1. 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 ...

2. Babbit Milton
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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 ...

3. Chàvez, Carlos
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... and innumerable pieces for voice, piano, and chamber ensemble; he wrote two books (of which Toward A New Music: Music and Electricity  ...

4. Allegri, Gregorio
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... a number of masses, motets, and a small number of instrumental works, including a four-part sonata for string ensemble that might be considered an important early string quartet, written as it was over ...

5. Antheil, George
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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 ...

6. Arnold, Malcolm
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Composer Arnold, Malcolm Life Sir Malcolm Arnold was born in Northampton on 21 October 1921. After study at the Royal College of Music, London, he joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra, becoming ...

7. Bellon, Jean-François
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Composer Bellon, Jean-François (1795-1867) Life Jean-François Bellon was a Paris-based violinist and composer. As a result of the Waterloo War in 1815, his training at the Paris Conservatoire ...

8. Berkeley, Michael
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Composer Berkeley, Michael (b. 1948) Life English composer, son of Lennox Berkeley. He studied composition, singing and piano at the Royal Academy of Music, but it was not until his late twenties, ...

9. Birtwistle, Harrison
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Composer Birtwistle, Harrison (b. 1934) Life Born Accrington, 15 July 1934, English composer. He studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music (1952-5), where Davies and Goehr were fellow students, ...

10. Boismortier, Joseph Bodin de
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Composer Boismortier, Joseph Bodin de (1691-1755) Life Joseph Bodin de Boismortier was among the most popular composers of 18th-century France. He was born in the town of Perpignan and relocated ...

11. Boulez, Pierre
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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 ...

12. Cage, John
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Composer Cage, John (1912-1992) Image Life John Cage is born at Los Angeles (5 September 1912) and died at New York (12 August 1992). He left Pomona College early to travel in Europe (1930-31), ...

13. Carter, Elliott
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Carter, Elliott (b. 1908) Image Life Carter studied at Harvard (1926-32), at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris (1932-35) and privately with Boulanger. Back in the USA he worked ...

14. Cooper, Paul
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... chamber ensemble, voice, choir, and solo piano. His six symphonies and string quartets and multiple solo and choral works are formally economical and encompass a wide variety of musical styles. Cooper's ...

15. Couperin, Francois
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Composer Couperin, Francois (1668 - 1733) Image Life The most famous member of a family of excellent French musicians, Couperin was known as le grand to distinguish him from an uncle of the ...

16. Francaix, Jean
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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 ...

17. Giuliani, Mauro
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... music is enormous (Sonatas, Duets, Concerts for guitar and orchestra, music for ensembles with one or more guitars, etc.)  ...

18. Glass, Philipp
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... the Indian musicians Ravi Shankar and Alla Rakha. His minimalist works of 1965-8 (e.g. Two Pages) are experimental and exploratory but later ones, for his own amplified ensemble, are more complicated ...

19. Goldmark, Karl
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Goldmark, Karl (1830 - 1915) Life Hungarian by birth, Karl Goldmark made his principal career in Vienna, after earlier years during which he earned his living as a violinist in theatre ...

20. Gombert, Nicolas
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... some for ensembles of up to twelve distinct voices. As opposed to his Italian contemporaries, who had begun work on a more animated and harmonically-oriented idiom, Gombert kept entirely within the domain ...