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2. Albèniz Isaac
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Albèniz Isaac Image Life The Spanish pianist and composer, Isaac Albéniz, was a child prodigy and gave his first piano recital when he was only four years old. He was a founder of ...

3. Agricola Alexander
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Agricola Alexander Life Agricola was a Franco-Flemish contemporary of Josquin Des Prez who spent most of his working life in Italy. During his lifetime he was considered by some writers ...

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

Composer Alfano Franco Image Life 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. Bach, Carl Philip Emanuel
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Bach, Carl Philip Emanuel Image Life A Rococo style composer, and a son of Johann Sebastian Bach, C.P.E. Bach was a wonderful author of cheerful music. He was born on March 8, 1718, ...

6. Chàvez, Carlos
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Chàvez, Carlos Image Life Born 13 June 1899 in Mexico City, Carlos Chávez was a renowned composer, conductor, and educator whose distinctive, often highly percussive music synthesized ...

7. Corghi, Azio
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Corghi, Azio Image Life The Italian composer Azio Corghi is among leading contemporary composers in his native country. His remarkable Anabaptist opera Divara - Wasser und Blut, a ...

8. Dallapiccola, Luigi
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Dallapiccola, Luigi Image Life Luigi Dallapiccola, born 1904, died 1975, is the first Italian to use atonality and he is noted for his operas The Prisoner (1944-48) and Odysseus (1968), ...

9. Eccard, Johannes
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Eccard, Johannes Life German compose: after serving the banker Jacob Fugger in Augsburg (1577-78), Eccard joined the chapel of Prince Georg Friedrich of Preussen-Ansbach in Königsberg ...

10. Falla, Manuel de
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Falla, Manuel de Image Life The music of Spain has exercised an exotic fascination, but often in forms adapted by foreign composers. Manuel de Falla is representative of a group of ...

11. Fano, Guido Alberto
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Fano, Guido Alberto Life He began studying music at the age of nine, under the guidance of Vittorio Orefice, choir master and conductor in Padua, who gave him his first piano lessons and ...

12. Abe, Keiko
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Abe, Keiko Life 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, the ...

13. Aber, Johann
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Aber, Johann Life 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 ...

14. Adams, James B.
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Adams, James B. Life 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 ...

15. Addinsell , Richard
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Addinsell , Richard Life English composer chiefly remembered for his Warsaw Concerto composed for the film Dangerous Moonlight (1941) and as accompanist to Joyce Grenfell. Addinsell studied ...

16. Adophe, Bruce
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Adophe, Bruce Life 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, ...

17. Agnesi, Maria Teresa
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Agnesi, Maria Teresa Life Italian composer, harpsichordist, singer and librettist: as a girl she performed in her home while her elder sister Maria Gaetna (1718-99; she became a distinquished ...

18. Alain, Jehan Ariste
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Alain, Jehan Ariste Life 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, ...

19. Albinoni, Tommaso
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... and secular instrumental works (Adagio for Organ and Strings). Most of Albinoni’s operas have been lost, but a few arias from them remain. Works The set of twelve for strings, Op. 5, the twelve Oboe ...

20. Albrechtsberger, J. Georg
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Albrechtsberger, J. Georg Image Life Albrechtsberger, a contemporary of F.J. Haydn, was a famous organist and revered teacher as well as a prolific composer. Although W.A. Mozart ...