1. 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, ...

2. Agricola Alexander
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Agricola Alexander Life Agricola was a Franco-Flemish contemporary of Josquin Des Prez who spent most of his working life in Italy. During his lifetime he was considered by some writers ...

3. Babbit Milton
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

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 ...

4. Corghi, Azio
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Corghi, Azio Image Life The Italian composer Azio Corghi is among leading contemporary composers in his native country. His remarkable Anabaptist opera Divara - Wasser und Blut, a ...

5. Abe, Keiko
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... marimba. After forming her own trio playing commercial light classics, in 1962 she turned to the world of contemporary classical music. In the following years she was employed as an orchestral percussionist ...

6. Albrechtsberger, J. Georg
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Albrechtsberger, J. Georg Image Life Albrechtsberger, a contemporary of F.J. Haydn, was a famous organist and revered teacher as well as a prolific composer. Although W.A. Mozart ...

7. Anfossi, Pasquale
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Anfossi, Pasquale Life Pasquale Anfossi, compositor from Taggia (Liguria, Italy), takes place in a troubled moment in building his own space since there was Mozart with his successes and ...

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

... dynasty of musicians. He excelled his forebears and contemporaries, but he did not always receive the respect he deserved in his own lifetime. In 1708 he was appointed court organist in Weimar where ...

10. 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. ...

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

... there was precedent in contemporary France, ends with the defeat of the evil prison governor and the rescue of Florestan, testimony to the love and constancy of his wife Leonora. Beethoven contemplated ...

12. Bella, Jan Levoslav
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... and composer, respected by his contemporaries Brahms, Hans von Bülow, Joachim, Dohnányi and others and writing music that at times echoes Liszt or  ...

13. 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 ...

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

... output has had an experimental character and has been influenced by being a practical part of the contemporary debate. Bentzon's opus list comprises about 560 numbered works, and he is one of Denmark's ...

15. 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 ...

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

Composer Binchois, Gilles de Bins (c. 1400 - 1460) Image Life In a period when Franco-Flemish composers were of the greatest importance, Binchois was regarded by his contemporaries as one ...

17. Birtwistle, Harrison
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... interesting themselves in contemporary and medieval music. He then worked as a clarinettist and schoolteacher for brief periods; in 1975 he was appointed music director at the National Theatre. His works ...

18. Blitzstein, Marcus Samuel
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Blitzstein, Marcus Samuel (1905 - 1964) Life Marcus Samuel Blitzstein was born in Philadelphia on March 2nd, 1905, the son of affluent parents. His musical gifts were apparent at an early ...

19. Bloch, Ernst
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Bloch, Ernst (1880-1959) Life A Swiss-born contemporary composer, Ernest Bloch expressed his Jewish heritage in his music. He emigrated to the United States in 1916 and became an American ...

20. Blomdahl, Karl-Birger
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Blomdahl, Karl-Birger (1916-1968) Life Karl-Birger Blomdahl was born in 1916 and after studying biochemistry, became a pupil of Rosenberg. He was soon to embrace the most recent moves ...