1. 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, ...

2. Bach, J. Christoph Friedrich
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... at Bückeburg in the same year as his father's death. Known as the "Bückeburg" Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich composed oratorios, symphonies, cantatas, keyboard works, songs, and concertos. Johann Christoph ...

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

... where he became maestro di cappella in 1721. His compositions, including some 20 stage works, 40 solo cantatas and several sacred works, are more  ...

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

... and two sets of solo cantatas. His treatise Musico prattico (1673) was widely influential. His sonatas, among the finest of the late 17th-century Modenese  ...

6. Boulanger, Lili
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... Boulanger made a noted place in music history by being the first woman to win the Prix de Rome; it was in 1913, and her piece was her cantata "Faust  ...

7. Boulez, Pierre
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Boulez, Pierre (b. 1925) Image Life Pierre Boulez was born at Montbrison (26 March 1925). He studied with Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire (1942-5) and privately with Andrée Vaurabourg ...

8. 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 ...

9. Carissimi, Giacomo
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... settings, cantatas and motets. His 14 Latin oratorios are of particular interest and he developed the form of this genre. These include Belshazzars' Feast, under the title Baltazar and a dramatic musical ...

10. Clérambault, Louis-Nicolas
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Clérambault, Louis-Nicolas (1676-1749) Life As with many composers born in the 17th century, we know little of the personal life of Louis-Nicolas Clerambault, though it is recorded that ...

11. Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... best known composition is the cantata "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast", later extended as Scenes from the "Song of Hiawatha", based on the poem by Longfellow. The ballet music from Hiawatha was later arranged ...

12. Danzi, Franz
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... Zeno, Iphigenie in Aulis. Danzi wrote sacred and secular choral music, Masses, oratorios and cantatas. His songs and canzonettes are in contemporary style, but no longer regarded as an important part ...

13. Ding, Shande
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... 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, a large number ...

14. Dittersdorf, Karl Ditters von
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Dittersdorf, Karl Ditters von (1739-1799) Life 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, ...

15. Francaix, Jean
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Francaix, Jean (1919 - 1997) Image Life Noted for his concise style and skills as a pianist, Jean Françaix was a composer of great facility and consistent wit. He studied composition ...

16. Gade, Niels
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Gade, Niels (1817 - 1890) Image Life The Danish composer, organist and violinist, Niels Gade, began his musical career with the Danish Royal Orchestra. His first success as a composer ...

17. Geminiani, Francesco
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... He also composed the ballet "La foresta Incantata".  ...

18. Guerre, Elisabeth Jacquet de La
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Guerre, Elisabeth Jacquet de La (1665 - 1729) Life Baptized Elisabeth Jacquet the 17th of March, 1665, in Paris, probably on the Ile Saint-Louis where her parents lived at the time, she ...

19. Händel, Georg Friedrich
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Händel, Georg Friedrich (1685 - 1759) Image Life The son of a surgeon who was unwilling to allow him a musical education, Handel studied law at the University of Halle before moving ...

20. Hasse, Johann Adolph
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... 1764, he lived in Vienna. Works Hasse composed operas, cantatas, Masses, oratorios, Psalms, and instrumental works (sonatas, concertos, and chamber music). Hasse is mentioned in a letter (1775) ...