1. Operas:karadar Librettos
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2. Alfano Franco
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Alfano Franco Image Life Franco Alfano was born in Posillipo, near Naples, on 8 March, 1875. He studied piano in Naples with Alessandro Longo and later attended the Conservatorio ...

3. 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 ...

4. Allegri, Gregorio
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Allegri, Gregorio Life Gregorio Allegri was born around 1582 in Rome. The earliest record we have of his career is that he joined the choir school at S. Luigi dei Francesi in Rome in 1591. ...

5. Baravalle, Vittorio
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... "Il Sabato del villaggio", after Giacomo Leopardi (premiere 1883, in Rome)  and others.  ...

6. Barber, Samuel
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

...  He won a Pullitzer scholarship in 1935 and the American Academy’s Prix de Rome in 1936 allowing him to study in Rome. He is best known for his famous Adagio for Strings, the slow movement extracted from ...

7. 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 ...

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

... Scala in Milan. Other operas by Bellini include "I Capuletti ed I Montecchi" based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet; the highly popular and complicated "La Sonnambula" produced in Milan in 1831; his most ...

9. Berlioz, Hector
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Berlioz, Hector (1803 - 1869) Image Life A leading figure of French Romanticism, Hector Berlioz was considered to be an outsider as far as the French musical establishment was concerned ...

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

... of Mahler. Many of his works incorporate popular American idioms and jazz rhythms. As a composer his greatest success was the musical West Side Story, a modern American version of Romeo and Juliet.  ...

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

... brother, Giovanni Bononcini, in Bologna, Rome and Vienna, where in 1705 -11 he wrote dramatic works as Kapellmeister to the emperor's brother Charles. Returning to Italy in 1713, he lived mainly in Modena, ...

12. Bononcini, Giovanni Maria
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Bononcini, Giovanni Maria (1642 - 1678) Life Giovanni Maria (born Montecorone, bap. 23 Sept 1642; died Modena, 18 Nov 1678), a violinist for the Dowager Duchess Laura d'Este, was maestro ...

13. Bonporti, Francesco Antonio
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Bonporti, Francesco Antonio (1672 - 1749) Life Bonporti took music lessons in Rome in 1691-95: Corelli is said to have instructed him in violin playing and Pitoni in the composition of ...

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

... Boulanger made a noted place in music history by being the first woman to win the Prix de Rome; it was in 1913, and her piece was her cantata "Faust  ...

15. Boulanger, Nadia
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... de Rome.    ...

16. Bozza, Eugéne
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... (1930), composition (1934), as well as the Grand Prix de Rome. He conducted the orchestra of the Opera-Comique until 1948; he then became Head of the Conservatoire in Valenciennes. His works include ...

17. Caldara, Antonio
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Caldara, Antonio (ca. 1670 - 1736) Image Life Caldara is one of the most prolific composers of an unusually productive generation. He held important appointments in Mantua, Rome ...

18. Cannabich, Johann
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Cannabich, Johann (1731 - 1798) Life Johann Christian Innocenz Bonaventura Cannabich was the son of a flute-player and composer, Martin Friedrich Cannabich; Christian was born in Mannheim, ...

19. Caplet, André
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Caplet, André (1878 - 1925) Life An associate and trusted collaborator with Debussy, André Caplet won the Prix de Rome in 1901, establishing himself as a composer and later as a conductor ...

20. Carissimi, Giacomo
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... Apollinare church of the Collegio Germanico-Ungarico in Rome, an important Jesuit educational establishment. Works Carissimi's many compositions include various works for church performance, Mass ...