1. Abe, Keiko
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Compositor Abe, Keiko Vida Keiko Abe was born in Tokyo into a family of doctors and businessmen. As a child she studied piano, composition and percussion and, most notably, from the age of 12, ...

2. Arensky, Anton Stephanovich
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... concerto, as well as a set of variations for strings on a theme by Tchaikovsky, a work originally composed for string quartet. His best known composition is the Piano Trio in D minor, the first of two ...

3. 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 ...

4. Bax, Arnold
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... Variations for piano and orchestra in addition to a Concertante for piano left hand and orchestra, written for Harriet Cohen, with whom he had a long relationship. Bax's choral works include settings ...

5. 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 ...

6. Blacher, Boris
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... life he experimented with serialism. Trabajos The work that established Blacher on the international scene was his Variations on a Theme of Paganini, an orchestral work based on the theme from the ...

7. Boulanger, Lili
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Compositor Boulanger, Lili (1893 - 1918) Vida Lili Boulanger was born in France on 21 August, 1893. She began her music studies very early, and one of the highlights of her life was being able ...

8. Brahms, Johannes
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... in structure, and all the result of long periods of work and revision. The two early Serenades have their own particular charm, while the Variations on a Theme by Haydn enjoy enormous popularity, examples ...

9. Britten, Benjamin
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Compositor Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976) Image Vida Benjamin Britten nace en Lowestoff (Inglaterra) el 22 de noviembre de 1913, iniciándose en la música con Frank Bridge, con el que aprende ...

10. Bull, John
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... compositions based on both sacred and secular models. His best known work is The King's Hunt, with a series of dance movements, fantasias and song-variations, some of which make considerable demands on ...

11. Buxtehude, Dietrich
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Compositor Buxtehude, Dietrich (c. 1637 - 1707) Image Vida Buxtehude fue desde 1668 hasta su muerte organista en la Iglesia de S. María en Lubeck, dando un grandísimo empuje a la vida musical ...

12. Byrd, William
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Compositor Byrd, William (1543 - 1623) Image Vida William Byrd, (b. 1543, d. July 4, 1623), the most famous and versatile English composer of his age, inherited a characteristically English ...

13. Cabezón, Antonio de
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... of 29 Tientos, pieces varied in technique and mood, Diferencias, sets of variations on secular tunes, Versillos, harmonised versions of the eight psalm tones, and Magnificats, as well as Glosas, compositions ...

14. Chopin, Frederyk
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Compositor Chopin, Frederyk (1810 - 1849) Image Vida Chopin nació en Zelazowa Wola, Polonia, el 22 de febrero de 1810. Su padre Nicolás Chopin fue nombrado profesor de francés en la Academia ...

15. Clementi, Muzio
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Compositor Clementi, Muzio (1752-1832) Image Vida Clementi comenzó estudiando órgano y clavicémbalo en Italia. En 1766 se traslada a Inglaterra donde, gracias a un rico mecenas, puede ...

16. Copland, Aaron
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Compositor Copland, Aaron (1900 - 1990) Image Vida Nace en Brooklyn (Nueva York, USA) el 14 de noviembre de 1900. Sus primeros estudios musicales los realiza en el ambiente familiar, bajo ...

17. Corelli, Arcangelo
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... with a solo group of two violins, cello and harpsichord. The Violin Sonatas include a particularly well known set of variations on the popular dance-tune La Follia, a melody used by many composers of ...

18. 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 ...

19. Ding, Shande
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... a large number of piano pieces, including Variations on Themes of Chinese Folk-songs, a children's piano suite Happy Festival, Xinjiang Dances Nos. 1 and 2, and art-songs such as Blue Mist, My Husband ...

20. Dohnanyi, Ernö
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Compositor Dohnanyi, Ernö (1877 - 1960) Image Vida Ernö Dohnányi con su Quinteto op.1 suscitó el entusiasmo de Brahms. En 1897 inició su carrera como concertista y en 1908 consiguió el ...