1. Rossini Gioacchino
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Composer Gioacchino Rossini Image Life Of Rossini's three dozen or so operas, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) is probably the best known, a treatment of the first play of the ...

2. Ambrose, Saint
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Composer Ambrose, Saint Image Life He was bishop and Doctor of the Church. Tradition has assigned to him a musical significance exceeding that of any other early Christian leader. He has ...

3. Anonymous (XI-XV cent.)
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Composer Anonymous (XI-XV cent.) Life The medieval musical experience is impossible to recapture, for most of the music of daily life is lost to us. The sounds of street hawkers, the songs sung ...

4. Bach, Johann Christian
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Composer Bach, Johann Christian Image Life Johann Christian Bach is commonly called the "English Bach", and was the youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach und Magdalene. He was born in Leipzig, ...

5. Bach, Johann Sebastian
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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 ...

6. Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann
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Composer Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann Image Life Wilhelm Friedemann Bach was the second child, the oldest son, of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach. He was born in Weimar on November ...

7. Boëllmann, Léon
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...  Born in Alsace in 1862, he served as organist at the church of St. Vincent-de-Paul in Paris from 1881 until his early death in 1897. Works In addition to the Toccata from the Suite gothique, Op. ...

8. Boyce, William
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... he was a rival of Arne and in 1757 became Master of the King's Music. His works include a variety of music for both church and theatre. Works Boyce's instrumental music includes a set of Eight ...

9. Brito, Estêvâo de
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... at Málaga Cathedral, subsequently to be offered and to refuse a similar position at the royal chapel. He died in Málaga in 1641. Works The church music of de Brito represents a particularly late ...

10. Britten, Benjamin
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Composer Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976) Image Life Benjamin Britten is born at Lowestoft, 22 November 1913, and died at Aldeburgh, 4 December 1976. He studied with Frank Bridge as a boy and ...

11. Buxtehude, Dietrich
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... music for church use, as well as chamber music and keyboard music of a more secular kind. Works Buxtehude's many surviving compositions for the organ include some twenty Preludes and a larger number ...

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

13. Cadman, Charles Wakefield
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Composer Cadman, Charles Wakefield (1881 - 1946) Life A native of Pennsylvania, Cadman was educated in Pittsburgh, where he spent time as a church organist and music critic; in 1904, he began ...

14. Capriola, Vincenzo
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Composer Capriola, Vincenzo (1474 - ca. 1550) Life From a personal aspect, the most interesting is Vincenzo Capriola, who was most probably an Italian nobleman who became the most gifted Italian ...

15. Cardoso, Manuel
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... contrapuntal practices he mastered. His surviving church music, published in his lifetime, includes three books of Masses, a Cantica to the Blessed Virgin and a collection of various motets, music for ...

16. Carissimi, Giacomo
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... Apollinare church of the Collegio Germanico-Ungarico in Rome, an important Jesuit educational establishment. Works Carissimi's many compositions include various works for church performance, Mass ...

17. Cavalli, Francesco
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... He became second organist of the basilica in 1639 and first organist in 1665. He wrote music for the theatre and the church. Works Cavalli wrote a version of the legend of Medea, Giasone, and ...

18. Charpentier, Marc Antoine
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... won considerable esteem. A prolific composer, he was more appreciated for his church music than his secular compositions. Charpentier was favoured by the Dauphin and the Jesuits who appointed him music ...

19. Clarke, Jeremiah
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... vicar-choral at St. Paul's Cathedral. In 1704 he became joint organist with Croft of the Chapel Royal, but went out of his mind and shot himself in 1707. He wrote a quantity of music for the church and ...

20. Couperin, Francois
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... same name. He officially succeeded his uncle and father as organist at St. Gervais church in Paris when he was eighteen. He enjoyed royal patronage under Louis XIV and, in 1693, was appointed royal organist ...