1750
LIFE: He is born on 18 August in Legnago (right) in the Kingdom of Venice. From an early age he learns violin and keyboard with his brother and Giuseppe Simone, a local organist.
TIMES: JS Bach
SALIERI Life & Times
Bonang Goes Pythagoras’s Theory Of Numerical Harmony
Did Pythagoras get it wrong? In the 6th century BC, the great polymath showed that certain numerical ratios between sounds are what makes music sound pleasant to us – and dissonance occurs when there’s a deviation from such ratios. But scientists in
