1. Alfano Franco
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Compositor Alfano Franco Image Vida Franco Alfano was born in Posillipo, near Naples, on 8 March, 1875. He studied piano in Naples with Alessandro Longo and later attended the Conservatorio ...

2. Falla, Manuel de
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Compositor Falla, Manuel de Image Vida Nació en Cádiz el 23 de noviembre de 1876, estudió música con su madre y luego piano en Madrid. En 1939 fijó su residencia en Argentina, donde murió ...

3. Alain, Jehan Ariste
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Compositor Alain, Jehan Ariste Vida Jehan Ariste Alain was born into a family of organists on February 3rd, 1911 in St-Germain-en-Laye, a suburb in west Paris. His father Albert, was a composer, ...

4. Arne, Thomas
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... settings of Shakespearean 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 ...

5. Barber, Samuel
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Compositor Barber, Samuel Vida Nace en West Chester (Pensilvania, USA) el 9 de marzo de 1910. Destacado desde su juventud por su facilidad para componer obras vocales, obtiene el cargo de Organista ...

6. Beethoven, Ludwig van
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... 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 ...

7. Berkeley, Michael
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Compositor Berkeley, Michael (b. 1948) Vida 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, ...

8. Berlioz, Hector
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Compositor Berlioz, Hector (1803 - 1869) Image Vida Compositor francés y figura destacada en el desarrollo del romanticismo musical del siglo XIX, nació en la Côte-Saint-André el 11 de diciembre ...

9. Charpentier, Gustave
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... operas, the first of them, the roman musical (musical novel) "Louise", with its seamstress heroine and her Bohemian lover Julien, rejected by her family. One aria from the opera, "Depuis le jour", has ...

10. Cilea, Francesco
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... Scribe and Legouvé. The action takes place in Paris and is the tragic story of the actress Adriana Lecouvreur and her lover Maurizio, Count of Saxony. The best known arias from the opera are for the soprano ...

11. Quilter, Roger
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Compositor Quilter, Roger (1877 - 1953) Vida English composer, remembered chiefly for his many songs, which enjoyed considerable popularity in their day and were fluently and sensitively written, ...

12. Debussy, Claude
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... on stories by Edgar Allan Poe. He completed only one, "Pelléas et Mélisande", a version of the medieval play by Maurice Maeterlinck, with its story of idealised love perfectly matched with the composer's ...

13. Delibes, Leo
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Compositor Delibes, Leo (1836 - 1891) Image Vida Nace en Saint-Germain-du-Val, Sarthe (Francia) el 21 de febrero de 1836. En 1848 se traslada a París, ingresando en el Conservatorio de ...

14. 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, ...

15. Donizetti, Gaetano
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... is a favourite with operatic tenors, from Caruso to Pavarotti. The comic opera "Don Pasquale", staged in Paris in 1843, is a well-loved part of standard operatic repertoire, as is "L'elisir d'Amore" ("The ...

16. Dowland, John
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... his first collection of airs in 1597, followed by a second in 1600 and a third in 1603. He left over eighty secular songs and these include Come again: sweet love doth now endite, Fine knacks for ladies ...

17. Dussek, Johann
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Compositor Dussek, Johann (1761-1812) Image Vida Jan Ladislav Dussek pertenece a una familia de músicos: su padre, dos hermanos y la hermana eran interpretes y compositores. Alcanzó fama ...

18. Gershwin, George
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Compositor Gershwin, George (1898 – 1937) Image Vida George Gershwin nació en 1898 en Brooklyn, New York. Desde 1916 comienza a componer canciones, la primera "When You Want’Em You Can’t ...

19. Gesualdo da Venosa
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Compositor Gesualdo da Venosa (c. 1561 - 1613) Image Vida Nacido en Nápoles hacia el año 1561, ha pasado a la historia más por sus vivencias mundanas que por la calidad de su música, a pesar ...

20. Giordano Umberto
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... he finally fell a victim with his beloved Madeleine. Arias from the work are popular in recital, including the tenor arias Un dì all'azzurro spazio, Si, fui soldato and Come un bel dì di maggio and the ...