1. Rossini Gioacchino
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... in the Italian musical world. The son of a horn-player and a mother who made a career for herself in opera, as a boy Rossini had direct experience of operatic performance, both in the orchestra pit and ...

2. Babbit Milton
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Composer Babbit Milton Life The compositional and intellectual wisdom of Milton Babbitt has influenced a wide range of contemporary musicians. A broad array of distinguished musical achievements ...

3. Bach, Carl Philip Emanuel
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Composer Bach, Carl Philip Emanuel Image Life A Rococo style composer, and a son of Johann Sebastian Bach, C.P.E. Bach was a wonderful author of cheerful music. He was born on March 8, 1718, ...

4. Chàvez, Carlos
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Chàvez, Carlos Image Life Born 13 June 1899 in Mexico City, Carlos Chávez was a renowned composer, conductor, and educator whose distinctive, often highly percussive music synthesized ...

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

... in Madrid, after a change in their fortunes, by composing zarzuelas, typically Spanish musical comedies. His first substantial stage work was the lyric drama La vida breve, completed in 1905 and first ...

6. Fano, Guido Alberto
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... the Musical Institute of Padova, and court pianist of Her Majesty the Queen Mother. During this period he studied a great deal of  ...

7. Addinsell , Richard
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... music in Oxford, Berlin and Vienna. Later he enjoyed a career as a composer of light music and he wrote many film scores, musical revues and songs.  ...

8. 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, ...

9. 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, ...

10. Albert, Stephen
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Albert, Stephen Life Born in New York City on 6 February 1941, Albert began his musical training on the piano, French horn, and trumpet as a youngster. He first studied composition at ...

11. Alfvén, Hugo
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Composer Alfvén, Hugo Life A Swedish composer, conductor and violinist, Alfvén was born and had his musical training in Stockholm. He wrote a considerable amount of orchestral, choral, vocal and ...

12. Alkan, Charles-Valentin
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Alkan, Charles-Valentin Image Life French pianist and composer, Alkan made his debut at the age of 12 performing his own compositions and those of others. Alkan was a member of a ...

13. Allegri, Gregorio
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Allegri, Gregorio Life Gregorio Allegri was born around 1582 in Rome. The earliest record we have of his career is that he joined the choir school at S. Luigi dei Francesi in Rome in 1591. ...

14. Ambrose, Saint
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

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 ...

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

... getting to a new vision of the musical theatre that in Italy had a good success. The importance of Anfossi is attested in the  ...

16. Anonymous (XI-XV cent.)
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

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 ...

17. Antheil, George
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Antheil, George Life The work of George Antheil, the self-proclaimed "bad boy of music," is marked by sustained rhythmic vitality, harmonic pungency, and melodic vigor. Born on 8 July ...

18. Arensky, Anton Stephanovich
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... Moscow Conservatoire, where he numbered Rachmaninov and Scriabin among his pupils. Arensky’s music reflects the influence of other composers, in particular Tchaikovsky. He was musical director of the ...

19. Arezzo, Guido da
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... on musical practice: it was used throughout the Middle Ages in monasteries, and from the 13th century also in the universities. Its text is  ...

20. Atterberg, Kurt
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Atterberg, Kurt Life The Swedish composer Kurt Atterberg was employed in the Stockholm patent office. He took a leading part, however, in Swedish musical life as conductor, critic, administrator ...