1. Rossini Gioacchino
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Composer Gioacchino Rossini Image Life Of Rossini's three dozen or so operas, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) is probably the best known, a treatment of the first play of the ...

2. Adam, Adolphe
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...  His opera "Si j'étais roi" was among the most successful and the overture remains in international concert repertoire.  ...

3. Arnold, Samuel
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Composer Arnold, Samuel Life Samuel Arnold was born in London, the son of Thomas Arnold and Princess Amalia. The young Arnold studied music under Bernard Gates, one of John Blow’s students, at ...

4. Bach, Johann Sebastian
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... 1046 - 1051, dedicated to the Margrave of Brandenburg in 1721, feature a variety of forms and groups of instruments, while the four Orchestral Suites or Overtures, BWV 1066 - 1069, include the famous "Air ...

5. Barber, Samuel
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Composer Barber, Samuel Life American composer and musician, born in Pennsylvania, Barber was a graduate of the Curtis Institute, Philadelphia, where he studied piano, conducting, singing and composition. ...

6. Beethoven, Ludwig van
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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 ...

7. Berlioz, Hector
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... 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 ...

8. Bernstein, Leonard
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...  Works In addition to West Side Story, Bernstein’s best known works include the ballet-score Fancy Free and the overture to his comic operetta Candide. He wrote three symphonies: his second symphony, ...

9. Boieldieu, François-Adrien
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... years of absence. By the time of his death in 1834 he had gone some way towards upholding French comic opera traditions against the inroads of the Works The overture to the opera "Le calife de ...

10. Brahms, Johannes
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... examples of a form in which Brahms had complete mastery. Two overtures, the "Academic Festival Overture" and the "Tragic Overture", with arrangements of his "Hungarian Dances", complete the body of orchestral ...

11. Carter, Elliott
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... more towards Stravinsky and Hindemith. They included the ballets Pocahontas (1939) and The Minotaur (1947), the Symphony n. 1 (1942) and Holiday Overture  ...

12. Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario
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... Sates in 1939. His works are still largely unpublished and include eight operas, many film scores, ballets, oratorios, overtures, songs and chamber music. Works Castelnuovo-Tedesco wrote several ...

13. Cowen, Frederic Hymen
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... song. He regarded himself as a symphonist, with six symphonies to his credit, but excelled in lighter music, exemplified in the concert overture "The Butterfly's Ball", inspired by a well known children's ...

14. Czerny, Carl
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Composer Czerny, Carl (1791 - 1857) Image Life A precociously gifted Austrian pianist, Carl Czerny is best known for his piano studies, especially those collected in his Complete Theoretical ...

15. Ding, Shande
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... China Symphonic Suite, Spring Symphonic Poem, Symphonic Overture, Piano Concerto in B flat major, String Quartet in E minor, Piano Trio in C major, the cantata Ode to the Huangpu River, a large number ...

16. Dittersdorf, Karl Ditters von
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Composer Dittersdorf, Karl Ditters von (1739-1799) Life Karl von Dittersdorf enjoyed a reputation as a composer that even eclipsed that of Haydn and Mozart. He was born as Karl Ditters, in Vienna, ...

17. Dvorák, Antonin
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Composer Dvorák, Antonin (1841 - 1904) Image Life The late 19th century brought an increasing awareness of national identity to various ethnic groups in Europe and Dvorák’s musical career ...

18. Elgar, Edwuard
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... its unsolved musical puzzle, is one of the best of his works. Elgar is best known for his "Pomp and Circumstance", a set of five marches.    The concert overture Cockaigne is an evocation of London, while ...

19. Gade, Niels
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... came in 1840 with his overture Echoes of Ossian. His first symphony was performed by the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, where he met Mendelssohn and Schumann who greatly influenced his work. Gade succeeded ...

20. Gilson, Paul
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... incidental music for the play Alvar and a dramatic series of Symphonic Overtures.  ...