1. 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 ...

2. 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 ...

3. 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  ...

4. 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  ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. 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 ...

8. 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 ...

9. 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, ...

10. 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 ...

11. 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 ...

12. 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 ...

13. 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) ...

14. Haydn, Franz Joseph
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Haydn, Franz Joseph (1732 - 1809) Image Life The Austrian composer "Papa" Haydn was universally loved and an important figure in the development of the classical symphony and string ...

15. 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). ...

16. Keiser, Reinhard
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... many operas and Singspiele, cantatas, oratorios, Psalms, motets, and some instrumental compositions. Keiser is mentioned in a letter (1775) from Carl Philip Emanuel Bach to Forkel as one whose works his ...

17. Kuhnau, Johann
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... influence upon keyboard style of the period and his Neue Klavierübung was the precedent for Bach's own four volumes, the last of which contained the Goldberg Variations. Kuhnau composed church cantatas, ...

18. Ma, Sicong
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... No. 2, orchestral suite "Song of the Mountain Forest", cantatas Democracy, Motherland", "Spring" and "The Huaihe River", violin pieces "Berceuse", "Rondo No. 1", "Inner Mongolia Suite", "Tibet Tone Poem", ...

19. Ma, Sicong
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... No. 2, orchestral suite "Song of the Mountain Forest", cantatas Democracy, Motherland", "Spring" and "The Huaihe River", violin pieces "Berceuse", "Rondo No. 1", "Inner Mongolia Suite", "Tibet Tone Poem", ...

20. Méhul, Etienne Nicolas
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... He also wrote ballets, cantatas, patriotic songs, piano concertos and symphonies. His three symphonies surviving in complete form, written in the first decade of the nineteenth century, show the influence ...