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Scott Joplin
1909
Joplin subtitled the four sections of Wall Street Rag with a narrative: 'Panic in Wall Street, Brokers Feeling Melancholy,' 'Good Times Coming,' 'Good Times Have Come,' and 'Picking Up Bountifully.' It's a miniature tone poem about the Panic of 1907, when a stock market crash nearly destroyed the American financial system and was only averted by J.P.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1875
Tchaikovsky played the first draft of his Piano Concerto No. 1 for Nikolai Rubinstein on Christmas Eve, 1874, expecting encouragement. What he received was a twenty-minute verbal demolition.
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