1. Announcements :AudiMozart! 2010
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Ciao a tutti! Vi segnalo il V CONCORSO INTERNAZIONALE per l'esecuzione dei concerti di MOZART per FLAUTO, oboe, clarinetto, fagotto, corno e ORCHESTRA. Si svolgerà a Rovereto (TN) dal 21 maggio ...

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

... 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 ...

3. 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, ...

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. 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 ...

6. 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 ...

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

... who brought him into contact with stage-life and with directing orchestras and choirs. At the age of 16, his first teacher, always dear to him, entrusted him to the care of Cesare Pollini, director of ...

8. Abe, Keiko
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... marimba. After forming her own trio playing commercial light classics, in 1962 she turned to the world of contemporary classical music. In the following years she was employed as an orchestral percussionist ...

9. Aber, Johann
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Aber, Johann Life Johann Aber was an Italian composer and flautist of German descent, living in Milan. In 1765 he was flautist in Sammartini’s orchestra for a concert in honour of Archduke ...

10. Abrahamsen, Hans
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... termed "New Simplicity" that emerged in the mid sixties. Simplification and method are key concepts in Abrahamsen's work. He is one of the generation most outstanding composers, and his orchestral work ...

11. Adams, James B.
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

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 ...

12. 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, ...

13. 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, ...

14. 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 ...

15. Alfvén, Hugo
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

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 ...

16. 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 ...

17. 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 ...

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

Composer Arnold, Malcolm Life Sir Malcolm Arnold was born in Northampton on 21 October 1921. After study at the Royal College of Music, London, he joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra, becoming ...

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

... and composer. He wrote interesting orchestral music, including nine symphonies, and attractive chamber music, all in approachable style.  ...

20. Aulin, Tor
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Aulin, Tor Life Though Tor Aulin studied composition with Scharwenka, he early career focused on the violin, playing in orchestras, before forming the Aulin Quartet in 1887. It became ...