1. Anglebert, Jean-Henri d’
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Anglebert, Jean-Henri d’ Leben Jean-Henri d’Anglebert succeeded Chambonnières as harpsichordist to Louis XIV, a position later held by his son. At Versailles he collaborated, inevitably, ...

2. Antheil, George
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Antheil, George Leben The work of George Antheil, the self-proclaimed "bad boy of music," is marked by sustained rhythmic vitality, harmonic pungency, and melodic vigor. Born on 8 July ...

3. Bargiel, Woldemar
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... Leipzig, before returning to his native Berlin, where he was later appointed professor of composition at the invitation of Joachim. His music is influenced by Schumann, who regarded him as one of the leading ...

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

Komponist Carter, Elliott (b. 1908) Image Leben Carter studied at Harvard (1926-32), at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris (1932-35) and privately with Boulanger. Back in the USA he worked ...

5. Dalza, Joan Ambrioso
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... the time, he gravitated towards Venice. The music that has survived is almost entirely in dance form, their relative simplicity would indicate that they were composed with a popular market in mind. In ...

6. 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 ...

7. Ferneyhough, Brian
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Ferneyhough, Brian (b. 1943) Leben Brian Ferneyhough was born in Coventry, England on 16 January 1943. He received formal musical training at the Birmingham School of Music and the Royal ...

8. Gesualdo da Venosa
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... of madrigals include some remarkable and striking compositions, such as the five-voice Moro, lasso, al mio duolo, and the earlier Ahi, disperata vita. His numerous sacred compositions include works intended ...

9. Giordano Umberto
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Giordano Umberto (1867 - 1948) Leben The opera composer Umberto Giordano studied at the Naples Conservatoire and achieved his first success with the opera "Mala Vita" in Rome in 1892 ...

10. Levant, Oscar
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Levant, Oscar (1906 - 1972) Leben Levant was studying with Martin Miessler, a graduate of the Leipzig Conservatory who specialized in the Czerny piano method. He began work with the well-regarded ...

11. Manfredini, Francesco Onofrio
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Manfredini, Francesco Onofrio (1684-1762) Leben He was born in Italy in 1684, probably to a musical family. He did take lessons in violin from the great Torelli, and must have become ...

12. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756 - 1791) Image Leben The youngest child and only surviving son of the Austrian composer Leopold Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus received his early musical ...

13. Paisiello, Giovanni
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Paisiello, Giovanni (1741-1816) Image Leben Giovanni Paisiello, composer of Italiano opere, was born in Taranto on 9 May 1741. His father, a veterinary surgeon who acquired such ...

14. Piccinni, Niccolò
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Piccinni, Niccolò (1728-1800) Image Leben Niccollò Piccinni was a well-known opera composer from Italia, and was the part of that famous war called the Gluck - Piccinni Fued. Piccinni ...

15. Pleyel, Ignaz
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

... première at the S. Carlo Theatre in 1785. In 1791 he accepted an invitation to conduct the Professional Concerts in London. During Pleyel's London stay, F.J. Haydn generally received more critical and ...

16. Rue, Pierre de La
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Rue, Pierre de La (ca. 1460 - 1518) Leben La Rue was a Franco-Flemish master of vocal polyphony, and a highly regarded composer in his native Flanders. La Rue spent some years in Italy, ...

17. Scarlatti, Alessandro
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Scarlatti, Alessandro (1660-1725) Image Leben He was the father of Domenico Scarlatti. When he was 12 he was sent to Rome, where he may have studied with Carissimi. He married in ...

18. Schütz, Heinrich
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Schütz, Heinrich (1585-1672) Image Leben In 1590 he moved with his family to Weissenfels. In 1598 Landgrave Moritz, impressed by his musical accomplishments, took him to Kassel, ...

19. Shostakowich, Dmitri
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Shostakowich, Dmitri (1906 - 1975) Image Leben Dmitry Shostakovich belongs to the generation of composers trained principally after the Communist Revolution of 1917. He graduated ...

20. Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji
(Type: Composer | Bereich: Composers Biographies)

Komponist Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji (1892 - 1988) Leben Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji was born in Chingford, Essex, England on 14 August 1892; his father was a Zoroastrian Parsi civil engineer and ...