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This Italian Baroque composer spent most of his life in the royal courts of Portugal and Spain. You can hear the traces of the Spanish guitar in his keyboard sonatas.

His day job was selling insurance, but in his “free time” composer Charles Ives stitched together a patchwork of 19th-century America that stretched the bounds of 20th-century music.

Jazz legend Thelonious Monk’s legacy continues, thanks to his family bringing jazz education to young students, and even to the White House.

He refused to allow his Carnival of the Animals to be played in public or published during his lifetime. Ironically, this is the work for which he is most remembered.

Thanks to Mickey Mouse, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice became one of the most famous works of all times. (Too bad Dukas never lived to see Fantasia.)