1. Albèniz Isaac
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... of contemporary Spanish music and created a distinctive style by using national rhythms and harmonies. Although he wrote several operas, including a King Arthur to English words, songs and orchestral works, ...

2. Adams, James B.
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Adams, James B. Leben James B. Adams was rather obscure, and he wasn’t famous either. He was an English composer, and he is so unknown that no one even knows when he was born. For that ...

3. Addinsell , Richard
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Addinsell , Richard Leben English composer chiefly remembered for his Warsaw Concerto composed for the film Dangerous Moonlight (1941) and as accompanist to Joyce Grenfell. Addinsell ...

4. Arne, Thomas
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Arne, Thomas Leben One of the leading English composers of his time, and also a violinist, Arne wrote a great deal of theatre music, attempting to establish English opera, as well as ...

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

... at the Chapel Royal. He began writing for the stage in 1764, and quickly developed a grand reputation, especially with the English opera "The Maid of the Hill" in 1765. The Maid of the Hill is largely ...

6. Bach, Johann Christian
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Bach, Johann Christian Image Leben Johann Christian Bach is commonly called the "English Bach", and was the youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach und Magdalene. He was born in Leipzig, ...

7. Bach, Johann Sebastian
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Bach, Johann Sebastian Image Leben Johann Sebastian Bach   (father of Carl Philip Emanuel, Johann Christian and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach) was the most significant member of the Bach ...

8. Baker, Kenny
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Baker, Kenny Leben Born Withersnea, England, UK, 1 March 1921, influential and highly accomplished English trumpeter and flugelhorn exponent, Baker embraces most jazz styles and is known ...

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

... literally "the mighty handful", but better known in English as the Mighty Five, which included César Cui, Mussorgsky, Borodin and Rimsky-Korsakov. Balakirev was the only one of the group to begin as a ...

10. Bantock, Granville
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Bantock, Granville Leben Granville Bantock played an important part in the development and promotion of English music, both as a conductor and as a teacher and educational administrator. ...

11. Bax, Arnold
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... charm and power. He occupied an important place in English music during his lifetime. He was knighted in 1937. Arbeiten Apart from his piano music, his orchestral tone-poems of Celtic implication, ...

12. Beethoven, Ludwig van
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Beethoven, Ludwig van Image Leben The eldest son of a singer in the Kapelle of the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne and grandson of the Archbishop's Kapellmeister. Beethoven settled ...

13. Bennett, William Sterndale
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Bennett, William Sterndale (1816 - 1875) Image Leben English composer who wrote most of his works while he was studying in Leipzig where he became a close friend of Robert Schumann ...

14. Berkeley, Michael
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Berkeley, Michael (b. 1948) Leben English composer, son of Lennox Berkeley. He studied composition, singing and piano at the Royal Academy of Music, but it was not until his late twenties, ...

15. Bernstein, Leonard
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... The Age of Anxiety, is based on the work of the English poet W.H. Auden. The Jeremiah Symphony of 1942, with its mezzo-soprano solo, represents a religious vein in Bernstein's music. This was followed, ...

16. Binchois, Gilles de Bins
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... of the greatest composers of his age, together with the French composer Dufay and the English composer Dunstable. Binchois joined the court of the Duke of Burgundy who had the most lavish private musical ...

17. Birtwistle, Harrison
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Birtwistle, Harrison (b. 1934) Leben Born Accrington, 15 July 1934, English composer. He studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music (1952-5), where Davies and Goehr were fellow ...

18. Bliss, Arthur
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... English music, after a more controversial period of composition in youth. In accordance with the perceived duties of his official position, he wrote various ceremonial pieces, in addition to music for ...

19. Blow, John
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Blow, John (1649 – 1708) Leben English composer. He was organist and choirmaster at Westminster Abbey and the Chapel Royal and the teacher of Henry Purcell. He wrote more than 100 anthems ...

20. Boughton, Rutland
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Boughton, Rutland (1878 - 1960) Leben Rutland Boughton was born in Aylesbury on January 23rd, 1878. His father was a grocer, in a small and not very thriving way of business, and there ...