Derek Trucks

Derek Trucks

8th June, 1979

Jacksonville, Florida.

Girlfriend: Susan Tedeschi

Children: Charles and Sophia Trucks

Rolling Stones “The 100 greatest guitarists of all time” 2003 and 2011

Allman Brothers Band

The Derek Trucks band

Grammy winning album: Already Free

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLQTbmUYI4A

Derek Trucks

The Derek Trucks band

Allman Brothers bandTheir Grammy winning album

Franz Liszt

Franz LisztBorn: October 22, 1811 in Hungary

Mother: Marie Anna Lager, from Austria

Father: Adam Liszt, Hungarian musician

He was taught in Vienna

Countess Marie d’Agoult

Children: Blandine, Cosima and Daniel

Public debut: Landständischer Saal , December 1, 1822

Died: July 31st, 1886 , aged 74 of pneumonia

Programmatic composer

Inspirations: Niccolo Paganini, Hector Berlioz and Frederic Chopin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQN5UhvAPq4

Franz Liszt

Countess Marie d’AgoultNiccolo Paganini,

Frédéric François Chopin

“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.”

- Frédéric François Chopin

Frédéric François Chopin

Zelazowa Wola, Duchy of Warsaw

22nd of February or 1st March 1810

virtuoso pianist

Father: Nicolas Chopin, Lorraine France

Mother: Justyna Krzyzanowska

Sister: Ludwika

First professional piano teacher: Wojciech Żywny

Alexander I, Tsar of Russia

Amandine Aurore Lucille Dupin or George Sand

Buried: Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvxS_bJ0yOU

Chopin at 25

His birthplace

Sister: Ludwika

Chopin at 19 George Sand

Chopin’s grave monument