1. Announcements :AudiMozart! 2010
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Ciao a tutti! Vi segnalo il V CONCORSO INTERNAZIONALE per l'esecuzione dei concerti di MOZART per FLAUTO, oboe, clarinetto, fagotto, corno e ORCHESTRA. Si svolgerà a Rovereto (TN) dal 21 maggio ...

2. Rossini Gioacchino
(Type: Composer | Sección: Composers Biographies)

... position in the Italian musical world. The son of a horn-player and a mother who made a career for herself in opera, as a boy Rossini had direct experience of operatic performance, both in the orchestra ...

3. Albèniz Isaac
(Type: Composer | Sección: Composers Biographies)

... Suite Iberia, the Suite Española, Op. 47, Twelve Characteristic Pieces (12 piezas caracteristicas), Op. 92 and Recuerdos de viaje, Op. 71.   Some piano pieces by Albéniz have been orchestrated, including ...

4. Alfano Franco
(Type: Composer | Sección: Composers Biographies)

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 ...

5. Chàvez, Carlos
(Type: Composer | Sección: Composers Biographies)

Compositor Chàvez, Carlos Image Vida Descendiente de indios mexicanos, Carlos Chávez Ramírez nace en Calzada de Tacuba (México) el 13 de junio de 1899 comenzando desde muy joven sus estudios ...

6. Falla, Manuel de
(Type: Composer | Sección: Composers Biographies)

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 ...

7. Fano, Guido Alberto
(Type: Composer | Sección: Composers Biographies)

... and who brought him into contact with stage-life and with directing orchestras and choirs. At the age of 16, his first teacher, always dear to him, entrusted him to the care of Cesare Pollini, director ...

8. Abe, Keiko
(Type: Composer | Sección: Composers Biographies)

... the 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 ...

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

Compositor Aber, Johann Vida Johann Aber was an Italian composer and flautist of German descent, living in Milan. In 1765 he was flautist in Sammartini’s orchestra for a concert in honour of Archduke ...

10. Abrahamsen, Hans
(Type: Composer | Sección: Composers Biographies)

... termed "New Simplicity" that emerged in the mid sixties. Simplification and method are key concepts in Abrahamsen's work. He is one of the generation most outstanding composers, and his orchestral work ...

11. Adams, James B.
(Type: Composer | Sección: Composers Biographies)

Compositor Adams, James B. Vida James B. Adams was rather obscure, and he wasn’t famous either. He was an English composer, and he is so unknown that no one even knows when he was born. For that ...

12. Adophe, Bruce
(Type: Composer | Sección: Composers Biographies)

Compositor Adophe, Bruce Vida Bruce Adolphe has composed music for Itzhak Perlman, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Beaux Arts Trio, Sylvia McNair, ...

13. Alain, Jehan Ariste
(Type: Composer | Sección: Composers Biographies)

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, ...

14. Albert, Stephen
(Type: Composer | Sección: Composers Biographies)

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 ...

15. Alfvén, Hugo
(Type: Composer | Sección: Composers Biographies)

Compositor Alfvén, Hugo Vida A Swedish composer, conductor and violinist, Alfvén was born and had his musical training in Stockholm. He wrote a considerable amount of orchestral, choral, vocal ...

16. Anfossi, Pasquale
(Type: Composer | Sección: Composers Biographies)

Compositor Anfossi, Pasquale Vida 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 ...

17. Arban, Jean-Baptiste
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... salon orchestras and conducted at the Paris Opera before taking up a post as saxhorn professor at a military school. This eventually led to a professorship of the cornet, his favoured instrument, at the ...

18. Arnold, Malcolm
(Type: Composer | Sección: Composers Biographies)

Compositor Arnold, Malcolm Vida Sir Malcolm Arnold was born in Northampton on 21 October 1921. After study at the Royal College of Music, London, he joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra, becoming ...

19. Atterberg, Kurt
(Type: Composer | Sección: Composers Biographies)

... administrator and composer. He wrote interesting orchestral music, including nine symphonies, and attractive chamber music, all in approachable style.  ...

20. Aulin, Tor
(Type: Composer | Sección: Composers Biographies)

Compositor Aulin, Tor Vida Though Tor Aulin studied composition with Scharwenka, he early career focused on the violin, playing in orchestras, before forming the Aulin Quartet in 1887. It became ...