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Vincent van Gogh
Dutch post-impressionist artist best known and most reproduced paintings The Starry Night. In autumn 1888, while staying in
Arles, he executed a painting commonly known as Starry Night Over the Rhone. Almost a year later, mid June 1889, he announced "a new study of a starry sky"
Paul Gauguin
was a leading Post-Impressionist artist. Best known as a painter, his bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetist
style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his painting, The Yellow Christ (Le Christ jaune) 1889, oil on canvas
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The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is a story written in
1816 by E. T. A. Hoffmann in which young Marie Stahlbaum's favorite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, comes alive and, after defeating the evil Mouse King in battle, whisks her away to a magical kingdom
populated by dolls. In 1892, the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov turned the story into the ballet The Nutcracker, which became one of
Tchaikovsky's most famous compositions, and one of the most popular ballets in the world.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
is the most famous classical composer of the western world. Beethoven is remembered for his powerful and stormy compositions, and
for continuing to compose and conduct even after he began to go deaf at age 28
Johann Pachelbel
most likely the greatest one-hit wonder of all time, mainly known for Pachelbel's Canon, also known as Canon in D major. It was
written in or around 1680 as a piece of chamber music for three violins and basso continuo, but has since been arranged for a wide variety of ensembles. The piece was lost after his death till discovered
and first published in the 1920s, first recorded in 1940
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