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

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2. Rossini Gioacchino
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

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. Agricola Alexander
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Agricola Alexander Life Agricola was a Franco-Flemish contemporary of Josquin Des Prez who spent most of his working life in Italy. During his lifetime he was considered by some writers ...

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

... di San Pietro a Maiella. There he studied harmony with Camillo de Nardis and composition with Paolo Serrao. In 1895 Alfano moved to Leipzig, where he continued his studies with Sitt and Jadassohn. The ...

5. Babbit Milton
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Babbit Milton Life The compositional and intellectual wisdom of Milton Babbitt has influenced a wide range of contemporary musicians. A broad array of distinguished musical achievements ...

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

Composer Chàvez, Carlos Image Life Born 13 June 1899 in Mexico City, Carlos Chávez was a renowned composer, conductor, and educator whose distinctive, often highly percussive music synthesized ...

7. Falla, Manuel de
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Composer Falla, Manuel de Image Life The music of Spain has exercised an exotic fascination, but often in forms adapted by foreign composers. Manuel de Falla is representative of a group of ...

8. 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 ...

9. Abe, Keiko
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Abe, Keiko Life Keiko Abe was born in Tokyo into a family of doctors and businessmen. As a child she studied piano, composition and percussion and, most notably, from the age of 12, the ...

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

Composer Adam, Adolphe Life The son of a distinguished Paris Conservatoire piano-teacher, Adolphe Adam was born in Paris in 1803. He won popular success with his many compositions for the stage, ...

11. Agnesi, Maria Teresa
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... and played compositions of her own invention. Her first theatrical work, Il restauro d'Arcadia, was successfully presented in  ...

12. Alain, Jehan Ariste
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Alain, Jehan Ariste Life Jehan Ariste Alain was born into a family of organists on February 3rd, 1911 in St-Germain-en-Laye, a suburb in west Paris. His father Albert, was a composer, ...

13. Albert, Stephen
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Albert, Stephen Life Born in New York City on 6 February 1941, Albert began his musical training on the piano, French horn, and trumpet as a youngster. He first studied composition at ...

14. Alkan, Charles-Valentin
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Alkan, Charles-Valentin Image Life French pianist and composer, Alkan made his debut at the age of 12 performing his own compositions and those of others. Alkan was a member of a ...

15. Ambrose, Saint
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... been particulary noted for his involvement in the development of Ambrosian or Milanese chant. A regards Ambrose's hymn composition, it is virtually certain that he wrote at least four, probabily six, ...

16. Anfossi, Pasquale
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Anfossi, Pasquale Life Pasquale Anfossi, compositor from Taggia (Liguria, Italy), takes place in a troubled moment in building his own space since there was Mozart with his successes and ...

17. 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 ...

18. Arensky, Anton Stephanovich
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... for strings on a theme by Tchaikovsky, a work originally composed for string quartet. His best known composition is the Piano Trio in D minor, the first of two such works, which was written in 1894 and ...

19. Arne, Thomas
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... instrumental and vocal music. Works Above all Arne is remembered popularly for his patriotic composition Rule, Britannia, written for the dramatic work "Alfred" of 1740 and for his settings of Shakespearean ...

20. Aulin, Tor
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Aulin, Tor Life Though Tor Aulin studied composition with Scharwenka, he early career focused on the violin, playing in orchestras, before forming the Aulin Quartet in 1887. It became ...