1. Berg, Alban
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Berg, Alban (1885 - 1935) Image Life The Austrian composer Alban Berg was a pupil of Arnold Schönberg. With Anton Webern, he was a leading figure in the so-called Second Viennese ...

2. Britten, Benjamin
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976) Image Life Benjamin Britten is born at Lowestoft, 22 November 1913, and died at Aldeburgh, 4 December 1976. He studied with Frank Bridge as a boy and ...

3. Zimmermann, Bernd Alois
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Zimmermann, Bernd Alois (1918 - 1970) Life Zimmermann occupies a special position in German music of the twentieth century, his musical language and techniques relatively original. For ...

4. Firenze, Gherardello da
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... madrigals, and a three-voiced caccia, Tosto che l'alba, which in the Squarcialupi Codex boasts an illumination though to depict the composer.  ...

5. Henze, Hans Werner
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Henze, Hans Werner (born 1926) Image Life He studied at a music school in Brunswick and, after war service, with Fortner at the Institute for Church Music in Heidelberg (1946-48). ...

6. Levant, Oscar
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Levant, Oscar (1906 - 1972) Life 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 ...

7. Marpurg, Friedrich Wilhelm
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Marpurg, Friedrich Wilhelm (1718-1795) Life Marpurg began his public career as a private secretary in Paris where he associated with such eminences as Voltaire and Rameau. In 1763 Marpurg ...

8. Pfitzner, Hans
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Pfitzner, Hans (1869-1949) Image Life A pupil of Knorr and Kwast at the Hoch Conservatory, Frankfurt, he was a teacher in Berlin, Strasbourg and Munich until 1934, when he was relieved ...

9. Schönberg, Arnold
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Schönberg, Arnold (1874 - 1951) Image Life Arnold Schoenberg has exercised very considerable influence over the course of music in the 20th century, particularly through his development ...

10. Schreker, Franz
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... the distant sound that he has heard. Der ferne Klang influenced Alban Berg, who made a vocal score of the work. Of other operas, Die Gezeichneten (Those marked by the seal) and Der  ...

11. Webern, Anton
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Webern, Anton (1883-1945) Image Life He studied at Vienna University under Adler (1902-6), taking the doctorate for work on Heinrich Isaac; in composition he was one of Schönberg's ...

12. Wiener, Jean
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Wiener, Jean (1896 - 1982) Life Jean Wiener became a jazz enthusiast after his study at the Paris Conservatoire and in the 1920s formed a jazz piano duo with Clément Doucet. He was of ...

13. Aida (libretto)
(Type: Libretto | Section: Librettos)

Autor Giuseppe Verdi Title Aida Opera (24.12.1871 Opera House, Cairo) Opera in 4 acts, Antonio Ghislanzoni, from a scenario by Auguste Mariette. ... ... Libretto's "Aida" Opera in ...

14. Oberto Conte di San Bonifacio LIBRETTO - PDF
(Type: Libretto | Section: Librettos)

Autor Giuseppe Verdi Title Oberto Conte di San Bonifacio Opera (17.11.1839 Teatro alla Scala, Milan) Opera in 2 acts, Temistocle Solera. ... ... Libretto's   Oberto  Atto I CORO ...

15. I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata LIBRETTO - PDF
(Type: Libretto | Section: Librettos)

Autor Giuseppe Verdi Title I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata Opera (11.2.1843 Teatro alla Scala, Milan) Opera in 4 acts, Temistocle Solera, after the poem of the same name by Tommaso Grossi. ...

16. Giovanna d'Arco LIBRETTO - PDF
(Type: Libretto | Section: Librettos)

Autor Giuseppe Verdi Title Giovanna d`Arco Opera (15.2.1845 Teatro alla Scala, Milan) Opera in a prologue and 3 acts, Temistocle Solera, after Schiller's drama Die Jungfrau von Orleans.  ...

17. Berg, Alban (Best Works)
(Type: Catalogo | Section: Catalogues)

Composer Berg, Alban (Best Works) Catalog Orchestral Music Stücke op. 6 (1914-15), n. 1-3, for orchestra Lulu Suite, Symphony from the opera   Concertos chamberconcert for piano and violin (1923-25) ...

18. Matilde Shabran LIBRETTO - PDF
(Type: Libretto | Section: Librettos)

Autor Rossini, Gioacchino Title Matilde Shabran Act I Libretto's Matilde Shabran (Bellezza e cuor di ferro) Melodramma giocoso in due atti di Giacomo Ferretti, musica di Gioacchino ...

19. Roberto Bruce LIBRETTO - PDF
(Type: Libretto | Section: Librettos)

Autor Rossini, Gioacchino Title Roberto Bruce Libretto's Roberto Bruce Opera in tre atti di Alphonse Royer e Gustave Vaéz, Traduzione italiana di Calisto Bassi, musica di Gioacchino ...

20. Il Turco in Italia LIBRETTO - PDF
(Type: Libretto | Section: Librettos)

... servente di Donna Fiorilla Prosdocimo, poeta e conoscente di Don Geronio Zaida, un tempo schiava e promessa sposa di Selim, poi zingara Albazar, prima confidente di Selim, poi zingaro PDF libretto ...