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Did you know....

... that Niccolò Paganini commissioned Berlioz's Harold en Italie, and never paid for it?

... that Evgeni Kostitsyn's Third Symphony requires 9 conductors?

... that Georg Philipp Telemann is considered the most prolific composer ever, with more than 3000 works registered?

... that in addition to composing orchestral and chamber music, Joseph R. Wood arranged the Chiquita Banana song for Xavier Cugat?

... that composer William Turner was kicked out of the Chapel Royal choir when his voice broke?

... that composer Tom Scott also had a career as a folk singer known as "The American Troubador"?

... that Erich Walter Sternberg was the first of a wave of professional musicians to flee Germany for Palestine prior to World War II?