1. Announcements :AudiMozart! 2010
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... HORN and orchestra. Rovereto (TN - Italy), May 21 - June 5 2010Final round with the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento!http://www.mozartitalia.org/audimozart_2010/index.php?ID=1〈=2 Applications ...

2. 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 ...

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

Composer Agnesi, Maria Teresa Life Italian composer, harpsichordist, singer and librettist: as a girl she performed in her home while her elder sister Maria Gaetna (1718-99; she became a distinquished ...

4. 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, ...

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

Composer Bononcini, Antonio Maria (1677 - 1726) Life Antonio Maria Bononcini – brother of Giovanni - (born Modena, 18 June 1677; died there, 8 July 1726), composer and cellist, worked with the ...

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

Composer Boulanger, Lili (1893 - 1918) Life Lili Boulanger was born in France on 21 August, 1893. She began her music studies very early, and one of the highlights of her life was being able ...

7. Qu, Xiao-Song
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Qu, Xiao-Song (b. 1952) Life Qu  was born in southwestern China in 1952. In 1968, after completinq middle school he was sent down to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution, where ...

8. Donatoni, Franco
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Donatoni, Franco (1927 - 2000) Image Life Franco Donatoni was born in Verona, 9 June 1927. After further studies with Pizzetti at the Accademia di S. Cecilia di Roma, he gradually ...

9. Glière, Reinhold Moritsovich
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Glière, Reinhold Moritsovich (1875 - 1956) Life 1875 Reinhold Moritsovich Glière born in Kiev on 11 January. Son of a woodwind instrument maker of Belgian extraction. Learned violin from ...

10. 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 ...

11. Joplin, Scott
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Joplin, Scott (ca. 1867 - 1917) Image Life Joplin was born in east Texas between July 1867 and January 1898. His father had been a slave, his mother was a free-born black woman. ...

12. Kapralova, Vitezslava
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Kapralova, Vitezslava (1940 - 1915) Life Born in Brno (Czech Republic) on Jan. 24th, 1915, Czech conductor and composer, she died in Montpellier (France), on June 16, 1940. Unique child ...

13. Lassus, Orlando de
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Lassus, Orlando de (1532-1594) Image Life He was born at Mons, on 1530 or 1532, and he died at Munich on 14 June 1594. He served Ferrante Gonzaga of Mantua from circa 1544, accompanying ...

14. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756 - 1791) Image Life The youngest child and only surviving son of the Austrian composer Leopold Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus received his early musical training ...

15. Paisiello, Giovanni
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Paisiello, Giovanni (1741-1816) Image Life Giovanni Paisiello, composer of Italiano opere, was born in Taranto on 9 May 1741. His father, a veterinary surgeon who acquired such fame ...

16. Pettersson, Gustav Allan
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Pettersson, Gustav Allan (1911 - 1979) Life Gustav Allan Pettersson was born September 19, 1911, in the Västra Ryd parish of the Uppland province of Sweden; he was the youngest of four ...

17. Raynor, John
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Raynor, John (1909 - 1970) Image Life John Raynor was born at Westminster, London on 5 June 1909. His father, Arthur Guy Sandars Raynor, was Master of the King's Scholars at Westminster ...

18. Reubke, Julius
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Reubke, Julius (1834 - 1858) Life Born Hausneindorf, 23 March 1834; died Pillnitz, 3 June 1858, German composer, pianist and organist. He studied the piano with Kullak at the Berlin Conservatory, ...

19. Rocca, Ludovico
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Rocca, Ludovico (1895-1966) Life Lodovico Rocca, born 29 November 1895 in Torino, died 25 June 1986, in Torino, Italian composer. He wrote instrumental, chamber and symphonical works: ...

20. Rouget de Lisle, Claude-Joseph
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Rouget de Lisle, Claude-Joseph (1760 - 1836) Life Born Lons-le-Saumier, 10 May 1760; died Choisy-le-Roi, 26/27 June 1836, French poet and composer. Posted as a lieutenant to Strasbourg ...