1. Announcements :AudiMozart! 2010
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...  email: InfoAMI@MozartItalia.org Tel. ++39/0464/422719 AUDIMozart Competition 2010 FIFTH INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION for the performance of the Mozart's concertos for FLUTE, OBOE, CLARINET, BASSOON, ...

2. Bach, Johann Sebastian
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Bach, Johann Sebastian Image Life Johann Sebastian Bach   (father of Carl Philip Emanuel, Johann Christian and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach) was the most significant member of the Bach ...

3. Beethoven, Ludwig van
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Beethoven, Ludwig van Image Life The eldest son of a singer in the Kapelle of the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne and grandson of the Archbishop's Kapellmeister. Beethoven settled in ...

4. Biber, Heinrich
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... service with the Prince-Bishop of Olmutz. Works Among a number of interesting compositions are Biber's fifteen Rosary Sonatas, for violin and basso continuo, with its unaccompanied violin Passacaglia, ...

5. Bon, Anna
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Bon, Anna (1740 - ??) Life Anna Bon is a fascinating figure among women composers in the 1700's. Among the rarity of women composers, Anna Bon is an enigma because not much is known of ...

6. Bottesini, Giovanni
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... compositions include a number of double bass concertos, some for double bass and piano, as well as works for solo violin and double bass and for two double basses. His Metodo completo per contrabasso is ...

7. Corelli, Arcangelo
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... music, notably 48 Trio Sonatas for two violins and basso continuo (generally harpsichord and cello), twelve sonatas for violin and continuo and twelve concerti grossi, works for string orchestra with a ...

8. Guerre, Elisabeth Jacquet de La
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Guerre, Elisabeth Jacquet de La (1665 - 1729) Life Baptized Elisabeth Jacquet the 17th of March, 1665, in Paris, probably on the Ile Saint-Louis where her parents lived at the time, she ...

9. Händel, Georg Friedrich
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Händel, Georg Friedrich (1685 - 1759) Image Life The son of a surgeon who was unwilling to allow him a musical education, Handel studied law at the University of Halle before moving ...

10. Hotteterre, Jacques-Martin
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... and 18th centuries. He followed the family tradition of instrument-making and performance, playing bassoon in the Grands Hautbois of the court and flute in the music of the royal chamber. He was popular ...

11. Jolivet, Andrés
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... for piano, for harp, for bassoon and harp, for percussion, for cello and for violin. In addition to his varied incidental music, whether for Molière, Claudel, Corneille or Plautus, Jolivet wrote music ...

12. Kalinnikov, Vasily
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... In 1884 he went to Moscow as a scholarship student at the Philharmonic Society School, taking lessons on the bassoon and in composition with Alexander  ...

13. Landowski, Marcel
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... the first of them Jean de la peur (John of Fear). His concertos include works for the electronic ondes Martenot, for trumpet, for flute, for bassoon and for piano. In addition to his operas, Marcel Landowski ...

14. Larsson, Lars-Erik
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, saxophone, violin, viola, cello, double bass and piano.  ...

15. Leclair, Jean Marie
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... published in 1723, includes two also for flute and basso continuo, and the second dozen includes five also for flute as a possible alternative to the violin.  ...

16. Locatelli, Antonio
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... published in 1744, is scored for four violins, two violas and basso continuo. In his solo  ...

17. Milhaud, Darius
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Milhaud, Darius (1892 - 1974) Image Life Born into a Jewish family living in Aix-en-Provence, Darius Milhaud studied under Dukas, Gédalge and Widor at the Paris Conservatoire, originally ...

18. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756 - 1791) Image Life The youngest child and only surviving son of the Austrian composer Leopold Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus received his early musical training ...

19. Pierné, Gabriel
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Pierné, Gabriel (1863 - 1937) Life A pupil of César Franck and Massenet and successor of the former as organist at Ste Clotilde in Paris, Gabriel Pierné won distinction as a composer and ...

20. Poulenc, Francis
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Poulenc, Francis (1899 - 1963) Image Life After receiving a classical education, the French composer Francis Poulenc studied with Ricardo Vines who introduced him to Satie and Auric. ...