Bach and Handel were born in the same year, that both were operated on unsuccessfully for cataracts by the same London oculist, that Bach did not die wealthy, but Handel died very wealthy?

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Bach owned shares (... today stock shares) from a silver mine, but owning them does not mean that he could not have lost money with them. In any case, shortly after his death, his widow applied to the city of Leipzig for a poverty pension. And there was not enough money for a proper tombstone for Bach either. And yet: Anna Magdalena Bach, the composer's second wife, neither lived nor died impoverished for the ten years after Bach's death.

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In addition to Handel and Bach, the London oculist "screwed up" about another 100 eye surgeries.

You knew that the Ave Maria is not by Bach, but by "Gounod feat. Bach". But that Schubert also created a famous Ave Maria that was actually called Ellen's Third Song? By the way, this makes the Ave Maria by Bach/Gounod the first joint work by two superstars. Again to Bach and Mozart. Bach lived to be a proud 65 years old, Handel, by the way, an even prouder 74, but Mozart only 35. Mozart, by the way, was definitely not the inventor of the Mozartkugel, nor of the Mozart candy, as the Mozartkugel was initially called when it was not yet a kugel. It was "invented" in Salzburg, 99 years after Mozart's death. A detour to Beethoven: For 21 years his deafness developed, at the age of 48 he was finally completely deaf and lived – as a musician especially bad – another full eight years deaf. He composed his Symphony No. 9, a masterpiece, with this handicap. Do you know what an "elegy" is? It is a funeral poem. Mozart composed a work called Elegy on the Death of a Poodle. And while we're on the subject of animals: Wagner called his dwarf rabbit  "Little Son Fips" and his parrot "Little Daughter Papo." Back to Mozart again: At the age of 14, he was awarded the Order of the Golden Spur by Pope Clement XIV. 

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Beethoven was the rock star of his time. When he was buried in Vienna, Austria, 20,000 Viennese came, which was half the population of the inner city at that time. Children were off school that day, and the military organized the funeral. Bach, on the other hand, was actually "hastily buried". No one from the city administration came to his funeral. No wreath, no tombstone, no celebration .... no "nothing". And this was after Johann Sebastian Bach had guided all the churches musically for the city of Leipzig for 27 years.

You certainly do not suspect the name of these gentlemen above. They belong to the greatest and at the same time most famous musical family of all time. Or do you?

You might have known the answer regarding the picture underline above, which is that the Bachs, or as they were called back then, "the Bache" and today "the Bäche", was, is and most certainly will remain the largest and most famous musical family on earth.  There are over 200 musicians, and this does not even include the women who were musically active. Also, that Bach had four famous sons, respectively five musical sons, is known to the fewest. Two of the sons became even more famous in their time than their father was in his. Today it is completely different. But still today Bachs make music and some earn their complete living with it. The genealogy of the Bachs is extremely complicated, not only because the so-called Berlin Bach was also the Hamburg Bach. And the Milan Bach was, at the same time, the London Bach. Do you know the only two famous female composers? These are Hildegard von Bingen and Clara Schumann.

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Three calendars with twelve motifs each on the theme of Bach, Luther and Mozart.

Did you know that Bach was buried three times? First, he was buried hastily without any ceremony, then he was dug up again because an additional foundation for the church was needed exactly in place of his grave. At the second burial, things were more festive and there was also a great deal of participation. But there he was dug up again, and today he rests in the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany near the altar. Bach, by the way, also once served time in prison. In Weimar. For four weeks. Because of "stubbornness". And he is said to have thrown his wig at a student. And he is said to have drawn his épée when choir students tried to beat him up. But there was no fight, Bach's threat was enough. Bach had twenty children with two wives. And there are the most composer monuments of him in the world, that is about 35. In addition, there are about 66 quotations from the most diverse personalities.

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Without question, on the left, it is the world's most famous Bach monument on earth ... in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. Abroad there is one in Barcelona, Spain a plaque in Paris, France, a statue in Prague, Czech Republic, and the most exotic probably monument is in Shanghai in China. Above, the second Bach monument is the one in the Ulm Cathedral in Ulm, Germany, next is the one in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, and finally the one in Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany next to the Bach House. You can explore all 33 Bach monuments here.

