1. Albèniz Isaac
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... contemporary Spanish music and created a distinctive style by using national rhythms and harmonies. Although he wrote several operas, including a King Arthur to English words, songs and orchestral works, ...

2. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. Falla, Manuel de
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

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 ...

5. Alain, Jehan Ariste
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Alain, Jehan Ariste Life Jehan Ariste Alain was born into a family of organists on February 3rd, 1911 in St-Germain-en-Laye, a suburb in west Paris. His father Albert, was a composer, ...

6. 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 ...

7. Arban, Jean-Baptiste
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... orchestras and conducted at the Paris Opera before taking up a post as saxhorn professor at a military school. This eventually led to a professorship of the cornet, his favoured instrument, at the Conservatoire ...

8. Bach, Johann Christian
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

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, ...

9. 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 ...

10. Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

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 ...

11. 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 ...

12. Bellon, Jean-François
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Bellon, Jean-François (1795-1867) Life Jean-François Bellon was a Paris-based violinist and composer. As a result of the Waterloo War in 1815, his training at the Paris Conservatoire ...

13. Bennett, Robert Russell
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Bennett, Robert Russell (1894-1981) Life Born in Kansas City in 1894, it appeared that Robert Russell Bennett would be a major classical composer, and among his mentors was Nadia Boulanger ...

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

... King Lear and two overtures based on the  ...

15. Berwald , Franz
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Berwald , Franz ( 1796- 1868 ) Image Life The Swedish composer and violinist, Franz Berwald, descended from a family of musicians of remote German origin. Although generally speaking ...

16. Bingen, Hildegard von
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... treatises, plays, and "abstract" music. The latter is monophonic, in the style of Gregorian chant, making use of the primary forms of the time: sequence, hymn, etc. Her melodic contours are consistently ...

17. Blitzstein, Marcus Samuel
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Blitzstein, Marcus Samuel (1905 - 1964) Life Marcus Samuel Blitzstein was born in Philadelphia on March 2nd, 1905, the son of affluent parents. His musical gifts were apparent at an early ...

18. Bossinensis, Franciscus
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... his life working in and around Venice. Works He was a composer of both vocal works with lute accompaniment, and lute solos. Passed down we have 172 works, though there is just a question mark over ...

19. Boughton, Rutland
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... king Arthur: The birth of Arthur, the round  ...

20. Boulanger, Lili
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... to sing songs by Gabriel Fauré, with that elder composer himself at the piano. She began taking lessons in various aspects of music from Fauré, Caussade, Vidal, and her own sister Nadia Boulanger. Lili ...