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2. Agricola Alexander
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Agricola Alexander Leben Agricola was a Franco-Flemish contemporary of Josquin Des Prez who spent most of his working life in Italy. During his lifetime he was considered by some writers ...

3. Arensky, Anton Stephanovich
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Arensky, Anton Stephanovich Image Leben Arensky, the Russian pianist, composer and conductor, was a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov at St. Petersburg Conservatoire and later taught at the ...

4. Balakirev, Alexejewich
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Balakirev, Alexejewich Image Leben In the second half of the 19th century, Balakirev was the guiding spirit of a group of Russian ‘nationalist’ composers called the Moguchaya Koochka, ...

5. Blitzstein, Marcus Samuel
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... early age, and he had performed a Mozart Piano Concerto by the time he was seven. He went on to study piano with Alexander Siloti, (a pupil of Liszt and Tchaikovsky), and made his professional concerto ...

6. Borodin, Alexander
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Borodin, Alexander (1833 - 1887) Image Leben Doctor Alexander Borodin, a professor of chemistry at the St. Petersburg Academy of Medicine, was the son of a Georgian prince. He became ...

7. Zemlinsky, Alexander von
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Zemlinsky, Alexander von (1871 - 1942) Image Leben Austrian born composer and conductor, of Polish parentage, Zemlinsky was a close frind of both Mahler and his brother-in-law Schoenberg ...

8. Ullmann, Victor
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Ullmann, Victor (1898 - 1944) Leben Viktor Ullmann Studied with Schoenberg in Vienna and Hába in Prague, where he lived until in 1942 he was interne as a Jew at Terezin. There he composed ...

9. Cui, César
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Cui, César (1835 - 1918) Image Leben The Russian composer and critic, César Cui, was the son of a French officer who had remained in Russia after the retreat of Napoleon in 1812. ...

10. Dargomizhsky, Alexander Sergeyevich
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Dargomizhsky, Alexander Sergeyevich (1813 - 1869) Leben Born Troitskoye, 14 Feb 1813; died St Petersburg, 17 Jan 1869, Russian composer. With Glinka, he established a tradition of national ...

11. Fuchs, Robert
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Fuchs, Robert (1847 - 1927) Leben The name of Robert Fuchs often appears in the biographies of his distinguished pupils, including Mahler, Sibelius, Hugo Wolf and Zemlinsky, at the Vienna ...

12. Glazunov, Alexander
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Glazunov, Alexander (1865 - 1936) Image Leben Glazunov, a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov, also received encouragement from Belyayev, an influential patron and publisher. In his earlier ...

13. Glinka, Mikail
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Glinka, Mikail (1804 - 1857) Image Leben Glinka is commonly regarded as the founder of Russian nationalism in music. His influence on Balakirev, self-appointed leader of the later ...

14. Händel, Georg Friedrich
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Händel, Georg Friedrich (1685 - 1759) Image Leben The son of a surgeon who was unwilling to allow him a musical education, Handel studied law at the University of Halle before moving ...

15. Joplin, Scott
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Joplin, Scott (ca. 1867 - 1917) Image Leben Joplin was born in east Texas between July 1867 and January 1898. His father had been a slave, his mother was a free-born black woman. ...

16. Kalinnikov, Vasily
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

...  In 1884 he went to Moscow as a scholarship student at the Philharmonic Society School, taking lessons on the bassoon and in composition with Alexander  ...

17. Korngold, Erich
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Korngold, Erich (1897-1957) Image Leben Born in Brno, Korngold proved to be exceptionally talented from an early age. On Mahler’s recommendation he was sent to Vienna where he studied ...

18. Lilburn, Douglas Gordon
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Lilburn, Douglas Gordon (1915 - 2001) Leben Douglas Gordon Lilburn was born November 2, 1915 in Wanganui, New Zealand. His first years, until 1930, were mostly spent at the family station ...

19. Martini, G.Battista
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Martini, G.Battista (1706 - 1784) Image Leben In 1721 G.B. Martini was sent to Franciscan Conventual monastery in Lugo di Romagna (Bologna). In 1725 he became "maestro di cappella" ...

20. Medtner, Nikolai
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Medtner, Nikolai (1880 - 1951) Leben Nikolai Medtner was born in Moscow on 5 January 1880. In his lifetime a great deal was made of his Teutonic rather than Slavic heritage, as if his ...