1. Rossini Gioacchino
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Compositor Gioacchino Rossini Image Vida Nace en Pésaro (Italia) el 29 de febrero de 1792; sus primeros estudios musicales transcurrieron en el ambiente familiar, siendo su padre un trompista ...

2. Adam, Adolphe
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... the living. His opera "Si j'étais roi" was among the most successful and the overture remains in international concert repertoire.  ...

3. Arnold, Samuel
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Compositor Arnold, Samuel Vida Samuel Arnold was born in London, the son of Thomas Arnold and Princess Amalia. The young Arnold studied music under Bernard Gates, one of John Blow’s students, ...

4. 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 ...

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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Compositor Beethoven, Ludwig van Image Vida Nació en Bonn el 16 de diciembre de 1770. Sus primeros brotes de talento musical fueron dirigidos con rígida disciplina por su padre, que era ...

7. Berlioz, Hector
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... later by Harold in Italy, for viola and orchestra, with a narrative programme of literary origin, written for but never performed by the great violinist Paganini. Concert overtures include a Shakespearean ...

8. Bernstein, Leonard
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Compositor Bernstein, Leonard (1918-1990) Image Vida Leonard Bernstein es una figura destacada de la música estadounidense, sea como director de orquesta que como compositor. Su fama de ...

9. Boieldieu, François-Adrien
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... some eight years of absence. By the time of his death in 1834 he had gone some way towards upholding French comic opera traditions against the inroads of the Trabajos The overture to the opera ...

10. Brahms, Johannes
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... of a form in which Brahms had complete mastery. Two overtures, the "Academic Festival Overture" and the "Tragic Overture", with arrangements of his "Hungarian Dances", complete the body of orchestral ...

11. Carter, Elliott
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... more towards Stravinsky and Hindemith. They included the ballets Pocahontas (1939) and The Minotaur (1947), the Symphony n. 1 (1942) and Holiday Overture  ...

12. Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario
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... Sates in 1939. His works are still largely unpublished and include eight operas, many film scores, ballets, oratorios, overtures, songs and chamber music. Trabajos Castelnuovo-Tedesco wrote several ...

13. Cowen, Frederic Hymen
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... English song. He regarded himself as a symphonist, with six symphonies to his credit, but excelled in lighter music, exemplified in the concert overture "The Butterfly's Ball", inspired by a well known ...

14. Czerny, Carl
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Compositor Czerny, Carl (1791 - 1857) Image Vida Nace en Viena el 21 de febrero de 1791 en el seno de una familia dedicada a la música y que supo encaminar los estudios de Carl hacia el conocimiento ...

15. Ding, Shande
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... Long March, New China Symphonic Suite, Spring Symphonic Poem, Symphonic Overture, Piano Concerto in B flat major, String Quartet in E minor, Piano Trio in C major, the cantata Ode to the Huangpu River, ...

16. 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, ...

17. Dvorák, Antonin
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Compositor Dvorák, Antonin (1841 - 1904) Image Vida Nace en Nelahozeves, un pequeño pueblo bohemio a 30 kilómetros al norte de Praga, el 8 de septiembre de 1841. De niño aprendió a tocar ...

18. Elgar, Edwuard
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... its unsolved musical puzzle, is one of the best of his works. Elgar is best known for his "Pomp and Circumstance", a set of five marches.    The concert overture Cockaigne is an evocation of London, while ...

19. Gade, Niels
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... came in 1840 with his overture Echoes of Ossian. His first symphony was performed by the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, where he met Mendelssohn and Schumann who greatly influenced his work. Gade succeeded ...

20. Gilson, Paul
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... incidental music for the play Alvar and a dramatic series of Symphonic Overtures.  ...