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. Falla, Manuel de
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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 ...

3. Aber, Johann
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... Leopold. He was flautist in the La Scala orchestra in 1779, flute teacher at the Collegio Longone, and one of the 84 musicians whose names appear on the Act of Foundation, dated 26 March 1783, of the Pio ...

4. Adams, James B.
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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 ...

5. Bishop, Henry
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... di colore" and flute accompaniment, the latter written for Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors.  ...

6. Boismortier, Joseph Bodin de
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... Six Concertos for Five Flutes which appeared in 1727 (when the composer was 38). It was also to be his first exercise in writing works in three movements - fast, slow, fast. By today's standard they ...

7. Boulez, Pierre
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Composer Boulez, Pierre (b. 1925) Image Life Pierre Boulez was born at Montbrison (26 March 1925). He studied with Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire (1942-5) and privately with Andrée Vaurabourg ...

8. Cannabich, Johann
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Composer Cannabich, Johann (1731 - 1798) Life Johann Christian Innocenz Bonaventura Cannabich was the son of a flute-player and composer, Martin Friedrich Cannabich; Christian was born in Mannheim, ...

9. Christiansen, Asger Lund
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... cello, and a flute sonata that was premiered by Jean-Pierre Rampal. His works reflects the influence of the neoclassicism that flourished in Denmark in the period between the two world wars.  ...

10. Quantz, Johann Joachim
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Composer Quantz, Johann Joachim (1697 - 1773) Image Life After the death of his father, a blacksmith, Quantz began his musical training under his uncle, a town musician in Merseburg. He studied ...

11. Debussy, Claude
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Composer Debussy, Claude (1862 - 1918) Image Life Claude Debussy was arguably the most influential composer of the late 19th and early 20th century. He attended the Paris Conservatoire where ...

12. Durey, Louis
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... cello, among other relatively large scale compositions. His chamber music includes a flute sonatina, a string trio and Les soirées de Vallère for wind quintet, in addition to his three string  ...

13. Emmanuel, Maurice
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... Rhone), derived from the poet Mistral. Emmanuel's chamber music includes a trio for flute, clarinet and piano, a string quartet and the early cello sonata that earned such condemnation from Delibes.  ...

14. Francaix, Jean
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... written while Françaix was a student, won immediate popularity. Other concertos include a Piano Concerto and a Two Piano Concerto, a Violin Concertino and concertos for clarinet and for flute, as well ...

15. Galliard, John Ernst
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...  Galliard worked in London most of his life (from 1706) but learned the oboe and flute from Marechal, a member of the French orchestra in Celle. He was  ...

16. Guerre, Elisabeth Jacquet de La
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... who, around 1685, wrote a Sonata for 2 German flutes, 2  ...

17. Honegger, Arthur
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... interest include the delightful Piano Concertino and the Concerto da camera for flute, cor anglais and strings and the charming "Pastorale d'été", scored for chamber orchestra. The second and third of ...

18. Hotteterre, Jacques-Martin
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... 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 ...

19. Ibert, Jaques
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... returned to France in 1955. Noted for his lightness of touch and sensitivity to melody and harmony, Ibert was also a versatile and prolific composer of operas, ballets and Works The Flute Concerto, ...

20. Jolivet, Andrés
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... demanding considerable virtuosity from the soloist. These include the Concerto for Ondes Martenot, an electronic instrument developed in France in the 1920s, and concertos for trumpet and piano, for flute, ...