1. Bach, J. Christoph Friedrich
(Type: Composer | Sección: 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 ...

2. Bach, Johann Sebastian
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Compositor Bach, Johann Sebastian Image Vida Johann Sebastian Bach nace en Eisenach, Thuringia, Alemania, en una familia de músicos. Su padre, Johann Ambrosius Bach, violinista de talento ...

3. Bononcini, Antonio Maria
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... where he became maestro di cappella in 1721. His compositions, including some 20 stage works, 40 solo cantatas and several sacred works, are more  ...

4. Bononcini, Giovanni Maria
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... and two sets of solo cantatas. His treatise Musico prattico (1673) was widely influential. His sonatas, among the finest of the late 17th-century Modenese  ...

5. Boulez, Pierre
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Compositor Boulez, Pierre (b. 1925) Image Vida Nace en 1925, en Montbrison (Francia). Estudió con Messiaen en el Conservatorio de París y con Andrée Vaurabourg y René Leibowitz. Desde ...

6. Carissimi, Giacomo
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... include various works for church performance, Mass settings, cantatas and motets. His 14 Latin oratorios are of particular interest and he developed the form of this genre. These include Belshazzars' ...

7. Clérambault, Louis-Nicolas
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Compositor Clérambault, Louis-Nicolas (1676-1749) Vida As with many composers born in the 17th century, we know little of the personal life of Louis-Nicolas Clerambault, though it is recorded ...

8. Danzi, Franz
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... by Apostolo Zeno, Iphigenie in Aulis. Danzi wrote sacred and secular choral music, Masses, oratorios and cantatas. His songs and canzonettes are in contemporary style, but no longer regarded as an important ...

9. Dittersdorf, Karl Ditters von
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Compositor Dittersdorf, Karl Ditters von (1739-1799) Vida Karl von Dittersdorf enjoyed a reputation as a composer that even eclipsed that of Haydn and Mozart. He was born as Karl Ditters, in Vienna, ...

10. Gade, Niels
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Compositor Gade, Niels (1817 - 1890) Image Vida The Danish composer, organist and violinist, Niels Gade, began his musical career with the Danish Royal Orchestra. His first success as a composer ...

11. Guerre, Elisabeth Jacquet de La
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Compositor Guerre, Elisabeth Jacquet de La (1665 - 1729) Vida Baptized Elisabeth Jacquet the 17th of March, 1665, in Paris, probably on the Ile Saint-Louis where her parents lived at the time, ...

12. Händel, Georg Friedrich
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Compositor Händel, Georg Friedrich (1685 - 1759) Image Vida Nace el 23 de febrero de 1685 en Halle (Alemania), donde recibe su primera formación musical. En 1702 ingresa en la universidad ...

13. Hasse, Johann Adolph
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... 1764, he lived in Vienna. Trabajos Hasse composed operas, cantatas, Masses, oratorios, Psalms, and instrumental works (sonatas, concertos, and chamber music). Hasse is mentioned in a letter (1775) ...

14. Haydn, Franz Joseph
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Compositor Haydn, Franz Joseph (1732 - 1809) Image Vida The Austrian composer "Papa" Haydn was universally loved and an important figure in the development of the classical symphony and string ...

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

16. Keiser, Reinhard
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... many operas and Singspiele, cantatas, oratorios, Psalms, motets, and some instrumental compositions. Keiser is mentioned in a letter (1775) from Carl Philip Emanuel Bach to Forkel as one whose works his ...

17. Kuhnau, Johann
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... influence upon keyboard style of the period and his Neue Klavierübung was the precedent for Bach's own four volumes, the last of which contained the Goldberg Variations. Kuhnau composed church cantatas, ...

18. Ma, Sicong
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... Symphony No. 2, orchestral suite "Song of the Mountain Forest", cantatas Democracy, Motherland", "Spring" and "The Huaihe River", violin pieces "Berceuse", "Rondo No. 1", "Inner Mongolia Suite", "Tibet ...

19. Ma, Sicong
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... Symphony No. 2, orchestral suite "Song of the Mountain Forest", cantatas Democracy, Motherland", "Spring" and "The Huaihe River", violin pieces "Berceuse", "Rondo No. 1", "Inner Mongolia Suite", "Tibet ...

20. Méhul, Etienne Nicolas
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... significant. He also wrote ballets, cantatas, patriotic songs, piano concertos and symphonies. His three symphonies surviving in complete form, written in the first decade of the nineteenth century, show ...