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

Komponist Arnold, Samuel Leben Samuel Arnold was born in London, the son of Thomas Arnold and Princess Amalia. The young Arnold studied music under Bernard Gates, one of John Blow’s students, ...

3. 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 ...

4. Bononcini, Giovanni Maria
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Bononcini, Giovanni Maria (1642 - 1678) Leben Giovanni Maria (born Montecorone, bap. 23 Sept 1642; died Modena, 18 Nov 1678), a violinist for the Dowager Duchess Laura d'Este, was maestro ...

5. Boyce, William
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Boyce, William (1711 - 1779) Leben William Boyce is among the most important English composers of the late Baroque period, 25 years younger than Handel, whom he outlived by twenty years; ...

6. Brahms, Johannes
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Brahms, Johannes (1833 - 1897) Image Leben Brahms was born in Hamburg to the son of a double-bass player and his older seamstress wife. The violinist Joseph Joachim introduced him ...

7. Buxtehude, Dietrich
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Buxtehude, Dietrich (c. 1637 - 1707) Image Leben Buxtehude was a distinguished composer and organist who greatly influenced the young composers of his time. Handel and Johann Sebastian ...

8. Caldara, Antonio
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... with Handel, Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti. While Caldara's output includes a variety of instrumental pieces, the great bulk of his music (over 3.400 items)  ...

9. Corelli, Arcangelo
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... influence over the following generation of composers, especially Handel who worked with him for a short time in Rome in 1707. Corelli spent most of his life in Rome, where he served the exiled Catholic ...

10. Galliard, John Ernst
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

...  They were productions under one hour with numerous effects that audiences enjoyed. "Calypso and Telemachus" was an opera composed by Galliard and esteemed by Handel even though it had limited performances. ...

11. Gambarini, Elisabetta de
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Gambarini, Elisabetta de (1731 - ?) Leben Elisabetta de Gambarini is thought to have been born in London on September 7, 1731 to Italian-born Charles Gambarini and his wife. She was ...

12. Geminiani, Francesco
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... for his dazzling technique. He once agreed, conditionally, to a request that he perform on the violin if Handel would accompany him. From 1733 until his death Arbeiten Most of Geminiani's compositions ...

13. Gluck, Willibald
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... was given in 1741. Others followed, elsewhere in Italy and during 1745-6 in London, where he met Handel's music. After further travel (Dresden, Copenhagen,  ...

14. Grainger, Percy
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... includes the delightful Handel in the Strand, intended for piano trio, piano quartet or string orchestra, and Mock Morris, for either string sextet or violin and piano, or again in arrangements for string ...

15. Grieg, Edward
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Grieg, Edward (1843 - 1907) Image Leben Edvard Grieg is the most important Norwegian composer of the later 19th century, a period of growing national consciousness. As a child, ...

16. Halvorsen, Johan
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Halvorsen, Johan (1864 - 1935) Leben Johan Halvorsen, violinist, conductor and composer, continued the nationalist Norwegian traditions established by Grieg, serving for thirty years ...

17. 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 ...

18. Haydn, Franz Joseph
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Haydn, Franz Joseph (1732 - 1809) Image Leben The Austrian composer "Papa" Haydn was universally loved and an important figure in the development of the classical symphony and string ...

19. Isaac, Heinrich
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Isaac, Heinrich (c.1450-1517) Leben It would be going too far to say that Heinrich Isaac is an unjustly neglected composer: yet his reputation is still confined to the limbo which contains ...

20. Mattheson, Johann
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... introduced Handel to the musical circles of Hamburg. That same year the two went to Lübeck to consider that city's offer of Buxtehude's post. Unwilling to comply with one stipulation - that he marry ...