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# **BENIAMINO GIGLI — A LIFE IN 20 CHAPTERS** *A full, expansive biography* ## **Chapter I — Recanati: The Birth of a Voice (1890–1900)** Beniamino Gigli was born on **March 20, 1890**, in the…

# **REYNALDO HAHN — A LIFE** ## **I. Origins, Childhood in Caracas and Paris, and the Awakening of a Poet-Musician** Reynaldo Hahn was born on **August 9, 1874**, in Caracas, Venezuela, the youngest of…

# **THE CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE OF RIMSKY-KORSAKOV** ## **Chapter I — Tikhvin: Birth in a Provincial, Noble, and Musically-Sleeping World** Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was born on **18 March 1844** in the quiet provincial town…

# **HANDEL’S FUNERAL AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY — A FULL NARRATIVE**A ## **I. London in Mourning — April 1759** In the days following George Frideric Handel’s death on the morning of **April 14, 1759**, London…

# **ATAÚLFO ARGENTA — A LIFE IN 20 CHAPTERS** ## **Chapter I — Origins in the North** Ataúlfo Argenta was born on **19 November 1913** in Castro Urdiales, Cantabria, a small coastal town shaped…