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Meikyoku to Dai Sakkyokka Monogatari
名曲と大作曲家物語
Description
The series offers brief biographical sketches of renowned composers such as Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Chopin, Vivaldi, Johann Strauss, and Tchaikovsky. In a surprising turn, the relatively obscure Stephen Foster, known for “Beautiful Dreamer” and “Jeanie with the Light‑Brown Hair”, receives an entire episode dedicated to him, likely because he topped the hit parade at the time of Commodore Perry’s gunboat diplomacy that opened Japan in 1853. Meanwhile, Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel share a single episode.
