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

...              5.000 texts of classical songs history and works                                             ...

2. Albèniz Isaac
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... contemporary Spanish music and created a distinctive style by using national rhythms and harmonies. Although he wrote several operas, including a King Arthur to English words, songs and orchestral works, ...

3. Eccard, Johannes
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... songs and early Masses recalling Orlando di Lasso. He favoured short sacred pieces, vocal and instrumental, and these works of his  ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. Adams, James B.
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Adams, James B. Life James B. Adams was rather obscure, and he wasn’t famous either. He was an English composer, and he is so unknown that no one even knows when he was born. For that ...

7. Addinsell , Richard
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... music in Oxford, Berlin and Vienna. Later he enjoyed a career as a composer of light music and he wrote many film scores, musical revues and songs.  ...

8. Anonymous (XI-XV cent.)
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Anonymous (XI-XV cent.) Life The medieval musical experience is impossible to recapture, for most of the music of daily life is lost to us. The sounds of street hawkers, the songs sung ...

9. Arban, Jean-Baptiste
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Arban, Jean-Baptiste Life Born Lyons, 28 Feb 1825, died Paris, 9 Apr 1889, French conductor, pedagogue and cornet player. After leaving the Paris Conservatoire in 1845, he played in salon ...

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

... songs, including "Where the bee sucks" from "The Tempest", "When daisies pied" from "Love's Labour's Lost" and "Blow, blow, thou winter wind" from "As You Like It". The comic opera "Thomas and Sally" ...

11. Bach, J. Christoph Friedrich
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... at Bückeburg in the same year as his father's death. Known as the "Bückeburg" Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich composed oratorios, symphonies, cantatas, keyboard works, songs, and concertos. Johann Christoph ...

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

... includes the brilliant virtuoso piece Islamey, and for his songs.  ...

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

Composer Barber, Samuel Life American composer and musician, born in Pennsylvania, Barber was a graduate of the Curtis Institute, Philadelphia, where he studied piano, conducting, singing and composition. ...

14. Bax, Arnold
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Bax, Arnold Image Life British composer and novelist, born in London. Literary influences, especially the poetry of W.B.Yeats, were important in establishing Arnold Bax as the leading ...

15. 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 ...

16. Bennett, Robert Russell
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... in Paris. However, on his return to the States he could only find employment playing in dance bands; fate placed in his hands a commission to orchestrate some songs of Cole Porter. They were such a success ...

17. Bennett, William Sterndale
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... good introduction to his music. The former has a romantic slow movement and the latter a Barcarole (Gondolier's Song) slow movement, inserted at the suggestion of Mendelssohn. Bennett’s songs remain an ...

18. 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 ...

19. Berkeley, Michael
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

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, ...

20. Bolcom, William Elden
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... with momentous philosophical and religious themes: they include a monumental setting of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience for soloists,  ...