You probably didn't know that Verdi's opera Nabucco was written in Egypt. And that he set up a retirement home for musicians that still exists today under the name Casa Verdi? So, who invented the waltzes and who is the "Waltz King"? Johann Strauss (... Father or I ) invented it, his son with the same name is the king. And how many waltzes did this Waltz King compose? There were 160. By the way, the Russian composer Tchaikovsky is the only known personality who liked to play Bach's music, but "could not recognize anything special in Bach's works". Do you know the first Popular Classical Hit? It is the Canon in D major by Pachelbel, who was born a little earlier than Bach. And the only popular, famous work by composer Charpentier? It is the entrance fanfare to the Eurovision Song Contest. By the way, Max Reger said about Bach's work that it is the "beginning and the end of all music". And Bach said about his own ability: first, that all music not dedicated to God is only "devilish noise". Secondly, that playing the piano is not that difficult if you press the right key at the right time, and finally, thirdly, that anyone could play as well as he could if only he or she practiced as much as he did. Another superlative: Bach was, is, and remains the most gifted organ player of all time. This is how experts put it. If Bach could not reach a key either with his feet or with his hands, because all of them were "busy", he pressed the required key with a little stick in his mouth. Bach was also a highly specialized organ-building expert (... but did not build organs himself) and he was also a piano teacher. Bach fans and music educators know that Bach is the only composer whose name can be sung and played (... but only in the German-speaking countries). But the fact that the " b " before the first note on the Bach monument in Ansbach is missing and therefore instead of B-A-C-H there was H-A-C-H, I had to check at very considerable effort.

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Tchaikovsky: He found Bach's fugues very enjoyable to play. Otherwise, however, he could not find "anything special in Bach's music". How good that he expressed himself similarly uncool about other masters: In the picture are three calendar inside pages regarding the Russian master.

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Why you can sing B-A-C-H only in the German-speaking area, but not in Great Britain, the USA, Canada, and Australia – for example – is something a musician has to explain. There ... I get off. Above, there are calendar inside pages again: Bach historical, Bach conservative, and two times Bach "outside the box". There are 33 different Bach calendars.

Speaking of prison: Bach was there for four weeks, while Liszt served a much shorter time. Schubert was even imprisoned for one of his compositions, and Richard Wagner escaped imprisonment only by fleeing abroad. By the way, two asteroids were named after Bach, and one also after Max Reger. Do you know what Puccini's full name is? Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini. That's easy to remember. What was the name of Carl Maria von Weber's unfinished opera? Rübezahl (... a ghost in the Giant Mountains in the Czech Republic). And that Vivaldi was not a gondolier on the side, but a Roman Catholic priest, is one of the trick questions for your kids. Beethoven was a bean counter: He counted off exactly 60 coffee beans for each cup of coffee, starting with the first cup in the morning. The wind is what defined Beethoven as his "enemy." Did you know that he moved 68 times? That Classical Works are on two golden LPs in the spaceships Voyager 1 + 2 is already almost general knowledge, but that from Bach are the most pieces on it, and he also wins in the ranking are unimportant trivialities. Together with Mozart, Beethoven, and Stravinsky, only these four Classical Artists made it to "E.T. & Co.". Have you ever thought about it: All national anthems are Classical Musical works? The most famous ones for us Germans are certainly the German one, then the British one, the one of the USA, the Italian one and maybe the Russian one and also the Israeli one. Plus, regarding the German National Anthem: Who composed it? The Austrian Haydn. So many admirers wanted a curl from Beethoven that he bought his dog "Pumperl", who served as a curl supplier from then on. Today, a real Beethoven curl cannot be bought at auction for less than € 39,000. Oh yes, once again to the national anthems: The shortest is with four minutes length the Japanese, the longest national anthem with 158 verses is the Greek.

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Schubert: He composed "Ellen's Third Song", better known under the title "Ave Maria", that is ... the second Ave Maria. Above are three interior pages from three ( ! ) composers calendars.

Now we are slowly coming to the end of the unimportant trivialities in the matter of Classical Music: Franz Schubert was called "Schwammerl" (... in Austrian and Bavarian it's "little mushroom") because of his height and because of his hair, and the Russian composer Rachmaninoff earned the most money among the great composers in his epoch and a little earlier and later: Even in the year of the Great Depression in 1930, he earned a whopping six million Euro, of course converted. Finally, there is the Classical US Composer John Cage. He composed "4'33" in 1952. It consists of around four and a half minutes of silence, but can also be a bit longer or shorter ( ?! ).

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