Who are the World and Indonesian Music Figures?

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FEMUSINDO.com - There are many music figures in the world. They have diverse backgrounds and personal lives.

World classical music figures, such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Antonin Leopold Dvorak and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Then, Jacob Luis Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Franz Schubert, Claude de Bussy, Pedro Ilich Tchaikovsky and Robert Schumann and George Philipp Telemann and others.

These great music figures in the past have implications for human life in the present and the future.

Meanwhile, the father of Indonesian music is Wage Rudolf Supratman or better known as W.R. Supratman.

He is a legendary Indonesian composer who created the song Indonesia Raya and his legendary works.

In addition to W.R. Supratman, until now there are many Indonesian music figures from time to time, such as Ismail Marzuki (Indonesian composer and poet), Gesang (keroncong maestro, songwriter and singer).

Then, Rahayu Supanggah (composer who focuses his work on traditional Javanese music), Nyi Tjondrolukito (Yogyakarta-style Javanese gamelan music artist), Manthous (popularizing a new style of gamelan music called Campursari) and others. (*)