1. Rossini Gioacchino
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Gioacchino Rossini Image Leben Of Rossini's three dozen or so operas, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) is probably the best known, a treatment of the first play of ...

2. Adam, Adolphe
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... the living. His opera "Si j'étais roi" was among the most successful and the overture remains in international concert repertoire.  ...

3. 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, ...

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

... BWV 1046 - 1051, dedicated to the Margrave of Brandenburg in 1721, feature a variety of forms and groups of instruments, while the four Orchestral Suites or Overtures, BWV 1066 - 1069, include the famous ...

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

Komponist Barber, Samuel Leben American composer and musician, born in Pennsylvania, Barber was a graduate of the Curtis Institute, Philadelphia, where he studied piano, conducting, singing and ...

6. 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 ...

7. Berlioz, Hector
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... later by Harold in Italy, for viola and orchestra, with a narrative programme of literary origin, written for but never performed by the great violinist Paganini. Concert overtures include a Shakespearean ...

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

...  Arbeiten In addition to West Side Story, Bernstein’s best known works include the ballet-score Fancy Free and the overture to his comic operetta Candide. He wrote three symphonies: his second symphony, ...

9. Boieldieu, François-Adrien
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... some eight years of absence. By the time of his death in 1834 he had gone some way towards upholding French comic opera traditions against the inroads of the Arbeiten The overture to the opera ...

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

... popularity, examples of a form in which Brahms had complete mastery. Two overtures, the "Academic Festival Overture" and the "Tragic Overture", with arrangements of his "Hungarian Dances", complete the ...

11. Carter, Elliott
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... more towards Stravinsky and Hindemith. They included the ballets Pocahontas (1939) and The Minotaur (1947), the Symphony n. 1 (1942) and Holiday Overture  ...

12. Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... Sates in 1939. His works are still largely unpublished and include eight operas, many film scores, ballets, oratorios, overtures, songs and chamber music. Arbeiten Castelnuovo-Tedesco wrote several ...

13. Cowen, Frederic Hymen
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... English song. He regarded himself as a symphonist, with six symphonies to his credit, but excelled in lighter music, exemplified in the concert overture "The Butterfly's Ball", inspired by a well known ...

14. Czerny, Carl
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Czerny, Carl (1791 - 1857) Image Leben A precociously gifted Austrian pianist, Carl Czerny is best known for his piano studies, especially those collected in his Complete Theoretical ...

15. Ding, Shande
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... Long March, New China Symphonic Suite, Spring Symphonic Poem, Symphonic Overture, Piano Concerto in B flat major, String Quartet in E minor, Piano Trio in C major, the cantata Ode to the Huangpu River, ...

16. Dittersdorf, Karl Ditters von
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Dittersdorf, Karl Ditters von (1739-1799) Leben Karl von Dittersdorf enjoyed a reputation as a composer that even eclipsed that of Haydn and Mozart. He was born as Karl Ditters, in Vienna, ...

17. 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 ...

18. Elgar, Edwuard
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... its unsolved musical puzzle, is one of the best of his works. Elgar is best known for his "Pomp and Circumstance", a set of five marches.    The concert overture Cockaigne is an evocation of London, while ...

19. Gade, Niels
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... came in 1840 with his overture Echoes of Ossian. His first symphony was performed by the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, where he met Mendelssohn and Schumann who greatly influenced his work. Gade succeeded ...

20. Gilson, Paul
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... incidental music for the play Alvar and a dramatic series of Symphonic Overtures.  ...