1. Aber, Johann
(Type: Composer | Sección: Composers Biographies)

... Leopold. He was flautist in the La Scala orchestra in 1779, flute teacher at the Collegio Longone, and one of the 84 musicians whose names appear on the Act of Foundation, dated 26 March 1783, of the Pio ...

2. Albert, Stephen
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Compositor Albert, Stephen Vida 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 ...

3. Zeisl, Eric
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Compositor Zeisl, Eric (1905 - 1959) Vida Eric Zeisl was born in Vienna on May 18, 1905; against strong family resistance, he entered the Vienna State Academy at age fourteen; two years later, ...

4. Castiglioni, Niccolo'
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... by the Rockefeller Foundation. Until 1969, he was a visiting professor at various universities in the USA. Since then, he has been living in Italy (Milan, and Bressanone -  ...

5. Cooper, Paul
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Compositor Cooper, Paul (1926 - 1996) Vida Born 19 May 1926 in Victoria, Illinois, Paul Cooper was educated at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, the Conservatoire National, and ...

6. Crumb, George
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... and Rockefeller Foundations) and is a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Presently he is composer in residence at the  ...

7. Donatoni, Franco
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... the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and at Bologna University. Trabajos Donatoni has an excellent ability in accommodating his cultural roots to the crisis of the European avant garde, a crisis which ...

8. Ferneyhough, Brian
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Compositor Ferneyhough, Brian (b. 1943) Vida Brian Ferneyhough was born in Coventry, England on 16 January 1943. He received formal musical training at the Birmingham School of Music and the Royal ...

9. Franckenstein, Clemens von
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... von Hofmannsthal was contemporaneous with the development of their operas, and Strauss' recommendation led to Franckenstein's appointment to the Royal  ...

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

11. Korngold, Erich
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Compositor Korngold, Erich (1897-1957) Image Vida Born in Brno, Korngold proved to be exceptionally talented from an early age. On Mahler’s recommendation he was sent to Vienna where he studied ...

12. Koussevitzky, Sergey
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Compositor Koussevitzky, Sergey (1874 - 1951) Image Vida Koussevitzky was a distinguished symphony orchestra conductor who started his career as a double bass virtuoso. He left Russia in 1920 ...

13. Kurtag, Gyorgy
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Compositor Kurtag, Gyorgy (b. 1926) Vida Gyorgy Kurtag was born at Lugos (Lugoj, Romania) on 19 February, 1926. From 1940, he took piano lessons from Magda Kardos and studied composition with ...

14. Lanner, Joseph
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Compositor Lanner, Joseph (1801 - 1843) Image Vida Together with the elder Johann Strauss I, Lanner laid the foundations of the classical Viennese waltz. Taking Weber's "Aufforderung zum ...

15. Liszt, Franz
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Compositor Liszt, Franz (1811 - 1886) Image Vida Nace el 22 de octubre de 1811 en la localidad de Raiding (Hungría). Fue el precursor del recital para piano y, a través de sus numerosos ...

16. Ma, Sicong
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Compositor Ma, Sicong (1912 - 1987) Vida A native of Haifeng, Guangdong, Ma was a famous Chinese composer and violinist. He began to study instruments and got in touch with folk music when he ...

17. Ma, Sicong
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Compositor Ma, Sicong (1912 - 1987) Vida A native of Haifeng, Guangdong, Ma was a famous Chinese composer and violinist. He began to study instruments and got in touch with folk music when he ...

18. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
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Compositor Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756 - 1791) Image Vida Nace el 27 de enero de 1756 en Salzburgo y pronto se reveló como un niño prodigio. Educado por su padre, a los seis años interpretaba ...

19. Pérotinus
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Compositor Pérotinus ( ~1200 - ?) Vida French composer, the most celebrated musician involved in the revision and re-notation of the Magnus liber (attributed to Léoninus). Two decrees by the Bishop ...

20. Saeverud, Harald Sigurd Johan
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Compositor Saeverud, Harald Sigurd Johan (1897 - 1992) Vida Harald Sigurd Johan Saeverud was born in Bergen, Norway, April 17th 1897; even though music held a strong position in the family when ...