1. Karadar Association
(Informazioni Generali/Associazione - English (United Kingdom))

... of 5 MP3 files Free download of “opera librettos” in PDF format Access to Web Radio Partial access to Web TV Possibility to create one personal blog If you like our website and if you subscribe ...

2. Karadar WEB TV
(Web TV/Karadar Web TV - Italian - Italy)

  Karadar Web TV We are preparing the TV of Karadar, a lot of video original of concerts, demonstrations and tied up events to the classical music realized by our collaborators Our video they will ...

3. Falla, Manuel de
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. Abrahamsen, Hans
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Abrahamsen, Hans Life Abrahamsen is a pupil of Per Nøgård and Pelle Gudmundsen Holmgreen, but his particular point of stylistic departure also reflects a special trend in Danish music ...

6. Alamire, Petrus
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... using a pseudonym. He was German, probably called Petrus Imhoff, and he was skilled in music, in particular as a copyist, who Works The origin of all the music is not known, and Alamire had probably ...

7. 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, ...

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

... Moscow Conservatoire, where he numbered Rachmaninov and Scriabin among his pupils. Arensky’s music reflects the influence of other composers, in particular Tchaikovsky. He was musical director of the ...

9. Bach, Johann Michael
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... became organist at Arnstadt castle. He preceded the great J.S. Bach as town organist in Gehren. His compositions display a bias towards choral works, his motets, in particular, being of real standing. ...

10. 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 ...

11. Balakirev, Alexejewich
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Balakirev, Alexejewich Image Life In the second half of the 19th century, Balakirev was the guiding spirit of a group of Russian ‘nationalist’ composers called the Moguchaya Koochka, ...

12. Banchieri, Adriano
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... particular interest as a theorist. He was organist at Bologna, Imola, Lucca, Siena, Venice, Verona, Milano. In 1615 he helped to found the "Accademia dei Floridi", the first such society in Bologna: the ...

13. Beethoven, Ludwig van
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Beethoven, Ludwig van Image Life The eldest son of a singer in the Kapelle of the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne and grandson of the Archbishop's Kapellmeister. Beethoven settled in ...

14. Bellini, Vincenzo
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... influence was not confined to opera and Chopin owes much to him, particularly in his handling of melody. Although Bellini is remembered chiefly for his highly popular operas, he also composed various ...

15. Bellon, Jean-François
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

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 ...

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

Composer Bentzon, Niels Viggo (b. 1919) Life Among the composers who have exerted particular influence on Bentzon one could mention Stravinsky, Bartók, Schönberg, Hindemith and Carl Nielsen. His ...

17. Berio, Luciano
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Berio, Luciano (1925 - 2003) Image Life Born into a musical family in 1925, Luciano Berio's first teacher was his father. At the Milan Conservatoire, he studied composition under ...

18. Bériot, Charles-Auguste de
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... players, in the practice studio if not in the concert hall. The so-called Military Concerto, No. 1 in D major, is of particular interest, with his popular Spanische Weisen for violin duet.  ...

19. Bernstein, Leonard
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Bernstein, Leonard (1918-1990) Image Life The American conductor, pianist and composer Leonard Bernstein had a strong influence on American musical taste, particularly in his championing ...

20. Binchois, Gilles de Bins
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... establishment in Europe at that time. His setting of the Te Deum, the earliest polyphonic setting to survive, was particularly well known, with a series of vocal  ...