1. Eben, Petr
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Eben, Petr Life Born Zcaronamberk, 22 Jan 1929, Czech composer. He studied with Bor Caronkovec at the Prague Academy (1948-54) and has taught at Prague University. His works, chiefly ...

2. 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, ...

3. Bax, Arnold
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Bax, Arnold Image Life British composer and novelist, born in London. Literary influences, especially the poetry of W.B.Yeats, were important in establishing Arnold Bax as the leading ...

4. Bennett, William Sterndale
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... good introduction to his music. The former has a romantic slow movement and the latter a Barcarole (Gondolier's Song) slow movement, inserted at the suggestion of Mendelssohn. Bennett’s songs remain an ...

5. Brahms, Johannes
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Brahms, Johannes (1833 - 1897) Image Life Brahms was born in Hamburg to the son of a double-bass player and his older seamstress wife. The violinist Joseph Joachim introduced him ...

6. Chopin, Frederyk
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Chopin, Frederyk (1810 - 1849) Image Life A young man of humble origins and the only son of a French father and a Polish mother, Chopin won early fame as a brilliant pianist within ...

7. Elgar, Edwuard
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... pieces for local perfomances. He became the leading English composer of his generation and a significant figure among late Romantic European musicians. In 1889 he married one of his piano pupils, Caroline ...

8. Fauré, Gabriel
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Fauré, Gabriel (1845 - 1924) Image Life In the rigid official musical establishment of Paris in the latter half of the 19th century Gabriel Faurè won acceptance with difficulty. ...

9. Jongen, Joseph
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... quartet and his 1st string quartet, which won a prize) and several orchestra works, particularly the Fantasie on Walloon Christmas Carols op.24. Jongen's compositional style can be divided into three ...

10. Liszt, Franz
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Liszt, Franz (1811 - 1886) Image Life Considered to be one of the world’s greatest pianists, Franz Liszt’s career spanned virtually the whole of the Romantic period. He taught and ...

11. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809 - 1847) Image Life Felix Mendelssohn was born into a wealthy cultured family. His father was a prominent Jewish banker who added Bartholdy to the ...

12. Menotti, Gian Carlo
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Menotti, Gian Carlo (1911 - 2007) Image Life Gian Carlo Menotti was born on 7 July 1911, in Cadegliano, Italy. At the age of 7, under the guidance of his mother, he began to compose ...

13. Milán, Luis
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Milán, Luis (? 1500 - 1561) Life Luis Milán, a well-known poet and musician at the court of Valencia, was a noted performer and one of the foremost composers for the vihuela, one of the ...

14. Offenbach, Jacques
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Offenbach, Jacques (1819 - 1880) Image Life A Franco-German composer who won fame as a manager, director and composer of French operettas between 1855 and 1880. The son of a synagogue ...

15. Raynor, John
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... carols, and settings of the Mass and of the Evening Service. Finally, he penned several piano pieces. His songs were championed by Vaughan Williams and sung by several noted soloists, including Ian ...

16. Williamson, Malcolm
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Williamson, Malcolm (1931 - 2003) Life Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson, composer of The Happy Prince, was born in 1931 in Sydney, Australia. He entered the Sydney Conservatory ...

17. Aida
(Type: Libretto | Section: Librettos)

Auteur Giuseppe Verdi Titre Aida Opera (24.12.1871 Opera House, Cairo) Opera in 4 acts, Antonio Ghislanzoni, from a scenario by Auguste Mariette. ... ... Livret "Aida" Opera in quattro ...

18. Oberto Conte di San Bonifacio - LIBRETTO
(Type: Libretto | Section: Librettos)

Auteur Giuseppe Verdi Titre Oberto Conte di San Bonifacio Opera (17.11.1839 Teatro alla Scala, Milan) Opera in 2 acts, Temistocle Solera. ... ... Livret   Oberto  Atto I CORO Di ...

19. Giovanna d'Arco - LIBRETTO
(Type: Libretto | Section: Librettos)

Auteur Giuseppe Verdi Titre Giovanna d`Arco Opera (15.2.1845 Teatro alla Scala, Milan) Opera in a prologue and 3 acts, Temistocle Solera, after Schiller's drama Die Jungfrau von Orleans. ...

20. Macbeth
(Type: Libretto | Section: Librettos)

Auteur Giuseppe Verdi Titre Macbeth Opera (14.3.1847 Teatro della Pergola, Florence) Opera in 4 acts, Francesco Maria Piave, after Shakespeare's play. ... ... Livret      Macbeth   ...