1. Benvenuti
(Informazioni Generali/Associazione - Italian - Italy)

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2. Operas:karadar Librettos
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3. Rossini Gioacchino
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers), Il Turco in Italia (The Turk in Italy), La Cenerentola (Cinderella) and La Gazza ladra (The Works During his lifetime Rossini occupied an unrivalled position ...

4. Alfano Franco
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Alfano Franco Image Life Franco Alfano was born in Posillipo, near Naples, on 8 March, 1875. He studied piano in Naples with Alessandro Longo and later attended the Conservatorio ...

5. Chàvez, Carlos
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... elements of Mexican, Indian, and Spanish-Mexican influence. A prolific writer of music and music criticism, Chávez's oeuvre includes five ballets, seven symphonies, four concertos, a cantata and opera, ...

6. Falla, Manuel de
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... staged in Nice in 1913. The ballet El amor brujo (Love the Magician), with its ghostly story of gypsy jealousy, was first staged in Madrid two years later. The ballet El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered ...

7. Fano, Guido Alberto
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Fano, Guido Alberto Life He began studying music at the age of nine, under the guidance of Vittorio Orefice, choir master and conductor in Padua, who gave him his first piano lessons and ...

8. Adam, Adolphe
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... wrote some eighty works for the stage. Of these the best known is the ballet "Giselle or Les Wilis", based on a legend according to which the ghosts of unmarried girls return to seek revenge on the living. ...

9. Alamire, Petrus
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... using a pseudonym. He was German, probably called Petrus Imhoff, and he was skilled in music, in particular as a copyist, who Works The origin of all the music is not known, and Alamire had probably ...

10. Allegri, Gregorio
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Allegri, Gregorio Life Gregorio Allegri was born around 1582 in Rome. The earliest record we have of his career is that he joined the choir school at S. Luigi dei Francesi in Rome in 1591. ...

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

... with Lully, excerpts from whose operas and ballets he transcribed for keyboard. Works The four keyboard suites of d’Anglebert, including dances, transcriptions and opening unmeasured preludes, represent ...

12. Antheil, George
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Antheil, George Life 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 ...

13. Auric, George
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... Milhaud) who revolted against the influence of established French composers such as Claude Debussy. His first work to gain critical acclaim was the comedy ballet "The Bores". He composed scores for several ...

14. Bach, Johann Christian
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Bach, Johann Christian Image Life Johann Christian Bach is commonly called the "English Bach", and was the youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach und Magdalene. He was born in Leipzig, ...

15. Bach, Johann Sebastian
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Bach, Johann Sebastian Image Life Johann Sebastian Bach   (father of Carl Philip Emanuel, Johann Christian and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach) was the most significant member of the Bach ...

16. Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann Image Life 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 ...

17. Balakirev, Alexejewich
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Balakirev, Alexejewich Image Life In the second half of the 19th century, Balakirev was the guiding spirit of a group of Russian ‘nationalist’ composers called the Moguchaya Koochka, ...

18. Baravalle, Vittorio
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Baravalle, Vittorio Life Vittorio Baravalle, born 1855 in Fossano (Cuneo, Italy), died 1942, Italian composer. He wrote a lot of works, specially stage works: "Andrea del Sarto", "Iglesias", ...

19. Barber, Samuel
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... of Bridge, for four singers and chamber orchestra, and Anthony and Cleopatra, with a libretto by Zeffirelli. His two ballet scores are Medea and Souvenirs. The Adagio for Strings was arranged for string ...

20. Bartok, Bela
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Bartok, Bela Image Life Arguably the greatest composer of his nation and a proficient pianist, Bartok started a systematic collection of Hungarian folk music and neighbouring regions, ...