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The term 'Polish composers' school' was popularised in the early 1960s mainly by German music critics. This term was coined to name the specific style of Polish music in which the tone of sound is a ...

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) was a British composer who studied at the Royal College of Music and had early success at Gloucester Festival with his 1898 ‘Ballade in A Minor’. Named after the ...

AR Rahman and his early life in Chennai AR Rahman was born as A. S. Dileep Kumar in 1967 in Chennai, India. His father was also a music composer who gave music for many Tamil and Malayalam movies.