1. Announcements :AudiMozart! 2010
(Announcements )

... Abbado! La domanda di partecipazione deve pervenire entro il 7 maggio 2010. Grazie! Valeria Manzinello Associazione Mozart Italia Via della Terra 48 38068 Rovereto Italy http://www.mozartitalia.org ...

2. Rossini Gioacchino
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers), Il Turco in Italia (The Turk in Italy), La Cenerentola (Cinderella) and La Gazza ladra (The Works During his lifetime Rossini occupied an unrivalled position ...

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. 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 ...

6. 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, ...

7. Anfossi, Pasquale
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Anfossi, Pasquale Life Pasquale Anfossi, compositor from Taggia (Liguria, Italy), takes place in a troubled moment in building his own space since there was Mozart with his successes and ...

8. Arnold, Malcolm
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... principal trumpet in 1942. In 1948, he won the Mendelssohn Scholarship and left the orchestra to spend a year in Italy. On his return, he quickly built up a reputation as a fluent and versatile composer ...

9. Baravalle, Vittorio
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Baravalle, Vittorio Life Vittorio Baravalle, born 1855 in Fossano (Cuneo, Italy), died 1942, Italian composer. He wrote a lot of works, specially stage works: "Andrea del Sarto", "Iglesias", ...

10. Berlioz, Hector
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... later by Harold in Italy, for viola and orchestra, with a narrative programme of literary origin, written for but never performed by the great violinist Paganini. Concert overtures include a Shakespearean ...

11. Bononcini, Antonio Maria
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... brother, Giovanni Bononcini, in Bologna, Rome and Vienna, where in 1705 -11 he wrote dramatic works as Kapellmeister to the emperor's brother Charles. Returning to Italy in 1713, he lived mainly in Modena, ...

12. Bortniansky, Dmitri Stepanovich
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Bortniansky, Dmitri Stepanovich (1751 - 1825) Life As a young man, Bortniansky studied with Baldassare Galuppi in St. Petersburg. In 1769, Bortniansky followed Galuppi to Italy (with ...

13. Bruneau, Alfred
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... French version of the realism current in contemporary opera in Italy. Works Bruneau wrote a quantity of vocal music, in addition to his music for the theatre, with orchestral music that often demonstrates ...

14. Busoni, Ferruccio
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Busoni, Ferruccio (1866 - 1924) Image Life Born near Florence in Italy, Busoni was the son of talented musicians. His father was Italian and his mother German and Ferruccio came ...

15. Campra, André
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... first success in the theatre came in 1697 with "L'Europe galante", an opéra-ballet with entrées for France, Spain, Italy and Turkey. He continued to write opéra-ballets and tragédies lyriques, generally ...

16. Cannabich, Johann
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... Theodor gave Cannabich a royal scholarship to study music in Italy, and he travelled there to begin studies with Niccolò Jommelli in 1750, and  ...

17. Castiglioni, Niccolo'
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... the Rockefeller Foundation. Until 1969, he was a visiting professor at various universities in the USA. Since then, he has been living in Italy (Milan, and Bressanone -  ...

18. Cesti, Antonio
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... turn with the performance of "Orontea" at the Teatro dei S.S. Apostoli, Venice, in 1649. It enjoyed exceptional popularity throughout Italy for several decades. Two new operas, "Alessandro vincitor di ...

19. Chailly, Luciano
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Chailly, Luciano (1920 - 2002) Life Luciano Chailly, born 19 January 1920, Ferrara, Italy. He studied in Bologna and Milan and with Hindemith in Salzburg. He was artistic director ...

20. Qu, Xiao-Song
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Qu, Xiao-Song (b. 1952) Life Qu  was born in southwestern China in 1952. In 1968, after completinq middle school he was sent down to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution, where ...