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

... in Madrid, after a change in their fortunes, by composing zarzuelas, typically Spanish musical comedies. His first substantial stage work was the lyric drama La vida breve, completed in 1905 and first ...

2. 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 ...

3. Biber, Heinrich
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... and the curious string orchestra Battalia (Battle), with its imitation gunfire and drunken soldiers. In the first he makes considerable use of scordatura, with the violin retuned to provide different ...

4. 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 ...

5. Boulez, Pierre
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Boulez, Pierre (b. 1925) Image Life Pierre Boulez was born at Montbrison (26 March 1925). He studied with Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire (1942-5) and privately with Andrée Vaurabourg ...

6. Cabezón, Antonio de
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... of 29 Tientos, pieces varied in technique and mood, Diferencias, sets of variations on secular tunes, Versillos, harmonised versions of the eight psalm tones, and Magnificats, as well as Glosas, compositions ...

7. Capriola, Vincenzo
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Capriola, Vincenzo (1474 - ca. 1550) Life From a personal aspect, the most interesting is Vincenzo Capriola, who was most probably an Italian nobleman who became the most gifted Italian ...

8. Corelli, Arcangelo
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... solo group of two violins, cello and harpsichord. The Violin Sonatas include a particularly well known set of variations on the popular dance-tune La Follia, a melody used by many composers of the period. ...

9. Cowell, Henry
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... musical traditions, his father's Irish folk heritage, and his mother's Midwestern folktunes. Already composing in his early teens, Cowell began formal training at age 16 with Charles Seeger at the University ...

10. Duncan, Trevor
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Duncan, Trevor (1924 - 2005) Life Much of the music of Trevor Duncan must be well known to listeners, not least the March from his Little Suite, used as the signature-tune for the BBC ...

11. Elgar, Edwuard
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Elgar, Edwuard (1857 - 1934) Life Born near Worcester in England, the son of a piano-tuner and owner of a music shop, Elgar was self-taught in composition and began his career by writing ...

12. Flotow, Friedrich von
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... were Alessandro Stradella (1844) and Martha (1847), which incorporates the Irish tune The Last Rose of Summer.  ...

13. Gottschalk, L. Moreau
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Gottschalk, L. Moreau (1829-1869) Image Life Gottschalk was born in New Orleans in 1829. From early in his childhood, he was exposed to the French and African-tinged Caribbean folk ...

14. Grainger, Percy
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

...  Harvest Hymn appears in various chamber or orchestral arrangements, while Walking Tune remains in its original wind quintet form. Folk-song arrangements for various groups of instruments, sometimes idiosyncratically ...

15. Halvorsen, Johan
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...  Less often heard are his three symphonies and two Rhapsodies on Norwegian folk-tunes. Halvorsen is regarded with gratitude by viola players for his arrangements of a Sarabande and a Passacaglia by Haendel ...

16. Henze, Hans Werner
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Henze, Hans Werner (born 1926) Image Life He studied at a music school in Brunswick and, after war service, with Fortner at the Institute for Church Music in Heidelberg (1946-48). ...

17. Kalinnikov, Vasily
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Kalinnikov, Vasily (1866 - 1901) Life Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov was born in 1866 at Voina, in the Oryol District, where Turgenev, Henry James's "beautiful genius", had been born in ...

18. Lange-Müller, Peter Erasmus
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Lange-Müller, Peter Erasmus (185? - 1926) Life On account of his approximately 250 songs the Danish composer Lange-Müller became very popular. His melody was natural, tuneful and expressive. ...

19. Machaut, Guillaume de
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Machaut, Guillaume de ( ~ 1300 - 1377) Image Life Probably educated in Reims, he entered the service of John of Luxembourg, King of Bohemia, as a royal secretary, circa 1323. The ...

20. Mahler, Gustav
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... ironic funeral march that transforms a nursery tune. Symphonies ns. 2, 3, 4 and 8 make use of choruses and vocal soloists. Symphony No. 8 is known as the "Symphony of a Thousand" because of the number ...