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. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. 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 His works are still largely unpublished and include eight operas, many film scores, ballets, oratorios, overtures, songs and chamber music.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 ...

8. 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 ...

9. 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, ...

10. 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 ...

11. Gade, Niels
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... a Violin Concerto and several concert overtures, with an evocative "A Summer's Day in the Country", five pieces for orchestra. Gade's chamber music includes one mature String Quartet and two String Quintets, ...

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

13. Glinka, Mikail
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... Overtures to these operas make effective curtain-raisers. Travel abroad inspired the Spanish mood of Jota aragonesa, a Capriccio brillante also known as the First Spanish Overture. The second of the ...

14. Goldmark, Karl
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... Tale exemplified a form of stage work more familiar from Humperdinck. In addition to two symphonies and two violin concertos, Goldmark wrote a series of concert overtures and  ...

15. Hebenstreit, Pantaleon
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Composer Hebenstreit, Pantaleon (1667-1750) Life Born in Eisleben in 1667 we first hear of Hebenstreit in Leipzig where he earned a living playing violin and teaching dancing and keyboard instruments. ...

16. Lully, Jean Baptiste
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Composer Lully, Jean Baptiste (1632-1687) Image Life Lully was born at Florence, on 28 November 1632 and died in Paris, on 22 March 1687. He was taken from Florence to Paris in 1646 by Roger ...

17. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix
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Composer Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809 - 1847) Image Life Felix Mendelssohn was born into a wealthy cultured family. His father was a prominent Jewish banker who added Bartholdy to the ...

18. Raff, Joachim
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Composer Raff, Joachim (1822 - 1882) Life The son of a music teacher, Joachim Raff followed in his father’s footsteps and began his career in Rapperswil. In 1844 he moved to Zurich where he met ...

19. Reicha, Anton
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... the composition of orchestral music as in other genres, with a series of symphonies, overtures and concertos. Among his many choral and vocal works are settings of the Requiem and other liturgical and ...

20. Sammartini, G. Battista
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... orchestral music survive, with six violin concertos, one double violin concerto, two flute concertos, in addition to sets of concerti grossi and overtures. These vary in style from an early mixture of ...