1. Announcements :AudiMozart! 2010
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...  email: InfoAMI@MozartItalia.org Tel. ++39/0464/422719 AUDIMozart Competition 2010 FIFTH INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION for the performance of the Mozart's concertos for FLUTE, OBOE, CLARINET, BASSOON, ...

2. Rossini Gioacchino
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Composer Gioacchino Rossini Image Life 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 the ...

3. 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 ...

4. Baermann, Heinrich
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... tone and expressive playing, which inspired Weber's clarinet works, and his son Carl (1810-85), a clarinettist and basset-horn player who was a professor in Munich and the author of a valuable method (1864-75). ...

5. 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, ...

6. Beethoven, Ludwig van
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Beethoven, Ludwig van Image Life The eldest son of a singer in the Kapelle of the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne and grandson of the Archbishop's Kapellmeister. Beethoven settled in ...

7. Biber, Heinrich
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... service with the Prince-Bishop of Olmutz. Works Among a number of interesting compositions are Biber's fifteen Rosary Sonatas, for violin and basso continuo, with its unaccompanied violin Passacaglia, ...

8. Boccherini, Luigi
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... bass player. Also, he was taught by the Abbé Vannucci, chapel-master to the Archbishop. Boccherini proved to be an extremely skilled pupil, and in 1757 he was sent to Roma to perfect his technique under ...

9. Bon, Anna
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Composer Bon, Anna (1740 - ??) Life Anna Bon is a fascinating figure among women composers in the 1700's. Among the rarity of women composers, Anna Bon is an enigma because not much is known of ...

10. Bononcini, Giovanni Maria
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

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

11. Bottesini, Giovanni
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Bottesini, Giovanni (1821 - 1889) Image Life Italian conductor, composer and virtuoso double bass player, Bottesini was known as the Paganini of this instrument and he significantly ...

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

13. Caccini, Giulio
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... by simple chordal bass. This new separation in function was of course integral to the subsequent development of Baroque music as a whole. Although  ...

14. Zelenka, Jan Dismas
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... research, he served as a double bass player in the court orchestra and later aided the ailing Kapellmeister in his duties. Upon the death of the Kapellmeister, the position was awarded to another musician, ...

15. Cesti, Antonio
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... significant competition for Cavalli, who had virtually ruled the stage since Monteverdi's death. He generally avoided the descending chromatism ostinato basses so effectively used by Cavalli in his earlier ...

16. Corelli, Arcangelo
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... music, notably 48 Trio Sonatas for two violins and basso continuo (generally harpsichord and cello), twelve sonatas for violin and continuo and twelve concerti grossi, works for string orchestra with a ...

17. Dragonetti, Domenico
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Composer Dragonetti, Domenico (1763-1846) Image Life Dragonetti is considered as the most famous double bass player in the instrument's history. His career began in his native city of Venice ...

18. Durey, Louis
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... other works. Durey wrote a Concertino for piano, wind instruments, double bass and timpani, a Mouvement symphonique for piano and strings and a string Sinfonietta, as well as a Fantaisie concertante for ...

19. Fauré, Gabriel
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Fauré, Gabriel (1845 - 1924) Image Life In the rigid official musical establishment of Paris in the latter half of the 19th century Gabriel Faurè won acceptance with difficulty. ...

20. Forqueray, Antoine
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Forqueray, Antoine (ca. 1671 - 1745) Life Antoine Forqueray, described as crabbed, crotchety and odd in character, won an unrivalled reputation as a player of the bass viol and was appointed ...