1. Anglebert, Jean-Henri d’
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Composer Anglebert, Jean-Henri d’ Life Jean-Henri d’Anglebert succeeded Chambonnières as harpsichordist to Louis XIV, a position later held by his son. At Versailles he collaborated, inevitably, ...

2. Bach, Johann Sebastian
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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 ...

3. Buxtehude, Dietrich
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Composer Buxtehude, Dietrich (c. 1637 - 1707) Image Life Buxtehude was a distinguished composer and organist who greatly influenced the young composers of his time. Handel and Johann Sebastian ...

4. Chopin, Frederyk
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Composer Chopin, Frederyk (1810 - 1849) Image Life A young man of humble origins and the only son of a French father and a Polish mother, Chopin won early fame as a brilliant pianist within ...

5. 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 ...

6. Debussy, Claude
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Composer Debussy, Claude (1862 - 1918) Image Life Claude Debussy was arguably the most influential composer of the late 19th and early 20th century. He attended the Paris Conservatoire where ...

7. Duruflè, Maurice
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... tours abroad. Works Duruflé's organ music includes a Prélude, adagio and choral varié on the Veni Creator Spiritus, a Suite and a Prelude and Fugue in memory of the composer and organist Jehan Alain, ...

8. Franck, César
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Composer Franck, César (1822 - 1890) Image Life Born at Liège in 1822, Cèsar Franck was originally intended by his father for a career as a virtuoso pianist. In Paris his nationality excluded ...

9. Gounod, Charles
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Composer Gounod, Charles (1818 - 1893) Image Life Gounod had a particularly strong influence on French composers from the middle of the 19th century. After a classical education, he entered ...

10. Guerre, Elisabeth Jacquet de La
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Composer Guerre, Elisabeth Jacquet de La (1665 - 1729) Life Baptized Elisabeth Jacquet the 17th of March, 1665, in Paris, probably on the Ile Saint-Louis where her parents lived at the time, she ...

11. Hovhaness, Alan
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Composer Hovhaness, Alan (1911 - 2000) Life Alan Hovhaness (b. Somerville, Massachusetts, USA, 8 March 1911) was an American composer of Armenian and Scottish descent. Chronologically, part of ...

12. Howells, Herbert
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Composer Howells, Herbert (1892 - 1983) Life Herbert Howells started his musical career as a cathedral organist. He succeeded Gustav Holst as director of music at St Paul's Girls' School in London ...

13. Ireland, John
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Composer Ireland, John (1879-1962) Image Life A pupil at the Royal College of Music in London, John Ireland studied with Sir C.H. Stanford and mixed with such contemporaries as Holst and Vaughan ...

14. Jongen, Joseph
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Composer Jongen, Joseph (1873-1953) Life Jongen was Belgiums greatest composer after Franck, whose music was an early influence. His first successes were with chamber music (notably a large piano ...

15. Lilburn, Douglas Gordon
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Composer Lilburn, Douglas Gordon (1915 - 2001) Life Douglas Gordon Lilburn was born November 2, 1915 in Wanganui, New Zealand. His first years, until 1930, were mostly spent at the family station ...

16. Liszt, Franz
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Composer Liszt, Franz (1811 - 1886) Image Life Considered to be one of the world’s greatest pianists, Franz Liszt’s career spanned virtually the whole of the Romantic period. He taught and ...

17. Lutoslawsky, Witold
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Composer Lutoslawsky, Witold (1913-1994) Image Life Lutoslawski, Witold, born at Warsaw, 25 January 19139, is died there, 7 February 1994. He studied with Maliszewski at the Warsaw Conservatory ...

18. Messiaen, Olivier
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Composer Messiaen, Olivier (1908-1992) Image Life He studied at the Paris Conservatoire (1919-30) with Dukas, Emmanuel and Dupré, and taught there (1941-78) while also serving as organist ...

19. Milán, Luis
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Composer Milán, Luis (? 1500 - 1561) Life Luis Milán, a well-known poet and musician at the court of Valencia, was a noted performer and one of the foremost composers for the vihuela, one of the ...

20. Pachelbel, Johann
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Composer Pachelbel, Johann (1653 - 1706) Life German organist and composer Johann Pachelbel, b. August 1653, d. Mar. 3, 1706, is noted by music historians for his influence on Johann Sebastian ...