1. Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann Image Leben Wilhelm Friedemann Bach was the second child, the oldest son, of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach. He was born in Weimar on November ...

2. 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 ...

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

Komponist Blitzstein, Marcus Samuel (1905 - 1964) Leben Marcus Samuel Blitzstein was born in Philadelphia on March 2nd, 1905, the son of affluent parents. His musical gifts were apparent at an ...

4. 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 ...

5. Dvorák, Antonin
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Dvorák, Antonin (1841 - 1904) Image Leben The late 19th century brought an increasing awareness of national identity to various ethnic groups in Europe and Dvorák’s musical career ...

6. Godowsky, Leopold
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... he wrote demanding music for the piano, with arrangements and studies that offer considerable technical challenge. His Waltz Masks and music for two pianists give a sample of his style.  ...

7. Guillou, Jean
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Guillou, Jean (b. 1930) Leben Born Angers, 18 Apr 1930, Jean Guillou is one of the most individual figures in contemporary French music. In the years after the second World War he studied ...

8. Halle, Adam de la
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Halle, Adam de la (1245 - 1285 ?) Image Leben Adam de la Halle was a French trouvère poet and composer: his musical and literary works encompass virtually every genre current in ...

9. 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 ...

10. Heller, Stephen
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Heller, Stephen (1813 - 1888) Leben Stephen Heller was born in Hungary but made his career in Paris, after earlier patronage from members of the Fugger family in Augsburg, from where ...

11. Himmel, Friedrich Heinrich
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Himmel, Friedrich Heinrich (1765 - 1814) Leben Himmel, from 1785, studied theology in Halle, but spend more of his time there at the piano than in the lecture hall. He was made royal ...

12. Hovhaness, Alan
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Hovhaness, Alan (1911 - 2000) Leben Alan Hovhaness (b. Somerville, Massachusetts, USA, 8 March 1911) was an American composer of Armenian and Scottish descent. Chronologically, part ...

13. Kuhnau, Johann
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... positions except the university, knew Kuhnau at least since 1716 when together they had proved the new organ at the Liebfrauenkirche in Halle. Arbeiten Kuhnau's keyboard works exerted a tremendous ...

14. Locatelli, Antonio
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Locatelli, Antonio (1695 - 1764) Image Leben Pietro Antonio Locatelli was born in Bergamo and probably studied with Corelli, in Rome. He was a well known violinist and performed ...

15. Löwe, Karl
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Löwe, Karl (1796 - 1869) Image Leben Löwe was professor of music at Lyceum at Halle and music-director at Stettin. Often he sang accompanied himself with the piano, as it was custom ...

16. Marais, Marin
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Marais, Marin (1656 - 1728) Leben During the period when the French viol school led all of Europe in viol virtuosi (1675-1770), Marin Marais (b. Paris, 31 May 1656, d Paris, 15 August ...

17. Rachmaninov, Sergej
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... concertos holds an unchallenged position among romantic works in this form. Its popularity is closely rivalled by the "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini", for piano and orchestra. While the Symphonic Dances ...

18. Reger, Max
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Reger, Max (1873 - 1916) Image Leben Reger enjoys a particularly high reputation among organists, to whose repertoire he made important additions. Born in Bavaria in 1873, he was ...

19. Reubke, Julius
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Reubke, Julius (1834 - 1858) Leben Born Hausneindorf, 23 March 1834; died Pillnitz, 3 June 1858, German composer, pianist and organist. He studied the piano with Kullak at the Berlin ...

20. Scheidt, Samuel
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Scheidt, Samuel (1587 - 1654) Leben The German organist and composer Samuel Scheidt was born in Halle in 1587 and represents the first generation of German composers in the Baroque period. ...